St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center and a department chairman who told a group of doctors he would "separate their skulls from their bodies" if they disobeyed him must pay the doctors $1.27 million, a Bergen County jury has decided. The trial offered a rare glimpse of the inner workings of a hospital department that "made the hazing of the Marines look like child's play," according to Dr. Khash Vosough of Franklin Lakes, the obstetrician/gynecologist who filed the lawsuit with his partners.
A jury recently cleared a Kansas City hospital and two doctors in a medical malpractice lawsuit by a former patient who claimed she suffered a brain injury and demanded $2.6 million. The plaintiff is appealing the verdict, delivered June 28.
ASHLAND, Kan. - The hospital had lost the last doctor in a succession of those who came to the remote Kansas town and left again. A sole physician assistant kept watch over the 24-bed facility and its adjacent nursing home. It was on the verge of closing. Then officials at the Ashland Health Center, seeking to reverse the drain of talent symptomatic of what happens across rural America, embraced an unorthodox approach to bring doctors back.
REDLANDS - Redlands Community Hospital recently saw a number of of its doctors recognized as some of the nation's top doctors by U.S. News and World Report. The doctors' report is an online resource that used peer review data to develop the list, the hospital said.
Doctors' Hospital of Slidell has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, claiming more than $4.29 million in debt. Court documents filed Jan. 17 list debtors Capital One Bank and more than 65 companies that are awaiting payment for services or supplies they have already provided. The 10-bed acute care hospital will continue to operate during court proceedings. Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows a company to freeze its debts while proposing a plan for reorganization.
[...] when specialists started setting up their own outpatient surgery centers in the 1990s, hospitals scrambled to do joint ventures with physicians so they didn't lose their patients. Improving care The mergers also help with coordination of care. Since 70 percent of health care spending goes to treat chronic diseases, which require multiple doctors in multiple locations to treat each patient, that coordination is key to improving quality and reducing costs.
Dr. Henry Davis is St. Mary's Medical Center's own Dr. House, but without the TV character's ill temper and theatrics. Both are hospitalists, which means neither has a practice outside a hospital.
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