Challenge in Carolina
Safety-net provider. Teaching institution. Testing ground for new technology. UNC Health Care is all of these things-welcome to life as an academic medical center.
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What is RSS?
The Private Life of HCA
The hospital giant is attempting to remake itself away from the prying eyes of the public markets. But how is its strategy likely to change?
The hospital giant is attempting to remake itself away from the prying eyes of the public markets. But how is its strategy likely to change?
What is RSS?
Dirty Delays, Oppressive Overruns
Hospitals struggle to execute budget-conscious construction projects amid rampaging material and labor costs.
Hospitals struggle to execute budget-conscious construction projects amid rampaging material and labor costs.
What is RSS?
A Happy Nurse is a Retained Nurse
A Texas hospital offers its secrets for relieving stress among the nursing staff.
A Texas hospital offers its secrets for relieving stress among the nursing staff.
What is RSS?
Built for the Long Haul?
Information exchanges promise lower costs and better outcomes. But how many will survive?
Information exchanges promise lower costs and better outcomes. But how many will survive?
What is RSS?
Patient Satisfaction
Patient Satisfaction: With healthcare providers constantly facing new forms of competition, patient satisfaction is crucial to gaining and maintaining market share.
Patient Satisfaction: With healthcare providers constantly facing new forms of competition, patient satisfaction is crucial to gaining and maintaining market share.
Loose Lips
"It's a Cadillac policy, and we ought to be trying to fund a Ford Escort policy."
-Jim McGregor
"It's a Cadillac policy, and we ought to be trying to fund a Ford Escort policy."
-Jim McGregor
Good Riddance on Highway 280
At least four times a year, I drive down Highway 280 in Birmingham, AL, to see my Auburn Tigers play football, and I pass the shell of what was supposed to be HealthSouth's 13-story digital hospital and 200,000-square-foot headquarters palace. There are even a couple of chain restaurants next to it that are shuttered, like plants hit with an overspray of weed killer.
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