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A new study suggests that the number of New York City residents 50 and older who have had colonoscopies has risen sharply--by about 50 percent--over the last five years. The survey, which was Read more...

At St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, administrators were as likely to get a patient letter saying that their experience was dreadful as they were to get letters praising the hospital experience. Hoping Read more...

Roughly 5,000 nurses should walk off the job today and tomorrow at Sutter Health-affiliated hospitals in California. This follows a previous two-day walkout by the nurses in October. Affected Read more...

Temple, Texas-based Scott and White Hospital has set plans to spend $1 million a year to test all incoming patients for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Scott and White, which is Read more...

Do your hospital's administrators see their physicians as endlessly money-hungry (or so flaky that they don't care of anyone makes money)? How about your doctors? Do they feel that administrators Read more...

Physicians aren't very satisfied with communication between themselves and hospital leaders, according to a new study published by consultant Press Ganey. The study, which addresses 21,000 Read more...

Evidence is piling up, in study after study, that it just makes sense to limit work shifts for residents and interns. In today's example, which comes from the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers at Yale-New Haven Hospital collected data on treatment and outcomes …

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It's the usual story: hospitals say they are paying their CEOs what they feel they must, and consumers don't like the numbers. This time the tale is playing out in Connecticut, where a newspaper analysis of state CEO salaries has highlighted some big increases. Last year, eight Connecticut hospital administrators earned more than $1 million, according to an analysis of state data by the Hartford Courant. The highest paid was Middlesex Hospital CEO Robert Kiely, whose compensation …

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Seven out of every eight hospital administrators believe that the problem of overcrowding has not subsided in the past year, and in many cases has gotten worse, according to a survey by the American College of Emergency Physicians and by patient-flow software vendor TeleTracking. A full 60 percent report that the overcrowding has forced their facilities to divert patients in need of urgent or emergent care. And although more than 70 percent of hospitals responding to the survey have a …

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Over the past year, regulators kept up the pressure on voluntary hospitals to prove that they were providing a reasonable level of charity care. Not only did the IRS continue to scrutinize tax-exempt hospitals, state tax authorities and federal legislators got their licks in, too. Overall, over the …

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