Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y. is in a state of reorganization and trying to expand cardiology services after 14 cardiologists left the hospital after a 30-year alliance, according to a Journal News report. The physicians were with Cardiology Consultants…
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Consolidation and integration within the hospital sector is undoubtedly on the rise. While overall volume is up over past years, hospitals might not always be prepared for completing these types of transactions, especially as healthcare reform and regulatory bodies are…
Three hospitals in San Bernardino County, Calif., are forming a stroke network to speed access to stroke care for county residents, according to a Redlands Daily Facts report.
The 1965 implementation of Medicare has given American seniors a buttress against health and financial hardships but at the expense of uncontrolled costs that now threaten our nation's economic viability. In an effort to control costs and improve medical quality,…
The University Medical Center of El Paso's (Texas) medical director of the pediatric critical care unit and pediatric critical care transport team earned more than $1 million in 2009, but it came at the expense of 5,656 hours worked, or…
Hundreds of old phone records from Asheville (N.C.) Head, Neck & Ear Surgeons fell from a truck onto a downtown street, according to a Citizen-Times report.
Boston-based Partners HealthCare, which includes Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, reported a loss of $122 million in the fourth quarter ended Sept. 30, 2011, but the health system still posted an operating profit of $233 million in…
Contra Costa Health Services in California recently discovered a report of patients' debts to the county's health services department had been exposed online, according to a county news release.
Two for-profit Alaskan hospitals — Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage and Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer — reported operating margins of 29.4 percent and 25.8 percent, respectively, in 2010, according to a Fairbanks Daily News-Miner report.
Arkansas' efforts to create its own health insurance exchange have ended, and State Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford said the state will rely on the federally-designed exchange, according to a news release from the Arkansas Insurance Department (pdf).