Kaiser Permanente will soon renegotiate contracts with Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif., and John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio, Calif., according to The Desert Sun.
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Sanford Health, based in Fargo, N.D. and Sioux Falls, S.D., signed a definitive agreement to purchase Clearwater Health Services in Bagley, Minn., according to a Sanford Health news release.
Researchers discovered overuse of healthcare services persists and more research must be done to more fully understand the extent and prevention of inappropriate care in the United States, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Johnson Memorial Medical Center in Stafford Springs, Conn., and St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., have finalized an affiliation agreement, according to a Hartford Business report.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has released for public comment a first draft of its National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda, which will be used to guide funding announcements for comparative clinical effectiveness research.
The board of managers at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas met on Tuesday to go over a patient safety action plan designed to address patient care deficiencies, according to a Dallas Business Journal report.
Memorial Hospital, an HCA facility in Jacksonville, Fla., will pay a man and his family approximately $178 million after the hospital and one of its physicians was accused of medical negligence, according to a Tennessean report.
Harlan Krumholz, MD, a Harold H. Hines Jr. professor of medicine and professor of investigative medicine and public health at Yale University, conducted a recent study that contrasts a separate analysis that showed hospitals with the poorest patients have higher…
How patients view their own health can help indicate whether they will be admitted and what the future costs will be, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care.
Intense market competition may not lead to significant improvements in hospital quality performance, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care.