Leadership & Management

Patient satisfaction scores are considerably lower during the winter months — and “winter blues” or seasonal depression among patients is a significant factor in this decline, according to a recent study by Press Ganey. Regardless of the region, data revealed…

The Texas Attorney General’s Office has opened a civil investigation into the emergency department procedures and billing at Community Health Systems’ hospitals in the state , according to a Wall Street Journal report. Currently, the attorney general has issued civil…

A recent survey of hospital and construction industry insiders performed by Health Facilities Management and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering found that about one-third of hospitals surveyed reported active hospital construction projects and about the same amount were planning…

Adventist Health System in Winter Park, Fla., Orlando (Fla.) Health and Health Central in Ocoee, Fla., have reported a combined $388.5 million profit in 2010, reflecting an increase from combined 2009 profits of $310.2 million, according to an Orlando Business…

Fairview Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, has announced a $76 million renovation and construction project to modernize the 120-year-old hospital, according to a Crain's Cleveland Business news report.

North American Partners in Anesthesia, one of the largest single-specialty anesthesia management companies in the United States, has announced the release of a new whitepaper for hospital executives and administrators which focuses on developing and transitioning to an anesthesia department…

Advocates for physician ownership of hospitals will head to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to ask Senators and Representatives to reverse Section 6001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which prohibits POHs from new construction or expansion projects, according…

In a settlement with the Department of Justice, Wichita Falls, Texas-based United Regional Health Care System has agreed to stop entering into contracts that improperly inhibit commercial health insurers from contracting with the system’s competitors, according to a news release…

Podiatrist Arthur C. Haspel, MD, of Boca Raton, Fla., has been sentenced on two counts of filing false Medicare claims and faces 21 months imprisonment, two years of supervised release and $324,491 in restitution, according to a news release from…

The article below is reprinted with permission from The Capital Issue, a quarterly newsletter published by Lancaster Pollard.Multi-facility or multi-asset organizations faced with issuing or refinancing debt have an opportunity not afforded to stand-alone facilities: the ability to become greater…