The Michigan Health and Hospital Association is reporting the University of Michigan Health System provided $280 million in community support, through uncompensated care and education services, according to an UMHS news release.
Leadership & Management
Minnesota's Allina Hospitals and Clinics CEO Ken Paulus has volunteered to work without pay until the hospital system negotiates a settlement with its nurses, according to a report in the Star Tribune.
Total operating revenue for St. Louis area hospitals in 2008 rose 4.4 percent to more than $7 billion, while non-operating revenue dropped to a loss of $440 million from a gain of $169 million in 2007, according to a report…
HCA has named Thomas Garthwaite, MD, as the new COO of the hospital chain's clinical services group, according to an HCA news release.
Halifax Health, a public health system based in Port Orange, Fla., has challenged Adventist Health's planned take over of Bert Fish Medical Center in New Smyrna Beach, Fla, saying it will match Adventist's $71 million pledge to the ailing hospital…
Officials from Miami-Dade County are questioning the calculations financially struggling Jackson Health System is using to determine how they are closing in on a $230 million budget deficit, according to a report in The Miami Herald.
The American Hospital Association, along with five other hospital groups, has asked Congress to remove a provision changing Medicare's "72 Hour Rule" for therapeutic services from the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act, according to a report in AHA…
New York's 1,171-bed Mount Sinai Hospital refinanced some $331 million at a discounted rate compared to those of its peers, spurred by an improved credit rating and borrowing costs on tax-exempt debt that were at a nine-week low, according to…
Health Management Associates has announced it acquired a 60 percent interest in three Shands HealthCare hospitals.
Here are the fair market value ranges of total management fees for 12 common service line co-management arrangements in hospitals, according to HealthCare Appraisers' Healthcare Transactions 2009 Year in Review.