As the healthcare environment changes, hospital leadership must realign their organizations, especially as the healthcare sector prepares for reform and other changes coming in the next few years. Bill Carpenter, chairman and CEO of Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals, which owns…
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San Antonio-based Baptist Health System has announced it will lay off 118 workers, according to a News 4 WOAI report.
Wallowa Memorial Hospital in Enterprise, Ore., has asked each department to reduce employee work hours with the ultimate goal of reducing labor expenses by 10 percent, according to an OPB report.
Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park, Calif., has agreed to pay $530,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment of its staff, according to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission news release.
Bon Secours hospitals throughout Virginia will no longer hire job applicants who test positive for nicotine, according to a Virginian-Pilot report.
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Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill, S.C., and Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, N.C., have filed appeals with the S.C. Administrative Law Court challenging a ruling that awarded Gastonia, N.C.-based Carolinas HealthCare System a certificate of need to construct a hospital…
Providence Health & Services, based in Everett, Wash., has mailed letters to its nearly 8,500 employees, offering severance packages to those who voluntary leave their posts, according to a Spokesman-Review report.
Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services has filed a lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente and the Service Employees International Union, alleging that they engaged in a conspiracy to push Prime out of the marketplace, according to a Contra Costa Times report. The…
The article below is reprinted with permission from The Capital Issue, a quarterly newsletter published by Lancaster Pollard.Let’s face it, community hospitals. When playing the financing game, the cards aren’t exactly stacked in your favor.
A recent survey conducted by the newly launched Optum Institute for Sustainable Health reveals three challenges and four opportunities to make healthcare more sustainable.