The staff at a Lorton, VA family physician practice thought they were dealing with a malfunctioning heating duct when they heard what sounded like a small explosion in a vacant examination room. The explosion was actually caused by a grapefruit-sized meteorite that...
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has asked 31 of the nation's largest hospitals and health systems to detail their problems implementing the $19 billion federal HIT program that was launched last year. Grassley said that his 11-question survey is a response to...
When we create the incentives for healthier living that are at the heart of wellness programs, we must also understand that not everybody will be able to take full advantage of those incentives.
St. David's South Austin (TX) Hospital will begin a $72 million renovation and expansion project in April that will add three floors, more than 100,000 square feet, and 25% more beds. Effective immediately, the hospital has been renamed St. David's South Austin Medical...
Johnson & Johnson and two of its subsidiaries have been named in a kickback scheme that allegedly paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to Omnicare Inc., the nation's largest pharmacy that specializes in dispensing drugs to nursing home patients, the Department of...
The demand for healthcare workers appears to be accelerating in most areas of the nation, a new study shows. Labor trends in 30 markets found demand growing fastest in Sacramento, Riverside/San Bernardino, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Dallas for the fourth quarter of 2009.
With a 21% Medicare reimbursement cut for physicians looming on March 1, the American Medical Association began airing TV ads that call on the Senate to permanently fix what has become an annual sideshow. The ads are airing in 10 states through the end of January.
Five healthcare facilities in two counties near New York City have agreed to immediately stop dumping pharmaceutical waste into the city's watershed, the New York Attorney General's Office announced this week. The five Putnam and Delaware county facilities named in the...
Two employees at Charleston (WV) Area Medical Center have been fired for reportedly refusing to receive hospital-mandated vaccinations against the seasonal flu virus, the hospital confirmed.
If passed as is, the Senate's current healthcare reform bill will put physician-owned hospitals on the endangered species list. Some lawmakers are eager to put the kibosh on physician-owned hospitals because of a debate that has been raging in the field since physician-...
