MedWorm: Hospital Management

Uha reports $438k profit in q1

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:16:15 +0100

University Health Alliance, the state's third-largest health plan, reported a $438,129 profit in the first quarter of the year compared to a $278,958 loss during the same period last year. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

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Judge backs st. joseph's hospital plan for southern hillsborough

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:26:18 +0100

An administrative law judge has recommended that the Agency for Health Care Administration approve St. Joseph's Hospital's request to build a 90-bed hospital in southern Hillsborough County. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

New method proposed for determining which patients should get treatment for colorectal cancer

Mayo Clinic Rochester News — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:44:40 +0100

A new study being presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago (Abstract #4020), may change treatment practice in about 25 percent of patients with colon cancer and is the basis for proposed changes to the way colorectal cancers will be staged. (Source: Mayo Clinic Rochester News)

Carolinas healthcare plans three expansion projects

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:56:13 +0100

Carolinas HealthCare System wants to consolidate and relocate the outpatient rehabilitation services of its Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast hospital, moving the operations to a new medical office building on Copperfield Boulevard in Concord. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Grant lifts degraff unit

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:52:28 +0100

DeGraff Memorial Hospital in North Tonawanda has received $50,000 in state capital funding to help upgrade the emergency department. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Military spending bill reaps rewards for nm

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:48:47 +0100

A $168.9 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill designed to support U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will be sending millions in funding and equipment to New Mexico. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

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Baptist hospital east offering weight-loss surgery

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:04:51 +0100

Baptist Hospital East has now added gastric banding surgery to its list of services. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

High court: novant may comment on baptist application

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:59:34 +0100

The N.C. Supreme Court this week upheld a lower court decision that will allow state regulators to consider comments from Novant Health Inc. as they decide on an application from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center to build a new hospital in eastern Davie County. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Wellmed donates major gift to help fund alzheimer's center in san antonio

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:37:21 +0100

San Antonio's City Council voted to accept a $250,000 donation from the WellMed Charitable Foundation this week that will allow the organization to open a Leeza's Place by WellMed at the Bob Ross Senior Center. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Partners net income dips in q1

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:33:11 +0100

Partners HealthCare -- the state's largest group of hospitals -- reported a sizable drop in net income during its fiscal 2008 second quarter due to a plunge in investment income and rising health care costs. But net revenue generated by patient services continued to rise. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Conocophillips gifts $3 million to texas children's

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:32:55 +0100

Texas Children's Hospital has received a $1.5 million gift from ConocoPhillips in support of the hospital's new West Campus in Katy, which broke ground on Thursday. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

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Dispensary of hope gets funding to assist poor, underserved with medications

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:19:24 +0100

The Dispensary of Hope - a network of physicians, pharmacies and corporations - is launching in Middle and East Tennessee, with the support of Saint Thomas Health Services. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Vital images surpasses 3,000 customer sites worldwide

Hospital Management — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:52:48 +0100

Vital Images, Inc. (Nasdaq: VTAL), a worldwide leader of enterprise-wide advanced visualization and analysis solutions, has surpassed the milestone of 3,000 customers, approximately 5,000 installations and thousands more users worldwide of advanced visualization software solutions. "We are very proud of reaching this customer milestone and committed to continued delivery of advanced visualization solutions and collaboration tools that can be quickly and easily integrated into daily medical practice," said Michael H. Carrel, Vital Images president and chief executive officer. "We have strong, collaborative relationships with our customers based on the common goal of enterprise-wide access of advanced visualization solutions designed to improve the impact and delivery of patient care." Vital Images values relationships and has invested in programs and technology designed to enhance relationships between customers, referring physicians, partners and patients. Building on its knowledge and understanding of complex clinical workflow, Vital Images offers a comprehensive suite of enterprise-wide advanced visualization and connectivity solutions. "I have been a Vital Images user since 1999 and originally selected the ViTAL solution because it was ground breaking in its ability to provide fast, powerful and intuitive clinical information," said Lawrence Neil Tannenbaum, MD, FACR, director of CT and MR Imaging, Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. "Our experience with ViTAL has evolved from a user-vendor relationship to a true partnership. ViTAL's solution has always been on the forefront of innovation, continually evolving to meet the expanding workflow demands of our practice." (Source: Hospital Management)

