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…

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), along with other Texas House members, are attempting to push two amendments to the House healthcare reform bill that would soften current restrictions to physician-owned hospitals and grandfather in around 100 such facilities currently under…

Plans for a 12-bed joint replacement hospital in Indio, Calif., near Palm Springs, are very close to fruition, except for one thing — opposition from the local general hospital, which is spilling over into the courts.

Akron (Ohio) General Health System is accusing physician-investors in a joint venture with rival network Summa Health System of steering patients to their hospital, according to a report by the Akron Beacon Journal.

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has launched the Maryland Hospital Hand Hygiene Collaborative campaign to enhance the prevention of healthcare-associated infections in Maryland hospitals, at the recommendation of the Maryland Health and Quality Cost Council, according to…

Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I., has been fined $150,000 by the Rhode Island Department of Health for a wrong-site surgery, marking only the second time the Department has fined a hospital for this kind of error, according to a…

Palm Beach County (Fla.) officials recently met to discuss ways to improve healthcare for the county's poor and is considering a public takeover of St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., according to a report by the Palm…

ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, in collaboration with the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, has released important changes to its recommendations for preventing surgical fires, according to an ERCI news release.

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…