Hospitals deal with numerous requirements from local, state and national regulatory bodies. These requirements set the standards for what is acceptable and unacceptable, while also giving hospitals ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has deferred taking immediate action on its low wage index hospital policy in light of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit’s decision in ...

To comply with a summer court order, the Biden administration made a last-minute change to its inpatient rates that will reduce payments to low wage hospitals. Released Monday, just before the start ...

Hospital policies regarding verbal and telephone orders may be insufficient, according to research published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. For their study, researchers ...

We often hear about the health care workforce shortage ongoing in our country. I feel it pertinent to clarify that much of the shortage is intentionally induced by hospital systems and the non-compete ...

VIRGINIA, USA — When Tony Holley was admitted to the hospital with complications from stage four pancreatic cancer, he said he didn’t just want treatment —he needed to know someone was listening. "You ...

The Attorney General of New Jersey and the Director of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights jointly commenced a lawsuit against the Virtua Health System and its constituent hospitals alleging that ...