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…
Leadership & Management
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.
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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…
Seattle Children's Hospital is taking up new measures to improve the hospital's efficiency, according to a report published by the New York Times. Simply put, the hospital set in place the same tactical measure that automotive and aerospace industries have…
Chest, an academic medical publication, published a review article in its current issue finding that patients admitted to an intensive care unit on the weekend could be more likely to die than those admitted during the weekdays, according to a…
Robert Urciuoli, who formerly served as president at Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, R.I., is seeking a reversal of two corruption convictions, according to a report by the WJTV.
Richard J. Liekweg, group president of BJC HealthCare in St. Louis and president of its flagship, 1,252-bed Barnes-Jewish Hospital, the largest hospital in Missouri, discusses the biggest challenges currently facing Barnes-Jewish.