Henry Powderly

The Leapfrog Group on Wednesday announced its top hospitals, celebrating 98 facilities for what they determined was excellence in quality of care and patient safety.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Sunday said it would merge with Botox maker Allergan in a $160 billion deal that would shift the company's executive offices to Ireland in a tax-saving "inversion" deal that is sure to come under heavy regulatory scrutiny.

This year, Healthcare Finance is asking its audience of healthcare finance decision-makers to help us rank the top issues with its inaugural, "Year that was, year that will be" survey.

The Joint Commission, which this week named more than 1,000 hospitals top performers for quality in its annual report, said it will put the program on hiatus until 2017 while it adjusts its methodology to account for shifting focus on new quality measures.

As the state-run Hawaii Health Systems Corp. faces a $50 million budget shortfall, one of its key executives is mulling his options after laying claim to some of the system's most successful initiatives.

The retail health clinic wave shows no sign of crashing, according to a new report by Accenture, with experts saying the number of these outposts will likely hit 3,000 by 2017.

The third quarter of 2015 was a busy one for hospital mergers, joint ventures and acquisitions, according to a new report by financial advisory firm Ponder & Co., with 28 deals announced.

Convenient Care Center emergency care, laboratory services, a breast center, physical therapy center and a primary care center on the site.

According to the CareCloud Practice Profitability Index, about 59 percent of owners surveyed said they were not planning to sell or merge, an uptick compared to the 54 percent who said the same thing last year.

Milwaukee medical office developer Landmark Healthcare Facilities this week picked up a $33.5 million mortgage by Healthcare Financial Services to build a 90,000-square-foot medical office building in Kansas City, Missouri.