Article: Benefit plans test hospitals' acceptance of change. (health care reform plans) (Health Care Risk Management Review)

Article: The health care squeeze: Doing more with less; Health plan enrollments are up, doctors are busier than ever. But hospitals are closing, and layoffs and cost cutting are growing as employers refuse to accept higher rates.(BUSINESS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  February 3, 1997 ;     700+ words ......health plans, hospitals and clinics...bill for most health care costs - want...use Allina's hospitals. It was emblematic of what health care finance has become...million, Children's Health Care, with hospitals in south Minneapolis...

Article: THE HILLARY CHILL Mrs. Clinton's health care reforms, plus longer-term economic forces have hospitals putting plans on hold
The Boston Globe;  May 25, 1993 ;     700+ words ...For Boston's health care industry, the...the city's big hospitals are hunkering...isn't limited to hospitals. Cambridge Biotech...uncertainty surrounding health care reform. Some of...local economy. Health care employment continues...clinics and home health ...

Article: Care cuts affect hospitals: ; Iowa senator raises concerns about rural health care
Charleston Daily Mail;  July 12, 2000 ;     399 words ......continued viability of rural hospitals is critical to the health care industry - and to the...take action on rural health care. Rural hospitals and health care providers...directly related to local hospitals or health care centers, she said. And...

Article: Hospitals under the knife: Gary Peterson of Loebl Schlossman and Hackl uncovers the changing face of health care design.
Interior Design;  February 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ......experience in health care design, has monitored...attitudes towards hospitals and health care for several years...the impetus for hospitals to refurbish their...competition among health care facilities to...suggests that hospitals are evolving into more ...

Article: Three Advocate Health Care Hospitals Ranked Among America's Best Hospitals 2006
U.S. Newswire;  July 14, 2006 ;     557 words ......Newswire/ -- Advocate Health Care, Illinois' largest health care provider, today...that three of its hospitals have been nationally...100 Integrated Health Care Systems." In recent...ten "Most Wired" hospitals by Hospitals and...eight acute care hospitals ...

Article: Health Care Administration Consumes Nearly One-Third of Health Care Costs, Say Hospitals and Insurance Companies.
PR Newswire;  March 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ......associated with health care claims and billing...patients spend on health care, according to...executives from hospitals and insurance...they think that health care administration...PNC's national health care group (http...than once. - Hospitals that do ...

Article: Health care an Rx for attorneys; six law firms get the lion's share of work, but merging hospitals use M&A giants. (merger and acquisition)
Crain's New York Business;  September 16, 1996 ;     700+ words ......few decades ago, health care law in New York...pro bono work for hospitals. Firms like ours...represents more than 100 hospitals, large numbers of nursing homes, home health care agencies and physician...hospital boards. But health care lawyers don't think...from them. ...

Article: Hospitals battle heavy competition for market share: many hospitals turn to professional advertising, marketing firms for help. (Focus Health Care).
Mississippi Business Journal;  October 21, 2002 ;     684 words ......choice in their health care. Not all hospitals are created equal...worked in the firm's health care marketing division...works with several hospitals on marketing, including...services larger hospitals do. Health care has gotten so much...

Article: Ramsay Health Care Prescribes Colubris WLAN Equipment for Hospitals' Wireless Infrastructure.
Biotech Week;  August 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ......announced that Ramsay Health Care, a global hospital...more than 100 hospitals and day surgery...Surgery). Ramsay Health Care is well respected in the health care industry for operating...quality private hospitals and for its excellent...inTechnology and Ramsay ...

Article: Hospitals swept up in positioning for future Health care system takes on a new look
The Boston Globe;  August 7, 1994 ;     700+ words ......thinking about how health care will be delivered...future." For area hospitals, such pressures...Inc., a Needham health care and business consultanting...that represents hospitals, sees a health care system controlled...Carlson said. If hospitals are adapting to ...

Article: Unsung Heroes of Health Care Reform?: $36 Billion in Annual Savings Linked to 'Group Purchasing Organizations' in Major Survey of Over 400 Hospitals
U.S. Newswire;  April 29, 2009 ;     700+ words ......Congress Explore Health Care Cost Cuts...Woes ofU.S.Hospitals Worsening...billion in annual health care and related...study of 429 hospitals and over three...on behalf of hospitals and affiliated health care providers to...

Article: BURNS: RURAL HOSPITALS LOSING FUNDS CHANGES TO MEDICARE PAYMENT SYSTEM HARMING RURAL HEALTH CARE
Capitol Hill Press Releases;  July 12, 2000 ;     351 words ......2000 Burns: Rural Hospitals Losing Funds Changes...System Harming Rural Health Care WASHINGTON, D.C...shortchanged rural health care facilities. During...Burns said that hospitals from Billings to...reimbursements for rural health care, including home...outpatient ...

Article: Agency for Health Care Administration congratulates Florida hospitals on 2nd place national ranking
Westside Gazette;  October 8, 2003 ;     234 words ...The Agency for Health Care Administration congratulates Florida hospitals for their 2nd...ranked nearly 5,000 hospitals on whether patient...received in Florida hospitals," stated Dr. Rhonda...the Agency for Health Care Administration...pleased that our hospitals have been ...

Article: 4 Maryland Hospitals to Form Alliance; Deal Will Forge One of the Largest Health Care Systems in State
The Washington Post;  May 26, 1994 ;     700+ words ......the largest health care systems in the...three Baltimore hospitals and Holy Cross...for an era of health care reform. Although the hospitals will remain...four Maryland hospitals stand out is it creates a health care link between...