New data from the S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index show that the average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs increased by 5.58 percent over the 12-months ending May 2011, according to an S&P…
Leadership & Management
Becker's Hospital Review will host its Annual Strategy Roundtable on July 27 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, bringing together eight hospital industry leaders from across the country to discuss current challenges and opportunities facing the industry, how hospital…
Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., will lay off 169 employees and entirely eliminate 185 vacant posts due to the economy and state cost containment policies, according to a Boston Globe news report. The health system faces a potential loss…
St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., will being moving operations into another temporary hospital site this weekend, according to a Joplin Globe news report.
Franklin Hospital in Benton, Ill., will lay off a dozen employees, with the remaining staff taking pay cuts, according to a KFVS news report.
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A San Antonio ambulatory hospital's construction is in jeopardy after the Senate Appropriations Committee cut $80 million in funding from the construction project, according to a San Antonio Express-News report.
The following report was compiled by Principle Valuation, based on hospital financial reports obtained through the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) database. Mt. Airy, N.C.-based Northern Hospital of Surry County has released its financial results for…
A former cardiologist from Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., is on trial over allegations that he unnecessarily implanted hundreds of stents into patients’ healthy arteries, according to a Daily Times report. John R. McLean, MD, faces a seven-count…
Greensburg, Pa.-based Excela Health may face 72 lawsuits filed by coronary patients who claim two of the system’s physicians performed unnecessary heart surgeries, according to a Tribune-Review report. The system sent letters to 141 patients in March, informing them that…
A U.S. Bankruptcy Judge has approved has approved the Chapter 11 liquidation plan of Ohio-based Forum Health despite objections from unsecured creditors, according to a Bloomberg report.