Scott & White Healthcare, based in Temple, Texas, will no longer hire new employees who use tobacco, according to a Waco Trib report.
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The National Coalition on Health Care, a group of healthcare consumers, providers and payors, has made nine policy recommendations (pdf) to change healthcare provider incentives to reward value, not volume.
While noise in a hospital may seem a simple nuisance, it can affect patients' health and satisfaction, which in turn can impact hospitals' reimbursement. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey includes a question directly addressing the…
Hospitals weren't immune from the recession that hit in late 2008 and endured throughout 2011. A new infographic from Objective Health illustrates how much declines in admissions for commercially insured patients cost hospitals throughout the recession.
Gerard van Grinsven has served as president and CEO of Henry Ford West Bloomfield (Mich.) Hospital since 2006.
Mercy Medical Center–North Iowa in Mason City is a faith-based, non-profit community hospital and is a member of the West Des Moines, Iowa-based Mercy Health Network.
The Healthcare Supply Chain Association has announced it submitted its final comments to FDA regarding the proposed rule to establish a Unique Device Identification System for medical devices, according to a news release (pdf).
About one in three physicians are considering transitioning to subscription-based care, such as concierge medicine, according to a recent Accenture study. However, concierge medicine has caused some concern because it can disenfranchise patients who can no longer afford to receive…
Today's hospital and health system leaders can learn a lot from George Bernard Shaw, the famed Irish writer and social critic. He is renowned for the following passage: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists…
At a hearing on electronic health record programs and interoperability, Farzad Mostashari, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said physicians and hospital are making significant advancement toward "meaningful use" of EHRs, according to an AHA News report.