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The physicians of City of Hope Medical Group in Monrovia, Calif., have issued a vote of "overwhelming loss of confidence" in hospital CEO Michael Friedman and the hospital administration at City of Hope, a renowned cancer center.

Hospitals stand to gain at least $2 million a year to aid in the adoption of healthcare information technology under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but only if they qualify in time.

The “patient experience” is a vital quality metric for hospitals, and healthcare executives are quickly learning that it also affects an institution’s bottom line.

In testimony before the New Jersey Senate's Health and Human Services Committee last month, New Jersey Hospital Association president Betsy Ryan said imposing rigid nurse-to-patient staffing ratios is not a proven way to accomplish quality goals.

Rayanna Moore is system director of revenue cycle at Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, a three-hospital health system based in Boone, N.C. Moore spoke recently with editor Richard Pizzi about the challenges she faces managing revenue cycle at her health system.

Nine California hospitals have been assessed administrative penalties after the California Department of Public Health determined that the facilities' noncompliance with licensing requirements has caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients.

I was having blood drawn when the lab technician pulled out one of the big gauge needles. Suddenly I felt like the kid in the Norman Rockwell painting waiting for his shot. I started to sweat, even got a little clammy and anxious.

Give or take a few meager months, employment in the U.S. healthcare sector has grown throughout the recession.

Mary Hatch, CFO, Dixie Regional Medical Center, St. George, Utah