Sunrise Children's Hospital in Las Vegas has implemented a no-smoking policy on its hospital campus, according to a Las Vegas Review-Journal news report.
Leadership & Management
The healthcare sector experienced the slowest growth rate for the year in June, while hospital employment declined by 4,000 jobs, or 0.08 percent, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics news release.
David T. Feinberg, MD, is the CEO of UCLA Hospital System, associate vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences, and the first person to tell you 99th percentile isn’t good enough. A psychiatrist and former medical director of UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric…
The government shutdown in Minnesota, which began more than a week ago, may impede the Mayo Clinic’s expansion efforts in Mankato, according to a Mankato Free Press news report.
Almost 50 percent of all healthcare spending is concentrated among 5 percent of patients who are deemed “high-cost” users, according to recent research conducted by the National Institute for Health Care Management.
Louisiana has withdrawn its application for federal funding for its new teaching hospital, University Medical Center, according to a local FOX news report.
Seacoast Medical Center in Little River, S.C., will officially be open and accepting patients on Monday, according to a WMBF news report.
The finance committee at Pratt (Kan.) Regional Medical Center is planning to propose a new $34 million facility and establishment of a sales tax to pay bonds, according to a Pratt Tribune report.
Marion (Ohio) General Hospital has agreed to pay Marion Public Health a one-time payment of $100,000 and an annual payment of $50,000 for the health district's relocation and occupation of a new site if the district moved out of the…
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has prevailed in a lawsuit regarding 144 job cuts across the Health and Hospitals Corporation, a public 11-hospital system in New York, according to a Reuters news report.