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MemorialCare Health System, a Southern California integrated delivery system, has named Aaron Coley chief financial officer for Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills and Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in Fountain Valley.
Cerner President Zane Burke announced on Tuesday that the company has hired Jeff Hurst to be its President of Cerner RevWorks and Senior Vice President of Cerner Revenue Cycle Management.
Hospital employment increased by 1.7 percent from May 2010 to May 2014, with physicians and surgeons leading the charge, their employment growing 25.5 percent over that time, according to a MedPAC analysis of Bureau of Labor statistics.
Hospital just the latest facility to deal with workers using the Nintendo app phenomenon.
A new report released today by healthcare nonprofit The Leapfrog Group, and analyzed by Castlight Health, said that only 47 percent of hospitals reporting in the 2015 Leapfrog Hospital Survey have the recommended coverage in place regarding intensivists -- highly specialized physicians who work in intensive care units.
While most policy changes come from the top down, Geisinger Health System's new dress code for nurses came from an unusual source: patients.
The healthcare industry continues to drive job growth in the United States, contributing 39,000 of the 287,000 total jobs employers added to the economy in June, the Department of Labor announced Friday.
The change in leadership comes as the health system continues its focus on population health, value-based care, and new payment models to create a sustainable health system for the region, according to the hospital.
Michael D. Williams, president and the founding CEO of Community Hospital Corp., has announced his retirement from the organization after a 20-year stint. He'll continue to serve in that capacity until a new CEO is in place, which is expected to be around the end of June 2017.
Highest paid physician types for 2015 were nuclear medicine, neurological surgery; orthopedic surgery; radiology; and nueromusculorskeletal medicine.