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…
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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."
A statewide initiative in Michigan led to sustained improvements in appropriate use of catheters, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The following is reprinted with permission from Singletrack Analytics. One of the first decisions to be made by applicants to the Medicare bundled payment initiative will be the selection of DRGs for which they will participate. Many facts are involved…
The Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West is sponsoring two California ballot initiatives to end what it calls "price gouging" and expand charity care by hospitals, according to an SEIU-UHW news release.
The American Hospital Association will hold a town hall meeting for its members via webcast today at 4 p.m. EST, according to an AHA News Now report.