Hospital and health system leaders today face myriad challenges unique to the current healthcare environment that are often more demanding than the challenges faced by leaders of the past. Ten or 15 years ago, healthcare leaders were primarily judged by…
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Here are five ways hospitals can prepare for the future.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has launched its Innovation Challenge — a new initiative that will provide as much as $30 million to each of 100 applicants who present new ideas for healthcare delivery and payment models, according…
Nassau Health Care Corporation, based in East Meadow, N.Y., has announced it will lay off 175 employees, according to a Newsday report.
CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, responded to Republican senators’ criticism of The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in a recent interview with The Washington Post. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wrote a letter…
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The state of the hospital organization has changed drastically in the past few decades. Many hospitals now work collaboratively with each other, perhaps sharing resources or service lines, and others have joined forces completely to become part of a larger…
Two nurses at Aurora (Colo.) Medical Center have filed a class action lawsuit against parent company HealthOne, alleging they are entitled to payment for the time it takes them to dress in and out of their hospital scrubs, according to…
Last summer, struggling Mission Community Hospital in Panorama City, Calif., entered into a three-stage agreement with newly formed, Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Deanco Healthcare to manage and eventually assume ownership of the 145-bed hospital. Deanco began by providing consulting services to…
Unionized workers, including nurses, at Regional Hospital of Scranton (Pa.) have ratified a contract with the hospital, owned by Community Health Systems, according to a Times Leader report.
Reduced reimbursements, lower patient volumes, a slow economic turnaround and rising costs of uncompensated care are some of the most common and difficult challenges facing hospitals and healthcare systems today. In efforts to balance budgets and remain financially viable, hospitals…