Physicians and hospitals can both benefit significantly from a hospital-physician ASC joint venture: The hospital benefits from transferring its brand to the surgery center and building a strong ...

The long-standing problem of hospital-acquired infections, adverse events and medication errors is improving, new data suggest, although 1 in 25 hospital stays still comes with an infection. "No ...

When people think of creative professions, jobs in the healthcare industry are probably not the first to come to mind. Between surgical checklists, precise medical billing codes and rigid protocols ...

A task force focused on ameliorating the logjam of patients waiting to be discharged from hospitals to post-acute care settings has offered a string of legal remedies that overlap with some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oregon Health Authority oversees the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. (Oregon Health Authority) Late last year, a patient at ...

Many of NSW’s 4400 hospital buildings are ageing and riddled with mould, but a $940 million upgrade of one Sydney hospital may have disturbed spores that can be deadly to some of its sickest patients.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Oregonians who are ready to leave the hospital but still require care do not have enough places to go, affecting providers and patients at all levels. The average hospital ...

Those that do comply do so minimally, while still burying pricing files in unusable formats that might as well be invisible to patients. Insurers negotiate blindly with hospitals that keep an upper ...