Durham, N.C.-based Duke Medicine and Duke University will launch the Duke Institute for Health Innovation in early September, according to a News-Medical report.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has proposed a pilot test of an emergency department discharge tool.
CMS has lifted the immediate jeopardy status from FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, N.C., according to a report by The Pilot.
In the first six months of 2013, investors sold 124 medical office buildings worth $1.8 billion, down from the first half of 2012 when 171 MOBs worth $2.3 billion were sold, according to research from real estate firm Jones Lang…
Two small community hospitals in northwest Washington state — Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon and Cascade Valley Hospital and Clinics in Arlington — have voted to begin affiliation negotiations with Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth.
Scottsdale (Ariz.) Healthcare and John C. Lincoln Health Network in Phoenix have signed a definitive agreement to combine, creating a new nonprofit system called Scottsdale Lincoln Health Network.
The concept of physician-hospital alignment, also referred to as integration, has captured the healthcare industry's attention for nearly 25 years, since the earliest initiatives were launched in the early 1990s. Many transactions have occurred since then, mostly to accomplish market…
More than 200 members of Congress have expressed concern about a recently proposed Medicare reimbursement cut for end-stage renal disease treatment, saying it could have a negative effect on beneficiaries.
When smaller hospitals are rebranded under a large health system, there may be concerns that the hospitals will lose their personal touch and become more corporate or distant. For Flint, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care and its 10 Michigan hospitals, however,…
HHS has issued a memo requiring all private Medicare plans give beneficiaries — including same-sex couples — access to equal coverage in nursing homes where their spouses live.