california hospitals
Hospital resists buyout by maverick Prime Healthcare
To date, growing California hospital chain Prime Healthcare has picked up nine facilities, all of which were in financial trouble when it arrived on the scene. These days, it's trying to pick up a... Read more...
CA struggles with transplant costs for illegal immigrants
Without a doubt, transplants are an extremely costly business. The question is, can states and counties afford to provide them for illegal immigrants in addition to their own citizens? In... Read more...
EDs seeing more affluent patients, less uninsured
Here's a study that flies in the face of what we've been reading elsewhere. According to new research published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, emergency departments are actually seeing a... Read more...
CA law would ban balance billing for ED services
California officials are considering new rules that would ban balance billing for ED services, due in part to struggles over the fees charged by emergency department doctors, radiologists and... Read more...
Study: CA immigrants face big language barriers
Despite the region's huge immigrant population, southern California's healthcare providers aren't doing well in negotiating language barriers created by the region's complex mix of residents. A new... Read more...
Group of hospitals joins BC of CA P4P program
A group of 23 hospitals have joined Blue Cross of California's new inpatient pay-for-performance program, which is structured to give the facilities adjustments to their inpatient fixed-payment... Read more...
Sutter nurses plan 10-day strike
Labor troubles are continuing within the Sutter Health system hospitals, where Bay Area nurses are now planning a 10-day strike. Nurses at Atla Bates Summit Medical Center campuses in Berkeley and... Read more...
CA hospital cited for 'wrong-site' incident
An Orange County, CA-based hospital is now under state investigation after doing knee-repair surgery on a patient's healthy knee, marking the third "wrong-site" procedure to take place there since... Read more...
BS of California offers $6M in HAI-prevention grants
The Blue Shield of California Foundation has announced plans to award almost $6 million in grants to assist the state's hospitals in reducing the number of hospital-acquired infections. The grants... Read more...
California lags in drug-resistant infection reporting
Earlier this month, California public health officials announced they'd begin tracking community-based MRSA infections, e.g. those contracted in schools, gyms and other community settings. At the... Read more...
