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- Wisconsin Hospitals Committed to Quality Improvement
- The hospital industry has a long history of commitment to their core product, patient care. Wisconsin hospitals are leading the charge to improve the quality and safety of the care they provide to their customers. Over the past five years, the pace and dedication to this agenda has accelerated in...
- White papers 2005-08-30
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- Hospital Industry Pledges Cuts to Help Cover Uninsured
- The industry players are bargaining with the Obama Administration for financial deals in return for their qualified support of whatever reform legislation comes out of Congress. First, it was the pharmaceutical industry, which promised $80 billion in lower costs over 10 yearsâ€"mainly to help seniors who wind up in the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Fitch: For-Profit U.S. Hospital Industry Weakened in 4th Quarter; 2008 Will Remain a Challenge
- CHICAGO -- During the fourth quarter the for-profit U.S. hospital industry saw a continuation of the same themes that affected it throughout 2007 -- high levels of bad debt expense, weak volumes, and strong pricing, according to a new report by Fitch Ratings. Although some providers saw improvement in bad...
- Research articles 2008-03-13
- Hospital industry's March madness; Six systems across the nation launch massive restructuring strategies.(Catholic Healthcare West)(University of Pennsylvania Health System)(HCA-The Healthcare Co.)(Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine Health System)(Brief
- A wave of reorganizations is washing over the hospital industry. Both not-for-profit and for-profit systems are rejiggering operations, streamlining governance, remaking executive ranks or unwinding partnerships. Since last month, at least six systems stretching from coast to coast have an-nounced major reorganization plans. ``It's fairly...
- Research articles 2001-03-26
- New Lows In Hospital Management: Auctioning Patient Debt
- Just when you thought the hospital industry had plumbed the depths in its quest to reduce costs associated with care of the under- or uninsured, it pulls out a new twist. The latest one is a doozy, too, borrowed as it is from the mortgage industry: Some hospitals are auctioning...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Entry and Competition in Local Hospital Markets
- There has been considerable consolidation in the hospital industry in recent years. The report examines the effect of market structure on competition in local hospital markets -- specifically, does the hardness of competition increase with the number of firms? It extends the entry model developed by Bresnahan and Reiss to...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Hospital mergers and antitrust: some economic and legal issues
- IIntroductionThe hospital industry has changed remarkably in the last decade and a half as the federal government has accelerated a reversal of a health care policy that encouraged the expansion of the hospital industry. Costs of hospital care have increased about two-thirds faster than the C.P.I. during most of the...
- Research articles 1995-07-01
- Hospital Emergency Preparedness: A Guide to Overcoming the Much Ado About Nothing Attitude
- In the era of high-tech, quick turnaround medicines, hospital patients want high touch. They expect that their physical problems will be dealt with, and want their personal needs addressed as well. Such are the results of the largest study of patient satisfaction ever conducted. The study analyzes satisfaction questionnaires received...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Hospital 'raiders' scope rival staffs; In turbulent market, the strongest step up push for docs.(physician recruiters target hospitals in turmoil)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Barbara LaPiana is the hospital industry equivalent of a corporate raider. She pores through the medical directories of competing hospitals, looking for doctors with established practices in Uptown. Her goal: to lure doctors to her employer, Lou Barbara LaPiana is the...
- Research articles 2001-01-15
- Hospital News.(multiple hospital industry briefs)
- Hospital won't join secular system. Roman Catholic-sponsored 346-bed Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, wary of joining a non-Catholic network, late last month broke off merger talks with eight-hospital Promina Health System, Atlanta, after nearly a year of discussions. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops recently voiced...
- Research articles 2001-04-02
- How the Expansion of Hospital Systems Has Affected Consumers
- The past decade has seen profound changes in how the hospital industry has organized itself, including the rising importance of hospital systems. Theoretically, system consolidation can have positive effects from improved efficiency and quality or negative effects from greater market power. This study examines which hospitals consolidate and finds that...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- The Welfare Consequences of Hospital Mergers
- In the 1990s the US hospital industry consolidated. This paper estimates the impact of the wave of hospital mergers on welfare focusing on the impact on consumer surplus for the under-65 population. For the purposes of quantifying the price impact of consolidations, hospitals are modeled as an input to the...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Vanguard watches for more hospital buys.(Statistical Data Included)
- Two months after completing its acquisition of MacNeal Hospital in west suburban Berwyn, a Nashville, Tenn.-based for-profit hospital company is preparing for a bigger push into the Chicago market. Vanguard Health Systems Inc., a 3-year-old company founded by hospital industry veterans and backed by...
- Research articles 2000-04-24
- DeRoyal forum links industry and politicians - DeRoyal Industries Inc
- DeRoyal Industries, Inc., Powell, Tenn., is investing mightily in creating a very high profile among its hospital customers and prospects while making politicians aware of the hospital industry's viewpoint on health care reforms.DeRoyal's strategy is to create a high-powered executive forum at which attendance is by invitation only, with quarterly...
- Research articles 1993-07-01
- Does Corporate Ownership Matter? Service Provision in the Hospital Industry
- This study of over 30 medical services in urban, general hospitals (1988-2000) shows that ownership types specialize in medical services according to the profitability of those services. The paper examines three theories to explain the differences: objectives, capital prices, and market characteristics. The findings are best explained by differences in...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Antimicrobial steel donated to hospital. (Industry news).(Brief Article)
- LOS ANGELES, CA -- AK Steel will donate steel coated with AgION[TM] antimicrobial compound for City of Hope's Helford Clinical Research Hospital, currently under construction in Duarte, CA. The coated steel will be used in the facility's air handling LOS ANGELES, CA -- AK Steel will...
- Research articles 2002-06-03
- OLD HANDS, NEW VENTURES: HOSPITAL VETERANS LAUNCH FIVE COMPANIES IN NASHVILLE.
- If you work in the healthcare industry and believe in reincarnation, Nashville could be your nirvana. Over the past year or so, a handful of for-profit hospital industry veterans have shed their old company jobs to form five new companies that each founder says is unique....
- Research articles 1998-09-07
- Proposed Rhode Island Hospital Merger Leaves Observers Dubious.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 10--Will the merger of Rhode Island's two major hospital networks create an enterprise so large that it threatens the survival of smaller hospitals and curtails the health-care choices of patients? Or will a combined Lifespan and Care...
- Research articles 1998-10-11
- Rhode Island Hospital Partners with Boston System.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 4 -- PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Sidestepping the wave of mergers that has swept the hospital industry, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island said yesterday it has crafted an "alliance" with Boston's prestigious Partners HealthCare System. No ownership...
- Research articles 1999-05-05
- LOOKIN' BAD: JCAHO-HOSPITAL FIGHT A DISSERVICE TO QUALITY HEALTHCARE.
- You couldn't blame advocates for quality healthcare for being discouraged by recent events. The decision by the Cleveland Clinic to pull out of one of the first hospital report card projects is lamentable enough (Jan. 18, p. 14). The move does not reflect well...
- Research articles 1999-01-25
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