Credit rating firm Moody's has lifted Kansas City, Mo.-based St. Luke's Health System's credit rating, according to a Kansas City Star news report.
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Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care will transfer $20 million to UNC-Chapel Hill to offset a state funding cut of nearly 18 percent, according to a Daily Tar Heel report.
Commissioners of Mecklenburg, N.C., agreed to end a contract with Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolinas HealthCare System on June 30, 2013, according to a Charlotte Observer report.
A study prepared by Tripp Umbach, an economic consulting firm, for the Association of American Medical Colleges, found that cutting Medicare Indirect Medical Education payments to teaching hospitals by 60 percent — as proposed by President Obama's National Commission on…
Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System is laying off 300-350 full-time equivalent employees, effective Sept. 30, due to financial pressures, according to a health system news release.
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The former general counsel of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia — who was fired for embezzling $1.7 million — has agreed to plead guilty to charges of mail fraud, money laundering and filing a false tax return, according to a Philadelphia…
The same factors that make hospitals so unique also make them difficult settings for sustaining staff morale. The stakes are high, and matters are often life or death. The individuals making demands of staff come from all sides — physicians,…
A county council committee approved a request by Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md., to close a road for its construction of a $230 million, 300,000-square-feet expansion, according to a Gazette report.
The Pennsylvania Department of General Services has recommended former Philipsburg (Pa.) Area Hospital be demolished because it has not sold after being on the market since 2010 and seeing a sale price cut of more than 50 percent, according to…
Recent data analysis show physicians specializing in vascular surgery, critical care internal medicine and neonatal and perinatal medicine worked the most hours each year, according to a study published in Archives of Internal Medicine.