The Neurologic & Orthopedic Hospital of Chicago is considering a partnership with NorthShore University Health System, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.

Rhode Island Hospital and Miriam Hospital, both located in Providence, R.I., have announced that they will merge to form a single hospital with two campuses, according to a report in The Providence Journal.

Miami's public health system expects to lose $56 million this year and $168 million next year as a result of caring for an increasing number of uninsured patients and decreasing tax revenue, according to a report in the Miami Herald.

Robert Witham, MD, a medical oncologist in Port Angeles, Wash., has filed a lawsuit against Olympic Medical Center, which alleges that no state law provisions exist that allow public hospital taxing districts to employ doctors and that this creates unfair…

Services at many of Minnesota's public hospitals are threatened due to the increasing cost of caring for uninsured patients, according to a report by the Star Tribune.

Here are the percentage of wrong-site surgery claims that were paid along with the average payment, adjusted to 2008 dollars, by specialty, from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Physician Insurers Association of America.

The 12 hospitals and 21 surgery centers in Rhode Island have agreed to a new surgical protocol to prevent wrong-site surgery errors, according to a report in The Providence Journal.

The fourth annual report from the New Hampshire Health Care Quality Assurance Commission showed that hospitals and surgery centers in New Hampshire lead the nation in infection control, according to report in the Nashua Telegraph.

Physicians are asking hospitals to be compensated for providing emergency department ("ED") call coverage at an increasing rate. Many hospitals are responding to such requests, and offering on-call compensation arrangements to ensure that patient needs are being met. Recently, the…

Here are the top 10 states with the longest average number of minutes spent by patients in the emergency department.