Leadership & Management

Fifty-five percent of physicians whose privileges were revoked or restricted by their hospitals were not disciplined by their states’ medical boards, according to Public Citizen. Based on information from the National Practitioner Data Bank, 5,887 doctors who had clinical privileges…

Some states seeking to balance their budgets by slowing Medicaid recipients' use of emergency departments are misinformed about the role of EDs in healthcare, according to a release by the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Melodie Garrobo, CASC, administrator of Golden Ridge Surgery Center in Golden, Colo., discusses six ways surgery center administrators can lead their physicians, staff members and anesthesia providers in decreasing turnover times.

Lee Chester, a healthcare architect and vice president of L3 Healthcare Design in Altamonte Springs, Fla., lists 10 cardinal sins in ambulatory surgery center design.

Here are 15 statistics on ambulatory surgery centers located in the southeastern United States (GA, FL, SC, NC, AL, MS and TN). Data comes from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010. Note: All numbers are averages.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has received a grant from the George Hoag Family Foundation to go toward funding the hospital's COACH for Kids and Their Families program, according to a hospital news release.

Melodie Garrobo, CASC, administrator of Golden Ridge Surgery Center in Golden, Colo., discusses six ways surgery center administrators can lead their physicians, staff members and anesthesia providers in decreasing turnover times.

In FY 2012, hospitals should be given a 1 percent increase in Medicare payments for both inpatient and outpatient services, and physicians should also get a 1 percent raise, according to a new report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

Hospital senior management reported the highest overall job satisfaction of all hospital employees, while critical intensive care workers reported the lowest overall satisfaction, according to a study conducted by HR Solutions.

Hospital senior management reported the highest overall job satisfaction of all hospital employees, while critical intensive care workers reported the lowest overall satisfaction, according to a study conducted by HR Solutions.