Private Firm May Be Brought In To Manage Troubled Hospital
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LOS ANGELES -- Responding to medical lapses and patient deaths, Los Angeles County officials might authorize a private consulting firm to manage beleaguered Martin Luther King Jr.
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Hospitals â public and private, large and small â are spending hundreds of millions of dollars renovating, rebuilding and expanding their emergency rooms.
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Mark Hopkins, CIO of academic and community hospitals at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, says administrative management positions help expose him to the business side of health care.
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A private health care firm criticised for the way it runs its out-of-hours GP service in Wales has announced it is taking on more doctors.
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Caritas Christi Health System Inc., the troubled hospital chain owned by the Archdiocese of Boston, is considering closing or selling 144-year-old Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester because its performance is predicted to fall about $7 million short of expectations this year, according to an internal document obtained by the Globe.
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The Ministry of Health is looking at the possibility of opening a unit at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital where HIV/AIDS patients will be treated.
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There are worrying contrasts between the high standards of private mental hospital wards and the Victorian realities of the public sector, a report found today.
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The struggles of a venerable Atlanta charity hospital mirror those of other public hospitals across the nation.
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Bedsores may seem simple, but they are a serious matter for medical professionals.
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A controversial health centre where NHS patients will be treated by a private company is officially opened.
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NHS Lothian and Consort ordered to disclose deal details The Scottish Information Commissioner has ordered a health board to disclose the details of a private finance initiative (PFI) hospital deal worth â¤1.2bn. The decision could have far-reaching consequences, says a freedom of information law expert.â¦
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The institutions that are to close or be merged under an effort to shrink New Yorkâs hospital industry will receive public funds to cover legal costs associated with closing and to pay off debts, state health officials said.
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The auto maintenance company has a simple business but a complicated prognosis.
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The drug maker's difficulties are evident, but its productivity may make it worth a second look.
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From Congress to the local property tax assessor, not-for-profit hospitals are under increasing pressure to defend their tax-exempt status, which saves the industry billions of dollars in federal, local and state taxes.
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When Joan Irvine's husband collapsed in July from heart problems, he was rushed to Montgomery General Hospital. There, he was admitted not by the family's primary care doctor but by a hospitalist, one of a growing breed of physicians specializing in inpatient care.
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Most physician-owned specialty hospitals are poorly equipped to handle medical emergencies, federal investigators will report today, underscoring a longstanding concern about the rapid rise in the number of such hospitals.