Georgia voters shot down a proposed $10 annual fee that would have created $80 million to fund the state's 16 trauma centers as well as encouraged more hospitals to offer trauma care, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
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A recent report by Miami-Dade County Inspector General Christopher Mazzella identified "wasteful" spending by Jackson Health System in regards to its international program.
Following the Republicans' significant victory in Tuesday's election, President Obama said he was willing to consider "tweaks" of the healthcare reform law but he would not engage in a broad debate on it, according to a report by the New…
Voters in Oklahoma and Arizona on Nov. 2 decisively approved ballot initiatives to reject the mandate to buy health insurance in the healthcare reform law, but Colorado voters rejected it, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is defending a demand that contracted hospitals to give it their lowest contracted rates, after a new lawsuit by the Justice Department challenged this practice, known as "most favored nation," according to a report…
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Community members are concerned that Brookdale University Hospital, a 530-bed non-profit hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., may be on the verge of closing, according to a New York Daily News report.
The 102-bed Rockville General Hospital in Vernon, Conn., will stop offering childbirth services by the end of the year due to hospital costs and a changing physician culture, according to a FoxCT report.
Officials from Memorial Health System in South Bend, Ind., are attributing job eliminations and budget cuts to healthcare reform, according to a South Bend Tribune report.
After announcing an original plan for employee distribution in 2009, officials from Ohio’s Kettering Health Network are not confirming how jobs will be divided between its original and new hospitals, according to a Dayton Daily News report.
Healthcare workers across the country are striking and protesting over contracts, according to various reports.