Nearly 24 percent of Americans older than 50 say that either they or a family member have experienced excessive or unwanted medical treatment, the equivalent of about 25 million people, according to a survey conducted by Purple Insights, the…
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The board of Texas Health Resources in Arlington has named Barclay Berdan as the system's next CEO, effective Sept. 1.
In a newly released report, the Institute of Medicine urges the government to significantly reform the system for funding graduate medical education to address deficiencies and better shape the physician workforce for the future.
Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, Ohio, is working on a $38 million expansion project, according to a Lancaster Eagle-Gazette report.
CMS will hold a live encore presentation of last week's webinar on its new contracts with Quality Improvement Organizations, on July 29 at 2 p.m., EST, according to an AHA News Now report.
The costs of operating a medical emergency team to reduce critical deterioration events in children's hospitals can plausibly be recovered along with a modest reduction in those events, according to a study published in Pediatrics.
Cape Coral, Fla.-based Lee Memorial Health System's has had zero medication errors that caused serious harm to any patients within the last 36 months, according to a News Press report, written by Jonathan Girnys, Pharm.D., a pharmacy resident with…
Qualis Health published a complimentary, online toolkit that provides hospitals with a low-cost approach for engaging patients and families in infection control during hospital stays.
The Medicare Board of Trustees has issued its annual report, setting the estimated depletion date for Medicare's Hospital Insurance trust fund at 2030, four years later than the trustees predicted in last year's report.
Net income at Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America rose 14 percent during the second quarter of this year, from $423 million in the second quarter of 2013 to $483 million this year.