A report by the Pennsylvania Department of Health found that hospitals in the state reported 25,914 hospital-acquired infections in 2009, down an estimated 12.5 percent from 2008.

Augusta Health, a 225-bed hospital in Fishersville, Virginia, will revoke the privileges of three University of Virginia cardiologists next week following the hospital's employment of cardiologists and plans for a $42 million cardiac and vascular facility, according to a report…

Employed physicians at New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.'s Coney Island Hospital voted to join Doctors Council SEIU, part of the Service Employees International Union, according to a SEIU news release.

Physician Hospitals of America, joined by Texas Spine & Joint Hospital (TSJH) in Tyler, filed a lawsuit in early June challenging the health reform law's ban on new physician-owned hospitals. Accompanying that lawsuit is a motion for a preliminary injunction…

A new set of proposed accreditation standards would further limit duty hours of residents working in teaching hospitals, according to a release by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that adherence to individual surgical infection reduction measures does not significantly reduce post-operative infection risk.

A committee panel from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released an opinion in a recent issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology supporting the continued development of obstetric-gynecologic hospitalists.

Cigna, the Philadelphia-based health insurer with 12 million members, is starting a pilot program to reduce the number of hospital readmissions of its members, according to a release by Cigna.

Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis has notified 2,600 patients that they were treated with improperly disinfected endoscopes during a gastrointestinal procedures using endoscopic ultrasound, according to a news release by the hospital.

A new study published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics indicates nitrous oxide gas provides a comparable analgesia to IV sedation for patients undergoing colonoscopy.