Chicago hospital sues Leapfrog for defamation | Physician supply in every state, ranked | Epic sued for allegedly double-billing Medicare, Medicaid | UPMC CEO Jeffrey Romoff: We want to be the ‘Amazon of healthcare’ From: Becker's Clinical Leadership & Infection…
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Ex-quality officer claims operator of United Medical Center in DC undermined patient safety efforts | Oregon hospital to pay $277k fine over staff breaks | CMS releases physician fee schedule for 2018: 6 things to know | Study: Physicians unhappy…
4 in 10 healthcare professionals work with flu-like symptoms | CMS releases final OPPS rule for 2018: 8 things to know | Nurses accuse Tenet hospital of patient safety violations | Study questions efficacy of heart stents for chest pain…
Is this year’s flu vaccine effective? Not everyone is convinced | 73% of medication-related EHR alerts are overridden | HCA’s net income tumbles to $426M | Dr. Atul Gawande on how a presurgical checklist helped him save a patient’s life…
Leapfrog safety grades: 15 F hospitals, 59 straight-A hospitals | Flu vaccine improves outcome rate for other infections | Trinity Health operating income up 76% to $266M | Intermountain unveils $7M high-speed jet to retrieve organs for transplants From: Becker's…
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Leapfrog releases fall hospital safety grades: 6 things to know | CMS rolls out initiative to curb burden of quality reporting | Calif. hospital shuts down, 524 employees face layoffs | Patient death prompts investigation of United Medical Center From:…
Man climbs into Texas hospital’s ceiling to escape police | NYU Winthrop Hospital delivers 4 sets of twins in 1 day | Tenet reports $366M net loss, plans to cut 1.3k jobs | Study: Afternoon cardiac surgeries achieve better health…
Texas Children’s surgeons operate on fetus still inside mother’s uterus | Study: Depressed nurses report more medical errors | Walgreens to close 600 stores | Healthcare weighs in on Trump’s opioid crisis declaration From: Becker's Clinical Leadership & Infection Control…
Why the US doesn’t track maternal death rates | Nurse scales cliff to deliver 2 babies at N.C. hospital | Shareholders push for changes at CHS, Tenet: 6 things to know | Physicians: It’s growing harder to tell patients to…
Water main break forces 7 Mich. hospitals to close or cancel procedures | Bill Gates: World may see last polio case this year | Tenet CEO Trevor Fetter steps down | Could ‘Dr. YouTube’ cause more harm than good this…