The "Best Hospitals" chosen by U.S. News and World Report are not the biggest favorites of hospital patients, as determined in federal patient satisfaction surveys, but the magazine won't be adding patient satisfaction scores to its methodology, according to an…

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.

A study recently published in Gastroenterology suggests the endoscopist-directed propofol sedation is safer than endoscopist-delivered benzodiazepines and opioids and as equally safe as general anesthesia delivered by anesthesiologists.

Mortality rates in U.S. hospitals have improved since last year but there are still wide variations in mortality among hospitals, according to the 2009 HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study.

The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program has adopted the 34 safe practices endorsed by the National Quality Forum's Safe Practices 2009 Update, and these practices will be implemented by HFAP-accredited hospitals, effective Dec. 1, 2009, according to a HFAP news release.

The Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9, with one republican vote from Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), to approve the committee's healthcare reform bill, according to a report by AHANews.

Alexander A. Hannenberg, MD, who will become president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists during its annual meeting in October, discusses 10 facts that every surgeon or hospital executive should know about anesthesiologists.

A new study, which tracked 35 Maryland hospitals between 2005 and 2007, found that the hospitals made significant improvements in reducing errors associated with mislabeling medications and educating healthcare workers on safe drug use, according to a report in the…

The cost and quality of healthcare, as well as access to care and health outcomes, continue to vary widely among states, according to the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System's 2009 State Scorecard report.

Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., has launched a program to use surgical hospitalists, or surgicalists, to help serve the surgical needs of its emergency department, according to a report in the Nashville Business Journal.