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The joint venture currently offers employers with employees in northern California self-insured commercial products with effective dates as early as April 1.
Eliasson has held numerous financial leadership roles, including vice president of commercial finance and vice president of financial planning and analysis.
After talk of protests and fears over pending mega-merger with Catholic Health Initiatives, new contract stipulates health benefits, raises, bonuses.
More positions are being offered in family medicine, a specialty already suffering from a shortage slated to get worse over the next decade.
Since hospital-employed doctors tend to perform services in an outpatient setting, the trend increases costs for Medicare and patients.
J. Stephen Jones succeeds CEO J. Knox Singleton who held the position for 35 years.
Here's a breakdown of the metropolitan areas where physicians and specialists make more money than others, based on gender and geography.
Allegations in medical malpractice claims against nurse practitioners don't differ radically from those made against primary care physicians.
The number of undergraduate nursing students is on the rise but, in the meantime, smart hospitals are establishing pipelines to grow the base of prospective employees.
By collecting and sharing patient satisfaction survey results hospitals are earning higher overall scores, according to research a provider organization conducted.