Confidential personnel data for nearly 30,000 clinic and hospital workers in northern California were stolen recently by a woman in East Bay, CA, who has since been arrested in connection with the incident. Officials say that 6,000 of the 11,000 workers in Sacramento, CA, and Roseville, CA, area clinics and hospitals are impacted by the theft. How the theft occurred and to what extent it reaches remain unclear. Although only a handful of employees has reported identity theft, Kaiser is offering one year of free credit monitoring to those affected.
What do you think—is Twitter surgery a great way to create buzz, promote your surgeons and technology? Or is it just a little too cutting-edge for your taste? It's created a pretty big buzz in the twitterverse. +
A new CareerBuilder.com survey of 8,038 workers from a variety of industries shows that 43% say they've quit a job at some point in their lives because of bad bosses. +
Limited resources mean that healthcare CEOs are forced to make some heart-wrenching decisions like cutting services because they can no longer afford to provide them. +
Richard W. Schwartz, MD, MBA, professor of surgery at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, analyzes results from the HealthLeaders Media Physician Leaders Survey.
Cleveland Clinic has appointed Eric A. Klein, MD, chairman of the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute. Klein, a 19-year Cleveland Clinic veteran, will lead one of the country's largest and most respected urological and kidney programs. Klein has served as interim chair of the institute since the passing of Andrew Novick, MD, in October 2008. Previously, Klein was head of section of Urologic Oncology in the institute.
Frances Finley has been chosen to lead the new Aurora Medical Center in the Town of Summit, WI. Finley joined Aurora Health Care in February 2003 as the first leader of Aurora's new hospital in Oshkosh. Before joining Aurora, Finley held a number of leadership positions in the Charleston Area Medical Center Health System in West Virginia. Construction of the 110-bed Aurora Medical Center in the Town of Summit is nearly 70% complete, with opening scheduled for early in 2010.
Edward J. Hannon, president and CEO of The McDowell Hospital in Marion, NC, will lead the American Hospital Association's Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2009. The 23-person governing council represents small or rural hospitals in the AHA's policy process and member services initiatives. Robin Lake, CEO of Great Plains Regional Medical Center in Elk City, OK, is the 2010 chair-elect. Kathleen Hoeft, administrator and CEO of Ashley Medical Center in Ashley, ND, is immediate past chair.
This New York Times essay written by an oncology nurse discusses the strong bonds that nurses form with the patients they treat. "In medical oncology our patients stay in the hospital often for weeks or even months," writes nurse Theresa Brown in the essay. "They leave and come back, again and again, with this or that complication, or because they need more chemo, or because they've relapsed. We get to know them, their families, even their friends. And because we know them so well, in such an intense and intimate setting, we end up caring about them."
Health clinics located in retail businesses would be subject to greater state scrutiny, have to install separate entrances, and train all staff in cardiopulmonary resuscitation under proposed Indiana legislation that aims to set new standards for the facilities. Among other measures, the state Senate bill also would mandate that a patient's primary-care physician receive a detailed report of the clinic visit and that prices be displayed outside the clinic's exam room.
