Uncategorized

Two of the main goals of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are to increase quality and lower costs. Here are four examples of ways anesthesia providers can help hospitals reach these goals.

The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act means that payment reforms brought on by the law — such as the Value Based Purchasing Program  — are now a lot more certain. Under these new…

CMS has announced five hospitals that will participate in its Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration. For the demonstration, CMS will provide funding — up to $50 million annually over four years — to the five participating hospitals to clinically train advanced…

North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., is a tertiary care facility that is one of the cornerstones of Great Neck, N.Y.-based North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.

CMS has announced a 1.8 percent increase to the prospective payment system for Medicare-certified skilled nursing facilities beginning Oct. 1, the start of federal fiscal year 2013.

Keck Hospital of USC, which was formerly known as USC University Hospital and is part of the Keck Medical Center of USC, is a rising academic medical center in Los Angeles.

AchieveIt, a provider of execution management and strategic planning software, has announced new additions to its executive and sales teams.

CMS has posted replays of two calls about the quality reporting programs for inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals, according to an AHA News Now report.

The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson is the state's only academic health science center. UMMC provides wide-ranging patient care programs through University of Mississippi Health Care, its parent company.

Boston-based Steward Health Care is launching a new ad campaign that will run throughout the Summer Olympics on NBC.