Leadership & Management

Larry Gentilello, MD, has filed a lawsuit against Dallas' University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for demoting him after complaining about laidback supervision of residents and billing fraud, according to a report by the Dallas Morning News.

Former Beverly (Mass.) Hospital executive Paul Galerzano has plead guilty to charges that he solicited bribes and kickbacks and used hospital funds to furnish his home with expensive antiques, according to a report by the Eagle-Tribune.

Harms Memorial Hospital in American Falls, Idaho, has until Aug. 3 to make improvements on citations from Idaho Department of Health and Welfare surveys over the last several months or it could risk losing Medicare and Medicaid payments, according to…

Patients at U.S. hospitals are experiencing the longest wait times in emergency departments since 2002, when they were first tracked, according to a Press Ganey Associates news release.

The California Department of Public Health recently launched a pilot program that will allow six hospitals without cardiac surgery programs to perform emergency and non-emergency angioplasty, according to a report by the Roseville Press Tribune.

Louisville, Ky.-based Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare's bond rating has been downgraded for a second time from a "A" to an "A-", according to a Business First report.

The North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation has approved Raleigh, N.C.-based Rex Healthcare's certificate of need application to build the N.C. Cancer Hospital at Rex, according to a news release by the health system.

Abbeville (S.C.) Area Medical Center recently underwent a revenue cycle review that identified inefficiencies that, if addressed, would increase revenues by $200,000 a year, a big improvement for this 25-bed critical access hospital.

An update to Massachusetts Hospital Association's April 2010 hospital costs report showed substantial lowering of hospital cost increases during 2009 and the beginning of 2010, according to an MHA report.

The Kentucky Hospital Association has released its latest economic impact report, which shows that hospitals in the state spent more than $5 billion on salaries, supplies and services in 2008, according to a news release by the KHA.