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By Linda Wilson |
August 10, 2009
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Two closely watched dots on the radar screen at HealthEast Care System this year are blood clots and bleeding complications. The two are related, of course. Patients at risk of developing blood clots while in the hospital are often given blood thinners, namely heparin and warfarin. But dosages of these anti-coagulants must be monitored continually so patients don't receive too little and develop a blood clot or too much and develop a bleeding complication, such as excessive bleeding at site of a surgical incision. FULL STORY »
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By Jean DerGurahian |
June 01, 2009
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While the CMS and hospitals continue to sharpen their focus on high patient-satisfaction scores, new research indicates there isn’t any correlation between how happy patients are and a hospital’s expenses and profitability, or mortality and complication rates. FULL STORY »
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The By the Numbers supplement is an information-packed report providing a look into various healthcare sectors that help show how the industry is performing. Published annually, this supplement includes powerful data that healthcare executives can immediately put to use to help them better serve their organizations.
The Best Places to work program, which we announced in January, recognizes workplaces in healthcare that enable employees to perform at their optimum level to provide patients and customers with the best possible care and services.
By Matthew DoBias |
January 11, 2010
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With a broad health overhaul bill in its final stages on Capitol Hill and passage likely, provider groups say they are preparing for a year that is at once different and yet strikingly similar to years past. FULL STORY »
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January 11, 2010
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Recovery audit contractors are going to get a lot more personal in their audits of hospital providers this year, and the industry could see further reductions in their inpatient payments to accommodate a new federal documentation and coding system. FULL STORY »
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January 04, 2010
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Will this finally be the year of healthcare reform? How will the massive economic stimulus plan being assembled in Washington affect healthcare? What about funding for Medicare and Medicaid? Modern Healthcare's 2010 video outlook package provides some answers. FULL STORY »
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The Up and Comers annual award program recognizes rising stars in healthcare management. Honorees are 40 years or younger who have made their mark in healthcare and are likely to play a key role in shaping the industry's future.
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By James Gauss, president and CEO, Witt/Kieffer |
September 14, 2009
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Who will be running the healthcare systems of the future? Perhaps many of the 12 recipients of Modern Healthcare’s 23rd annual Up & Comers recognition program. The award, which drew a near-record 139 nominees, honors rising young stars in the healthcare management field. FULL STORY »
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By Melanie Evans |
September 14, 2009
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In late 2006, Peter Bergmann's career brought him home to Buffalo, N.Y. A little more than two years later, a promotion put him at the helm of the hospital where his mother worked as an anesthesiologist for 23 years. As a native, Bergmann, 38, can (and does) speak frankly, and with affection, of winters in western New York and it was his insider's knowledge that convinced one doctor he would be “uniquely suited” to meet the healthcare and market challenges facing Sisters of Charity Hospital when Buffalo's Catholic Health System sought a new chief executive for the teaching... FULL STORY »
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By Vince Galloro |
September 14, 2009
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When Damond Boatwright took the job as CEO of Lee's Summit (Mo.) Medical Center, he was fulfilling a long-term goal. Whether that goal relates to his career plan or the barbecue that Kansas City is famous for is open to question. FULL STORY »
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