Harrisburg, Pa.-based PinnacleHealth System has teamed with Pennsylvania insurer Capital BlueCross to form an accountable care arrangement, an effort to enhance care coordination and patient satisfaction while reducing healthcare costs.
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Researchers have found positive deviance made a significant impact on infection prevention efforts, according to a New Jersey Institute of Technology news release. Read the full report in Becker’s ASC Review on infection prevention.
Researchers have concluded that simply adopting evidence-based measures is not enough to improve patient safety and other interventions should be implemented to boost compliance, particularly to hand hygiene practices, according to a study published in Patient Safety in Surgery. Read…
Coshocton (Ohio) County Memorial Hospital and Genesis HealthCare System in Zanesville, Ohio, have signed a confidentiality agreement to discuss opportunities to work together to ensure continued local access to quality healthcare.
St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., has named Carolyn Tadeja, RN, as chief nurse executive.
An unknown number of New York City-based Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center had clinical data and private information, in some cases Social Security numbers, mistakenly leaked onto two medical professional organizations' websites earlier this year, according to a Long Island Press…
Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland (Calif.) and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco may join forces, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.
There is certainly a push for clinical integration among healthcare organizations of all sizes and types today; and for good reason. Clinical integration has been shown to improve quality and patient service and reduce per capita costs all while coordinating…
The board of directors at Phoenix-based Banner Health has approved plans to build four new Banner Health Centers in Maricopa County, Ariz., expanding the reach of the health system's primary care services.
Anthelio, a provider of healthcare information technology services and business process solutions healthcare providers, announced the addition of John D. McConnell, MD, CEO of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and Kevin Hickey, principal, HES Advisors, to its Healthcare Innovation Council.