Becker’s Hospital Review has named 65 great community hospitals, presented in alphabetical order. Note: These hospitals include fewer than 550 patient beds and have minimal teaching programs. Hospitals appearing on America’s 50 Best Hospitals are not featured on this list. …
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Operating and maintaining profitability at a spine practice presents many challenges to the spine surgeons who run them. Thomas Schuler, MD, a spine surgeon, founded the Virginia Spine Institute in 1992 and has dedicated the practice to providing top surgical…
Hospital incentive plans are increasingly focused on quantifiable measures that are critical for hospital success, meaning only the most focused CEOs can achieve the top financial rewards for their work. Ralph DiPisa, partner of executive healthcare recruiter Phillips DiPisa, discusses…
One of the many options for orthopedic surgeons partnering with hospitals is co-management. Co-management agreements allow physician CEOs to govern a hospital's orthopedic service line while the hospital supports the surgeons and their practices. "Co-management agreements transform the relationship between…
Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, regional vice president of operations for Health Inventures, makes 10 points on complying with the new rule in the Medicare Conditions for Coverage, requiring ambulatory surgery centers to provide patients with certain written…
Members of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, which includes 2,200 hospitals, has seen an 11 percent drop in giving from 2008-2009, from $8.6 billion to $7.7 billion. But William C. McGinly, president and CEO of the association, says there are…
The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). To learn more about receiving this resource and joining APIC, visit www.apic.org/ambulatorynewsletter. To learn…
Cindy Givens, executive director at Surgery Center at Tanasbourne in Hillsboro, Ore., discusses four steps ASCs can take to increase their number of screening colonoscopies.
ASCs that just recently opened may look to apply for early option accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care to more quickly demonstrate to the community its commitment and competency for quality care. Here are five practices that…
Based on experiences of the Premier ACO Collaborative, involving more than 80 hospitals, Premier has proposed a variety of regulations for accountable care organizations in a letter to CMS, according to a report by Premier.