Bamberg (S.C.) and Barnwell (S.C.) counties have restored plans to create a regional healthcare system after both county councils gave initial approval to create the dual-county healthcare park, according to a Times and Democrat report.
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Physicians have traditionally been in the dark about how much they spend when ordering care for patients, but a 56-item price list for physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is shining a light on those price-tags, according…
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, N.H., has laid off 37 workers and reduced the hours of nine employees to offset large state budget cuts, according to a Foster's Daily Democrat report.
Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, Fla., may freeze employee salaries and postpone its management bonus program, according to a News-Press report.
Paul Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, warned in a blog post that payment reforms alone are not going to fix Medicare, as many have been persuaded to believe.
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Richard Swanson, director of education and quality/audit, facility privacy and ethics and a compliance official at HCA's National Patient Account Services, recently graduated from the Louisville Healthcare Fellows program, according to a report from The Lane Report.
Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has unveiled a new logo ahead of completing its campus-wide renovation, according to a hospital news release.
The American Hospital Association, the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Association and the American Organization of Nurse Executives are urging the National Labor Relations Board to abandon or significantly modify its proposed rule for representation case procedures.
Hospitals’ aggressive marketing campaigns for their emergency departments, such as billboards advertising wait times, may foil state efforts to curb unnecessary ED visits, according to a Washington Post report. In the report, several state officials said hospitals are passive or…
Erlanger Health System, based in Chattanooga, Tenn., has reported a loss of $1.3 million for the start of the new fiscal year, up from last year's loss of $1 million, according to a Times Free Press report.