Patients taken directly to a hospital that is able to treat heart attacks with percutaneous coronary intervention (or angioplasty) received treatments 31 minutes faster on average than patients who were first taken to a hospital without PCI and then transferred,…
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Last August, Moody's Investors Service affirmed the A2 credit rating of Fort Collins, Colo.-based Poudre Valley Health System, and CFO Stephanie Doughty and the rest of the executive team have led the charge to keep the private, non-profit health system…
New Hampshire legislators' efforts to entice for-profit hospitals to set up shop on the state's southern border have the CEO of Lawrence (Mass.) General Hospital concerned, according to a Boston Globe report.
Net income at Franklin, Tenn.-based IASIS Healthcare fell 34 percent to $11.2 million in the second quarter of its 2012 fiscal year, which comes on the heels of an 88 percent drop in profit in IASIS's first quarter.
Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, S.C., announced an affiliation with Durham, N.C.-based Duke Medicine to improve patients' access to high-quality cancer care.
In fiscal year 2010, Michigan hospitals provided nearly $2.6 billion in community benefits, according to a report from the Michigan Health & Hospital Association.
In February, Salem (Ore.) Hospital laid off 30 full- and part-time employees in a $30 million spending cut initiative, and now the hospital may eliminate an additional 150 full-time-equivalent positions over the next two to four months, according to a…
Ephrata (Pa.) Community Hospital announced the beginning of construction on a new $13 million emergency department.
The financial reporting requirements of tax-exempt hospitals and other non-profit organizations are about to go under the microscope of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee next week, according to an announcement from U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany, MD (R-La.).
The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to cut Medicaid spending and eliminate the Prevention and Public Health Fund, along with maintaining across-the-board Medicare cuts that are originally part of the Budget Control Act of 2011, according to The Hill.