New definitions for the surveillance of patients with mechanical ventilation may help hospitals more accurately and effectively collect data, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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More woman than men, between the ages of 19 and 25 years, had a usual place where they received healthcare, had been to a physician or had been to the emergency room in 2011, according to a National Center for…
Fairfield (Ill.) Memorial Hospital has announced Kathy Clayton has been hired as the hospital's new CFO.
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Lynchburg, Va.-based Centra Health has announced the resignation of CEO Michael Bryant.
Here is a list of hospitals and health systems that changed names or brands or announced plans to do so in the past month, beginning with the most recent announcement.
On Thurs., April 18, three panelists at a session hosted by the Chicago Health Executives Forum discussed the state of healthcare for uninsured and underinsured patients and how the delivery system with adapt to an influx of newly insured patients…
As the nation places more scrutiny on transparency in healthcare, pressure for providers make clinical outcomes and prices more visible and easy-to-understand grows by the day. Where do consumers' dollars go? Why do procedures vary in cost so widely, even…
Three years after Novant Health first challenged to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's $38.7 million surgery center, the battle has ended but a new timeline for the project has not been announced, according to a Business Journal report.
Much has been made in recent months about the outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae1 at the National Institutes of Health. The highly resistant organism outbreak has claimed over a dozen lives, after many months of control efforts.