The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City recently opened a new palliative care unit led by Diane Meier, MD.
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Minneapolis-based Fairview Health will cut 240 jobs due to declining demand for inpatient services, according to a Pioneer Press report.
Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie, Wyo., has earned $7.1 million in gross revenue in April, surprising even the hospital's financial officers, according to a Laramie Boomerang news report.
Hospital workers at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., claim their health insurance benefits were taken away from hospital administrators who have struggled to make timely payments to its benefit fund, according to a New York Times…
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed $864 million UConn Health Center could bring some benefits to local hospitals that may see the planned facility as competition for physicians and patients, according to a Hartford Business news report.
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The healthcare industry seems to be bucking a national trend of declining unionization. Some workers apparently find union membership more attractive when they are concerned about job security or working conditions, two issues that emerged in the recent economic downturn…
CMS recently issued final rules for its value-based purchasing program for hospitals. Beginning in fiscal year 2013, which starts on Oct. 1, 2012, CMS will offer hospitals an incentive payment for achievement or improvement in 13 key measures. Here Susan…
Standard & Poor's held a conference call earlier this month to go over a report published on May 17 entitled The Appeal Of Alternative Financing Is Not Without Risk For Municipal Issuers. This report is a good reminder that bank…
The announcement on May 10, 2011, by the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Texas of their successful antitrust prosecution of Southwest Health Alliances, Inc. for price fixing juxtaposes against the FTC’s Accountable Care Organization workshop, held on May…
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed the state's budget plan, which includes drastic cuts to the state's Medicaid program, according to a Tallahassee Democrat report.