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Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., has implemented a Web-based staffing service to help the hospital system manage nursing shifts across its three campuses.The hospital deploye...
Private Medicare Advantage plans will be paid an average 12.4 percent more per enrollee in 2008 compared to what the same enrollee would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program,...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded a four-year contract to Columbia, S.C.-based Companion Data Services, LLC (CDS) for data center operations that support Medicare claims pro...
Some of the country's top CEOs identified reducing healthcare costs among their top legislative priorities Thursday as they called on Congress and the president to take care of "unfinished busine...
Construction has begun on a $300 million hospital at the Long-Island Jewish Medical Center campus in Queens, NY, which will focus on women's healthcare services.Katz Women's Hospital will be...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded $7 million in grants to 58 schools of nursing, in an effort to ease the nation's nursing shortage.The grants were awarded through the RWJF's New...
The increase in popularity of home health and hospice care, fueled in part by an aging Baby Boomer population, has provided a windfall of sorts for HEALTHCAREfirst.The 16-year-old developer o...
AcademyHealth has released a new voluntary code of ethics for use in recruiting foreign-educated nurses. The code, authored by a task force of union members, healthcare organizations, educati...
A survey released Thursday finds that annual health benefit cost growth will ease in 2009. Mercer, a global financial advisor and wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, In...
Gov. Steve Beshear has outlined an "ambitious plan" to get as many children as possible enrolled in the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program (KCHIP) by 2010.The Beshear Plan...