Moody's Investors Service has confirmed the "Ba3" rating assigned to Longview, Texas-based Good Shepherd Medical Center's $93.7 million of outstanding bonds, and revised the hospital's outlook to negative.
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Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth and Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., have announced they are entering into a non-financial partnership to form HealthPartners Delmarva, a new organization through which the hospitals will share best practices and focus on collaborating to improve patient care.
St. Louis-based Ascension, the nation's largest nonprofit Catholic health system, has formed Ascension Health Senior Care, a national organization that will bring together all of Ascension's senior-focused programs.
A new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report has found wide variation in coinsurance and copayments for silver plans offered on exchanges created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Lincolnwood, Ill.-based Legacy Healthcare has acquired Park Ridge, Ill.-based St. Matthew Center for Health, part of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois, for $10.5 million and renamed the facility Avantara Park Ridge.
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National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD, jumped to the defense of electronic health records after a Boston Globe article highlighted their role in patient safety events.
About half of healthcare providers currently offer direct-to-consumer online medical services, according to a recent poll from the American Telemedicine Association.
Mercy Technology Services, the IT division of the Chesterfield, Mo.-based health system, will provide Epic implementation services for Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health.
Enterprise imaging, interoperability and clinical systems vendor Merge Healthcare has reported a net loss of $4 million for the second quarter of 2014, a significant improvement over the $28 million net loss reported during the second quarter of 2013.