All 65 of South Carolina’s acute-care hospitals have agreed to collaborate in a quality program to reduce preventable infections and trim the costs of treating them, according to the South Carolina Hospital Association, Health Sciences South Carolina and the Premier…

A new report from the American Medical Association (AMA) reveals that most markets are dominated by one or two health insurers.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released uniform policies to prevent Medicare and its beneficiaries from paying for three so-called “never events” — serious, preventable errors, according to a CMS news release.

Resurrection Health Care, based in Chicago, and Advocate Health Care, based in Oak Brook, Ill., have agreed to settle class actions lawsuits brought on behalf of uninsured patients, according to a news release from Resurrection Health Care and a report…

Dick Hanley, president and CEO of Broomfield, Colo.-based Health Inventures, which specializes in developing and managing ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) and imaging centers, often brokering partnerships between hospitals and physicians, offers the following six predictions and assessments relating to physician/hospital…

Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital has opened a $10.3 million surgery center, according to the Greenwich Time.

Henderson (Texas) Memorial Hospital and the East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System (ETMC) have signed a letter of intent stating Henderson Memorial will affiliate with ETMC according to a press release from ETMC.

Facing a lack of capital and major cuts to their funding sources, almost every healthcare facility in the North Bay region of California will break ground and take on major construction this year, according to the North Bay Business Journal.

A dearth of applicants for nursing jobs is forcing recruiters to try a variety of creative methods just to get qualified individuals to visit organizations, according to the Associated Press.

Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, N.M., is set to begin several new expansion projects that will cost more than $20 million, according to Las Cruces Sun-News.