House Republicans plan to introduce legislation extending the payroll tax cut, but that bill will be separate from a solution of the Medicare sustainable growth rate, according to a New York Times report.
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Durham, N.C.-based Duke Medicine will soon open the $230 million Duke Cancer Center, according to a Chronicle report.
Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, part of Baylor Health Care System, is opening the $125 million Baylor Cancer Hospital, according to a health system news release.
Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., part of Saint Thomas Health, is the first hospital in the state to open two hybrid operating rooms, according to a health system news release.
Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., has been ordered to pay $10 million in damages after a jury found the hospital falsely advertised its weight loss program as a "Center of Excellence" by allowing a surgeon who did not meet the…
The non-profit organization Equity of Care has published a case study guide outlining hospitals' successes in improving health disparities, according to an AHA News Now report.
North Carolina has passed a law allowing state officials to collect and publicly report hospitals' rates of healthcare-acquired infections, according to a Charlotte Observer report.
A team of University of California-Davis researchers found patients who are the most satisfied with their physicians are more likely to be hospitalized, accumulate more healthcare and drug expenditures and have higher death rates than patients who are less satisfied…
The American Hospital Association's Association for the Healthcare Environment is offering a best practices toolkit free for a limited amount of time, according to an AHA News Now report.
North Carolina State University chemists have created a compound that makes existing antibiotics 16 times more effective against antibiotic-resistant "superbugs."