Richard Pizzi

Poudre Valley Health System, a private not-for-profit healthcare organization in northern Colorado, has won the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus, N.J. has completed the redesign and renovation of its 8,000-square-foot emergency department.

The governing board of the California state stem cell agency is delaying $58 million in research grants until March because of the economic slowdown and the crisis in the credit markets.

Aspen Valley Hospital, located in Aspen, Colo., has signed a five-year deal to continue outsourcing its business process services.

A national nursing magazine has announced the results of a survey revealing the "Top 100 hospitals" at which nurses can work.

Citing the financial challenges accompanying New Jersey's economic crisis, Saint Clare's Health System is eliminating 180 jobs and undertaking a variety of other expense reduction measures.

The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute is embarking on a project to rank and assess community health in the United States, with $4.9 million in new funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The annual number of outpatient surgery visits in the United States increased 67 percent between 1996 and 2006 to 34.7 million, according to a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC says that reimbursement changes helped lead to the rise.

NorthShore Skokie Hospital plans to eliminate 150 full-time jobs, or nearly 14 percent of its workforce, in the next two months.

A recent report by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services spells out the potential health consequences of the current recession.