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IPC The Hospitalist Company, a national hospitalist physician group practice, has acquired Senior Care of Colorado, headquartered in Aurora, Colo.
Standard & Poor's has revised its rating outlook to negative from stable on the Daughters of Charity Health System, a six-hospital California health system with facilities in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Because he thinks in stories, Atul Gawande - surgeon, author, professor - started a recent lecture about the costs and failures of the country's healthcare system with a story about a middle-aged car mechanic in Alabama.
Laura Winner, Director, Lean Sigma Program, Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
Susan Turley, CFO, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, McAllen, Texas
Mary Hatch, CFO, Dixie Regional Medical Center, St. George, Utah
James Lee, CFO, Adventist HealthCare, Rockville, Md.
Chrissy Yamada, CFO, Evergreen Healthcare, Kirkland, Wash.
Allscripts-Eclipsys aside, the landscape offers some intriguing deals.
Activity included several acquisitions, a shutdown and a much-needed resurrection.