Chelsey Ledue
Kaiser Permanente's Santa Clara Medical Center has installed a solar power system, becoming one of the country's first major medical centers to receive a significant amount of its energy from the sun.
Seven hospitals in Florida, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama have agreed to pay more than $6.3 million to settle allegations that submitted false claims to Medicare, according to the Department of Justice.
Healthcare spending in the United States grew 4 percent in 2009 to $2.5 trillion, or $8,086 per person, the slowest rate of growth in the 50-year history of the National Health Expenditure Accounts.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has announced that Ohio State University is receiving a $100 million grant for a construction project at OSU Medical Center.
The economic downturn continues to impact New Jersey hospitals through the loss of jobs and services, according to a recent survey of the state's acute care hospitals.
Mike Donahue, vice president of physician practices at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine, spoke with associate editor Chelsey Ledue about the steps that EMMC is taking toward functioning as an Accountable Care Organization (ACO).
According to a new survey, employers believe the new healthcare law will increase their benefit costs, and they say changes are needed to improve quality, reduce expenses and reward health system performance.
Because it costs more to raise money during a recession, nonprofit institutions who are willing to invest in fundraising personnel and emphasize major gifts and planned giving will weather the current fiscal crisis, according to the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.
The LHC Group, a national provider of home health and hospice services, has acquired hospices in Alabama and Louisiana and entered into a home health joint venture in Kentucky.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical industry to address the growing shortage of prescription medications, especially those meant for treating cancer.