Cincinnati-based TriHealth has purchased Pulmonary Consultants Inc., a five-physician pulmonary group practice in Cincinnati.
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New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health System has hired 109 healthcare providers in 2013, expanding the ranks of its employed providers by nearly 50 percent, according to a Boston Business Journal report.
Since 2006, the physician assistant profession has grown 34 percent and is expected to continue growing, according to data from this year's American Academy of Physician Assistants annual survey.
Younger nurses are more likely to be optimistic about the future of nursing compared with their older colleagues, even though both groups are happy with their career choice, according to the results of AMN Healthcare's annual survey of registered nurses.
This year set the record for the number of students who applied and enrolled to U.S. medical schools, according to data released by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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Miami-based Jackson Health System is starting a new hospitalist program in partnership with the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami.
The patient-centered medical home — a model of providing primary care in a physician office that involves care teams and health coaches — has spread far and wide in the last five years. Numbers to prove it: There are now…
A study based on clinicians' interactions with diabetic patients found female physicians outperformed their male counterparts on certain metrics of care.
Wilmington, Ohio-based Clinton Memorial Hospital will end its family medicine residency program June 30, 2014, despite the nation's looming primary care shortage.
Marietta, Ga.-based WellStar Health System has formed a clinical collaboration agreement with Walgreens.