Orlando regional cancer program accredited

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:20:19 +0100

Orlando Regional Healthcare announced Wednesday its cancer program received accreditation from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Florida hospital opens new lab

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:15:21 +0100

Florida Hospital hosted the grand opening May 15 of the Florida Hospital Center for Diagnostic Pathology. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Study rates milwaukee-area health systems' cost efficiency

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:14:48 +0100

A new, unaudited study released Friday has determined that Aurora Health Care is the most cost-efficient hospital system in the Milwaukee area, followed by Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

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Mayo clinic researchers find adding epratuzumab to standard therapy

Mayo Clinic Rochester News — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:33:38 +0100

Adding a second monoclonal antibody drug to chemotherapy looks promising for treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, according to Mayo Clinic researchers working with the North Central Cancer Treatment Group. (Source: Mayo Clinic Rochester News)

Study shows that administering calcium and magnesium effectively reduces neurological sensitivity caused by the chemotherapy drug oxaliplatin

Mayo Clinic Rochester News — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:32:56 +0100

Researchers in the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) have shown that patients who receive intravenous calcium and magnesium before and after the chemotherapy drug oxaliplatin for the treatment of advanced colon cancer experience a significantly reduced incidence and severity of neurological side effects (neurotoxicity). (Source: Mayo Clinic Rochester News)

Some early stage colon cancer patients should not receive chemotherapy,

Mayo Clinic Rochester News — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:29:40 +0100

Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators say they have conclusively demonstrated that a substantial subset of colon cancer patients should not receive chemotherapy because it provides no clinical benefit, and actually may reduce survival time. (Source: Mayo Clinic Rochester News)

Cancer patients' quality of life directly relates to their survival

Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:29:04 +0100

Patients who feel better live longer, say Mayo Clinic researchers, working with the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG), in study results released May 15 as part of the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)

Mastectomies on the rise and mri use may explain part of the trend, say mayo researchers

Mayo Clinic Rochester News — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:28:27 +0100

The number of women undergoing mastectomy (total breast removal) for early-stage breast cancer has increased in the last three years at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. The increase follows a steady decline during the prior seven years. (Source: Mayo Clinic Rochester News)

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Niagara hospice approved for more space

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:46:57 +0100

Niagara Hospice has been given state go-ahead to plan an eight-bed addition to its 10-month-old residential facility in Lockport. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

7 nbc/cw56 and partners healthcare health and fitness expo

BWH News — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

7 NBC/CW56 and Partners HealthCare present the second annual Boston Health and Fitness Expo at the Hynes Convention Center June 21 and 22. This free event is designed to improve the health of the Boston-area community. Last year, an overwhelming 70, (Source: BWH News)

Audeh aims for educational excellence in mission hill

BWH News — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

At any given time, Pamela Audeh can be found reading to a pre-kindergarten class at Mission Grammar School, overseeing a science project at the Tobin Middle School or working with 150 BWH volunteers who help ensure students have a good experience. (Source: BWH News)

High school students get up-close look at trauma

BWH News — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Nine students from six towns last month got a first hand look at what it takes to work as a trauma clinician at BWH. The Education Collaborative (TEC), an organization made up of towns west of Boston that aims to help high school students gain real (Source: BWH News)

Shapiro center named one of city’s greenest

BWH News — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center was named as one of “Boston’s Greenest” buildings by the Mayor’s Office and the American Institute of Architects. (Source: BWH News)

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Kids get hands-on hospital experience

BWH News — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

During last month’s Take Our Children to Work Day, children who visited Plastic Surgery suited up in scrubs and masks and removed stitches from chicken wings, among other activities. (Source: BWH News)

Nicu strollers march for babies

BWH News — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The BWH NICU Strollers team raised more than $19,000 for the March of Dimes during the organization’s March for Babies walk last month. (Source: BWH News)

