Leadership & Management

Valley Baptist Medical Center, with locations in Brownsville, Texas, and Harlingen, Texas, was forced to pay employees for unpaid back overtime, according to a KRGV.com report.

Regional Medical Center at Memphis (Tenn.) has proposed a 2012 budget that includes $20 million for capital improvements of the current facility and $40 million for construction of a replacement hospital, according to a Commercial Appeal report.

Marin County has partnered with Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif., Prima Medical Foundation and Marin Community Clinics to continue its full service OB/GYN program for patients without private insurance, according to a hospital news release.

The American Hospital Association is urging CMS to include additional patient characteristics — including race and limited English proficiency — to the risk-adjustment methodology for its hospital readmission program, according to a letter written to the agency.

Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, N.H., received a certificate of need to renovate the main hospital facility, according to a hospital news release.

Federal prosecutors have declined to intervene in the portion of a qui tam lawsuit that names specific Tennessee hospitals as participants in falsifying medical reports made by a physician, according to a Jackson Sun report. The suit was filed by…

Voters in California's Mountain Community Medical Services District have supported a parcel tax used to fund Trinity Hospital in Weaverville, Calif., according to a Record Searchlight report.

Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group and Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreens have partnered to launch a program that will coordinate clinical interventions by pharmacists and share information from the interventions with NMPG primary care providers, according to a Walgreens news release.

California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, an affiliate of Sutter Health, has slammed San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, saying his office asked the hospital to contribute $108 million for community improvements as part of gaining approval for the hospital…

A federal judge has denied a request from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to dismiss a suit filed by federal and state governments, alleging the payor’s use of certain hospital contracts stifles competition, according to a Detroit News report.…