Leadership & Management

National physician shortages are rising across the country, and the problem is only expected to increase when 32 million Americans receive health insurance for the first time in 2011, according to various reports.

The governing board of Jackson Health System in Miami voted 11-1 to approve a proposed 2011 budget that assumes completion of a variety proposals and, even then, does not quite break even, according to a report by the Miami Herald.

Business intelligence and supply chain analytics are becoming an important focus as hospitals try to squeeze out savings while maintaining quality of care. Guillermo Ramas, vice president of strategy and product development for VHA, shares five ways developments in business…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin validating hospital outpatient quality data in late August or early September in order to determine 2011 annual payment updates, according to an AHA News Now report.

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is expected to approve a plan by Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health to build an 82-bed, $284 million hospital in Santa Rosa, Calif., according to a North Bay Business Journal report.

Hospitals are increasingly focused on tracking financial data to determine where money is wasted and where costs can be cut. Here, Stephen Mooney, president of revenue cycle solutions at Conifer Health Solutions, discusses three of the most important statistics hospitals…

Although all hospitals are affected by declining reimbursements, looming "meaningful use" requirements and physician shortages, rural hospitals are often hit the hardest. Brock Slabach, senior vice president for member services at the National Rural Health Association, discusses three challenges facing…

Modoc Medical Center, a county-owned hospital in rural Alturas, Calif., is currently negotiating two loans from the state totaling $16.5 million to keep its doors open and is also considering filing for bankruptcy, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group of health insurers, spent $2.3 million on lobbying in the second quarter of 2010, which covers the three months immediately following the passing of healthcare reform at the end of March, according to…

Nurses at two hospitals in Duluth, Minn., have voted to approve a one-day strike after union and hospital representatives were unable to agree on a contract, according to a Minnesota Nurses Association news release.