Acute Care
Hawaii and Massachusetts earn nearly as much as those in California, with average annual salaries of $90,000 and $88,000, respectively.
Project will yield 267-bed hospital with all major services under one roof, adding to efficiency, quality, system says.
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More than 65 million ED mental health visits reported, substance abuse behind 41 percent of them, results show.
30 percent of all health spending, $750 billion, is wasted on fraud, administration and needless procedures, estimate says.
As many as 1.4 million seniors survive a stay in the ICU every year; most go home, with varying degrees of disability.
New research shows race and geography prevent some of the most vulnerable from obtaining effective treatments, including powerful anti-coagulant that can break up the clot causing the stroke.
Talks between Allina Health negotiators and the Minnesota Nurses Association team broke off on September 3rd when the hospital team left the table, according to a statement by the nurses union.
Almost $1,000 per procedure examined at the academic medical center, UCSF researchers find.
Across the board, hospitals earned more if they were in a state where more people had coverage and saw declines in the level of uncompensated care.