Managed Care Weekly articles from March 2003

Managed Care Weekly archives from March 2003

Healthcare coalition says Bush budget cuts will threaten access to care.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition (HPNEC) expressed concern that President Bush's proposed fiscal year 2004 budget cuts to Title VII and VIII health professions programs will...

Report describes crisis in U.S.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Primary care is in crisis, especially as changes occur in the United States population and in the financing and organization of the healthcare system, according to a series of reports led by a...

Increasing access to care could reverse disparities, study suggests.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Providing frail elderly African Americans with comprehensive health care may improve their health status and decrease mortality rates to levels in line with those of their white counterparts, according...

Minimally invasive surgery may improve outcomes.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Less pain, shorter hospital stays and quicker recovery times might soon become reality for more patients undergoing joint replacement surgery and other types of joint reconstruction as a result of...

Georgia partnership to address antibiotic misuse.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Findings of a new survey show that one out of three Americans mistakenly believes antibiotics are effective in treating viruses like cold and flu and takes these drugs to fight them. Along with the...

Educational information and coupons about new OTC drug provided.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aetna (NYSE:AET) announced a program to provide approximately 475,000 commercial members with information about over-the-counter (OTC) non-sedating antihistamines (NSA) and coupons to purchase Alavert,...

Some therapeutic classes poised for Rx-to-OTC switches.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Rx-to-OTC switch market is historically cyclical, and many in the pharmaceutical industry believe that, after a recent wave of successful switches, the number of switch candidates in the coming...

Dental benefits provider names new executive.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Dental Select, a dental benefits provider, announced that Roger J. Adams, DMD, MBA, will be joining its executive team in April 2003. Adams will be serving as vice-president of Professional...

Mark Bertolini joins Aetna as senior vice president of specialty products.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aetna (AET) announced that it has appointed Mark Bertolini, 46, as senior vice president of specialty products, reporting to president Ronald A. Williams. Bertolini will be responsible for Aetna's...

Medical liability company promotes chief information officer.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- American Physicians Capital, Inc. (APCapital) (NASDAQ:ACAP) president and CEO William B. Cheeseman announced the recent promotion of Thomas D. Chase to chief information officer for the corporation. ...

School health centers can help asthmatic children stay in class, study suggests.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Health centers in schools can help poor and uninsured children with asthma improve their attendance and stay out of the hospital, a study in New York City found. The health centers offer care by a...

Innovative business model brings added value to customers.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- President and CEO of Delta Dental Plan of Minnesota and DeCare International, Michael F. Walsh, announced that based on pre-audited, year-end financials, the organization was set to post one of its...

Report: Pharmaceutical companies can improve health outcomes.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The inability to understand information about prescription medications contributes to poor health outcomes, according to 75% of recently surveyed patients, physicians, and pharmacists. In fact, for...

Health care postage cooperative launched.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Advanced Business Fulfillment (ABF), St. Louis, Missouri, an outsourcer for health care-specific document processing and claims communication in the U.S., announced a new system called Healthpayers USA....

MedCath Corp. reports first quarter financial results.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For its fiscal 2003 first quarter, MedCath's net revenues increased 5.4% to $121.1 million from $115.0 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2002. During the quarter, MedCath opened and received...

Omnicell announces fourth-quarter and year-end 2002 financial results.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Omnicell, Inc., (OMCL), a provider of solutions that enhance the operational efficiency of healthcare organizations, announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2002....

Oxford Health Plans, Inc., announces fourth-quarter and full-year 2002 results.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Oxford Health Plans, Inc., (OHP) announced net income of $0.84 per diluted common share for the quarter ended December 31, 2002, compared to $1.00 per share for the prior year quarter. ...

Psychiatric Solutions gets stockholder nod for $25 million private placement.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Psychiatric Solutions, Inc., (PSYS) announced that, at its special meeting of stockholders, its stockholders overwhelmingly approved a previously announced private placement of $25 million of series A...

UnumProvident Corp. reports fourth quarter of 2002 earnings.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- UnumProvident Corp. (UNM) reported after-tax operating income before special items, net realized investment losses, and extraordinary items of $155.1 million ($0.64 per diluted common share) for the...

South Carolina company launches electronic claims system for hospitals.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Companion Technologies, which pioneered electronic claims filing for South Carolina hospitals in the 1970s, will retire its original PAID system and replace it with a new system called EnterprisEDI that...

Bush official unveils small business health plan.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Labor Secretary Elaine Chao says more workers could get health insurance under a Bush administration plan to let small businesses pool together to buy coverage. "Fully 85% of the 41 million...

