Tag Archives: Health System
Time to Eliminate Sugary Brands from Healthcare
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When hospitals and healthcare organizations affiliate with fast food, their public health reputation is undermined. Here are two eye-opening examples.
CHRISTUS Health, Velocity Care Form JV in AR, LA
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The joint venture intensifies the Dallas health system’s push into retail urgent care and freestanding emergency departments. CHRISTUS is bringing the consumer-friendly tactics of retail operations into its acute-care hospitals.
Mercy Health invests in $135 million joint venture
Employed Physicians Add Revenue, Trim Profits
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Although hospitals with employed physicians gain revenue, expenses rise simultaneously. Hiring doctors is “a strategic move by hospitals for a variety of reasons, but it does come with a financial penalty,” says one analyst.
Why Medicare could eventually become the basis for our single-payer healthcare system
Huge hospital deal goes through: Daughters of Charity system closes controversial deal
San Jose: Hospital nurse had tuberculosis; hundreds of babies, moms need treatment or tests
This is how the 1 percent do hospitals
FTC Rejects Another Health System M&A
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HENRY KOTULA 