Your hospital has a major capital project coming up and as CFO, you are asked to look at different ways to fund it: borrow all you can to preserve liquidity, take on less debt and use cash instead, maybe even…
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Section 3026 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides for a five-year demonstration project called the Community-based Care Transitions Program. Funded by $500 million in federal dollars, CCTP encourages collaboration among hospitals and community-based services providers for improving…
Hospitals across the country are trying to survive the back end of a recession, navigate through the uncertainty of healthcare reform and fight the increase of employee medical costs, all while trying to maximize profits.
The Florida legislature has passed restrictions on the use of expert witnesses in medical malpractice cases in an attempt to ease medical malpractice risk in Florida, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.
Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., has reached an agreement with the union representing the 1,700 nurses at the hospital after a months-long dispute, according to a Washington Post report.
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Nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., have agreed to a three-year contract, averting a strike planned for Friday, according to a Boston Globe report.
Hospital leaders are constantly faced with the daunting task of remaining competitive and offering attractive benefit packages to employees. Among those packages is typically a 401(k) plan for employees to save for their retirements. While the share of employees offered…
Hospital Corporation of America has reported its first quarter 2011 results, showing revenue of $8 billion, an increase of 6.8 percent increase from first quarter 2010, according to a company news release.
Insurers that cover Medicare and Medicaid patients are setting up clinics that have been reducing hospital and ED bills for their patients, according to a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the rate of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft decreased 38 percent from 2001 to 2008.