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Chip Kahn has been a major player in Washington for many years — as a health policy adviser to key Republican Senators, a representative of the health insurance industry and now as president for the past eight years of the…

The new president of the Illinois Hospital Association said she is concerned about hospital mandates in the House and Senate health reform bills, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.

By a vote of 315 to 199, AMA delegates reaffirmed the association's support of the health reform bills in Congress, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Washington Wire.

The Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation has recognized five hospitals in the state for their work in creating solutions to various healthcare challenges, according to a report in the Wichita Business Journal.

Grant Asay, the recently promoted executive vice president of operations for LifeCare Hospitals, which operates 19 specialty long-term acute-care hospitals across the United States, discusses the objectives he has in his new role and the impact reform may have on…

Chicago-based NeuStrategy and San Diego-based SpineMark recently completed a nationwide survey of hospital-based spine programs to determine best practices of leading spine programs.

Amid growing concerns about racial, ethnic and language disparities in healthcare, The Joint Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights have released a video, entitled "Improving Patient-Provider Communication," which supports language access in…

The University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., has set record patient volumes during the last fiscal year, according to a report in the Kansas City Business Journal.

The American College of Surgeons has named David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS, as its new executive director, effective Jan. 1, according to an ACS news release.

Trevor Fetter, CEO of Tenet Corp., the third-largest hospital chain in the U.S., said that hospitals will ultimately unite on healthcare reform once Congress irons out the final details, according to a report from Reuters.