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By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | September 05, 2008
Construction has begun on a $300 million hospital at the Long-Island Jewish Medical Center campus in Queens, NY, which will focus on women's healthcare services.Katz Women's Hospital will be...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | September 05, 2008
Some of the country's top CEOs identified reducing healthcare costs among their top legislative priorities Thursday as they called on Congress and the president to take care of "unfinished busine...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | September 05, 2008
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded $7 million in grants to 58 schools of nursing, in an effort to ease the nation's nursing shortage.The grants were awarded through the RWJF's New...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | September 05, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded a four-year contract to Columbia, S.C.-based Companion Data Services, LLC (CDS) for data center operations that support Medicare claims pro...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | September 04, 2008
Eleven more communities will join the 14 designated by the government as Chartered Value Exchanges - healthcare collaborations focused on improved care and making quality and price information widely...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | September 04, 2008
AcademyHealth has released a new voluntary code of ethics for use in recruiting foreign-educated nurses. The code, authored by a task force of union members, healthcare organizations, educati...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | September 04, 2008
Gov. Steve Beshear has outlined an "ambitious plan" to get as many children as possible enrolled in the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program (KCHIP) by 2010.The Beshear Plan...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | September 04, 2008
A survey released Thursday finds that annual health benefit cost growth will ease in 2009. Mercer, a global financial advisor and wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, In...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | September 04, 2008
The increase in popularity of home health and hospice care, fueled in part by an aging Baby Boomer population, has provided a windfall of sorts for HEALTHCAREfirst.The 16-year-old developer o...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | September 03, 2008
The move to eliminate payments to providers who make mistakes isn't that easy, noted the American Hospital Association in a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.In comme...