Citing improved finances, St. Louis-based SSM Health Care is moving forward with building two replacement hospitals that had been put on hold last spring, according to a release from SSM Health Care.
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Click the image above to download a PDF of the latest issue of The Hospital Review Becker’s Hospital Review Names America’s 10 Best Hospitals for 2009 Becker’s Hospital Review has named the 10 best hospitals in America for 2009. These…
Duke University Health System is continuing plans to transform Duke Raleigh (N.C.) Hospital from a community hospital to a speciality medical campus, including renovations and new technology, according to a report in the Raleigh News & Observer.
Maple Grove (Minn.) Hospital opens on Dec. 30, the first new hospital in the Twin Cities area in 10 years, according to a report in the Star Tribune.
Nicholas Wolter, MD, has a special perspective on health reform. He is a pulmonologist and CEO of Billings Clinic, a large multispecialty group in Montana that operates a hospital. He also served two terms on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission,…
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Hospital pharmacy experts from Cardinal Health will host two presentation at the 44th Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition for the American Society of Health System Pharmacists in Las Vegas that will highlight solutions, tools and resources designedto help hospital pharmacies…
Several Joint Commission standards for hospitals have embarrassingly low compliance rates. Two Joint Commission experts — Jerry Gervais, CHFM, CHSP, an engineer and associate director in the Joint Commission's Standards Interpretation Group and Mary Carol Mooney, RN, MSN, senior associate…
Press Ganey Associates, the healthcare industry's leading performance improvement firm, has announced its 2009 award-winning healthcare organizations, including recipients of its prestigious Summit Award, which recognizes organizations that have achieved and sustained the highest level of excellence in patient satisfaction,…
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill to cancel the planned 21.2 percent Medicare pay cut for physicians for 2010 and replace the sustainable growth rate formula that produced it, according to MedScape.