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.

Practice management companies are increasingly acquiring independent physician groups, especially practices that specialize in inpatient specialties, such as maternal and fetal medicine and emergency medicine, according to a report by American Medical News.

Following the lead of two other Michigan hospitals, Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Mich., is in the process of replacing all but seven of its 31 licensed practical nurses with registered nurses, according to a report by MLive.

From medical directors to department chairs and vice presidents of medical affairs, physicians who have leadership roles within hospitals are being asked to do more, and their levels of compensation are rising along with those demands, say executive and physician…