Mark Billings, president of Presbyterian Healthcare in Charlotte, N.C., since 2008, will leave the system to serve as president of Presybyterian's parent, Novant Health Shared Services in Winston-Salem, N.C., according to a Charlotte Observer report.
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The Joint Commission, in collaboration with Joint Commission Resources and Joint Commission International, has developed a new monograph that focuses on preventing central-line bloodstream infections.
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that six states — Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Washington — will receive more than $181 million of federal money to assist in implementing health insurance exchanges.
This past February, the American Hospital Association surveyed its hospital members to determine just how ready the hospital sector was for the impending implementation of ICD-10.
Many recent medical school graduates have negative views of their future day-to-day work lives as physicians, according to results from a multi-school study led by the University of Michigan Health System.
The Missouri Hospital Association has released a list of lessons learned from the disasters that occurred in 2011, with special emphasis on the Joplin, Mo., tornado of May 22, 2011.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center announced that Steven Lisco, MD, will serve as chairman of the department of anesthesiology, according to an Omaha World-Herald report.