Companies looking into "consumer-driven" health plans.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With health costs bounding up by 15% a year, executives at NTP Distribution decided to take a chance on a new and largely untested health plan. Called Patient Choice Health Care, it puts consumers...

Group offers affordable alternative to major medical insurance.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- AARP Health Care Options, the health insurance and services program for AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) members, has introduced a new product that will offer an affordable alternative to...

North Memorial Health Care joins VHA.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- North Memorial Health Care, a Robbinsdale, Minnesota-based healthcare system, has joined VHA, Inc., the national healthcare alliance. "We looked at the options in the market for services like group...

MedPlus announces general availability of OptiMaxx EIS.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- MedPlus announced the general availability of OptiMaxx EIS (enterprise imaging solution), a dynamic electronic imaging solution that allows healthcare facilities to store, retrieve, and analyze...

Database practice management solution will consolidate 17-database practice.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- IDX Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:IDXC) announced an agreement with Charter Professional Services to create a single database practice management solution for an 18-location, multi-specialty, physician...

Grady Health System implements enterprise-wide order entry.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Healthlink, a Houston, Texas-based, privately held, provider-focused, health care information systems consulting firm, along with Atlanta, Georgia-based Grady Health System, and other partners have...

Kaiser to put patient records online.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Kaiser Permanente announced it has entered a partnership with Epic Systems Corp. that will create a vast online patient database. "People are starting to realize how automated medical systems...

Oklahoma Heart Hospital achieves paperless vision with Cerner.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Oklahoma Heart Hospital recently opened its doors as an all-digital specialty hospital. The hospital uses Cerner solutions to achieve its paperless status, including computerized physician order...

Perot selected by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Perot Systems Corp. (PER) announced that Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) has selected Perot Systems to manage the health plan's technology and business process operations. Under...

Product launched for easier coding, compliance, and reimbursement management.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HSS, Inc., which specializes in coding, compliance, and reimbursement management (CCRM), announced that it has launched EASYTools, a set of Web services business objects that enable health care...

Study: Highlighting successful CPOE implementations will spur their use.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As health care providers strive to improve patient care by incorporating information technology solutions, highlighting the growing instances of successful computerized physician order entry (CPOE)...

Systems integrator gains four new HIPAA software customers.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Axiom Systems, Inc., a systems integrator for the managed care industry, announced it has added four marquee customers - The Health Plan of San Mateo (HPSM), Firstcare, Geisinger Health Plan, and TMG...

Company agrees to provide services to St. Louis-area health plan.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hospitalist company, IPC, has entered into an agreement with Group Health Plan, Inc., to provide inpatient care on a voluntary basis to the health plan's more than 175,000 fully insured members. ...

Seniors skeptical about Bush's HMO plan.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Joseph Williams is skeptical about enrolling in another Medicare HMO, even if it means the government would start picking up a good part of his prescription drug costs. At 72, Williams returned to...

Odyssey acquires Texas hospice location.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Odyssey HealthCare, Inc., (ODSY) announced that it has acquired a hospice location in Southern Dallas County, Texas, effective immediately. This acquisition adds approximately 100 patients to the...

Michigan acute care hospitals eligible for $37 million in incentives.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Michigan acute care hospitals can earn up to 4% in inpatient hospital payments, or about $37 million, earmarked by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to reward them for performance improvements that...

Foundation awards more than $191,000 in grants to Pennsylvania organizations.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Aetna Foundation announced that it has awarded grants totaling $191,750 to nine Pennsylvania organizations; grants totaling $237,000 to 12 organizations in New York State; and grants totaling...

Health care "superstore" is part of $3 million PT clinic rollout.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Florida HealthSource, a wholly owned subsidiary of iBX Group, Inc. (Bulletin Board: IBXG), was scheduled to open a multi-disciplinary facility providing physical therapy, occupational medicine, pain...

Enhanced role of healthcare providers needed in national effort to fight HIV.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Citing new data on risk behavior, HIV testing, and HIV diagnoses in the United States, Ronald O. Valdiserri, MD, MPH, deputy director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC)...

Group supports bipartisan health act for Tort reform.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The following is a statement by Donald J. Palmisano, MD, American Medical Association president-elect. It does not necessarily represent the views of NewsRx, but is presented for the information of our...

Group wants U.S. presidential candidates to address health care priorities.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The following is a press release issued by the American Association of Health Plans. It does not necessarily represent the views of NewsRx, but is presented for the information of our readers, who are...

