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Sharon (Conn.) Hospital, part of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, recently appointed H. Janelle Carr, DNP, as chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services. Before joining Northwell’s Sharon Hospital, Dr. Carr most recently served as assistant…
Hospitals’ bad debt and charity care costs are climbing sharply, according to Kaufman Hall’s most recent “National Hospital Flash Report,” which draws on data from more than 1,300 hospitals. Bad debt and charity care per calendar day rose 16% year…
Registered nurses and resident physicians at San Francisco-based UCSF Health rallied outside a UC Regents meeting July 15, calling on hospital leadership to address what they described as a patient safety crisis driven by emergency department boarding and unsafe staffing.…