Leadership & Management

For years hospital executives have been employing a variety of leadership philosophies in working with their leadership teams, physicians and staff to improve patient outcomes, optimize operational processes and maximize financial returns. Evidenced based medicine and clinical protocol development, six…

As 2011 approaches, hospitals are preparing for massive physician and nurse shortages. Here David Alexander, president of healthcare staffing firm Soliant, discusses five trends that will affect healthcare staffing over the next few years.

Allegations of fraud by Solantic, a chain of Florida urgent care clinics owned in part by Florida Republican Gubernatorial Candidate and former HCA CEO Rick Scott, have been forwarded to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for possible…

A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that full disclosure of medical errors resulted in a decrease in compensation claims, including lawsuits, and reduced liability costs, according to a University of Michigan news release.

Former employees of now-closed St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan have filed a lawsuit saying hospital executives bankrupted the hospital through financial mismanagement, including executive salaries of more than $1 million each, extravagant executive outings and $17 million for management consultants,…

San Antonio-based University Health System's board of directors approved plans to ask for a 3.8 percent property tax rate increase from members of the public hospital system's district in order to pay off a bond sale needed to finance a…

The price to consumers for hospital services dropped 0.5 percent in July, the first decline since Aug. 2005, according to a report by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

The University of Texas Board of Regents has approved an $800 million hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas to replace University Hospital - St. Paul, according to a Dallas Morning News report.

A recently released survey hospitals in the Philadelphia area shows bad debt from insured patients grew by 28 percent from fiscal 2007 to fiscal 2008, more than twice as fast as total growth of bad debt, according to a report…

Ideally, says David Witt, CFO of CHRISTUS St John Hospital, billing errors should be resolved at the bedside, long before financial people get involved. But it is hard for clinical people to think in financial terms. This is because in…