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By: Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media, May 3, 2011
Health Management Associates has announced that it is in negotiations with Catholic Health Partners to acquire Mercy Health Partners, CHP's seven-hospital system based in Knoxville. No financial details have been disclosed.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, May 2, 2011
Community Health Systems raised its all-cash bid to acquire all common stock of rival Tenet Healthcare Corp. to $7.25 per share—up from $6 per share—and gave the Tenet board one week to make a decision.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, May 3, 2011
Total compensation costs for hospital employees rose 0.5% in the first quarter of 2011, slightly below the rise in total compensation costs for all workers in private industries, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Employment Cost Index shows.
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By: Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media, May 3, 2011
Developing individualized treatment rather than following current national guidelines for the management of hypertension reduces more myocardial infarctions and strokes, researchers find.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, May 3, 2011
The 473-bed hospital will continue to serve as a Catholic acute care hospital. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.
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By: Dom Nicastro, for HealthLeaders Media, May 3, 2011
Health insurance giant Health Net retains the top spot on the Office for Civil Rights' list with a reported breach in March affecting the health records of 1.9 million past and current enrollees.
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By: Karen Minich-Pourshadi, for HealthLeaders Media, May 2, 2011
If you aren't looking at your hospital or health system through the eyes of a patient, then no matter what your role in the C-suite, you're missing the future of healthcare.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, May 2, 2011
A crop of tech tools made for snooping and priced for the consumer market means that virtually any hospital employee represents a potential security breach that could cost a hospital thousands of dollars in fines and untold public embarrassment.
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By: April 5, 2011
Neurological service line success is all about managing the collision of technology, research, and care coordination. Get strategies for managing the collision on May 18, live from Barrow Neurological Institute with invited thought leaders from St. John Providence Health System and St. Luke Hospital. http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/rounds/
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By: April 14, 2011
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By: April 14, 2011
Reform, reimbursement, and reintegration—a triple threat to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) or new opportunities for ROI? Join HealthLeaders Media for a 90-minute Webcast, including Q&A, to learn how to increase the financial return of ASC operations from leaders with proven ambulatory care ROI. http://www.hcmarketplace.com/prod.cfm?id=9585&s=EZINEADH&e_topic=WS_HLM2
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