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Tenet Takes A Hit – Even After selling several hospitals this year

The hospital chain has a higher foreclosure rate than average which is part of the reason the outlook is dwindling to a degree. The chain has been actively selling off non profitable hospitals as well. Prime Healthcare has been one company...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 8:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Tenet, Hospitals, Charity, Prime Healthcare, Desperate Hospitals, Bad debt

EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated

The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 7:41 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Charity, CMS, Linux, Donations, bankruptcies

Cape Cod hospital gets $10M gift

Nice and welcomed I am sure. A few weeks ago Cape Cod was in the Desperate Hospitals section as they had recently announced a $17.6 million revenue loss, and were about to lay off so-called hospitalists, doctors who treat patients whose primary...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 10:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospitals, Charity, Desperate Hospitals, Gift

Bankruptcy Bug Hits Hospitals – Desperate Hospitals

Modern Healthcare.com has also published an article about the status of affairs of many hospitals. To read further, click here to review the series I began last month called “ Desperate Hospitals” in where there are several updates and additional...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 5:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Charity, Budgets, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Economics, Chapter 11, Desperate Hospitals

Nonprofit Hospital Battles to Protect Tax Exemption

This is becoming a hot topic these days, especially in other areas with not for profit hospitals. The new CEO of Grady just put out a request for other hospitals to stop sending their charity cases to their facility when they can provide the services...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 11:56 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospitals, Charity, Not for Profit Hospitals, Non Profit, Tax Exemptions

Stand Up To Cancer - Friday September 5, 2008 - 8:00 EST

You can set up a log in and donate today. Click here for details. As I had posted in a story a couple days ago, the bar has risen for venture capitalist investments, it is still there, but perhaps a little tougher to get, and with government...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2008 11:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Biotech, Cancer, Research, Charity, Stand up to Cancer, Donation, Entertainment, Donation Drive, Cancer Cures

Oncology Nurse turned Talk Show Host and a lot more..

I had a couple friends drag me away from the computer and the blog today to watch a taping of a new talk show series starting this fall. So why is this here on a medical blog, well Bonnie Hunt was an oncology nurse before moving in to the entertainment...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 12:57 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Hospital, Oncology, Charity, Nursing, Talk Show, Celebrities, Nurse, Extra Extra, Chicago

When a Free Yearly Clinic Is Your Only Health Care - Remote Area Medical

Remote Area Medical is offering relief to many who cannot afford health care or insurance. Newsweek does a nice job with the coverage here and a few months ago I had a post with video showing how the daily set up goes. RAM was .png?imgmax...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 12:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Charity, Remote Area Medical, Volunteers

Safeway Kicks Off Month of Events and Fundraising for Prostate Cancer Research

Watch for the events a local stores. The money raised is donated directly to charities , which provides grants to teaching hospitals and cancer centers doing leading edge research. A related story shows the recipients of this years awards...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 3:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Health Care, Cancer, Research, Prostate Cancer, Charity, PCF, Safeway

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