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By Chelsey Ledue | 01:14 pm | March 11, 2009
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected Temple University’s James E. Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia to manage a new $19 million program called Public Health Law Research.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:40 am | March 11, 2009
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is visiting community health centers across the state this week to announce an agreement with the Missouri Hospital Association to provide healthcare to nearly 35,000 additional parents – at no increased cost to the state's taxpayers.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:15 am | March 11, 2009
California physicians given financial incentives to improve the quality of medical care have begun to “embrace an array of changes important to advancing quality,” according to a recent RAND Corporation study.
By Diana Manos | 10:58 am | March 11, 2009
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) have called on Congress to pass comprehensive healthcare reform legislation for President Obama to sign by July 4.
By Richard Pizzi | 10:56 am | March 11, 2009
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.
By Richard Pizzi | 10:32 am | March 11, 2009
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.
By Patty Enrado | 09:20 am | March 11, 2009
While the nursing shortage has been a glaring problem nationwide for the last few years, the nursing faculty shortage may be an even bigger issue.
By Richard Pizzi | 11:03 am | March 10, 2009
Emory University is suspending its $1.5 billion medical expansion project due to concerns about the deteriorating economy.
By Richard Pizzi | 10:19 am | March 10, 2009
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.
By Chelsey Ledue | 09:50 am | March 10, 2009
Researchers from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business say poor communication in U.S. hospitals has cost the nation $12 billion a year.