Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health has acquired West Michigan Heart, a 30-physician cardiology group in Grand Rapids, according to a report by the Grand Rapids Press.
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Meadville (Pa.) Medical Center has signed an agreement to join the Roswell Park Cancer Institute Regional Network, based in Buffalo, N.Y., according to a report in the Erie Times-News.
Swedish Medical Center's Heart & Vascular Institute has acquired Seattle Cardiology, with six locations and 11 cardiologists, according to a release from Swedish Medical Center.
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,…
Becker's Hospital Review/Becker's ASC Review are now accepting nominations for the "50 Best Places to Work in Healthcare."
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A study published in the American Journal of Cardiology found that patients with heart problems treated in rural hospitals had similar outcomes to those treated in urban hospitals, according to a report by ABC News.
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.