Beth Jones Sanborn
Financial challenges once again ranked as the top concern for hospital chief executive officers in 2015, according to a new study by the American College of Healthcare Executives. Patient safety and quality, and governmental mandates came in as the 2nd and 3rd highest concerns.
Six hospitals in the North Carolina-based Vidant Health system will join Winston-Salem's Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Telestroke Network by the end of the year, Wake Forest Baptist announced in a statement Wednesday.
As taxi companies like Uber and Lyft continue to pick up billions in funding, the surging interest in similar on-demand services is trickling over to healthcare startups.
LifePoint Health has wrapped up its acquisition of Providence Hospitals, the company announced Tuesday in a joint statement with the Sisters of Charity System, which originally founded Providence.
Ten people have been charged in a tangled Medicare fraud scheme involving several Los Angeles area rehab and physical therapy facilities that together fraudulently billed Medicare for roughly $15 million, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced on Friday.
Plano, Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice, one of the largest hospice providers in the country, has launched a companion charitable foundation of the same name, the company announced Monday.
A new alliance of 10 Kentucky healthcare systems, now officially known as the Kentucky Healthcare Collaborative, has announced three primary objectives, the entity said Thursday.
The three primary areas of focus will be: raising the standards of care, addressing Kentucky's poor health statistics, and slashing the cost of care through "greater efficiencies".
According to a recent Gallup poll, the medical professionals who take care of us when we are injured and sick, specifically nurses, medical doctors and pharmacists, are the most honest and ethical professionals in the workforce.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, one of the biggest and well-known facilities of its kind in the world, and VPS, a fast-growing integrated healthcare provider in the Middle East, Europe and India officially unveiled their strategic alliance Wednesday, according to joint statement.
CHI St. Luke's Health announced Monday that Jenny Barnett-Sarpalius will lead the Texas Division as their new chief financial officer. She has served as interim CFO of that division for the last 90 days, and her new role is effective immediately, the company said Monday.