Summit Medical Group selects TouchWorks.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (MDRX), a provider of clinical software and information solutions for physicians, announced that Summit Medical Group (SMG) in Summit, New Jersey, has selected TouchWorks...

ChoiceCare network members gain access to Consumer Health Network's providers.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ChoiceCare Network, a preferred provider network owned by Humana Inc. (NYSE:HUM), announced an agreement with Consumer Health Network Plus, LLC (CHN) and its New England-based network Northeast Health...

Paragon's SI/BAKER joint venture awarded a $3.8 million contract.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Paragon Technologies, Inc., (PTG) announced that its SI/BAKER joint venture was awarded a contract for approximately $3.8 million to provide an automated prescription fulfillment system at a mail order...

Keystone Health Plan awarded highest ratings by national committee.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Independence Blue Cross, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, again has earned the highest possible rating by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for its commercial and Medicare HMO and PPO...

Plan standardization modifies company's medical plan to detriment of retirees.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ArvinMeritor, Inc. (NYSE:ARM) announced modifications to the health care benefit plans for roughly 5,500 ArvinMeritor retirees in the United States. The changes implemented also modify the medical...

Deadly condition is on the rise in the United States, study shows.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Severe sepsis, the leading cause of death in America's non-coronary intensive care units (ICUs), is a rapidly growing problem in the United States in terms of the number of patients afflicted by the...

Ramsay to operate residential program in Florida.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ramsay Youth Services, Inc., (RYOU) announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice to operate the Bartow Youth Training Center, a 50-bed residential program...

McKesson announces specialty lab application for materials management.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- McKesson Automation, Inc., a business unit of McKesson Corp., is launching a new application for its SupplyScan product line. SupplyScan is currently installed at nearly 200 facilities throughout...

Novation awards Medline with custom procedure tray agreement.
March 3, 2003... 2003 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medline Industries, Inc., has been awarded an agreement for custom procedure trays and unitized delivery systems by Novation, the supply company of VHA, Inc., and the University HealthSystem Consortium,...

Researchers find health plan appeals process is working for patients.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and RAND finds that health plans have implemented internal review processes that are helping patients get the care they need, when...

More health care doesn't mean better health care.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medicare enrollees in some U.S. regions receive twice as much care as similar patients in other regions, but whether the additional care results in improved quality or health outcomes is not known. ...

Educating consumers, precise contractual language could reduce disputes.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The number of managed care disputes could be reduced by clarifying coverage via precise wording in contracts and by educating consumers about benefits limitations, according to a new report. ...

Preventing common cold from causing asthma emergencies.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For people with asthma, the viral infections that cause the common cold are a major cause of health emergencies, including hospitalizations. Children age 5 and younger with asthma have more than twice...

Older women still not screened enough.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Older women continue to underutilize mammography screening for breast cancer, despite Medicare coverage and the greater cancer risk associated with increasing age. Findings indicate that, contrary...

Black women's favorable opinion of prenatal care doesn't translate to use.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results of recent study indicate that black women's favorable opinion of prenatal care doesn't translate to use. The findings "challenge the assumption that improving a woman's satisfaction with...

Ultra-Scan signs Digital Healthcare as licensee.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ultra-Scan Corp., developer and licensor of high-accuracy ultrasonic fingerprint matching technology, named Digital Healthcare, Inc., (DHI) of Cleveland, Ohio, as a multiyear licensee. DHI will...

Mammography and utilization by Chinese-American women studied.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Authors of one of the first studies to investigate breast cancer screening behaviors and perceptions among Chinese-American women found that most Chinese-American women are not screened regularly by...

Keystone Health Plan East adopts model policy.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Keystone Health Plan East, in collaboration with the U.S. Attorney's Office, has developed and adopted a new policy for credentialing physicians and other healthcare providers in its managed care...

Consent form language too complex for many.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Research by Johns Hopkins epidemiologists has confirmed what some have long suspected about consent forms required of clinical trial volunteers: They use language far too difficult for most people to...

Sun Healthcare Group announces major lease restructuring initiative.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sun Healthcare Group, Inc., (SUHG) announced that it has opened dialogue with many of its landlords concerning the portfolio of properties leased to Sun and various of its consolidated subsidiaries....

Amerigroup announces 26% increase in net income for fourth quarter.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Amerigroup Corporation (AGP) announced that net income for the fourth quarter of 2002 increased 26% to $11,784,000, compared with $9,320,000 for the fourth quarter of 2001. For the year ended...

