Texas hospital systems and physician groups are scrambling to create partnerships that will be incented by the health reform bill, according to a Texas Tribune report.

A spokesman for Kearney Regional Medical Center in Kearney, Neb., said hospital construction should be finished by the Dec. 31 federal deadline for new physician-owned hospitals, according to a Kearney Hub report.

Hospitals, physicians, clinics and long-term care providers at San Gabriel (Calif.) Valley hospitals are forming partnerships to combat the shortage of primary care providers, according to a Whittier Daily News report.

A study recently published by Thomson Reuters shows that Catholic and other church-owned health systems had significantly better quality performance than non-faith-based facilities.

Blair G. Childs, senior vice president for public policy at Premier healthcare alliance, explains how Premier's new accountable care collaboratives are helping health systems to get ready to launch accountable care organizations.

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has announced it has been selected by the Pennsylvania Department of Health to lead two new healthcare-associated infection prevention initiatives through 2011.

The use of the fascia iliaca pain block to encourage quicker recovery from knee surgery is featured in a report by Pantagraph in Illinois.

As budgets get tighter and quality measures get stricter, hospitals must find ways to align physicians with the goals of their organization. Linda Efferen, MD, chief medical officer at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, N.Y., shares five ways to…

Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville, Fla., has been accredited by the Society of Chest Pain Centers for congestive heart failure and percutaneous coronary intervention, according to a Hernando Today report.

The economic challenges of the past decade have placed hospitals under unrelenting pressures to reduce costs while maintaining quality. With most of the stray dollars already found, any further cost cutting initiatives will likely bring with them the danger of…