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AFP Blog: Recent News of Note (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
From the Chronicle Prospecting Blog What Ails Hospital Fund Raising - Philanthropy.com: "What Ails Hospital Fund Raising The economy is making fund raising tough for all kinds of institutions, but at nonprofit hospitals, that is just one of many challenges, Bill McGinly, president of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, in a speech today."
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Medicare & Medicaid Headlines (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
This tool provides you with information on how well the hospitals care for all their adult patients with certain conditions or procedures. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide as the measures show how often hospitals provide some of the care that is recommended for patients being treated for a heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia, or patients having surgery....
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HealthBlawg :: David Harlow's Healt (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
As part of the proposed 2009 IPPS regulation published in the April 30 Federal Register, CMS has issued a proposed expanded list of never events, and also proposed increasing hospital reporting obligations. The CMS press release explains it all for...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
By Mary Jo Layton, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Apr. 16--Hackensack University Medical Center on Tuesday broke ground on a $135 million cancer center, a four-story building that will centralize treatment at one of the nation's busiest cancer treatment facilities.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Aetna (NYSE: AET) and Shawnee Mission Medical Center announced today they have reached a new contract agreement for the hospital and its affiliated physician and outpatient facilities.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Medicare could save tens of billions of dollars annually — without reducing the quality of care — if all hospitals mirrored the practice patterns of the Mayo Clinic.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 25/02/2008
Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH), the leader in the health care information systems industry, will be showcasing the new integrated DrFirst medication history and e-prescribing technologies at HIMSS 2008 on their new 6.0 Client/Server Release.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 18/02/2008
By Alison Snyder South Nassau Communities Hospital named Elizabeth Nardone vice president of development. She will be responsible for the day-to- day operations of the development department and the management of the hospital's fund-raising initiatives. Jason B.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
The Leapfrog Group and Aetna (NYSE: AET) announce the launch of a Leapfrog Hospital Rewards ProgramTM (LHRP) pilot in the Puget Sound and Spokane regions. Aetna is the first national health insurance plan to pilot the hospital incentive and reward program with The Leapfrog Group.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DrFirst, the leader in electronic prescribing and medication reconciliation, and Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH), the leader in the health
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Health Care Renewal (Free subscription) | 05/11/2007
The World Series is over, and now Newsday reports how a former major league baseball player claimed a local hospital's fund raising falsely used his endorsement. After having shoulder surgery at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, former Mets star Ed Kranepool spoke glowingly of his doctor. 'I couldn't have asked for better,' Kranepool said in the spring newsletter of the hospital's parent company,...
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Scruffy's Word (Free subscription) | 15/10/2007
Mathew has sort of adopted me as his new best “cartoon character” friend...he has my mug shot hanging in his office and has even had some folks thinking it is a caricature of him...can you imagine that? Anyway, Scruffy sent Matt some Scruffy & Pals golf balls and asked if he would test drive them. He agreed and, during a recent Shriner's Children's Hospital fund raising event in which he participated,...
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The Pittsburgh Business Times (Free subscription) | 27/09/2007
Pennsylvania hospitals' overall mortality rates are down, but readmission rates are up over the past three years, according to the latest hospital performance report released Thursday by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 28/08/2007
Whether sports fans decide to wear it or wave it, the new "M GO BLUE for Mott" rally scarf is sure to become a staple at every U-M home game.The scarves will sell for $10, with a portion of the proceeds going to the U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Women's Hospital fund-raising campaign.
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/05/2007
Film News: Stormtrooper org marches for charity -- A long time ago, 8-year-old Albin Johnson arrived at a nearby movie theater to see something called "Star Wars." It was only the second film he had ever seen, but to borrow terminology from another science-fiction pic, it was "the one."
