Chicago-based NeuStrategy and San Diego-based SpineMark recently completed a nationwide survey of hospital-based spine programs to determine best practices of leading spine programs. The Spine COE® ...

Hospitals today face many challenges including an economic recession, increases in uninsured care and growing competition for outpatient services. However, there are still many steps hospitals can ...

A leading nurse organization applauded the Joint Commission's latest hospital performance goals, which elevated the issue of nurse staffing and linked it to patient safety. In a press release, the ...

Sept 10 (Reuters) - Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent letters to several large healthcare employers and staffing companies to conduct a comprehensive review of their employment ...

A tech-led staffing platform that serves hundreds of thousands of nurses and a small nursing home operator that threatened it with a class action lawsuit over missing shift documentation and millions ...

Hospital acquisition of private physician practices correlates with increased childbirth costs. The shift from physician-owned practices to hospital employment for physicians has led to higher prices ...

Emergency department (ED) mortality rose, and transfers from the ED and the ICU increased in the wake of a facility’s private equity (PE) acquisition, a new study shows. Researchers from the ...

Here are four best practices for hospitals to help reduce costs in their ASCs, according to Joseph W. (Woody) Hubbard, vice president of ambulatory care for North Carolina-based Novant Health. 1.