A recent survey by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy suggests that healthcare fundraising showed signs of recovery from recession lows, according to an AHP release.
Leadership & Management
A report by the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania found that hospitals in the state provided more than 585,000 hospital and hospital service-related jobs and $98.9 billion to the state's economy in 2010, according to an HAP news release.
Nurses at Tufts Medical Center in Boston are scheduled to vote Thursday to authorize a one-day strike, according to a Boston Globe report.
In what may be seen as a low blow, Tenet Healthcare has used a new tactic to try and fend off a hostile takeover by Community Health Systems. Brentwood, Tenn.-based CHS filed an unsolicited bid to purchase Dallas-based Tenet last…
In a federal lawsuit, Tenet Healthcare is claiming that Community Health Systems has been systematically overbilling Medicare and misusing observation status, according to a release by Tenet.
As part of a deferred prosecution agreement, Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay a $21.4 million criminal penalty to resolve improper payments by J&J subsidies to European government officials and the former government of Iraq, according to a news…
In a speech scheduled for Wednesday, President Obama is expected to call for more cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, according to a report by the Washington Post.
Nurses at Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital have voted to approve a three-year contract with the health system after a year-long standoff over terms, according to a Mercury News report.
HCA and the Foundation for Seacoast Health are scheduled to return to court over the ownership of Portsmouth (N.H.) Regional Hospital on May 2, according to a Seacoast Online news report.
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of shuttered St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan to a Rudin Development and Manhasset, N.Y.-based North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System for $260 million, according to a New York Times news report.