Leadership & Management

Victorville, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services has acquired Alvarado Hospital in San Diego, according to a Prime news release.

Real-time locating systems are a health IT solution that many healthcare organizations have adopted as a means to reduce waste and improve process efficiency. Gregg Stepp, supply chain director at Texoma Medical Center in Denison, Texas, shares the steps Texoma…

The HHS Office of the Inspector General has released an advisory opinion regarding an arrangement between a sleep testing provider and a hospital-owned sleep testing facility, in which the testing provider would provide certain equipment and services to the hospital-owned…

A week after President Obama's Deficit Commission issued its draft proposal, another bipartisan panel released its own recommendations, including substantially raising Medicare charges for beneficiaries.

Hospital workers around the country continue to strike over contract negotiations and other issues, according to various reports.

Edward Miller, MD, dean of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and inaugural CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, strays from popular opinion and says the country may not need more physicians, according to an interview in The JHU Gazette.

Mount Vernon (N.Y.) Hospital will be revived through a $23 million state grant, which is expected to keep it open and limit layoffs, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Scripps Health in San Diego is planning to unleash a $2 billion plan to rebuild its La Jolla, Calif., campus over the next 25 years to meet seismic regulations, according to a San Diego Union-Tribune report.

The Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission will release its report on the possible overuse of cardiac stent procedures in the state by the end of the month, according to a Baltimore Sun report.

HCA has signed a six-year affiliation agreement with Tampa, Fla.-based USF Health to form a statewide trauma network in Florida, according to a Tampa Bay Business Journal report.