Here are eight of the largest independent group purchasing organizations in the United States, ranked by number of hospitals served.
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Here are the top 10 "action items" general surgeons would like to improve in their practice environment, based on whether the surgeons are salaried employees or owners/partners, according to the LocumTenens.com 2010 General Surgeon Salary Survey Report.
You can't manage what you don't measure: that seems to be the mantra of every hospital executive, as electronic data systems increasingly help hospitals track data on quality measures, patient satisfaction and revenue. Here five hospital leaders discuss ten statistics…
Many hospitals and health systems struggle with how to best leverage their assets to effectively compete in a changing environment. Traditionally, organizations have maximized individual assets to advance individual market strategies. Moving forward, financial pressures, provider shortages, technological changes and…
Hoag Hospital Irvine (Calif.), part of the Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian system, opened yesterday, replacing the former Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center, according to a Hoag Memorial news release.
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A section of the healthcare reform law, the Affordable Care Act, raises standards for charity care, financial assistance and meeting community needs for non-profit hospitals receiving tax-exemptions. While some of these provisions went into effect immediately, the Internal Revenue Service…
Most hospitals — whether religious, secular, for-profit or non-profit — have a mission statement that establishes their ideology and goals. But it's one thing to print a mission statement in a brochure and quite another to espouse that mission in…
A report by independent analyst Allan Baumgarten has found that Denver-area hospitals nearly doubled their pre-tax profits in 2009, according to a news release.
Forbes recently released a list of the 25 most profitable hospitals in America, 24 of which have profit margins of 25 percent or more.
Following authorization from CMS on Aug. 6 to begin medical necessity reviews of 18 types of medical conditions, three Medicare recovery audit contractors have announced the start of such review, according to AHA News Now.