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Enhancing the Reliability of Physician Performance on Hospital Outcome Measures Physician executives seeking to assess and improve physician performance on patient outcome measures are facing a number of specific challenges. In previous work, we have discussed the importance of using…

A Senate committee has approved legislation that would reauthorize the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program through fiscal year 2018, according to an AHA News Now report.

The Healthcare Clinics at nationwide Walgreens stores received accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Ind., recently received accreditation from the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program.

Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Del., has rebranded itself as Beebe Healthcare, according to a News Journal report.

Slidell (La.) Memorial Hospital has unveiled a new $25 million wing, which includes an expanded emergency department and a new heart center, according to a report by The Times-Picayune.

Yesterday I read an entertaining article on Slate.com by journalist Amy Webb, who happens to take Amtrak's Acela train to travel to and from Washington, D.C. On the train, she explained, she often overhears conversations that she's pretty certain the…

A nonprofit hospital with more than 500 beds and about $550 million in annual revenue was uncertain about its ability to remain a competitive, independent organization.

Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, Neb., had been managed for 25 years by an outside organization — until 2009. The hospital examined the partnership and decided the contract included a bundle of services the hospital had no…

Perioperative consulting company Surgical Directions exhibited at the American Society of Anesthesiologists' annual conference, ANESTHESIOLOGY, held from Oct. 11 to Oct. 15.