Mehmet Oz, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Columbia University Medical Center who is a television personality and best selling author, toured Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C., as part of a new partnership between the two organizations.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will begin requiring primary care physicians practicing in and around Rapid City, Mich., who do not hold hospital privileges to obtain a written guarantee from Rapid City Regional Hospital's hospitalist program guaranteeing their patients…
A survey by the Iowa Hospital Association of all hospitals in the state found that Iowa hospitals provided community benefits during fiscal year 2009 valued at more than $1.2 billion, according to an IHA news release.
The Illinois Hospital Association has hired Kimberly C. Parker as vice president of federal relations. She will be the first federal lobbyist to be employed by the IHA, according to an IHA news release.
Ohio Hospitals will receive an additional $87 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to help further reimburse the hospitals for the hospital assessments they now pay to the state to fund its Medicaid rolls, according to a…
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Edward Goldberg has been president and CEO for 16 years of 387-bed St. Alexius Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, Ill., part of Alexian Brothers Health System. He has run hospitals since age 23, when he became administrator of a…
Elliott Kellman, chief human relations officer at University Hospitals in Cleveland, discusses hiring trends for his system. The system runs several hospitals, including flagship University Hospitals Case Medical Center, a 750-bed teaching hospital affiliated with Case Western Reserve University School…
Hospitals are increasingly looking at transitioning hospital-based services to a freestanding outpatient setting in response to the healthcare reform law and the demands of consumers and payors. Joan Dentler, president of ASC Strategies in Austin, Texas, offers some best practices…
While hospitals around the country face nursing shortages of various degrees, Texas hospitals are expected to face a daunting shortage of 71,000 nurses by 2020, according to a report in the Dallas Morning News.
A Los Angeles hospital that was partially closed down in 2007 due to substandard quality and care has a new leader coming on board. Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to bring county chief executive officer William…