Phoenix-based Banner Health is planning to open its newest facily, Banner Ironwood Medical Center in San Tan Valley, Ariz., by Nov. 1, according to a San Tan Valley Today report.
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Marion (Ohio) General Hospital has agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve self-reported allegations of the Stark Act and Anti-Kickback Statute, according to a Marion Star report.
Here is a list of 10 hospitals that are currently planning or undergoing expansion or renovation, in order from most expensive to least expensive expansion.
Hospital leaders will need to change medical staffing as the landscape of the healthcare industry, including the healthcare workforce, continues to change due to a variety of ongoing or impending forces. For example, hospitals are struggling to balance budgets in…
Hospital budgets are become increasingly constrained as a result of declining Medicare reimbursements, less funding and a struggling economy. Because of these dynamics and in efforts to protect their bottom line, many hospital CEOs are turning to outsourcing various services,…
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The four largest private health insurers denied policies to one out of every seven applicants for individual policies in 2007-2009, based on pre-existing medical conditions, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Doctors Council SEIU recently held a rally to "protect patient care" at Harlem Hospital Center in New York City, organizing about 100 employees and local residents to protest what they called the imminent decline of the hospital, according to a…
Economic challenges are forcing many hospitals to implement mass layoffs, and employees laid off in a down economy are more likely to claim discrimination or wrongful termination, according to Ron Chapman, Jr., a labor and employment lawyer with Ogletree, Deakins,…
The College of Nursing at University of Nebraska Medical Center opened its Center for Nursing Science yesterday in Omaha, Neb., to help alleviate the state's nursing shortage, according to an UNMC news release.
The Cleveland Clinic announced yesterday the consolidation of its four level II trauma centers into two, according to a WEWS News report.