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Viewpoint: Road to replace Affordable Care Act is a long one
Health care is unbelievably complex, and health care reform is a massive undertaking with significant implications. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — ACA, also known as Obamacare — is...
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Ascension CEO shares plans for prime Milwaukee-area hospitals
The east side Milwaukee campus of Columbia St. Mary’s will become an Ascension Wisconsin “center of excellence” for heart surgery and other specialty care, while Ascension’s safety-net hospital St....
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Carlos Rivera
Carlos Rivera was admittedly a “happy-go-lucky” enlisted man in the U.S. Navy in the mid-1970s. He hadn’t given much consideration to his future until a colleague politely urged him to give it some...
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Patient care: More tools mean more mobility
Acceptance and integration of assistive devices in the workplace is growing, said Dr. Paul Hart, medical director at Western New York Occupational Medicine. “We work with a great group of rehab...
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GUEST COLUMN: Join us as we celebrate National Doctors’ Day
For more than eight decades, National Doctors’ Day – March 30 – has been a day set aside to show appreciation for the work that physicians undertake caring for the sick and injured and for advancing...
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EXCLUSIVE: OhioHealth expanding Grant Medical Center again, adding new floor...
OhioHealth Corp. is adding a fourth floor with additional patient rooms in a wing of its downtown hospital – a $17.4 million project that brings the two-year investment in OhioHealth Grant Medical...
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Brookline mental health hospital acquired by Arizona firm
Bournewood Health System has been acquired by Arizona-based Alita Care, positioning the mental health hospital to grow in the future. Bournewood, based in Brookline, includes inpatient, partial...
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Teleflex's Arrow operations in Asheboro continue layoffs
As part of its previously announced Asheboro downsizing, Arrow, a subsidiary of medical device maker Teleflex Incorporated (NYSE: TFX), has announced that it will lay off 15 more workers permanently....
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How a Durham company is using analytics to help patients and health care...
Durham-based health care analytics company Bivarus – which was spun out of UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013 – has raised $4 million that will be used for sales and marketing as well as continued product...
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Hospitals by Admissions
The 25 hospitals on the list reported 402,860 admissions during 2015, the most recent year of data available through the Washington state Department of Health. Information was obtained from the...
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Baker 'pleased' at GOP Obamacare replacement failure
Gov. Charlie Baker said he’s “pleased” that House Republicans failed to pass an Obamacare replacement plan, saying the proposal would have had drastic implications for Massachusetts. Baker said...
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This Seattle hospital sees more patients each year than any other
The average hospital stay for Washington state's busiest hospital costs just under $50,000. Swedish Medical Center First Hill ranks No. 1 on this week's Puget Sound Business Journal List, which looks...
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Stocks winners and losers after GOP fails to muster Obamacare votes; Trump,...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down just under 60 points but the Nasdaq was up 11 and the S&P 500 was flat, down 1.98 points, after House Republicans and President Donald Trump failed to...
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'Yelp for healthcare' launches with data on 10,000 California doctors
This week nonprofit California Healthcare Performance Information System opened its ratings website to make data on more than 10,000 doctors public, giving consumers access to the feature after six...
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Photos: United Rehabilitation Services $6M addition opens
A nonprofit that serves people with disabilities and special needs unveiled its $6 million expansion Friday morning. The expansion at United Rehabilitation Services, which now straddles the...
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Catholic Health names new CEO at Sisters Hospital
Catholic Health has named Martin Boryszak as new president and CEO of Sisters of Charity Hospital, effective immediately. Boryszak, who joined the hospital in 2009, has served as chief operating...
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Tesaro wins FDA approval for potential blockbuster cancer drug
The FDA has approved an ovarian cancer drug developed by Waltham-based Tesaro that some analysts believe could surpass $2 billion in peak sales. Shares of Tesaro (Nasdsaq: TSRO) were up 6 percent in...
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Olathe startup ready to put pediatric brain cancer treatment to the test
An Olathe-based startup hopes to partner with children’s hospitals for its brain cancer treatment. For starters, TVAX Biomedical plans to enter a late-stage clinical trial of its cancer immunotherapy...
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Cerner helps Missouri town join drug monitoring program
Cerner Corp. and Nevada, Mo., have unveiled the next iteration of their joint "Healthy Nevada" initiative: launching a prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) in the rural Southwest Missouri town....
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Virtua, Camden County clash over emergency medical services
Virtua went on the offensive Monday to defend itself as the provider for advanced life support (ALS) for all of Camden County except the city of Camden. The Marlton-based health system posted a video...
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