Cleveland-based MetroHealth System expects to cut 450 jobs over the next two months, hoping to shave $30 million off its budget and lower its losses in 2011, according to a Cleveland Plain Dealer report.
Leadership & Management
A new white paper by The Beryl Institute, featuring insight from Chip Conley, author of PEAK and founder of boutique hotel company Joie de Vivre, offers best practices from the hotel industry that can be translated to healthcare.
The employees most likely to be replaced by medical robots might not be the ones you’d expect, according to a Slate report. Those most likely to be targeted are specialists — the most highly trained and paid people in medicine.…
More than 40 percent of primary care physicians in the United States think their patients are receiving too much care, and 76 percent of those respondents said malpractice concerns played a role, according to a new report from the Archives…
Tenet Healthcare Corp., which operates Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill, S.C., and Novant Health, which operates Presbyterian Healthcare in Charlotte, N.C., have filed appeals with the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control over its decision to award a…
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When Michael Williams, MD, became the CEO of Hill Country Memorial Hospital in Fredericksburg, Texas, in 2008, there was a lot on his plate — perhaps a Thanksgiving-sized plate.
An administrative law judge ruled on Friday in favor of a motion by Shands Jacksonville (Fla.) Medical Center and other hospitals in Jacksonville and Tampa Bay arguing that the Florida Department of Health's process for approving trauma centers is flawed,…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic might expand its services to India, according to a St. Paul Pioneer Press report. Mayo is exploring a possible collaboration to build a medical site in India. Previous reports have said the hospital is in talks…
Spiraling healthcare costs and growing concern over the quality of patient care are topics of intense focus across the industry. One key to improving quality and reducing cost lies in monitoring, analyzing and reducing variability that does not add value.…
Baylor Health Care System in Dallas will stop hiring workers who use any type of tobacco product starting next year, according to a KXAS report.