Peter W. Carmel, MD, a pediatric neurosurgeon from New York City with a practice in Newark, N.J., has been named president-elect of the American Medical Association, according to an AMA release.
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Sullivan, Cotter and Associates, a compensation and human resource management consulting firm focused on the healthcare industry, has announced the opening of its newest business location in Minneapolis, according to a Sullivan & Cotter news release.
In 2009, as many physicians criticized the AMA for its continuing support of the Democrats' health reform bill, membership dropped by 3.5 percent, according to reports on the AMA website.
Some dozen hospitals in the Jacksonville, Fla., area have joined to form the Quality Collaborative, a vehicle for sharing best practices related to quality care, according to a report by the Jacksonville Business Journal.
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Amerinet, a leading healthcare group purchasing organization, announced the winners of its second annual Amerinet Healthcare Achievement Awards, which honor Amerinet members that excel in reducing healthcare costs and improving healthcare quality, according to an Amerinet news release.
Donald Berwick, MD, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has been formally nominated as CMS administrator, according to a release by the White House.
The highest scorer in the nation in CMS' Core Measures process-of-care program in 2009 was 235-bed Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Ala., an affiliate of Community Health Systems, which operates 122 hospitals in 29 states.
The Leapfrog Group is switching from Thomson-Reuters Healthcare to Quantros for administration and servicing of its online Leapfrog Hospital Survey, according to a release from the Leapfrog Group.