Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean General Hospital, members of Upper Allegheny Health System, announce the appointment of Scott Bonderoff as the new interim chief operating officer. He joins UAHS with more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, with the last 20 years advancing through the ranks at Bassett Healthcare Network in Cooperstown.
Boone County Hospital has hired Mikaela Kienitz as the hospital's new CEO. She will start January 2, when CEO Joe Smith retires after 30 years of service. The hospital has had a partnership with QHR Health, a hospital consulting and management firm based in Tennessee, since 1993. It employs Smith and CFO Joe Devin. Devin will retire after Kienitz is trained for her new role. Kienitz will be employed by the hospital. BCH does use other services from QHR and will likely continue for a while, she said.
For more than a decade, large health systems have faced scrutiny for admitting patients to costly hospital stays when less expensive treatments or short periods of observation in the ER would have been appropriate.
Should people who depend on initiatives that are funded in part by the federal government — such as Medicaid — be allowed to sue states when their rights are violated?
The Pennsylvania Department of Health is suspending emergency room services and imposing a ban on admissions at Delaware County Memorial Hospital — effective Nov. 7 — because of alleged "serious violations" of state health regulations, the Philadelphia Business Journal reports.