When Banner Health began a multiyear rollout of an electronic system to monitor critically ill patients continuously from a central command center, precious time was lost while nurses tracked down attending physicians to approve changes in patient-care regimens.
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A Special Feature on the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks study for 2009. Hospitals are listed in five categories: two groups of teaching hospitals and three groups of community hospitals based on bed count. Source: Thomson Reuters. Published March 29, 2010.
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Reducing patients' risk of unnecessary readmission to the hospital after discharge is a lot like untangling the spaghetti of wires tucked behind most people's television/sound systems. At least that has been the experience at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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