Two hospitals in Baltimore are turning to employees and physicians on staff to raise millions of dollars for current capital projects, according to a report by the Baltimore Business Journal.

A mere 44 percent of hospital boards responding to a Health Affairs survey said that healthcare quality is among the top two criteria used to evaluate their CEOs, according to a report in American Medical News.

In a survey of surgeons commissioned by the American College of Surgeons, 8.9 percent of respondents said they were concerned they had made a "major medical error" in the past three months, according to an article on the survey in…

The Joint Commission has added a set of optional perinatal care measures to its 2010 ORYX core performance measures for accredited hospitals, according to a news release from the American Hospital Association.

On Nov. 19, VMG Health presented a Webinar titled "Trends in Strategies and Valuation of Physician/Hospital Relationships," which provided participants an overview of current trends regarding physician/hospital relationships, including a discussion of how healthcare reform and possible changes in reimbursements…

Several hospitals in Massachusetts have reported significant decreases in hospital-acquired infections due to new procedures and staff attitudes about the inevitability of infection, according to a report by the Boston Globe.

A study by Harvard University physicians in the November issue of Archives of Surgery found that uninsured patients suffering from traumatic injuries — such as from car crashes or gunshot wounds — were almost two times as likely to die…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert to healthcare providers about rare but serious complications, including bleeding and infection, associated with negative pressure wound therapy systems.

The emergency department is one of the most critical departments of a hospital as its patients contribute to a significant portion of the hospital's revenue. However, emergency departments are notoriously difficult to staff as the influx of patients can be…

One of every three people who died in 2007 in the United States was in the hospital for treatment at the time of death, and the cost of their hospital stays totaled nearly $20 billion, according to the Agency for…