The University of Pennsylvania has joined a lawsuit against the current president of New York-based Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, claiming he walked away from his former workplace with research findings to start his own company, according to a New York…
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Medline is set to launch its new PerforMAX pOweR scrub at the upcoming Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses' 59th Annual Congress in New Orleans taking place in March. The scrub, which Medline says is the industry's first-ever line of long-sleeved…
SSM DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton, Mo., has announced the appointment of Sean Hogan as president.
CMS has released the proposed rule for Stage 2 requirements for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs. The Stage 2 rule includes criteria eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals must meet in order to qualify…
President Barack Obama officially signed the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 Wednesday, which will extend the Medicare physician payment rate, payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits through Dec. 31, 2012, according to a post on…
Anne McSweeney, director of the Office of Development at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, earned more than $1.4 million in salary and benefits in 2010, according to a Chronicle of Philanthropy report.
The average cost of Medicare patients with a healthcare-associated infection at Pennsylvania hospitals was $21,378 in 2010, while the average Medicaid patient stay with an HAI at Pennsylvania hospitals cost $33,329, according to a report from the Pennsylvania Health Care…
Late last year, The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health in Cincinnati received a first-place award in a multi-state competition for its efforts to reduce Clostridium difficile infections among inpatients. The award came from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield's Quality-In-Sights Hospital Incentive Program,…
Inadequate reimbursements for government-sponsored health programs, an aging population, a widening proportion of low-income residents and high-income earners and "substantial" state budget complications are some of the biggest reasons California hospitals will be facing significant downward pressures this year, according…
Of Nevada's 33 general, acute-care hospitals, 20 recorded net losses in the third quarter of this past fiscal year, according a report from the Reno Gazette-Journal.