Quality and Safety
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released a report showing that the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program, created by the Affordable Care Act, is reducing healthcare costs for early retirees.
Kaiser Permanente is planning a structural departure: It wants to build a small hospital rather than its usual large medical center. Since it's stepping out of its comfort zone, the company launched a design competition, "Small Hospital, Big Idea," in February, seeking an open hospital design from students, architects, engineers, designers and multidisciplinary teams for a small hospital to be built in southern California.
An opinion piece published in February's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine calls for the creation of a national health policy curriculum for medical schools.
More than 1,000 registered nurses at Kaiser Permanente's Los Angeles Medical Center are going on strike Wednesday - the first nursing strike at the Sunset Boulevard facility in 20 years.
The new owner of several Massachusetts hospitals is setting its sights on Miami's financially strapped, government-owned Jackson Health System - but officials in Florida aren't so sure they want to go private.
The Justice Department has reached a settlement with the United Regional Health Care System of Wichita Falls, Tex., that prohibits it from entering into contracts that prevent commercial health insurers from contracting with the system's competitors.
The Alabama State Supreme Court has upheld a 2009 ruling that Richard Scrushy, founder and former CEO of HealthSouth, must pay $2.8 billion to shareholders over accusations of fraud.
Rather than focusing on new construction, health systems are renovating or expanding with an eye toward IT advancement and green construction, according to a survey conducted by Health Facilities Management magazine and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering.
It's time for the healthcare industry to raise its level of customer service -- and step on it because the stakes are high.
Employers who consistently offer a wellness program to employees can slow the rate of healthcare cost growth by 15 percent, according to a new study by Highmark.