Mississippi Medicaid mess. Officials to probe hospital association payments.
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Contracts↗
Biomedical subjects
Melanie Evans
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Nurse admissions slowing.
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Career Choice↗
Uniting to conquer. SEIU joins with other unions to target healthcare workers as organizing intensifies.
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Health Care Sector↗
Nurses target AHA. HQ picketed over stand in charge nurse case.
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American Hospital Association↗
Survey says: Grassley steamed. 35 not-for-profits opt out of voluntary GAO comp study.
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Conflict of Interest↗
Added incentive. Pay packages increasingly linked to executive performance.
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Employee Incentive Plans↗
Strife in 'consensus' group. Manufacturers exit coalition on aiding uninsured.
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Consensus↗
Healthcare's place in the sun. Execs, GAO find sandy beaches, salty Medicaid funding in U.S. territories.
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American Samoa↗
Home-care demands rise. Medicaid key to helping seniors remain in abodes.
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Aged↗
Putting on a clinic in Va. Carilion, a not-for-profit hospital system based in Roanoke, is taking a $100 million risk to become a physician-run venture.
Carilion Health System needs to change or die, according to its leaders, so the Roanoke, Va., organization is converting from a typical not-for-profit system into a physician-run clinic. The switch is an extreme version of an industrywide push to employ doctors. James Thweatt Jr., left, of rival Lewis-Gale, says his hospital joined the trend when it hired 80 specialists from a failing local clinic.
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated↗
Carilion to be physician-run.
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Hospital Restructuring↗
Survey to score hospital skills.
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Benchmarking↗
CHA readies for revenue drop. Lowered fees a relief for members facing bad debt.
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Catholicism↗
In good health, at least for now. Health systems report another strong year in 2005, but rising bad debt and concerns over reimbursement weigh on prognosis.
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Health Care Surveys↗
Workforce Report 2006. 'Beginning to see what a nurse is'. With baby boomers ready to pass the torch, ever-younger nurses learn the difference between schoolwork and real work.
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Adult↗
Time's not on their side-yet. Researchers hope to optimize nurses' efficiency.
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Efficiency, Organizational↗
Caritas CEO resigns. Sexual harassment complaints lead to exit.
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Boston↗
Transparency with a catch. AHA urges hospital price disclosure, but wants protection from lawsuits and broad definition of community benefits.
The AHA last week added its two cents to the transparency debate, approving a policy that supports a patient's right to know pricing. James Springfield, left, CEO of Valley Baptist Health System, who backs the AHA's policy, says the changes come at a time when "the public is clamoring ... to learn more about the mystical world of healthcare.
American Hospital Association↗