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Stephanie Bouchard

Stephanie is the Managing Editor for Healthcare Finance News. Follow Stephanie on Twitter @SBouchardME.

By Stephanie Bouchard | 03:07 pm | January 24, 2012
Fortune magazine recently released its annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Healthcare companies nabbed 17 slots. What is their secret to creating a workplace that makes employees want to stay and makes their companies the ones for which job seekers aim? Healthcare Finance News reached out to those companies to find out.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 11:06 am | January 24, 2012
The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is offering $14 million in grants to support research to build a scientific evidence base for effective public reporting.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:59 am | January 23, 2012
Duke LifePoint Healthcare and Virginia-based Twin County Regional Healthcare (TCRH) have entered into a definitive agreement that will pump millions into TCRH and its community.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 05:58 pm | January 19, 2012
For the last five months, members of an independent organization established by the Affordable Care Act have been developing a national priorities agenda that may transform medical care and save healthcare dollars. The first draft of that agenda will become available for public comment beginning Monday.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:50 am | January 18, 2012
Hospitals purchasing physician practices may find that the relationship doesn't turn into the fairy tale romance they had envisioned. A webinar presented by healthcare compensation and human resource consulting firm Integrated Healthcare Strategies offered tips on how hospitals can revive souring relationships.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 11:21 am | January 17, 2012
The top healthcare systems in the United States have lower 30-day mortality rates finds Thomson Reuters' fourth annual study naming the top 15 health systems in the country.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:52 am | January 13, 2012
A new study reveals the clinical reasoning practices and processes used by nurses that best identify and avoid medication errors.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:59 am | January 12, 2012
Former chief financial officer of HealthSouth, Aaron Beam, was flying high until he became involved in an accounting fraud that would send him to jail and offer him a mission: warning others of the ethical dangers of wealth and success.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 11:04 am | January 11, 2012
Quality professionals working in the healthcare industry made an average of $85,473 in 2011 reports the American Society for Quality in its annual salary survey, but it's the job trends that it hints at that offer a glimpse of the future.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 02:38 pm | January 07, 2012
A national survey of physicians finds that doctors believe their patients' unmet social needs, such as access to reliable transportation and adequate housing, lead directly to worse health.