Community Health Systems, based in Franklin, Tenn., announced it has received a subpoena from the Security and Exchange Commission regarding its admission practices, according to a Nashville Post report.
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The number of people with high-deductible health insurance plans increased from 4.5 million to 10 million from 2007-2010, according to a survey of America's Health Insurance Plan members.
A MRSA outbreak at one hospital could lead to infection outbreaks at other hospitals in the same region, according to research published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Cell phones used by patients and their visitors were twice as likely to contain potentially dangerous bacteria as those of healthcare workers, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has disciplined a surgeon and a nurse after it discovered the professionals were involved in the transplant of a kidney from a donor infected with hepatitis C, according to a Reuters news report.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Dificid tablets for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea, according to an FDA news release.
William Montague has been called out of retirement, after being appointed as acting director of the Dayton (Ohio) VA Medical Center, to revamp the troubled hospital's quality issues, according to an NECN news report.