Richard Pizzi
The research and consulting firm Thomson Reuters has released a benchmarking study identifying the top 10 U.S. health systems based on their hospitals’ clinical performance.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford Hospital & Clinics have reached a new contract agreement with employees represented by the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) union.
The financial performance of Rhode Island's hospitals declined in 2008, according to a new report from the Rhode Island Department of Health.
Editorial by Editor Richard Pizzi
California's sprawling size and the diversity of its regional healthcare systems result in care that is organized, delivered and financed differently throughout the state, according to the non-profit California HealthCare Foundation.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced in late July that acute care hospitals would receive a 2.1 percent inflation update in their payment rates in fiscal year 2010.
Not-for-profit hospital medians for fiscal year 2008 show a weakening of credit measures across all major ratios and all broad rating categories, says Moody's Investors Service in a new report.
A new Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert urges healthcare leaders to boost their efforts to prevent medical errors by taking the zero-defect approach used in other high-risk industries such as aviation and nuclear energy.
In two separate letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the American Hospital Association has recommended changes to the 2010 proposed Medicare payment rates, specifically in regard to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System, the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System and the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule.
The Duke University Health System is moving forward with the construction of a state-of-the-art Cancer Center and the new Duke Medicine Pavilion, a major expansion of surgery and critical care services at Duke University Hospital.