The 12 hospitals and 21 surgery centers in Rhode Island have agreed to a new surgical protocol to prevent wrong-site surgery errors, according to a report in The Providence Journal.
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Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., has agreed to pay $2.75 million to the United States Government to settle allegations that the hospital submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs, according to a news release from the United…
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The Colorado Medicaid Fraud Control Unit recovered more than $5.3 million in settlements and restitution in the fiscal year that ended June 30, the most since 1983, according to a report in the Denver Business Journal.
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McGuire Woods and McGuire Woods Consulting has enhanced both firms' national governmental affairs efforts by attracting two accomplished former governors — former Gov. Jim Hodges of South Carolina and former Gov. Mike Easley of North Carolina — as well as…
Marc W. Hungerford, MD, has joined Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., as the medical director of joint replacement and reconstruction, according to a Mercy news release.
The fourth annual report from the New Hampshire Health Care Quality Assurance Commission showed that hospitals and surgery centers in New Hampshire lead the nation in infection control, according to report in the Nashua Telegraph.
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Forest Medical Plaza, located at the Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond, Va., has received the building permit for the construction of the $1.3 million Henrico Doctors' Hospital Ambulatory Surgery Center, according to a report in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.