The following hospital mergers and acquisitions took place within the past week, beginning with the most recent.
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An Indiana Supreme Court case involving Indiana University Health in Indianapolis could open the floodgates for patients to sue over hospital bills from up to 10 years ago, according to an Indianapolis Star report.
The CEOs of Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital and St. Raphael Healthcare System in New Haven, Conn., received support for their proposed merger from the area's mayors and first selectmen in a meeting last week, according to a New Haven Register…
Researchers sought to determine the impact of CMS' new payment policy for preventable healthcare-associated infections and found it has led to widespread changes in the healthcare industry, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
The fate of Shawn Bolouki as CEO for Tulare (Calif.) Regional Medical Center is unclear and his resignation may be pending, according to a Visalia Times-Delta report.
Accretive Health has refuted the Minnesota Attorney General's allegations that the debt collection agency denied access to care and pressured patients at bedside to pay medical bills out of pocket.
Electronic motion sensor-triggered audible reminders could improve hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Blue Shield of California agreed to a three-year contract that would set rates for Blue Shield's HMO and PPO, according to a San Jose Mercury News report.
A new patient safety and medical education initiative designed to standardize and improve patient hand-offs is being implemented and tested in 10 pediatric training programs.
Black children are less likely than white children to receive medication for abdominal pain in the emergency department, even when they report severe pain, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Boston.