The parent company of CHA Somerville (Mass.) Hospital issued a public apology Nov. 7 for failing to meet its own transparency and accountability standards in the 2016 death of a patient who died feet from Somerville Hospital's emergency room, according…
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Cardinal Health appointed its first independent chairman in the company's 47-year history on Nov. 7, according to Columbus Business First.
A new report claims Tesla's on-site health clinic at its Fremont, Calif. factory routinely denies care to employees and is instead designed to minimize worker injury reports, according to The Mercury News.
Kenneth Myers, former CEO of William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., passed away at the age of 86, according to a Crain's Detroit Business report.
In this special Speaker Series, Becker's Healthcare caught up with Karen Gee, senior vice president and COO, North American Medical Management, California, an OptumCare company.
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The 2018 midterm elections shifted some control back into the hands of Democrats, who flipped the House and won some governorships, which will have mixed results for the healthcare industry, according to PwC's Health Research Institute.
Voters in Utah, Idaho and Nebraska said "yes" to expanding Medicaid on Nov. 6, NPR reported.
A proposal to implement mandatory nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in Massachusetts failed during this year's midterm elections on Nov. 6, according to WBUR.
Expanding Medicaid eligibility in Oregon with a lottery system improved voter turnout in 2008 by 7 percent overall, according to research from Boston-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
On the heels of a lawsuit accusing him of killing his wife, nursing executive William Gamba, DNP, RN, is no longer employed by Twin Cities Community Hospital in Templeton, Calif., according to multiple news reports.