Pricewaterhousecoopers details $133m savings plan for grady

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:53:31 +0100

In business, to make money you have to invest some. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Fallon community health plan expands membership, net income dips

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:00:48 +0100

Fallon Community Health Plan boosted revenue but experienced operating losses in its fiscal 2008 first quarter, affected in part by rising health care costs. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Uc wins $2.3m for brain injury/stress disorder studies

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:31:41 +0100

The University of Cincinnati will receive $2.3 million in federal money to study traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

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Tufts health plan reduces operating losses, gains members

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:28:08 +0100

Tufts Health Plan, the state's third largest health insurer, continued to improve its financial position, according to 2008 first-quarter financial numbers announced on Thursday. Still, operating losses continued. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Gas cards to blood donors

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:50:36 +0100

Florida's Blood Centers is giving $10 gas cards to its blood donors. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Vital images launches the vital enterprise

Hospital Management — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:48:55 +0100

Vital Images, a worldwide leader in enterprise-wide advanced visualization and analysis solutions, has launched the ViTAL Enterprise, enabling unlimited enterprise access to the complete ViTAL solution offering. The ViTAL Enterprise provides customers with full access to Vital Images' best-of-breed clinical solutions and comprehensive services, including education, consulting and maintenance. The ViTAL Enterprise has the flexibility to scale to the size of the customer's enterprise by providing access to the complete ViTAL solution based on unlimited users or concurrent users. Additionally, the ViTAL Enterprise offers customers the ability to license the solution through capital or subscription pricing. The ViTAL Enterprise is also available to the company's worldwide installed base of over 3,200 customers. "We are focused on making the customer experience a positive one,” said Michael H Carrel, Vital Images president and chief executive officer. "From the initial purchasing process to the easy-to-use clinical applications, education, services and the ongoing relationship, the customer has full access to resources that support their unique requirements. With the ViTAL Enterprise, customers have anytime, anywhere access to clinical tools and the comfort of knowing they can expand their solution as their requirements change." As a pioneer in advanced visualization for nearly 20 years, ViTAL continues to offer industry leading clinical solutions that help healthcare providers enhance efficiency and improve patient care. The ViTAL Enterprise offers customers the most complete advanced visualization solution offering on the market today and represents the next step in ViTAL's long history of defining this market space. (Source: Hospital Management)

Intelerad signs partnership agreement with sencor

Hospital Management — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:42:07 +0100

Intelerad Medical Systems is proud to announce the signing of a partnership agreement with SENCOR, a leader in intelligent DICOM data storage and distribution solutions. SENCOR will provide its patented PACStacks disc burner appliance which automates the creation of DICOM CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs, dramatically simplifying medical image distribution as well as long term disaster recovery protection. "We are extremely excited about our new partnership with Intelerad, a recognized leader of PACS solutions worldwide," said Eric Kelly, CEO of SENCOR. "Our teams have worked closely together and we look forward to bringing these terrific solutions to market." IntelePACS users who acquire one of the PACStacks Disc Burner Appliances can uniquely create DICOM-compliant discs that contain both the patient medical image data combined with the Intelerad-formatted diagnostic report. Other time saving features include the automatic labeling of discs with customized patient demographics, simple importing of DICOM Part 10 compatible CDs/DVDs and inclusion of selectable viewers to allow radiologists and referring physicians to easily review images remotely. "SENCOR's networked disc burning solution is the ideal data distribution tool for many of our clients and is in keeping with Intelerad's continuous efforts to ensure customers achieve their goals and meet their patients' needs." Comments Randall Oka, President of Intelerad. (Source: Hospital Management)

Intelerad wins soteria imaging services contract

Hospital Management — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:40:21 +0100

