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Like many hospitals in the United States, Orlando-based Florida Hospital is experiencing a significant increase in the diversity of its staff and patient base. This, combined with new requirements of [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jason Gillam has been a physical therapist for more than five years and works for the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer at its Outpatient Center in Wasilla. […]

Million-dollar malpractice settlements. Rising labor costs. Slumping bond ratings. These are certainly trying times for hospital executives struggling to keep their institutions in the black. Yet many hospital executives, having [...]

Short on clinical coders these days? You're not alone. The national vacancy rate for clinical coding and billing personnel is nearly 20 percent, according to a 2001 American Hospital Association [...]

Days after assuming the CEO mantle at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in January 2002, Michael Dowling told his 30,000 employees that they were LIJ's greatest assets. What Dowling [...]

THE BUSINESS CASE Health care organizations have stepped up efforts to improve patient safety and quality in response to the Institute of Medicine's report that up to 98,000 patients die [...]

Sign-on bonuses, free cars, concierge services--desperate hospitals are trying every trick in the book to attract nurses. That might be part of the problem; tricks can produce short-term recruiting results, [...]

Saint Joseph Health Center, Kansas City, Mo., periodically puts its Level II trauma center on bypass status because it has too few specialists to cover it. The University of Virginia [...]

* What should hospitals outsource? What's driving outsourcing? Hospitals are financially stressed; many struggle with operating margins of plus or minus 1 percent. The merger activity in the latter half [...]

Lisa Reed recently was promoted to a management position at one of our facilities in Wisconsin. Lisa is an African American who has worked at the organization for 14 years. [...]

Whether you liked Bill Clinton or not, you cannot argue that he relentlessly pursued a goal that was instrumental to his two-term presidency: improve the state of the U.S. economy. [...]

ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION The organization is a rural healthcare system with inpatient and ambulatory care services. The hospital is the sole hospital provider in a rural county with a population of [...]

Survey data on physician-hospital integrated delivery systems are analyzed. Additional information on the emergent areas of physician-hospital integration process is included.

Hospital administration problems such as unclear and ineffective mission statements, divisiveness of efforts, difficulties of supplementing external advocacy with internal reconciliation in the senior manager's job as well as the lack of open communication with board members can be surmounted provided hospital staff undertake a change in mindset. Effecting lasting and genuine change is possible not through a rearrangement of authority but rather through specific actions geared toward improving personal responsibility.

How can we penetrate an insured population? How can we ensure that our marketing dollars are maximized? How can we correlate marketing expenditures to revenue? How do we know what's [...]

The problems associated with nurse and pharmacist shortages are becoming an old and sad story. Now you can add a new chapter: The lack of medical coders has risen to [...]

HHS names Clancy, Valuck to comparative-effectiveness panel HHS named the members of its new Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, established to oversee and manage $1.1 billion in research [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks A new, extensive survey on medical-staff structure, composition and activities scheduled for release this week will serve as a baseline for future surveys every two years, its [...]

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, will cut about 200 jobs in order to meet its fiscal 2009 budget requirements. The 902-bed provider, which employs roughly 21,000 workers, informed employees about the [...]

Byline: Patrick Reilly Veronica Maras knew her hospital had to change if it was ever going to have a culture where nurses would feel that their top priority was patient [...]

Byline: Cinda Becker Hospital alliance Premier came up 21 hospitals short of expectations when it closed enrollment last week for the groundbreaking pay-for-performance demonstration project it launched last July with [...]

Byline: John Morrissey The well-documented dearth of healthcare professionals is enough of an obstacle to filling hospital staff positions, but to front-line managers and human resource professionals it's the tip [...]

The HSE is getting tough with organisations that fail to take staff stress seriously, but if its draft standards on managing stress go ahead, will they prove too hard to [...]

Byline: Patrick Reilly Four years ago, the leaders of St. Louis-based SSM Health Care, which operates 21 hospitals in four states, created a program to boost diversity in its executive [...]

Byline: Jeff Tieman As more hospitals look to fill their chief executive officer slots with physicians, one New England hospital may be doing just the opposite: replacing a physician CEO [...]

Virginia system plans layoffs * Five-hospital Inova Health System, Falls Church, Va., said last week it plans to lay off 113 employees and cut others' hours to offset growing costs, [...]

Byline: Michael Romano With plenty of time to prepare for the change, teaching hospitals across the country appear to have adapted to a new era-marked by tough new restrictions on [...]

New rules from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education effective this month limit medical residents to 80-hour work weeks and 24 consecutive hours on duty. While residency hours have [...]

by Michael Millar UK hospital staff are swapping jobs with their French counterparts as part of an experiment to help healthcare professionals from different sides of the Channel learn from [...]

Byline: Cinda Becker Those unsung providers of patient care-hospital radiologists and pharmacists-are taking a page from the book of those who are addressing the widely publicized nursing shortage. Although most [...]

Increased statewide competition among heart hospitals has made experienced medical staff a hot commodity on the North Shore. The Louisiana Heart Hospital added to the pressure when it opened six [...]

"We're all adults here," says Mimi Taylor, vice president of infor-mation technology at Baptist Health South Florida. It's a simple statement that nonetheless speaks volumes about why the Coral Gables-based [...]

An NHS trust is offering sick employees fast-track treatment in a bid to get them back to work as quickly as possible. Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust will offer [...]

Byline: Patrick Reilly What it takes to land on the annual list of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals isn't a mystery: It's a matter of mixing high-quality care, an efficient, [...]

2002 SEP 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pharmacists, technologists/radiologists, educators/trainers, and therapists are leaving hospitals in droves. In fact, the turnover rate among these workers tops 20%, according to [...]

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is looking to introduce work-life balance practices in a bid to provide a 24-hour service and improve retention and morale among staff. The trust is [...]

Data Source. Secondary data from the American Hospital Association's Nursing Personnel Survey from 1990 and 1992 were used. The study population was all acutecare hospitals in the United States. Objective. [...]

A website campaign launched recently urges help from healthcare employees to provide input on many workforce shortage issues. At http:// www.caregivershortage.org/, the goal is to deliver thousands of postcards to [...]

It was nice to read of the Health Minister, Hazel Blears' enthusiasm for utilising my skills in the new NHS. (C&D 4 August p5). She was also right to highlight [...]

Living in denial can be a useful approach to life every now and then. For example, I like to think that duct tape is a perfectly fine substitute for basic [...]

As Vanguard Health Systems Inc. continues to cut losses at Phoenix Memorial Hospital, the director of community resources and volunteer services has been eliminated. Within the next two weeks, Marisue [...]

BLOOMFIELD - The Western Pennsylvania Hospital has initiated a new effort to help its employees purchase homes. The hospital is providing home-buyer counseling and education services to qualified employees through [...]

HHS offers privacy guidelines. HHS issued its first guidelines for helping healthcare organizations comply with new patient-privacy regulations. Those regulations, which became effective April 14, require strict safeguards on the [...]