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Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Florida will open the first phase of a newly reconstructed emergency department this month, the renovation of the current emergency department space, and new patient tower.
NYU Langone Medical Center and Winthrop-University Hospital have signed a non-binding letter of intent that would unite the two prominent organizations in the creation of an integrated healthcare network for the New York metro area.
The Office of Rural Health Policy has announced the nine providers that will receive the first of $4 million in federal funding over the next three years.
Oregon's Health Co-op went into state receivership by court petition on Monday, according to the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services, Division of Financial Regulation.
Integrated healthcare delivery and financing company UPMC is taking steps to thwart wasteful spending and high costs in forming an independent company called Pensiamo, which aims to help hospitals improve supply chain performance with a source-to-pay offering, including cognitive analytics with IBM Watson Health Technologies.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday that it has barred Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes from the blood-testing business for two years, according to a statement on the company's website.
The hospital groups urge CMS to address what they say are several significant underlying methodological problems with the program.
The change in leadership comes as the health system continues its focus on population health, value-based care, and new payment models to create a sustainable health system for the region, according to the hospital.
The federal government's risk adjustment mandate has added another financially struggling consumer oriented and operated plan to the growing list of failed government co-op's established under the Affordable Care Act.
CMS is now calling for clinicians, hospitals, and critical access hospitals to use a 90-day EHR reporting period in 2016 - down from a full calendar year for returning participants in the government's EHR Incentive Program. They also proposed lowering the bar for achieving Stage 3 objectives, eliminating the Clinical Decision Support and Computerized Provider Order Entry objectives and measures for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals.