The West Virginia University Hospitals in Morgantown, W.Va., has received the Magnate award from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the only hospital in the country to receive the designation twice, according to a report from WBOY News.
Integration & Physician Issues
On Nov. 19, VMG Health presented a Webinar titled "Trends in Strategies and Valuation of Physician/Hospital Relationships," which provided participants an overview of current trends regarding physician/hospital relationships, including a discussion of how healthcare reform and possible changes in reimbursements…
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), along with other Texas House members, are attempting to push two amendments to the House healthcare reform bill that would soften current restrictions to physician-owned hospitals and grandfather in around 100 such facilities currently under…
Plans for a 12-bed joint replacement hospital in Indio, Calif., near Palm Springs, are very close to fruition, except for one thing — opposition from the local general hospital, which is spilling over into the courts.
Akron (Ohio) General Health System is accusing physician-investors in a joint venture with rival network Summa Health System of steering patients to their hospital, according to a report by the Akron Beacon Journal.
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New Milford (Conn.) Hospital and Danbury (Conn.) Hospital are entering into discussions of a possible affiliation, according to a report in the Republican-American.
The University of Cincinnati Physicians and the University Hospital entered into a collaborative medical partnership beginning on Aug. 21, to improve healthcare in the region and to continue research into new medicine and treatments, according to a report in The…
MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, Mass., has decided to end plans to pursue a broad-based affiliation with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, according to a report in the Boston Globe.
Surgical Hospital of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, Okla., announced that it partnered with Surgical Care Affiliates, one of the country's largest providers of specialty surgical services, according to an SCA news release.