1. After President Obama won the election in 2008, the Republicans have won the last three major statewide elections — all in states that voted democrat for President Obama in 2008 — Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey.
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A clinic-based system to provide healthcare in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina could serve as a national model for providing low-cost primary care to low-income groups, according to a report by the Commonwealth Fund.
The physician recruiting firm Jackson & Coker is offering an enhanced online tool to calculate the revenue contribution of physician staff in different service lines, according to a release by Jackson & Coker.
Here are 18 statistics about NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City for 2008.
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has asked to remove from the Senate health reform bill an unpopular deal he secured on Medicaid funding for his state, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
1. Loosened cost controls. HMOs in the late 1990s had successfully slowed growth in healthcare spending, but by the end of that decade they had come to be regarded as heartless conservators of the bottom line. Managed care's tight controls…
The Ambulatory Surgical Center of Union County (N.J.) is accepting donations of medical supplies for relief efforts for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, according to a report in The Star-Ledger.
Four physicians from Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center have filed a qui tam lawsuit against the hospital and two physicians, claiming BRMC committed fraud and allegedly paid kickbacks to the physicians for nuclear cardiology services, according to a report in…
A new comprehensive Web site, www.eyes.com, dedicated to providing consumers with authoritative information needed to address eye care and eye health has been launched by a team of nationally distinguished board-certified ophthalmologists, according to a release from Indianapolis-based Price Vision…
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has awarded a $53.1 million contract to Kraft Construction Company of Naples, Fla., to build a new outpatient clinic in Cape Coral, Fla., according to a VA news release.