Jewish Healthcare Foundation receives grant to improve patient safety.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Aetna Foundation announced that it has awarded a $25,000 grant to the Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh, which is an affiliate of the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative (PRHI). ...

QMed, Inc., reports fourth quarter and year-end profits.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- QMed, Inc., (QMED) announced financial results for the year and fourth quarter ending November 30, 2002. Revenues for the year rose 59% to $12,744,754 from $8,021,634. Also for the year, pretax...

Vanguard reports second quarter results.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vanguard Health Systems, Inc., announced results for the second quarter, which ended December 31, 2002. "We continue to realize same-hospital volume and revenue growth as we implement our...

Long-term care insurance program announces open season results.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Long Term Care Partners, LLC, a joint partnership formed by John Hancock Life Insurance Company (John Hancock) and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife), announced that 265,000 members of the...

Home health service provider named a preferred provider.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Gentiva Health Services, Inc., (GTIV), a provider of home health services, announced that the company has signed a statewide contract as a preferred provider for Health Net of California. Gentiva,...

NDCHealth and Info-X announce agreement.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NDCHealth Corp. (NDC) announced an agreement with Info-X, Inc., a source of healthcare compliance solutions with a specialization in medical necessity. NDCHealth will integrate Info-X's...

NASCO launches new product for Blue Cross Blue Shield plans.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- National Account Service Co., LLC, (NASCO) the healthcare claims processing and system solutions provider for many BlueCross BlueShield plans, announced the launch of Consumer's Choice, its...

Electronic health's influence continues to grow.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The state of online healthcare is alive and well, according to The Boston Consulting Group's new report, "Vital Signs: E-Health in the United States." In fact, e-health is growing more pervasive...

Meridian chooses TIBCO's healthcare integration solution.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Meridian Health Care Management, a provider of outsourced managed care technology and administrative services, and TIBCO Software, Inc., an enabler of real-time business, announced that Meridian has...

Partners HealthCare chooses Neoteris.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neoteris, a provider of instant virtual extranet (IVE) products, announced that Partners HealthCare, an integrated healthcare system that provides services from preventive primary care to long-term...

Perot announces contract to assist Parkland with transformation initiative.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Perot Systems Corp. (PER) has been selected by Parkland Health & Hospital System to help spearhead a major effort to transform its information technology (IT) and execute on business and clinical...

Quest Diagnostics launches eMaxx web portal.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Quest Diagnostics, Inc., (DGX), a provider of diagnostic laboratory testing, information, and services, announced that it has launched its eMaxx internet portal to physicians nationwide. The eMaxx...

SAIC selected to provide IT support services to Catholic Healthcare Partners.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) announced that it has been selected to provide information technology (IT) consulting services to Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP) in support of the...

SureQuest announces software contract with nursing home chain.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- SureQuest Systems, Inc., (DIET), a provider of dietary software solutions, announced that it has entered into an agreement to provide SureQuest software and menu services to manage the dietary...

Favorable ruling announced in "Digital Hospital" lawsuit.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Healthsouth Corporation (HRC) announced that the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama, has ruled against Brookwood Health Services, Inc., and Baptist Health System, Inc., in a case challenging...

LivHOME acquires San Diego-based age concerns.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- LivHOME, Inc., a Southern California "at-home assisted-living" company, announced that it has acquired Age Concerns, Inc., San Diego, California's, provider of the same services. With this...

OptiCare acquires contact lens distributor.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- OptiCare Health Systems, Inc., (OPT) announced that it has acquired all of the assets and certain liabilities of Wise Optical Vision Group, Inc., a Yonkers, New York-based distributor of contact lenses...

Psychiatric Solutions to acquire six psychiatric facilities from The Brown Schools.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Psychiatric Solutions, Inc., (PSYS) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement for the purchase of six psychiatric facilities from The Brown Schools, Inc., for $63 million in cash. The...

Alliance to deploy Med-X Direct Rehabilitation Program.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- PainCare Holdings, Inc., (PANC) announced that Dulles Orthopedic and Metropolitan Pain Management Center, an established orthopaedic and pain management practice serving the northern and metropolitan...

Companion HealthCare adds Bon Secours St. Francis Health System to its network.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Companion HealthCare and Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, Greenville, South Carolina, have signed a contract that adds St. Francis to the Companion HealthCare network effective immediately. ...

Study of hospital workers finds patterns in hygiene habits.
March 10, 2003... 2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- If the doctor doesn't wash his hands, the nurses, residents, and medical students under his supervision probably won't wash up either, a study found. Overall, hospital staff members in the study...