Beth Jones Sanborn
Injuries that brought a patient to the emergency room were most likely to have involved steps or stairs, according to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, a resource maintained by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. According to their recent data, which concerned the year 2014, 1.14 million trips to the ER involved the common household fixture.
10 hospital outreach programs have been recognized for their unique approaches to helping underserved communities around the country with national Hospital Charitable Services awards from Jackson Healthcare. The winning programs got equal shares of $100,000 of unrestricted funds offered through the Hospital Charitable Services Awards, Jackson Healthcare said in a statement.
Labib E. Riachi, MD, of Westfield, New Jersey, along with two companies that he owns and operates, has agreed to pay $5.25 million to resolve allegations that they submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid for diagnostic tests that were never performed, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Friday.
The Greater New York Hospital Association is pitching a $2.5 billion plan they say will ensure the financially distressed safety net hospitals throughout the state survive by paying the larger healthcare providers to integrate them into their own systems.
The U.S. Attorney's office has filed a civil suit against a prominent New Jersey doctor for allegedly causing the submission of millions of dollars in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid, among other illegal conduct, in violation of the False Claims Act.
Alan S. Kaplan, MD, the current executive vice president and chief clinical transformation officer for UnityPoint Health in West Des Moines, Iowa, has been appointed CEO of the UW Health system, UW Health announced Tuesday.
DignityHealth next month will break ground on one of four small hospitals in Las Vegas, part of a plan to bring more care to underserved neighborhoods of the famous desert city.
GoHealth Urgent Care and Dignity Health, one of the country's largest health systems, announced a new joint venture Tuesday that the companies say will provide greater access to "convenient care".
As part of the development of four new operating rooms, the University of Michigan Health System announced Monday that it will become one of the first hospitals in the country to integrate new neurosurgical imaging equipment called BrightMatter.
Colorado hospitals and health systems provided more than $2 billion in community benefits in 2014, according to data recently released by the Colorado Hospital Association.