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NewsDuke, LifePoint create community hospital network
Duke University Health System is partnering with LifePoint Hospitals to run community hospitals throughout North Carolina, Duke announced earlier this week. Together, the Durham-based academic health Read more...
Hospital stocks see unstable activity as patient volumes decline
Hospital stocks are on shaky ground, and weakened patient admissions--due to patients putting off elective and "not critical" procedures--may be responsible. The five major, publicly-traded hospital Read more...
No health reform could mean more mergers
The top three publicly traded hospital chains--Community Health Systems Inc. in Franklin, Tenn., Health Management Associates Inc. (HMA) in Naples, Fla., and LifePoint Hospitals Inc. in Brentwood, Read more...
Fewer hospitals operating at a loss
The portion of hospitals operating at a loss has taken a big plunge downward--well, maybe not a "plunge," but a very large change continuing the economy in which the industry continues to work. Read more...
Hospital stock prices improving, but will they keep it up?
Over the past several weeks, hospital stocks have begun a rally, with investors hopeful that hospitals will be buoyed by an influx of newly-insured persons under health reform bills brewing on the Read more...
Investor-owned hospitals behind on quality
Investor-owned hospitals are falling a bit behind the national average on quality ratings, according to a new analysis of the second set of Hospital Compare data. The analysis, which covers the Read more...
Number of hospitals requesting up-front payments continues to expand
A few months ago, FierceHealthFinance recounted the tale of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, which drew considerable attention when in 2006, it asked a leukemia patient for $105,000 in cash up front Read more...
LifePoint profits more than double
Hospital operator LifePoint Hospitals has reported its second quarter profits, and they're looking good, particularly when compared with the company's Read more...
| Press ReleasesLifePoint Hospitals to Broadcast Its Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2011 Conference Call Live on the InternetBRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPNT) announced today that it will provide an online Web simulcast of its fourth quarter and year-end 2011 conference call on Read more >> LifePoint Hospitals to Participate in 22nd Annual UBS Global Healthcare Services ConferenceBRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPNT) today announced that its management will participate in the 22nd Annual UBS Global Healthcare Services Conference to be Read more >> Twin County Regional Healthcare Reaches Definitive Agreement with Duke LifePoint HealthcareNew joint venture will bring $20 million in capital improvements and approximately $10 million to fund a community-based foundation GALAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Twin County Regional Healthcare Read more >> LifePoint Hospitals to Participate in 30th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare ConferenceBRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPNT) today announced that its management will participate in the 30th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference to be held Read more >> LifePoint Selected for National Partnership for Patients InitiativeHospital company is one of 26 organizations named a Hospital Engagement Network by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LifePoint Hospitals® (NASDAQ: Read more >> |
