Richard Pizzi

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected 16 hospitals to participate in the first two cohorts of a collaborative project engaging nurses and other frontline staff to improve the quality of patient care.

The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that applications are now available for $1.5 billion in grants funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

As economic difficulties continue to hit hospitals hard, two Milwaukee-area health systems have decided to share certain hospital-based physician services in an attempt to save money.

Emory University is suspending its $1.5 billion medical expansion project due to concerns about the deteriorating economy.

A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that most seniors enrolled in Medicare's prescription drug benefit plan did not choose one of the lowest-cost drug plans offered in their area.

A healthcare network in upstate New York has settled a class-action lawsuit that alleged hospitals conspired to depress wages of registered nurses.

Employment at U.S. hospitals climbed 0.14 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted 4,719,300 people, according to a federal Bureau of Labor Statistics issued last week.

New Hampshire's nonprofit community hospitals provided more than $360 million in direct patient care services and outreach in 2007, according to a report by the New Hampshire Hospital Association.

Nonfarm payroll employment in the United States continued to fall sharply in February 2009, and the national unemployment rate rose from 7.6 percent to 8.1 percent, according to a report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I'm spending Thursday and Friday in Washington, D.C., attending the National Medicare RAC Summit at the Renaissance Hotel near Mount Vernon Square. And it's been ever so much fun to witness hospital administrators vent at greedy auditors.