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By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 09, 2008
Contract negotiations between the Ohio Nurses Association and University Hospitals Geneva Medical Center broke down after the 6th session of negotiations, and hospital nurses plan to strike if no agre...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 08, 2008
Hospital executives confronted many big issues in 2008, and most of those concerns will be equally as important to them in 2009.The general decline of the U.S. economy has already hit heal...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 05, 2008
Fitch Ratings has revised its outlook on the U.S. not-for-profit hospital sector to "negative" from "stable." The revision reflected Fitch's observation of material weakening in several areas affecting hospital creditworthiness.
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 04, 2008
HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES confronted many big issues in 2008, and most of those concerns will be equally as important to them in 2009.The general decline of the U.S. economy has already hit healthc...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 04, 2008
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services has awarded $44 million in Health Care Stabilization Fund grants to six financially distressed hospitals in order to maintain healthcare access...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 03, 2008
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) have asked the Government Accountability Office to study best practices used by states, hospitals and other c...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 02, 2008
The Condell Health Network has agreed without litigation to pay the United States and the state of Illinois $36 million as a result of filing false claims for reimbursement.The health system volunt...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 02, 2008
Humana Military Healthcare Services, a subsidiary of Humana Inc. and the TRICARE Contractor for the South Region announced that MinuteClinic services would be available to TRICARE beneficiaries in a n...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 01, 2008
Cardinal Health and SRI/Surgical Express, Inc. have entered into a five-year supply and co-marketing agreement to offer surgical kits that include disposable healthcare products from Cardinal Health a...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 01, 2008
HCA Virginia is one step closer to building a new 164-bed hospital in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., after the Loudon County (Va.) Planning Commission voted to approve the project.Construct...