Intelerad Medical Systems is proud to announce the signing of a new IntelePACS agreement with Soteria Imaging Services of Louisville, Kentucky. IntelePACS was deemed the strongest solution among system vendors in the final round of selection and was recently awarded this large teleradiology center contract. "Intelerad is a flexible PACS system that was best able to meet our complex workflow structures. We are in the business of providing customer delight to both our patients and the referring physicians that need our services. Intelerad has recognized this focus and is able to provide a solution that will be able to grow with Soteria and our partners." Geoff Luber, VP Finance, Soteria Imaging. "The Intelerad product is a cost effective, robust solution offering a tool set that is easy to use and intuitive. The product satisfies the needs of the radiologist while maintaining simplicity for our referring physicians. IntelePACS is built on a solid operating system with numerous redundancies to maximize uptime and minimize failures," disclosed Chris Campbell, PACS Administrator. Soteria Imaging Services, which specializes in state-of the art outpatient diagnostic imaging services, operates 19 imaging centers in ten states and performs over 50,000 exams with expectations for significant growth. IntelePACS's speed and agility in the handling of large volumes of studies over complex networks have earned Intelerad a loyal following among customers with the largest and most challenging PACS environments. (Source: Hospital Management)

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Pharmerica sets date for first annual meeting

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:30:21 +0100

PharMerica Corp., the nation's second-largest institutional pharmacy services company, announced Thursday that its first annual meeting of shareholders will be held Thursday, July 24, in Louisville. (PMC) (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Erickson retirement communities, hospitals win funding for patient data systems

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:17:14 +0100

Two health care information exchange programs spearheaded by Erickson Retirement Communities and a group of suburban Washington, D.C., hospitals each received $250,000 from the state Thursday to continue developing their online systems. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Pet drx posts $3 million net loss, 67% jump in revenue

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:08 +0100

Pet DRx Inc. posted $3 million net loss in the first quarter despite a 67 percent jump in revenue, the company reports. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Barnes-jewish hospital to receive primaris hospital quality award

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:54:35 +0100

Barnes-Jewish Hospital was this year's recipient of the Primaris Hospital Quality Award, which honors one Missouri hospital a year in recognition of quality, transparency, performance and continuous improvement. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Ucsf, uc berkeley, other ucs face possible strike

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:58:59 +0100

As many as 4,000 San Francisco Bay Area medical and campus service workers at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco are among 20,000 workers statewide scheduled to vote starting Saturday on authorization for a potential strike, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said Tuesday. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

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Trauma specialists names new ceo

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:40:44 +0100

James Bishop has been named chief executive officer of Trauma Specialists LLP, a medical practice with 80 physicians that specializes in the treatment of the most severely injured trauma patients. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

People's community clinic exceeds fundraising goal

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:59:34 +0100

People's Community Clinic raised $315,000 at its annual luncheon, far exceeding last year's donation record of $250,000. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Lone star overnight continues expansion

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:56:47 +0100

Lone Star Overnight, a package delivery service, plans to expand to 500 cities by the end of 2008. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Business, medical leaders named 'men of distinction'

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:40:40 +0100

Five well-known Houston business and medical leaders were honored Wednesday at the second annual Men of Distinction luncheon for their business leadership and philanthropic contributions. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Synergyhealth ceo banaszynski leaving post after affiliation

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:25:30 +0100

Greg Banaszynski, chief executive officer of SynergyHealth, will not continue in his current role following the affiliation between SynergyHealth and Froedtert & Community Health, he announced Wednesday. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

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Centene, bridgeway win 3-year contract from arizona health care

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:13:01 +0100

Bridgeway Health Solutions of Arizona, a wholly owned subsidiary of Centene Corp., was awarded an initial three-year contract from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System to provide acute-care services to Medicaid recipients in the Yavapai service area. (CNC) (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Dc announces mixed-use development plan for hill east

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:54:16 +0100

More than 60 acres along the Anacostia River -- the site of the former D.C. General Hospital -- are set to become a new mixed-use neighborhood known as Hill East. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Jctc to break ground on new building

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:48:53 +0100

Jefferson Community & Technical College will break ground Friday morning on a $25.6 million Nursing and Allied Health building on the downtown Louisville campus, at Second Street and Broadway. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Hospital rate increase wins approval

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:44:07 +0100

State regulators approved Wednesday a 4.5 percent increase in the prices hospitals can charge their patients -- but hospital leaders say the bump isn't enough. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)