Here are 12 statistics about medical directors from Integrated Health Strategies' 2009 Medical Director Survey. The survey collected data from 160 organizations, 2,600 individual medical directors and 66 different medical director positions.

Results from Press Ganey's 2009 Outpatient Pulse Report: Patient Perspectives on American Health Care indicate that patient satisfaction with outpatient services has reached a five-year high, according to a Press Ganey news release.

A new report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council found that mortality in Pennsylvania hospitals fell from 5.1 percent in 2002 to 4.2 percent in 2008, according to a release from the council.

CTQ Solutions has announced the Apex Quality Award winners for 2009, which recognizes outstanding healthcare organizations that demonstrate the highest levels of excellence in patient satisfaction throughout the country in markets served by CTQ, according to a CTQ news release.

The Orthopaedic Joint Reconstruction Program at 250-bed Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Park, Ill., achieved an outstanding score in the 99th percentile range in the first quarter of 2009 on CMS' patient satisfaction survey, the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare…

Summa Health Systems and Crystal Clinic, both based in Akron, Ohio, have merged orthopedic programs, according to a report in Crain's Cleveland Business.

Note: The following article was first published in The Camden Quarterly, volume XIII, number 2 by The Camden Group, one of the nation's leading healthcare advisory firms. Historically, buying physician practices has not resulted in successful outcomes. Hospital inexperience in…

Like many of hospitals around the country, our non-profit, community hospital has watched intently as ASCs have proliferated. We have noted the increasing interest of surgeons in owning these facilities, and the high rates of patient satisfaction they deliver. Not…

The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of $50 million in Recovery Act funds to hospitals and surgery centers to help fight healthcare associated infections (HAIs) and improve patient safety at a speech before…

A new study from Consumers Union, a nonprofit publisher of consumer reports, showed that while many hospitals have showed progress in certain areas of surgical infection prevention, almost 100,000 patients were left vulnerable to surgical site infection last year because…