Richard Pizzi
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.
A comprehensive data set of all new chemical entities approved between 1982 and 2003 shows that Europe is pulling further ahead of the United States in pharmaceutical research productivity.
Leaders of three major nurses' organizations that are coming together to form the largest registered nurses union in U.S. history have said they will hold a founding convention Dec. 7-8 in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The progressive activist organization Campaign for America's Future has come up with its own response to the conservative attempts to scuttle healthcare reform: a flowchart.
Saint Barnabas Health Care System, the largest integrated healthcare delivery system in New Jersey, has signed a long-term revenue cycle management deal.
U.S. Bank Healthcare Payment Solutions has partnered with WebMD to offer its U.S. Bank Health Savings Account customers enhanced online health tools from the provider of online health information services.
The University of Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati Physicians and University Hospital have come together to form UC Health.