Richard Pizzi
St. Luke’s Hospital, a 314-bed facility in northwest Ohio, may be considering a merger with another hospital group in its region due to increasing operating losses.
A new poll of U.S. healthcare quality improvement experts shows that solving payment problems and restructuring malpractice suits/tort reform top the list of areas that would help to eliminate waste.
A supply chain improvement project involving 12 hospitals in southwestern Missouri and southeastern Kansas yielded reduced spending on clinical products and improved infection control efforts.
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center saved over $570,000 over three years on energy costs by participating in online pricing events.
An annual report from the California HealthCare Foundation shows that the cost of employer-sponsored health coverage continues to rise far faster than inflation.
While the unemployment rate across the United States remains high, employment for pharmacy technicians will grow much faster than that of the average occupation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 2008-2009 Occupational Outlook Handbook.
BroMenn Regional Medical Center, a 221-bed not-for-profit hospital in Normal, Ill., has announced a new hospital medicine agreement with Cogent Healthcare.
The Wellmont Health System in Kingsport, Tenn., is expanding its revenue cycle management technology to include charge integrity, revenue capture and revenue recovery software.
A ventilation standard from ASHRAE and ASHE has been incorporated into the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities, copyrighted by the Facility Guidelines Institute and published by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., has selected a vendor to help identify and reduce excess clinical supply inventory and improve its overall OR inventory investment.