Nick Jacobs, FACHE, has more than 20 years of experience in hospital management, but it wasn’t always that way. Mr. Jacobs, who is now a consultant with SunStone Management Resources, was CEO of Windber (Pa.) Medical Center from Feb. 1997…
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The Mayo Clinic in Austin, Minn., has received a $750,000 donation from The Hormel Foundation for its first major expansion, according to an Austin Daily Herald news report.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services designated Auburn (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital as a "sole community hospital," which will provide the hospital with higher reimbursement rates for Medicare patients, according to a Post-Standard report.
Charleston, S.C.-based Trident Health System will lay off 35 full-time employees — 2 percent of the system's work force — to offset reduced Medicaid reimbursement rates, according to a Post and Courier report.
Orlando (Fla.) Health's total profits increased in the first six months of fiscal year 2010 from $67.9 million to $76.2 million, representing 12 percent growth, according to an Orlando Business Journal news report.
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Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits, Calif., and its operating company, Adventist Health, headquartered in Roseville, Calif., are planning to spend approximately $62 million to rebuild, rather than renovate, the hospital, according to a North Bay Business Journal news…
The following report was compiled by Principle Valuation, based on hospital financial reports obtained through the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) database.Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has released its financial results for the three months ended March…
Workers represented by the Service Employees International Union have approved a three-year contract with Tenet Healthcare Corp. for nine California hospitals, according to a San Francisco Business Times report.
Despite the poor economy, non-profit hospitals and healthcare systems managed an eight percent increase in philanthropic donations last year to more than $8 billion, with individual donors contributing approximately 60 percent of that total, according to an Association for Healthcare…
The National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents approximately 850 employees at Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System, has announced a planned one-day strike on June 21, according to a Californian report.