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The Iowa Health System, a seven-hospital system based in Des Moines, Iowa, and Methodist Health Services of Peoria, Ill., have entered into a non-binding letter of intent to explore a strategic partnership.
The results of a recent study indicate that a one-hour reduction in the average emergency department boarding time could result in millions of additional dollars per year in revenue for hospitals.
Getting a good deal on things we need. These days, it’s not a “nice to have,” it’s a “must have” for managing our personal expenses.
It’s not unusual for nursing home patients to spend the last weeks of their lives in acute care hospitals even if they have made it known that they don’t want to end their days there.
As hospitals and doctors align their interests in order to take advantage of financial incentives offered under healthcare reform, the two groups, traditionally competitors, must learn to be collaborators says a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, a global professional services company headquartered in London.
Fifteen percent of U.S. nursing homes receive deficiency citations for infection control each year, according to a new study.
Hospitals across the country have been rocked by nursing strikes over the last year. The coming months show no letup, which means that hospitals will continue to face major disruptions, both financial and otherwise.
The strength of the national healthcare labor market showed improvement across a number of major metropolitan areas in the first quarter of 2011, as measured by the HWS Labor Market Pulse Index, a quarterly barometer of local market healthcare workforce fluctuations.
More registered nurses working non-overtime hours in a hospital unit results in fewer patient readmissions after discharge, according to a study published in the current issue of Health Services Research.
Compensation for medical directors varies widely across specialties, with the lowest reported by internists and pediatricians at $7,500, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data."