Leadership & Management

Detroit Medical Center's Harper University Hospital will start a project to improve its operating rooms in November, beginning with infrastructure expansions and then looking to improve efficiencies with lean management techniques, according to a Crain's Detroit Business report.

Overall hospital prices rose 0.2 percent in April compared to March, representing a 1.5 percent increase since April 2010, according to a Healthcare Financial Management Association report of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index.

Defining your hospital's 'mission, vision and values' can boost employee engagement, encourage participation in hospital initiatives and send a clear message to the community about your direction. Unfortunately, many hospital executives fail to make these concepts part of hospital operations,…

The Nevada State Medical Association has sent a letter to Gov. Brian Sandoval and 63 lawmakers, saying that 15 percent cuts to Medicaid reimbursements will hurt access to patient care for Nevada residents, according to a Nevada News Bureau report.

The Illinois Hospital Association is promoting a plan that would delay Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals in an attempt to stave off a $463 million proposed cut in next year's Medicaid payments to hospitals, according to a Northwest Herald report.

Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame, Calif., opened and began treating patients yesterday, according to a release by the hospital.

The Oklahoma House has approved a bill approved by the Senate last month to assess a 2.5 percent fee on hospitals' net revenues in order to generate additional federal matching funds for the state's Medicaid program, according to a Bloomberg…

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., has vowed to appeal the denial of a certificate of need request for a $4.8 million expansion of its emergency department, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA has filed suit against the Florida Department of Revenue challenging nearly $760,000 in interest payments the Department says it owes, according to a Miami Herald report.

Tenet Healthcare will seek damages for the cost of resisting a now-terminated takeover bid from Community Health Systems, according to a Bloomberg report. CHS withdrew its $7.3 billion offer to buy Tenet on May 10 after Tenet rejected the bid…