Dr. Ramona Bates is a surgeon by day and a wonderful quilt creator on her off hours. Today began the first day of bidding for her charity on one of her fine quilts we see on her blog. She can’t quit stitching! If you have read my blog often enough I have included some of the most interesting...
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on 12-01-2008
Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Charity, Blog, Silent Auction, Quilting, Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation, Brain Tumors, Founcation
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 who has purchased several from Tenet here in California...
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on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Tenet, Hospitals, Charity, Prime Healthcare, Desperate Hospitals, Bad debt
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 contracts with insurance companies are getting...
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on 10-01-2008
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
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 care physicians don't do rounds at the 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 hospitals included. Also included is some...
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on 09-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Charity, Budgets, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Economics, Chapter 11, Desperate Hospitals
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. Also, there's the Desperate Hospitals series...
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on 09-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospitals, Charity, Not for Profit Hospitals, Non Profit, Tax Exemptions
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 cuts on grants and availability for research,...
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on 08-30-2008
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