National Thomson Reuters Names 3 Aurora Hospitals 'Top Performers' in Annual Survey.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-19 August 2008-National Thomson Reuters Names 3 Aurora Hospitals 'Top Performers' in Annual Survey(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Three Aurora Health Care facilities announced that they are among the U.S. hospitals identified by Thomson Reuter as having demonstrated consistent improvement over five consecutive years. ...

Fitch Downgrades Palisades Medical Center, New Jersey to 'BB+' from 'BBB-; Outlook to Stable.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-11 August 2008-Fitch Downgrades Palisades Medical Center, New Jersey to 'BB+' from 'BBB-; Outlook to Stable(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Fitch Ratings has downgraded approximately $41 million of New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority revenue bonds issued on behalf of Palisades Medical Center,...

An empirical taxonomy of hospital governing board roles.
Developments, such as Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service, concern for medical errors and patient safety, demand for performance by third-party payers, and competition from physician-owned health care facilities, have placed governing boards of hospitals in a more critical position responsible and accountable for hospital affairs (Orlikoff...

NY Health Providers IPA Adds Two Premier Long Island Skilled Nursing Facilities to Subacute Care Network.
Central Island Healthcare and South Shore Healthcare Offer State-of-the-Art Technology and Quality Services LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Two of Long Island's most respected skilled nursing and sub-acute care facilities, Central Island Healthcare and South Shore Healthcare, became the 13th and...

Turnaround in an aged persons' mental health service in crisis: a case study of organisational renewal.
Abstract This case study demonstrates how leadership was harnessed to turn around a decline in the performance of an aged persons' mental health service--the Namarra Nursing Home at Caulfield General Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia. In 2000 the nursing home faced a crisis of public confidence due...

IMDHA in health care facilities worldwide.
Camille Harris & Dr. Robert Levine are on staff at the Henry Ford Health System Center for Integrative Medicine. Camille delivers hypnotherapy in the Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM), one of the first to be fully integrated in a major healthcare system. Camille is a Licensed Professional...

A civic republican view of hospital closures and community health planning.
I. INTRODUCTION Listening to today's news, it is impossible not to hear someone call for immediate health care reform. The uninsured, rising health care costs, the diabetes epidemic, the financial instability of health care facilities--these are just some of the issues that have contributed to what has...

HealthEast Care System Chooses Concuity's ClearContracts to Bolster Contract Negotiation Capabilities.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-19 August 2008-HealthEast Care System Chooses Concuity's ClearContracts to Bolster Contract Negotiation Capabilities(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Concuity, a healthcare division of Trintech and a provider of contract management and revenue recovery technology and services, announced that HealthEast Care System has selected ClearContracts to...

Planning for transition care.
Abstract The Australian Government introduced the National Transition Care Program in the 2004- 2005 Federal Budget. This program is designed to assist elderly patients who have completed a stay in hospital to move from the hospital to their homes or other suitable accommodation. In planning for transition...

More action needed on MRSA.
U.S. health care facilities are not doing enough to protect patients from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, according to an online poll conducted by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control. A majority of infection control professionals (59%) responded that their health care facilities have stepped up efforts to...