Glenn Fosdick, president and CEO of The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, has worked in the hospital industry for a long time, graduating from the University of Michigan's hospital administration program in 1976 and managing a few Michigan hospitals along…
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Hospital employees spend 10 percent more on healthcare than the general employee population, according to a Thomson Reuters news release. That gap grows to 13 percent when hospital employees’ dependents are factored in. Hospital employees and their dependents were also…
CMS has approved Kentucky's proposal for a statewide managed care system for its Medicaid program, according to a Courier-Journal report.
ValleyCare Health System, based in Youngstown, Ohio, has announced 90 additional layoffs, according to a Business Journal report.
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Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has asked a federal judge to dismiss Tenet Healthcare’s lawsuit seeking to recover the costs incurred from resisting CHS’ takeover bid, according to a Bloomberg report. CHS attorneys have said Dallas-based Tenet has no legal…
When Paul Levy became CEO of Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2002, he inherited a lot on his plate. The hospital was in deep financial trouble (losing more than $50 million the year prior to his arrival), the…
Hospital CEOs are focusing most of their energy on physician alignment, quality measurements and cost reductions over the next three years, according to a recent survey by Thomson Reuters. The survey asked CEOs of hospitals that won the Thomson Reuters…
An audit manager from the financially-struggling Jackson Health System in Miami has been accused of masterminding a payroll scheme that swindled $83,000 from the public system, according to a Miami Herald report. Tiffany Gordon-Smith was charged with participating in an…
Hospitals are increasingly offering complementary and alternative medicine services, with 42 percent of hospitals featuring CAM services in 2011, compared to 37 percent in 2007, according to Health Forum study cited in an AHA News Now report.