Physicians and hospitals can both benefit significantly from a hospital-physician ASC joint venture: The hospital benefits from transferring its brand to the surgery center and building a strong ...

The long-standing problem of hospital-acquired infections, adverse events and medication errors is improving, new data suggest, although 1 in 25 hospital stays still comes with an infection. "No ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oregon Health Authority oversees the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. (Oregon Health Authority) Late last year, a patient at ...

A Louisiana hospital did not have a duty to disclose an anesthesiologist’s drug problem in a reference to a prospective hospital employer, and therefore cannot be held liable for patient injuries the ...

A task force focused on ameliorating the logjam of patients waiting to be discharged from hospitals to post-acute care settings has offered a string of legal remedies that overlap with some ...

Those that do comply do so minimally, while still burying pricing files in unusable formats that might as well be invisible to patients. Insurers negotiate blindly with hospitals that keep an upper ...

Hospitals routinely use unreliable drug tests at childbirth, and many parents are reported to child welfare agencies and the ...