Ron Anderson, MD, CEO of Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, says Parkland Memorial Hospital will fix the violations that threaten its Medicare status, telling the Dallas Business Journal, "We're going to fix this and go on…The stakes are…
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Par Pharmaceutical has agreed to pay $154 million to five states to settle a lawsuit accusing the drugmaker of defrauding Medicaid programs in Texas and four other states, according to an American-Statesman report. Par, based in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., was…
The AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, recently announced the winners of the 2011 Bernard A. Kershner Innovations in Quality Improvement Awards.
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A Michigan program that features a checklist and other critical components helped drive down bloodstream infections while yielding savings of more than $1 million for each hospital, according to a Johns Hopkins release. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital…
A recently discovered combination therapy worked so well against C. difficile that a team of researchers is preparing to test it in a clinical trial, according to a news release. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on C.…
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has partnered with Provista, a supply chain improvement company, to launch a new program aimed at aesthetic and reconstructive surgery-focused providers, according to a Provista news release.
Two Chicago-area physicians have filed lawsuits against the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, arguing a recent law that strips convicted physicians of their medical licenses has been unfairly retroactively applied to them, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
Last year, Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas sent letters to two separate groups of women, warning them of possible contact with dirty instruments, according to a Houston Chronicle report.