Richard Pizzi
The Leapfrog Group has identified the "Highest Value" hospitals in the United States based on a review of over 1,220 hospitals participating in the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey.T...
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is opening a health insurance retail store - called Highmark Direct - in a Pittsburgh shopping center. The company says it will be the first health insurer in Pennsylva...
Cooper University Hospital is opening a new $220 million patient pavilion on its Camden (N.J.) Health Sciences Campus. It is the hospital's largest construction expansion in more than 30 years....
Overall medical and pharmacy costs for people with diabetes can be lowered by more than 10 percent per year if individuals receive regular, non-surgical periodontal services, according to a recent Uni...
Contract negotiations between the Ohio Nurses Association and University Hospitals Geneva Medical Center broke down after the 6th session of negotiations, and hospital nurses plan to strike if no agre...
Nearly nine in 10 hospital executives believe the current economic crisis will impact their facilities more heavily than the downturn of 2001-2002.This data comes from a survey titled "T...
Hospital executives confronted many big issues in 2008, and most of those concerns will be equally as important to them in 2009.The general decline of the U.S. economy has already hit heal...
Fitch Ratings has revised its outlook on the U.S. not-for-profit hospital sector to "negative" from "stable." The revision reflected Fitch's observation of material weakening in several areas affecting hospital creditworthiness.
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services has awarded $44 million in Health Care Stabilization Fund grants to six financially distressed hospitals in order to maintain healthcare access...
HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES confronted many big issues in 2008, and most of those concerns will be equally as important to them in 2009.The general decline of the U.S. economy has already hit healthc...