The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of $50 million in Recovery Act funds to hospitals and surgery centers to help fight healthcare associated infections (HAIs) and improve patient safety at a speech before…
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Senators John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.V.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) introduced The National Health Care Quality Act, which calls for the creation of a new healthcare quality improvement office within the Executive Branch, according to…
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the availability of Medtronic's Attain Ability left-heart lead for use with cardiac resynchronization therapy devices for heart failure patients, according to a Medtronic news release.
Mark Sechrist, a healthcare executive with more than 20 years experience in healthcare operations for both hospitals and surgery centers, seeks an operations position following the closing of his current employer.
The New York Office of the Medicaid Inspector General has released its work plan for fiscal year 2009-10, which describes the agency's plan to combat Medicaid fraud.
Researchers have found that the investigational anticoagulant rivaroxaban, given after knee surgery, showed significantly better efficacy and equivalent safety compared with enoxaparin, according to a report in MedPage Today.
South County Surgical Center in St. Louis announced that it has partnered with Surgical Care Affiliates, according to an SCA news release.
Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans agreed to pay $80 million to settle allegations that it defrauded Florida's Medicaid program, according to a report in Forbes.
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A recent study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has found that cementless hip implants last longer the previously thought, with durability up to 20 years, according to a Rush University news release.