Year: 2010

By Jon Kingsdale  |  May 3, 2010IMPLEMENTING NATIONAL health care reform could pose the greatest domestic policy challenge since executing the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s. National health insurance… Read more »

$25m fee to split hospitals, diocese By Lisa Wangsness and Beth Healy, Globe Staff  |  May 7, 2010 The private-equity firm proposing to purchase Boston’s six Catholic hospitals intends to… Read more »

The now-concluded month-long strike at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia was the biggest recent flashpoint in hospital-labor relations, but it’s far from the only bad blood. Hospitals in Minnesota, California… Read more »

By Kristin Palpini Created 05/04/2010 – 16:09 NORTHAMPTON – Cooley Dickinson Hospital today is laying off what amounts to 30 full-time employees to cover what hospital officials say is a… Read more »

Many hospitals don’t need to increase salaries to be competitive – for now. By Sandy Keefe, MSN, RN As a faculty researcher at the Center for the Health Professions at… Read more »

To the editor: Recent coverage of the new CEO of Northeast Health Systems commitment to keep Addison Gilbert Hospital open seems like welcome news. Can we rest assured that AGH… Read more »

By Jon Kingsdale  |  May 3, 2010 IMPLEMENTING NATIONAL health care reform could pose the greatest domestic policy challenge since executing the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s. National health… Read more »

Here is CDC’s plan to reduce respiratory protections for healthcare and other workers against H1N1.  It has been reported that with this notice that the CDC will propose to reduce… Read more »

NOW THAT the nation has embarked on a course toward universal health care, it is more important than ever that the government go after cost drivers in the system. In… Read more »

Hospitals, union take campaigns online amid Twin Cities strike talk