Richard Pizzi

The bond ratings assigned to one of the premier children's hospitals in the United States have stabilized recently, reflecting reductions in the hospital's operating losses.

Downey Regional Medical Center, a financially troubled Los Angeles-area hospital, will soon be acquired by another non-profit facility in southern California.

Many small businesses and tax-exempt organizations that provide health insurance coverage to their employees now qualify for a special tax credit, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

Affiliation discussions between Los Angeles-area Downey Regional Medical Center and the five-hospital Daughters of Charity Health System have ended, leaving the hospital scrambling to find an affiliation partner as it emerges from bankruptcy.

Brent Grimes IS the Corporate Director of Patient Financial Services at INTEGRIS Health, a 13-hospital health system based in Oklahoma City, Okla., with 1,900 licensed beds and employing more than 2,500 physicians. Grimes spoke with editor Richard Pizzi about some of the challenges his office is encountering, and overcoming, in 2010.

Employment in the U.S. healthcare sector increased by approximately 26,800 jobs in March, while the national unemployment rate remained steady at 9.7 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The University of California, San Diego has announced plans to build a state-of-the-art medical center on UC San Diego's east campus in La Jolla, Calif.

Editorial by Richard Pizzi, Editor

The growing market power of hospitals and physicians to negotiate higher payment rates has gone largely unexamined, according to a recent study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.

In a decision that could have implications for hospitals across the country, the Illinois Supreme Court has denied an appeal by Provena Covenant Medical Center to regain its property tax exemption.