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Reclassification and reform were major issues in Richard Davidson's first year as president of the American Hospital Assn. Those issues, as well as a litany of other budget and legislative battles, promise to rank among his biggest challenges during his second year in office. He's cleared the first hurdle in the reform battle--finding a plan most AHA members can accept.
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Last month, the AHA released its annual list of closed acute-care hospitals. The report showed that the number of closings dropped to 45 hospitals in 1991 from 50 hospitals in the previous year, continuing a downward trend. A MODERN HEALTHCARE special report takes a look at last year's shuttered facilities and also identifies some noteworthy correlations among the rates of hospital closures, mergers and profits.
Vice presidents of patient services received a 10.1% salary increase this year, and directors of nursing received an 8.5% salary hike, making them the big winners in this year's Hay/MODERN HEALTHCARE Nurse Compensation Survey. Meanwhile, pay hikes for registered nurses showed moderation across the board, especially for nursing supervisors, who saw a sharp drop from past double-digit increases.
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Not-for-profit organizations in Pennsylvania, especially hospitals, are awaiting a decision by the state's high court concerning a nursing home's property tax exemption. Unless the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case and then reverses the lower-court ruling, state hospital officials fear it could become virtually impossible for any organization to obtain a property tax exemption.
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How much are hospitals spending on charity care? Overall, they spend far less of their money--about 1% to 2% of annual revenues--on true charity-care cases than the industry would like everyone to believe. The debate over charity care has been muddied by inconsistent definitions of charity care, conflicting requirements from government agencies and misleading data from hospitals.
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