In a perfect world, patients with advance directives would be confident that their doctors and nurses — no matter where they receive care — could know in a split second their end-of-life wishes.
If you have cancer, chances are your outpatient chemotherapy treatment costs are higher if your oncologist works for a health care system than if she has her own practice, a recent study found
By teaming with community organizations, doctors and hospitals can deliver high-quality care at good value to disadvantaged people at risk for poor health, according to a new report from a panel of experts.
A year and a half ago, a federal judge invalidated the purchase of Nampa, Idaho-based Saltzer Medical Group by St. Luke’s Health System in nearby Boise, on antitrust grounds.
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Just how safe are Oregon’s hospitals? Newly released hospital safety scores that evaluate hos-pitals across the country show that only 29 percent of Oregon hospitals graded by the non-profit Leapfrog Group received high marks.
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How is healthcare reform helping – or hurting – the financial bottom line at Oregon’s hospitals? Are nonprofit healthcare organizations paying reasonable salaries to their top executives, or are the millions of dollars that hospital leaders earn each year unreasonable?
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Oregon’s hospitals are performing more inpatient surgeries, hosting more outpatient visits, and billing many of millions of dollars more for services than just a year ago - an apparent result of the state’s Medicaid expansion, according to a Lund Report analysis of financial and utilization figur
Advocate Health Care, Beaumont Health System, Hackensack University Medical Center, and University Hospitals announced today that they will stop purchasing furniture treated with toxic flame retardant chemicals.
Hospitals face growing pressure to prevent patient injuries and stop the spread of infections. But are they doing enough to keep their own workers healthy and safe?
July 15, 2013 -- Sick Oregonians without health insurance regularly receive bills for two to three times what Medicare or private insurers are willing to pay to cover treatment, newly released medical billing data appears to indicate.
