Richard Pizzi
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.
According to a survey from the American Hospital Association, the "capital crunch" and the recession are severely restricting U.S. hospitals in obtaining funds to upgrade their facilities or invest in new clinical and information technologies.
A new Commonwealth Fund report finds that policies in Switzerland and the Netherlands that achieve near-universal healthcare coverage and low administrative costs can help inform the U.S. healthcare reform debate.
The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania hailed a new report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council that shows a significant decline in infections contracted during hospitalization.
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina is opening the company's first retail outlet in Mount Pleasant, S.C. BCBS of South Carolina will offer insurance for individuals as well as children's policies at the store.
A new report from the Noblis Center for Health Innovation, a non-profit healthcare advisory firm, has found that hospitals and health systems are cutting back on both capital spending and unprofitable services as a result of the economic crisis.