Baystate Health to lay off 300
The Boston Business Journal reports that Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health will lay off about 300 people because of a projected $75 million budget shorfall. Its problems can be blamed in part...
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Urgent-care centers seen continuing to surge
A 2014 whitepaper from McGuireWoods and the Urgent Care Association of America predicted that the urgent-care industry will continue to surge, estimating that some large metropolitan areas could...
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A look at 3 systems battling housing insecurity
Housing insecurity is a major social determinant of public health, although the problem has been too often neglected. But now some hospitals across America are trying to address it, says a report by...
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Medicaid population whomps Partners’ results
Part of Partners’ Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As is often the case, Medicaid populations pose big financial challenges. Consider prestigious Partners HealthCare, which owns Massachusetts General...
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Some hospitals send patients to nightmare nursing homes
By JORDAN RAU For Kaiser Health News At age 88, Elizabeth Fee looked pregnant, her belly swollen after days of intestinal ailments and nausea. A nurse heard a scream from Fee’s room in a nursing...
View ArticleMass. report cites unnecessary tests
In a report, the MassachusettsHealth Policy Commission criticized physicians and hospital systems it said routinely overused (lucrative) medical testing. Such tests play a major role in healthcare...
View ArticleThe man who would take on Partners
The Boston Globe profiles Kevin Tabb, M.D., who runs Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, and is now trying to engineer a merger between his system and another prestigious one — in...
View ArticleCare New England wants Partners to acquire it
Rhode Island’s Care New England hospital system wants to be acquired by Greater Boston’s Partners HealthCare, which includes such famed institutions as Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and...
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Brigham announces big buyouts; layoffs come next
Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, although it is profitable, is offering voluntary buyouts to 1,600 workers to curb costs. And it says that layoffs are likely later this year, with the number...
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Mass. panel opposes Partners purchase of Mass. Eye and Ear
Mass. Eye and Ear, on the banks of the Charles River. Partners HealthCare and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital are challenging the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission’s finding that Partners’...
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