HealthLeaders Daily News & Analysis

Thursday, December 27, 2012

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• CFO Outlook for 2013 Grim
• No Increase in LOS After Ambulance Diversion Ban
• Webcast: Optimize the Nurse Skill Set—Lower Labor Costs and Raise Quality
• Rounds: Clinical Integration at Scott & White
• Top News From Around the Web

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CFO Outlook for 2013 Grim

By: Karen Minich-Pourshadi, for HealthLeaders Media, December 27, 2012

Financial leaders expect that healthcare organizations will continue to slog uphill through national economic strife, unsteady reimbursements, and declining patient volume in the coming year.

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No Increase in LOS After Ambulance Diversion Ban

By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, December 27, 2012

Fears that a Massachusetts ban on ambulance diversion would lead to longer emergency department wait times and delayed ambulance turnarounds have not materialized, a study finds.

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Webcast: Optimize the Nurse Skill Set—Lower Labor Costs and Raise Quality

By: December 3, 2012

Date: January 24, 2013, 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET

As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services develops new programs and tools as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, healthcare providers must focus on the care continuum model. Join Glide Health Services and Huron Healthcare as they share their tools for managing nurse labor costs.

Register Today

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Rounds: Clinical Integration at Scott & White

By: HealthLeaders Media Staff, for HealthLeaders Media, November 5, 2012

Date: January 8, 2013, 12:00–3:00 p.m. ET

Scott & White physician leaders share how they created an extensive physician and executive leadership development program to bring clinical and business leadership skills together. Register to attend this three-hour virtual seminar with interactive Q&A on Scott & White's physician-led delivery model.

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Around the Web

• Docs warned on 'divided loyalty'
  The New York Times, December 27, 2012
• Hospital stops billing Medicare for rare ailment
  The San Diego Union-Tribune / California Watch, December 27, 2012
• Report: UTMC billed without doc identification
  The Toledo Blade, December 27, 2012
• NYU, other med schools offer shorter training, for less tuition
  The New York Times, December 27, 2012
• Hospital exec base pay tops $1M
  Dayton Daily News, December 27, 2012
• Professors who sued NJ medical school
  NorthJersey.com, December 27, 2012
• ID theft found at LSU hospitals
  TheAdvertiser.com, December 27, 2012
• LSU looking into check fraud scheme
  TheAdvertiser.com, December 27, 2012
• Duke Health restricting hospital visits
  WRAL, December 27, 2012
• Rural infants spend less time in hospitals
  San Francisco Chronicle, December 27, 2012

Features

• Slideshow: 2012 HealthLeaders 20
  Healthleaders Media Staff, December 26, 2012
• 80,000 Surgical 'Never Events' Charted Over 20 Years
  John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, December 21, 2012
• Hospital Care '3,000 Times Less Safe Than Air Travel,' Says TJC Chief
  Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, December 20, 2012
• Not Worried About the Fiscal Cliff? You Should Be
  Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Media, December 21, 2012
• The Case of the Nurse and the 'Stolen' Scrubs
  Alexandra Wilson Pecci, for HealthLeaders Media, December 18, 2012

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