Richard Pizzi

The American College of Physicians plans to launch an initiative to assess the benefits, harms and costs of diagnostic tests and treatments for various diseases.

California voters, regardless of political party affiliation or income level, feel unprepared for the costs of long-term care, according to a new poll.

Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc., has exercised its option to acquire 63 additional long-term care facilities from affiliates of CapitalSource, Inc.

Community Health Systems, Inc., the largest publicly traded hospital company in the United States, increased its operating revenues for the first three months of 2010.

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle signed a Critical Access Hospitals Bill into law this week that ensures the 59 communities that are served by Critical Access Hospitals can leverage additional state resources and federal funding.

Children's Hospital Oakland has initiated its restructuring plan, laying off 17 staff members this week in the first phase of a program to reduce a projected loss of $26 million.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week issued a hospital inpatient and long-term care prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2011 that would decrease average inpatient payments by 0.1 percent.

Texas Health Resources, a 13-hospital health system in north Texas, and the LHP Hospital Group have formed a joint venture to acquire Wilson N. Jones Medical Center in Sherman, Texas.

Reducing the number of preventable patient injuries in California hospitals from 2001 to 2005 was associated with a corresponding drop in malpractice claims against physicians, according to a new study by the RAND Corporation.

Approximately three in four respondents to a survey of healthcare organizations said the recession has negatively impacted their balance sheets more than the 2001 recession.