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Hospitals' financial health improving
While things aren't exactly easy in hospital land, it appears that their financial health is improving overall, according to a new study released Wednesday. A Thomson Reuters piece found that all... Read more...
U of Chicago institutes triage in ED
Last week, the University of Chicago Medical Center announced 450 layoffs, which cut 5 percent off of its workforce. Now, it's following up that cost-control measure with another: it's started... Read more...
Pay for no extra performance?
Pay-for-performance is obviously a very popular model at this point, but what about when there are extra payments for no extra performance? University and community hospitals are protesting to... Read more...
Doctor ownership of hospitals faces legal setback
Put simply, physician-owned hospitals make other hospitals livid, as they often scoop up profitable business and (to hear the non-physician-owned hospitals tell it) suck the lifeblood out of... Read more...
Case study: Caritas CEO ends required MD referrals
Boston's Caritas Christi Health Care is dropping a strategy which used doctors at its community hospitals to prop up its central tertiary care facility. The health system, one of the few freestanding... Read more...
PA hospitals' overall financial health improves
A new report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council concluded that while the overall financial health of the state's hospitals improved, small community hospitals in rural areas... Read more...
U.S. Reps give boost to physician-owned hospitals
In recent times, physician-owned hospitals have taken a lot of fire in Congress--but... Read more...
MA may limit Boston metro hospital expansion
Now here's something you don't see every day. Rather than simply letting market forces prevail, Massachusetts health authorities proposed this week to protect suburban hospitals from competitive... Read more...
"Free care" visits to Mass. hospitals plummeting
A new study by the Massachusetts Hospital Association has concluded that the number of "free care" visits to hospitals have fallen dramatically over the past three years. Such visits declined 28... Read more...
CA hospitals must report serious staph cases
California's public health department has issued an order requiring hospitals to report some staph infections resulting in death or an ICU stay to local health authorities. It's not focused on the... Read more...
