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Leadership & Management

As hospitals across the country cut jobs to save money, several hospitals will provide their communities with a windfall of open positions, according to various reports.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is currently accepting applications from hospitals to participate in the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program, which pays rural hospitals for inpatient hospital services using a cost-based methodology, according to a report by AHA…

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Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems, which is in the process of acquiring eight-hospital Detroit Medical Center, has reported losses of $43 million for its 2010 fiscal year, according to a Detroit News report.  

The nation's community hospitals, long a backbone for healthcare provision in this country, face increasing challenges as reimbursements fall, regulations become more complicated and payors demand closer collaboration with physicians and other outpatient providers. These hospitals continue to join larger…

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