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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, September 20, 2010
Grants totaling nearly $131 million will be used to strengthen and expand the health professions workforce, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced last week. Target areas include primary care and oral health.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, September 20, 2010
Banner Health, which operates 23 hospitals in seven states, plans to build a 25-bed critical access hospital in northeastern Colorado between two existing facilities.
By: Dom Nicastro, for HealthLeaders Media, September 20, 2010
The Connecticut Insurance Department issued a bulletin last month that calls for state insurers to notify affected individuals and the state's insurance commissioner of a breach of patient information no later than five calendar days after its discovery.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, September 20, 2010
Hospital executives at Baton Rouge General Medical Center are studying the lessons learned from a Sept. 3 domestic violence-related shooting that left one patient and a visitor seriously wounded.
By: Emily Berry, for HealthLeaders Media, September 20, 2010
When the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services completes its information sharing system about terminated providers, credentialing specialists will be able to verify the quality of the practitioners and ensure if the hospital will receive Medicare reimbursement.
By: Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Media, September 17, 2010
This month's cover story in HealthLeaders magazine is an interesting one. Yes, I wrote it, but you should read it anyway. It's interesting because I was stunned by how much simplicity there is in running a super-complex organization like a hospital or health system. At least that's what my self-deprecating sources would like you to think. I think it's much more complicated than they let on.