A review of the top five biggest stories in healthcare this week, including two studies on health insurance quality and costs, the CHS/HMA merger, efforts to resolve the government shutdown and more.
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Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope and Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Joint Services have signed a letter of intent to expand oncology care at Providence Health sites in Southern California.
Los Angeles-based Cedars Sinai Heart Institute has begun consulting with Bakersfield, Calif.-based Central Cardiology practices on complex cases.
Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Camden, N.J.-based Cooper University have partnered to open the $100 million Cooper Cancer Center in Camden, according to a report from the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Implementation of an experimental two-hour pathway for assessing risk among chest pain patients allowed healthcare workers to safely discharge two-times the number of patients discharged under traditional chest pain protocols, according to an article in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Although federal employees forced to furlough will feel a near immediate impact of the government shutdown, other impacts may take longer to ripple through before they affect daily life. That said, anyone who has tried to visit a number of…
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's Roswell, Ga.-based North Fulton Hospital and Marietta, Ga.-based WellStar Health System have partnered to enhance cardiology at North Fulton, according to report from the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
October issue. The October issue of Becker’s Hospital Review includes a special section of content on health information technology and health information management — an area of increasing concern for hospital and health system CEOs as they prepare their organizations…
In a February 2013 article in Golf Digest on golf commentator David Feherty, Feherty’s description speaks for itself: “David Feherty is intense, intelligent, irreverent, improvisational and inexhaustable. And he may just be the best interviewer in the game.” Feherty’s wit…
September 2013 Issue of Becker's Hospital Review