Leadership & Management

More than 200 hospital leaders from across the United States traveled to Capitol Hill yesterday, the American Hospital Association's Advocacy Day, to urge their lawmakers from further cutting hospital payments, according to an AHA New Now report. 

Greenwood (Miss.) Leflore Hospital has prevailed a second time in a discrimination lawsuit filed against by a former hospital board attorney, according to a news report by The Republic.

Here are five recent lawsuits involving hospitals or health systems.

Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, N.Y., will lay off 60 employees, which could include 15-20 registered nursing per-diem employees, according to a Staten Island Advance news report.

Mendota (Ill.) Community Hospital is on target to re-open this October after two years of construction to expand its original facility, according to a News Tribune news report.

Credit rating firm Moody's has lifted Kansas City, Mo.-based St. Luke's Health System's credit rating, according to a Kansas City Star news report.

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care will transfer $20 million to UNC-Chapel Hill to offset a state funding cut of nearly 18 percent, according to a Daily Tar Heel report.

Commissioners of Mecklenburg, N.C., agreed to end a contract with Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolinas HealthCare System on June 30, 2013, according to a Charlotte Observer report.

A study prepared by Tripp Umbach, an economic consulting firm, for the Association of American Medical Colleges, found that cutting Medicare Indirect Medical Education payments to teaching hospitals by 60 percent — as proposed by President Obama's National Commission on…

Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System is laying off 300-350 full-time equivalent employees, effective Sept. 30, due to financial pressures, according to a health system news release.