Here are the top 10 states with the highest number of community hospitals in 2007, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Former Joint Commission president Dennis O'Leary, MD, will become chief strategy officer at San Diego-based Awarepoint Corp., a developer of technology for monitoring patient flow and healthcare supplies, according to a release from Awarepoint.
Here is a list of the number of ambulatory surgeries performed in the United States in 2006 (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred thousand for procedures with volumes greater than 1 million) by facility type and location, according to…
Here is a list of the number of ambulatory surgeries performed in the United States in 2006 (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred thousand for procedures with volumes greater than 1 million) by procedure category, according to the National…
Ground breaking has begun for the new Denver Veterans Medical Center in Aurora, Colo., according to a report in the Denver Post.
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CMS has announced results of demonstration programs for large physician practices, small and solo physician practices and hospitals, in which the agency pays providers for meeting certain quality markers, according to a press release from CMS.
Kettering Health Network in Kettering, Ohio, broke ground on Aug. 5 on a 90-bed hospital with patient-friendly features such as a two-story wall of water, a serenity pool and stained glass in the main lobby, according to the Dayton Business…
A recent, controversial study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that vertebroplasty, a procedure commonly used to treat painful, osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures in which cement is used to fill the cracks, is no more effective than…
Max Baucus (D-Mont.). Sen. Baucus is the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and has been vocal on many issues concerning healthcare, including developing healthcare reform, protecting Social Security and Medicare and expanding healthcare programs. Born and raised in Montana,…
The construction of a $150 million hospital in Webster, Texas, has resumed following a delay in funding, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle.