Nurses at Hibbing, Minn.-based Fairview Range Regional Health Services voted Friday to authorize a strike, according to a Minnesota Nurses Association news release.
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Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health, Raleigh, N.C.-based Rex Healthcare and WakeMed, also based in Raleigh, have all submitted certificate of need applications to add hospital beds in Wake County, according to a News & Observer report.
Shelby, N.C.-based Cleveland County HealthCare System and Chester (Pa.) County Hospital received credit rating downgrades in the last 30 days, according to an HFA Partners report.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has agreed to release $35 million in state funds to keep struggling Jackson Health in Miami up and running through the summer, according to a Miami Herald report.
One week after Tenet Health sued its aggressive suitor, Community Health Systems, for overbilling, CHS has revised its $3.3 billion bid for Tenet into an all-cash offer of $6 per share, according to a CHS news release. The previous offer,…
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Vanguard Health Systems has filed plans to sell up to $600 million in common stock in an initial public offering, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The hospital operator, which has been backed by the private-equity investment firm Blackstone…
A Washington plan to prevent Medicaid from running up pricey emergency bills would limit visits for conditions such as abdominal pain, breathing trouble and some types of hemorrhage, worrying physicians, hospitals and parents, according to a Seattle Times report.
More physicians are moving into boutique practice, in which patients pay an annual fee on top of insurance in exchange for more personal care and better access to their physicians, according to a Boston Globe report.
Increased demand for medical services under the healthcare reform law could boost the medical office building market, according to a report by the American Medical News.
Here are 15 statistics on average annual revenue generated by physician in various specialties on behalf of their affiliated hospitals in 2010, according to Merritt Hawkins' 2010 Physician Inpatient/Outpatient Revenue Survey.