Richard Pizzi
As many as 13,000 registered nurses from hospitals throughout California issued a one-day strike notice Friday over patient care shortcomings at their facilities.
AHA Solutions, a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association, has launched the 2010 version of its Patient Flow Challenges Assessment, a survey for hospitals that offers insights into patient throughput and capacity management issues.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has instructed its contractors to hold claims containing services paid under the Medicare physician fee schedule for the first 10 business days of June.
Pediatric hospitals can employ several techniques to alleviate crowding, but often fail to implement ways to better manage patient flow, according to research by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The expansion of Medicaid under healthcare reform will significantly increase the number of people covered by the program, with the federal government picking up the overwhelming majority of the cost, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Pay increase budgets at healthcare organizations have continued to decline over the past year, dashing the hopes of many healthcare workers who hoped for raises in 2010.
Physicians at the City of Hope Medical Group in Monrovia, Calif., have expressed an "overwhelming loss of confidence" in the administration at the world-renowned cancer center.
In a transaction guaranteed to shake up the hospice care industry, home health firm Gentiva Health Services will acquire hospice provider Odyssey HealthCare for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1 billion.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is informing Medicare beneficiaries about the immediate benefits they may see from the enactment of the Affordable Care Act.
Nine California hospitals have been assessed administrative penalties after the California Department of Public Health determined that the facilities' noncompliance with licensing requirements has caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients.