Healthcare Strategic Management articles from May 2001

Healthcare Strategic Management archives from May 2001

Market Memo: HealthSouth's automated hospital will retain nurses.
May 1, 2001... HealthSouth Corp., Birmingham, Ala., is planning to build 10 digital acute care replacement hospitals over the next five to 10 years that: * Save a nurse up to three hours a shift and reduce nurse turnover * Eliminate paper medical...

Hospitalists may help relieve nurse shortage.
May 1, 2001... It's time to think a bit outside the box about the increasingly critical shortage of experienced nurses and the potential increase in the supply of inpatient physicians, or hospitalists. The nursing shortage is forcing hospitals to rethink...

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh gives up autonomy, gets new hospital and debt relief.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 235 beds, approved a term sheet outlining the terms of a possible merger with UPMC Health System and the entry into negotiations for a definitive merger agreement valued at $700 million. Under the proposed...

Cedars-Sinai Health System sells medical group and IPA to HealthCare Partners.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, sold its Greater Valley Medical Group and Greater Valley Physician Associates to HealthCare Partners, which owns and manages medical groups and IPAs. The 30-physician medical group will function as the...

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia launches Web site to achieve national reputation.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia wants to be recognized as a national resource and has launched an expanded interactive Web site, www.chop.edu, to help it leverage its local prestige. A strong national reputation often enhances a...

Trying to get your docs to use right drugs? Join the campaign against drug abuse.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and several national organizations are leading a public health initiative to raise awareness about recent trends in the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs. The initiative seeks to inform the...

Nursing shortage reflects changes in total workforce, with slower growth projected.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Hospitals and nursing schools are trying to attract more bright people into nursing, but they are not only facing more competition from other professions, but also a slowing in the growth of the American workforce, according to the November...

68% of Blue Cross Blue Shield members are extremely satisfied with their plans.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Approximately two-thirds of Americans surveyed are satisfied with their current health care insurer. Of Blue Cross Blue Shield members, 68% are extremely satisfied with their plans, according to a survey commissioned by Consortium Health Plans,...

Higher mortality rates and later diagnosis plague uninsured women.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Uninsured women forego or delay seeking preventive care, are diagnosed at a later stage for breast or cervical cancer, and experience worse outcomes from cardiovascular disease and other illnesses, according to a report released by the American...

21 hospital deals were completed in first quarter; 15 medical group deals done.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... The number of hospital deals involving mergers and acquisitions rose in the first quarter to 21 from 20 in the fourth quarter of last year; 21 deals were completed in the first quarter of last year, according to Irving Levin Associates Inc.,...

Patients' expectations of physicians vary by the gender of patients and doctors.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Patients' expectations of physicians vary according to the genders of the patients and doctors, according to a study co-authored by Joseph V. Selby, MD, MPH, of Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research in Oakland, California. "The most...

Surgeon General's report: Women account for 38% of smoking related deaths.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Women account for 39 percent of all smoking-related deaths each year in the United States, a proportion that has more than doubled since 1965, according to a report on women and smoking by Surgeon General David Satcher. The report concludes...

Employers are talking about defined contribution health benefits; few are acting.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Many employers are showing increased interest in--but so far have not embraced-the "defined contribution" type of health benefits, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). The March issue of EBRI...

Physicians and HMOs want third-party appeals, not malpractice law suits.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The HMO industry's trade association says physicians agree with HMOs, which prefer a third-party appeals board over giving patients the right to sue providers and managed care organizations. The American Association of Health Plans said that...

Posttraumatic stress disorder resource center--www.ptsdalliance.org.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Alliance, a group of the nation's leading professional and advocacy organizations representing trauma-related stress, anxiety disorders and women's health launched a new web site,...

Pharmaceutical Care Network sponsors online news group for Medicaid managed care.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Pharmaceutical Care Network, a provider of pharmacy benefit and information management services to Medicaid managed care, is sponsoring an on-line discussion group specifically for administrators of Medicaid managed care. The discussion group...

Health insurance enrollment is declining in industries with large minority workforces.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Industries with large minority work forces are trailing those dominated by white employees in the percentage of workers enrolling in employer-paid health insurance, and the gap is widening, according to a new study supported by the U.S. Agency...

Hospitalists say they should enjoy equal opportunities for medical staff credentials.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Hospitalists apparently are running into turf wars with other specialists who are forcing hospitals to deny medical staff credentials to independent inpatient physicians. As a result, the National Assn. of Inpatient Physicians posted a brief...

How Children's Hospital of Philadelphia seeks health care professionals.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is using an advertising and direct mail campaign to attract nurses and other health care professionals, writes Judith D. Botvin in the May-June issue of Profiles in Healthcare Marketing. Brochures focusing on...

Hospitals, suppliers adopt e-commerce slowly; need industry coding and standards.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Health care executives are realizing that the supply chain operating model needs reassessment, according to C. Lyndon Neumann, vice president and national leader of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. And they are looking to the Internet to help them...

American Organization of Nurse Execs publishes white paper on nurse shortage.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The American Organization of Nurse Executives' Web site, www.aone.org, offers a white paper on reversing the nurse shortage, a report on the Nursing Employment and Education Development Act of 2001 and the organization's testimony last February...

What causes long waits, diversions and overcrowding in hospital EDs?
May 1, 2001... A number of major metropolitan areas have begun experience severe shortages of emergency department capacity. These areas have made headlines in recent months because of nursing and other staffing shortages as well as frequent ED and hospital...

What reduces emergency department and inpatient capacity in a hospital?(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Hospitals need short-term solutions that can extend capacity. Use these questions to identify issues that reduce a hospital's emergency and inpatient capacity: * Can the emergency department operate more efficiently? * Are turnover...

Integration of hospitals, services is more complex than consolidation.
May 1, 2001... As hospitals continue to feel pressure to join or create systems and networks, the nagging concern among industry experts and the trustees, managers and physician leaders of health care organizations is whether systems can or will deliver on...

Rebuilding physician relations a major challenge for hospitals.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Hospitals, academic medical centers and integrated delivery networks (IDNs) all will be putting a lot of effort into restoring and improving their relationships with physicians. "In the new health care market place, it will be particularly...

CEO's visions for creating single database for hospitals clicked.(HealthSouth Corp. and Oracle Inc. join efforts)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Richard M. Scrushy liked Larry Ellison's vision for a centralized corporate database and data center for a far-flung organization. And Ellison liked Scrushy's idea that Ellison's big idea will work in health care facilities. So they...