Leadership & Management

Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, N.Y., is the latest hospital to implement a smoking ban, according to a Long Island Business News report.

Premier healthcare alliance has promoted Mike Alkire to the position of COO, effective immediately, according to a company news release.

A three-member arbitration panel has ordered Iasis Healthcare and its St. Luke's Medical Center in Phoenix and Mesa General Hospital to pay more than $11.5 million in damages, costs and attorney fees to Advanced Cardiac Specialists and its owners over…

Nurses at Ann Arbor, Mich.-based University of Michigan Health System will extend contract negotiations into tomorrow as they work to replace a contract that is set to expire today, according to an AnnArbor.com report.

Miami Valley Hospital South in Centerville, Ohio, has unveiled a $20 million expansion plan that includes a new cancer center, according to a Dayton Daily News report.

The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board has unanimously approved Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Ill., to build a new hospital in Shiloh, according to a Belleville News-Democrat news report.

Approximately 75 percent of Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter's Hospital medical staff, including both employed and independent physicians, have voted they have "no confidence" in hospital CEO John Solheim, according to a Helena Independent Record news report.

Louis Shapiro, CEO of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, discusses how to use effective hospital benchmarks in the era of healthcare reform.

Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System board members voted to hire a private investigator to ascertain how The Salinas Californian got a copy of a highly guarded consultant's report, according to a Salinas Californian report.

Four hospital chief executives and the head of an insurance company, all in Massachusetts, have voiced support for temporary federal regulation of healthcare prices, according to a Boston Globe news report.