Leadership & Management

Fifty-two senators have signed a letter sent to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services urging the agency to ensure that the 2.9 percent payment cut to hospitals scheduled for fiscal year 2011 considers patient severity, according to a report…

Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) has introduced a bill that would require the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to begin a demonstration program to study and support cooperative approaches among hospitals, state health agencies and the HHS, according to…

HCA Midwest has opened a new $500,000 cancer center, Midwest Cancer Care, at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kan., according to a Kansas City Business Journal report.

As chairman, president and CEO of National Surgical Hospitals, based in Chicago, John Rex-Waller leads his company in partnering with local physicians to develop successful freestanding surgical facilities. NSH opened its most recent surgical hospital, South Texas Surgical Hospital in…

Jason Kaufman, RN, director of emergency services at 320-bed St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis, explains how the St. Francis ED reduced its "lost without being seen" rate, enhancing patients safety and revenues.

Trustees of Neshoba County General Hospital in Philadelphia, Miss., said they intend to move forward with a public financing plan to use federal loans and grants to build a $53 million facility, according to a report by The Neshoba Democrat.

A California Superior Court Judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the California Nurses Association against Sutter Health's Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, Calif., according to a report by the San Francisco Business Times.

Detroit Medical Center is scheduled to begin 15 different construction projects this October, following the eight-hospital health system's sale to Vanguard Health Systems, which is tentatively scheduled to close Oct. 1, according to a Detroit Free Press report.

Dearborn, Mich.-based Oakwood Healthcare has announced plans for a hospital in Canton, Mich., on land it purchased in 2008, according to a report by Crain's Detroit Business.

Mercy Health Partners in Knoxville, Tenn., is struggling to implement a turnaround plan to improve operations and stem financial bleeding following the 2008 merger between Baptist and St. Mary's health systems, according to a report by the Knoxville News-Sentinel.