Mark Samples, president of Prime Healthcare Properties in Huntsville, Ala., provides five best practices for physician-owners planning a de novo ambulatory surgery center.
Leadership & Management
Ten financially failing New Jersey hospitals received grants totaling $30 million from the N.J. Health Care Stabilization Fund to continue providing healthcare, according to a Record report.
Senate Republicans are requesting a federal investigation into whether a proposed tax increase for Maryland hospitals violates an agreement with the federal government that allows the state to set healthcare costs, according to a Washington Post report.
Day Kimball Healthcare in Putnam, Conn., reported a lower fiscal year profit as employee salary and benefit expenses increased, according to a Norwich Bulletin report.
Global pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb has been accused of bribing physicians and pharmacists to use their products by offering cash kickbacks, gifts and luxury suites for Los Angeles Lakers games, according to a Los Angeles Times report. A former Bristol-Myers…
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The owner of Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center in Inglewood, Calif., has agreed to pay $125,000 to settle allegations that it dumped a woman with chronic lung problems at a Los Angeles homeless shelter, according to a Los Angeles Times…
New York state authorities are investigating the boards linked to MediSys Health Network’s former CEO David Rosen, who has been charged for bribery, to determine whether the trustees violated ethical business practices, according to a Crain’s New York Business report.…
A judge has ruled that Youngstown, Ohio-based Forum Health cannot use donations from Trumbull Memorial Hospital Foundation or Western Reserve Health Foundation to pay unsecured creditors, according to a Tribune Chronicle report.
In a public hearing on Janesville, Wis.-based Mercy Health System's plans to build a 128-bed hospital in Crystal Lake, Ill., representatives from competing hospitals questioned its plans for a new facility, according to a Northwest Herald report.
Catholic Healthcare West's St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco will open the new, $22 million CHW Cancer Center on March 26, according to a St. Mary's news release.