Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley, Calif., has implemented a no-smoking policy, according to an Imperial Valley Press report.
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Silverton (Ore.) Health will eliminate approximately 35 positions following its projection of a $3 million budget shortfall by the end of its fiscal year, according to an Appeal Tribune report.
The Institute of Medicine has issued a new report urging the federal government to set new goals for U.S. life expectancy and per-person health spending as a critical first step in achieving better overall population health outcomes.
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has agreed to a $42.75 million settlement to resolve allegations that it overbilled Medicare for inpatient rehabilitation admissions.
Douglas Zipes, MD, professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and managing editor of Heart Rhythm, said St. Jude Medical's request to retract an article about its recalled Riata device "is not going to happen," according to a…
A white paper released by AllMed Healthcare Management suggests hospitals may be able to improve quality by first improving evaluations of practitioners' performance.
The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation is adding a powerful new component to its Sterile Processing Benchmarks tool to help departments assess staffing needs and productivity levels.
By focusing on the following disease groups, hospitals can more effectively target their efforts to reduce readmissions and achieve greater savings.
The ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization has released a new version of its adverse event collection and reporting system.
The following is reprinted with permission from the blog, "Not Running a Hospital," authored by Paul Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.Every day, a 727 jetliner crashes and kills all the people on board. Not…