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NewsTeaching hospitals ramp up advertising to gain clinicians, patients
With medical centers spending 20 percent more on advertising in 2011, more hospitals are beefing up their marketing campaigns, especially academic medical centers--the newcomers to the national Read more...
Cleveland Clinic, hospitals launch specialty affiliations
With the goal of delivering world-class service to local communities, leading hospitals, including Cleveland Clinic, are partnering with local hospitals in developing specialty service lines and Read more...
Top teaching hospitals fall from grace with high infection rates
They may be known for possessing leading minds and excellent service, but the well-known academic centers may not be the safest places for patients. A new Consumer Reports Health hospital ratings Read more...
Outpatient market is booming
Hospitals that want a bigger share of high-growth markets are investing in outpatient services, often in suburbs to bring services to the places where fully insured patients who can pay their bills Read more...
State's hospital infection rates rise despite patient safety initiative
Despite the fact that 64 of its hospitals were involved in a patient-safety initiative, Tennessee facilities still recorded the highest rate of blood infections through central lines in the nation. Read more...
TN mall to be turned into healthcare clinic
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center has decided to give nearby 100 Oaks Mall a facelift. Throughout this year and into next year, 440,000 square feet of store space at the mall will be turned Read more...
| Press ReleasesWilliam Walker Joins Aegis Health Group as Vice President of Information Technology ServicesNASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Aegis Health Group, the nation’s leading provider of business development strategies for hospitals, has appointed William “Bill” Walker as vice president of Read more >> Specialists On Call and Vanderbilt University Medical Center Launch the Vanderbilt Neuroscience NetworkCollaboration Delivers Neurologists Immediately to Stroke Patients’ Bedside WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. & NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Americans living in a region of the southeastern United Read more >> ImaCor Receives CE Mark for ClariTEE® Probe and Zura™ SystemGARDEN CITY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ImaCor, Inc., the developer of the first and only hemodynamic transesophageal echocardiography (HTEE™) management system, today announced that the ClariTEE® probe Read more >> LUNGevity Announces Lung Cancer Research GrantsLUNGevity Foundation awards nine grants to researchers across the country for cutting-edge lung cancer research into early detection and targeted therapeutics WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LUNGevity Read more >> digiChart Names Phillip Suiter as President and CEONASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- digiChart, Inc., a Nashville-based provider of electronic health record (EHR) and practice management system (PMS) solutions for OB-GYN practices, has announced Read more >> |
