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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, April 4, 2011
While some healthcare industry leaders praise the federal government's proposed accountable care organization rules as a step toward improved coordination of care, others remain skeptical about cost and implementation details.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, April 4, 2011
The employment picture at physicians' offices, ambulatory services, and nursing and residential care facilities is brightening, Bureau of Labor Statistics data and preliminary data show.
By: Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media, April 4, 2011
More than twice as many lungs and nearly 50 percent more kidneys could be recovered for transplantation if intensive care physicians and organ procurement coordinators worked together a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center study finds.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, April 4, 2011
All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL is the first US hospital outside of the Baltimore/Washington DC area to join Johns Hopkins Medicine, the hospitals have announced.
By: Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Media, April 1, 2011
Chicago's Swedish Covenant Hospital chief Mark Newton details measures taken by hospital staff to meet his challenge, and divulges the wider benefits of leading through a crisis by engaging and empowering employees.
By: April 4, 2011
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