Pataki and Spitzer Back Downsizing of Hospitals
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The support from the pair means that it will be up to the Legislature to decide whether to block proposed changes.
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News that the largest nonprofit hospital chain in the United States plans to absorb six hospitals operated by the Archdiocese of Boston triggered a debate yesterday about the future of Catholic healthcare in the region.
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On the eastern side of the District, you've got three hospitals that are too small and too limited in the services they offer, with not enough private doctors sending insured (read: paying) patients their way.
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Medicare payment cuts will leave  more than half of clinics and doctors' offices that provide  cancer-fighting chemotherapy unable to cover costs of some key  drugs, oncologists said on Wednesday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is scaling back the health-care plans available to new employees, sparking fresh criticism over whether the giant retailer is providing adequate coverage to its workers.
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Limited Brands is cutting loose the brands that are dragging it down.
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Two East San Jose hospitals owned by HCA Inc. have lost a combined $117.5 million over the last five years, raising concerns that the for-profit hospital chain&#39;s $110 million renovation plans for the area could be in jeopardy.
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New York state will get an extra $1.5 billion over five years in federal funds to help cover the cost of closing or improving its hospitals, which now fill only about 62 percent of their beds, officials said on Tuesday.
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Insulated from lawsuits by their corporate structures, private investors in nursing homes have cut expenses and staff, sometimes below minimum requirements.
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Hospitals accused of keeping thousands of seriously ill patients in 'holding patterns'
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A survey of complaints against more  than 16,000 U.S. nursing homes found that care often  deteriorates after being acquired by large private investment  firms, The New York Times reported in its September 23 edition.
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Scores of patients at the V.A. hospital in Albany were put at risk, and employees say bigger concerns were dismissed by officials.
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LOS ANGELES Another setback for the Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles. The hospital is being investigated for mismanagement and negligence that allegedly caused the deaths of five people.
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To cut costs, the State Health Department eliminated the Medicaid office in Manhattan that handled equipment orders for the downstate region.
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_ State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said he wand to end his office&#39;s investigations of investment banks, mutual funds and insurance companies and hand them over to federal regulators.
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Tenet Healthcare Corp., the second- largest US hospital chain, said its third-quarter loss narrowed to $70 million as it sold hospitals to rein in costs.
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The Blue Bell, Pa.-based company said it will close some of its facilities and reduce its employee head count.