Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, IL, opens its $250 million, patient-friendly South Pavilion on May 1, the Chicago-area hospital announced.
President Obama's executive memorandum giving hospital patients the right to grant visitation to same-sex partnerswas overdue. But I was surprised when I tried to find someone in healthcare to speak out against it.
There were 12 mass layoffs impacting 50 or more jobs at the nation's nongovernment hospitals in March, resulting in 798 initial claims for unemployment insurance, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced.
After 10 years on the job, IASIS Healthcare LLC CEO David R. White will retire by the end of this year but will continue to serve as chairman of the Franklin, TN-based hospital chain's board of directors.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children's Hospital, and Washington University School of Medicine have created a joint Fetal Care Center for high-risk mothers and births.
North Shore-LIJ (NY) Health System and the Environmental Protection Agency used Thursday's Earth Day celebrations to sign a five-year agreement on wide-ranging environmental stewardship programs.
Eight in 10 Americans know that President Obama signed the health reform legislation into law, but 55% say they are confused about it, and 56% say they don't understand how it will affect them personally. That's according to a new Kaiser Health Tracking Poll.
The American Medical Association has launched a Web site to help physicians recover a share of the $350 million obtained in a settlement with UnitedHealth Group stemming from the insurer's alleged artificially low payments for out-of-network services.
Sanford Health is partnering with Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego to open a pediatric clinic in Oceanside, CA, the two health systems announced. Using a portion of a $2.5 million donation from philanthropists Pamela and Martin Wygod and the Rose Foundation, the...
Overall drug price inflation will be 1.3% in 2010 for acute care hospitals, according to estimates released today by Novation Pharmacy Program. The estimate, published in Irving, TX-based Novation's 2010 Drug Price Forecast, anticipates that the price change for...
