Privately held Vanguard Health plans to buy nonprofit, 8-hospital Detroit Medical Center Detroit Medical Center officials said Friday that plans for the nonprofit hospital system to be purchased by the privately held Vanguard Health Systems Inc. will allow it to maintain its ...
The city's major hospital network, which runs Miami's only round-the-clock trauma center and is a safety net for the poor and uninsured, is running out of money and could close, a predicament that illustrates the precarious financial state of many hospitals around ...
BOSTON - MARCH 05: Singer Jason Castro (R) visits Children's Hospital Boston annual Mix FM Radiothon on March 5, 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Gail Oskin/Getty Images for Children's Hospital Boston) Copyright 2010 Getty Images
BOSTON - MARCH 04: Nastia Liukin visits Children's Hospital for its annual Boston Mix 104.1 FM Cares for Kids Radiothon on March 4, 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Gail Oskin/Getty Images for Children's Hospital Boston) Copyright 2010 Getty Images
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced a US$45 billion funding takeover of the country's ailing health-care system on Wednesday, proposing to wrest it away from the states and cut hospital waiting lists. The new health policy is aimed at ...
<div><p>Thousands of doctors and other hospital workers marched through Paris on Thursday to protest proposed cost-cutting reforms that critics say would focus the system too much on profit.</p><p>Unions called for strikes and about 30 marches were planned nationwide Thursday by nurses and ...
BOSTON - FEBRUARY 26: Olympian gymnast Alicia Sacramone visits Kervin at Children's Hospital Boston on February 26, 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Gail Oskin/Getty Images for Children's Hospital Boston) Copyright 2010 Getty Images
<div id="subtitle">In 2009, virtually all health care providers take credit cards - and virtually none of them are PCI compliant.</div><div><p>Health care providers are certainly no stranger to data privacy and security standards related to protected health information (PHI). Although these providers and ...
<div id="subtitle">Labor unions, Catholic leaders reach accord on organizing hospital workers</div><div><p>Labor unions and Catholic leaders have reached an agreement designed to end years of bitter hostilities that often surrounded union efforts to organize workers at Catholic hospitals.</p><p>The accord, announced ...
<div><h1> How to Play It: Health-Care Reform </h1><p>When politicians start talking about reforming the health-care system, investors usually dump stocks across the entire sector, like they did last fall as Barack Obama headed to the White House. But once investors started to ...
