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The trend of CEOs being hired with business development and financial management expertise but no healthcare experience has spurred much discussion in the healthcare community. Healthcare Finance News talked to some "insiders" to get the pulse of the conversation.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending January 17, 2014.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending January 10, 2014.
December brought jobs disappointments all around -- including in healthcare -- according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly employment outlook, released Friday morning.
When discussing solutions to the problem of primary care shortages, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are top of mind. A law that took effect the first of the year in California is putting the spotlight on another option: pharmacists.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending January 03, 2014.
A recent analysis by an advocacy group for direct care workers finds that wages for personal care aides (PCAs) nationwide continue to be low.
As a strategy to improve its patient satisfaction scores and re-establish the human-to-human connection between patients and caregivers, Steve Pu, DO, medical director at Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center in Kennett, Mo., helped establish an initiative called Sacred Moments in January 2012.
A new survey by CareerBuilder found that this year eight in 10 healthcare businesses have been impacted by bad hires, costing companies thousands of dollars.
When patients have access to after-hours services with their primary care provider, emergency room usage is significantly lower and fewer patients go without needed medical care, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) released last week by Health Affairs.