Leadership & Management

Here are five recent settlements and investigations involving hospitals.

The Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg (S.C.) & Calhoun Counties is hoping to recover a portion of the $500,000 it invested with Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff, according to a Times and Democrat report. The investment with Madoff was part of the…

The Massachusetts Hospital Association and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health have joined together to create a tobacco-free hospital initiative for 2011, according to a Boston Globe report.

The turnaround of 222-bed Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, N.C., involved hewing very closely to its mission, departing CEO Kris Hoce said in a report by Blueridge Now.

A new hospital jointly owned by physicians and Methodist Health System in Dallas received Medicare certification just three days before the start of a ban on new physician-owned hospitals, according to a report by the Dallas Morning News.

A  Superior Court judge has ordered Marin General Hospital in Greenbae, Calif., to settle with Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health over millions of dollars Marin says it is owed after deciding to separate from Sutter four years ago, according to a…

House Republicans taking power in January are ready to battle the administration over $105 billion in healthcare reform law funding that Congress must yet appropriate, according to a report by the Hill.

West Virginia University Hospitals has signed a tentative agreement with its unionized workers, averting a strike originally scheduled for today, according to a Charleston Daily Mail.

A new South Carolina law allows state residents with serious medical conditions to keep their current physicians for at least 90 days when health insurers drop physicians from their provider networks, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

St. Mary's Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa., has agreed to pay the United States $3.28 million to resolve claims the hospital improperly billed Medicare for inpatient admissions between Oct. 2001 and Sept. 2007, according to a news release by the…