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Byline: Andis Robeznieks When Bernard 'Bud' Hammes began his career in 1984 as the clinical ethicist at Gundersen Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse, Wis., he had near-daily talks with families [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald has directed the department's inspector general to investigate a whistle-blower's claims that the VA spends some $5 billion a year on prosthetics [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks One of the largest healthcare projects ever built through the integrated-project-delivery approach opened last month. And project leaders in charge of building UCSF Medical Center's $1.5 billion, [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks Sandra Bruce has served as president and CEO of Presence Health since the 11-hospital system was formed in November 2011 by the merger of Resurrection Healthcare and [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks Dr. David Feinberg's knack for improving patient-satisfaction scores and transforming the culture at the UCLA Hospital System was a major reason Geisinger Health System last week named [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks An $8.5 million medical malpractice award against MDVIP, a leading concierge medical practice company, may open the door to more lawsuits seeking to hold concierge firms liable [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks ACHE Gold Medal winner Richard Umbdenstock Pesident and CEO American Hospital Association Sister Carol Keehan, CEO of the Catholic Health Association, recalls how hard American Hospital Association [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks Dr. Richard Zane quickly spotted huge waste and inefficiency soon after he was hired to head the University of Colorado Hospital emergency department in 2012. He recalled [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks Designers of new hospitals want to make them look more like luxury hotels. But that can be a challenge as heightened concerns about protecting staff and patients [...]

[THE CHALLENGE] Anchored by a 600-bed hospital, the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System's Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Center sees thousands of patients with heart failure and has performed [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks In October 2001, the American College of Emergency Physicians met in Chicago amid widespread anxiety over the state of emergency preparedness. The U.S. at the time was [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks A report attacking the American Medical Association's annual recommendations to the CMS on physician pay claims the association wildly overestimates the time it takes specialists to perform [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks Now in their 29th year, Modern Healthcare's Design Awards have chronicled the industry's pursuit to define, design and create the ideal healing environment. And, according to one [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks The fact both candidates praised Cleveland Clinic President and CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove in the 2012 presidential debates isn't the only reason he could win bipartisan support [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks When the American Medical Association House of Delegates meets in Chicago for its annual policymaking meeting this week, conservative doctors are unlikely to again take center stage [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks At the University of Minnesota Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower, teams of students from around the country studying medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health and healthcare administration come [...]

SOUTH Baylor hospital declines Baldrige Award over malpractice lawsuits Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano (Texas) has turned down the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the wake of [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks An often-criticized American Medical Association panel that recommends values for physician services to the CMS announced changes last week in an effort to be more transparent. The [...]

Getting geographically dispersed hospitals in a health system to take care of patients in the desired, uniform fashion is a major task. Sentara Healthcare has addressed the issue by adopting [...]

Two years ago, Lawrence Kosinski, M.D., would tell people there's no place like a specialty intensive medical home. Now he has the data to back it up. Kosinski is managing [...]

It's a textbook example of being in the right place at the right time with the right thing to offer--in this case, it happened to be a textbook. Chris Moriates, [...]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services started reimbursing doctors this year for providing end-of-life counseling to their patients as part of the movement toward giving patients more control of [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks The physicians expected to provide the care to exchange plan members are wary about the new program, according to a Medical Group Management Association survey. And that [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks SEAN SONDEJ 33, ASSOCIATE VP OF HEART AND VASCULAR SERVICES DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM A native Upstate New Yorker, Sean Sondej came to Durham, N.C., in July [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks DR. IRENE KROKOS 38, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER MOLINA HEALTHCARE OF NEW MEXICO, ALBUQUERQUE Patty Kehoe, president of Molina Healthcare of New Mexico, says the first impressions she [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks As always, the 76 entries in the 28th annual Modern Healthcare Design Awards were evaluated on design excellence, functional utility, flexibility and response to patients and family. [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks The future of U.S. healthcare and the future of the Medical Group Management Association will be discussed by the 5,000 people expected to attend the MGMA annual [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks Not surprisingly, the leaders of healthcare's megahospital systems were once again well-represented on Modern Healthcare's annual ranking of 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. But others, coming [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks and Beth Kutscher After building it, they will leave. Rulon Stacey and Bruce Schroffel, who helped create University of Colorado Health three years ago, are stepping down [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks LEADVILLE, Colo.--An affiliation and services agreement has been signed between Centura Health and St. Vincent Hospital, a 12-bed critical-access institution in Leadville, with a 13-bed nursing home [...]

Byline: Andis Robeznieks People waiting to read the Federation of State Medical Boards' annual report summarizing national statistics for doctor discipline are waiting in vain. The FSMB has quietly killed [...]