FRANKLIN, Tenn.(BUSINESS WIRE) IASIS Healthcare LLC today announced that it will provide an online Web simulcast of its fiscal third quarter 2010 conference call on Thursday, August 5, 2010. The Company will release its results for the fiscal [...]
July 28Before you finalize your gallbladder surgery plans, maybe you want to take a few minutes to see if the hospital you plan to visit is among the best.It’s not likely you’ll find any Southeast Texas hospitals ranked that high on national lists, such as the recently released U.S. News and World Report’s annual report [...]
In its annual survey of "America’s Best Hospitals," U.S. News & World Report has ranked St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital (SLEH) among the elite healthcare institutions in the nation in five major areas of care. This includes the Texas Heart Institute (THI) at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, listed in the top ten nationally in heart and [...]
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, July 28 /PRNewswire/ Community oncologists, practice administrators and clinical staff interested in learning the requirements of the meaningful-use regulations in order to receive federal stimulus payments towards adopting a certified electronic health record (EHR) are invited to attend a free webinar at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) on Friday, August [...]
WASHINGTON, July 28 Rep. Michael C. Burgess, R-Texas (26th CD), issued the following news release:Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-Texas), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, last night introduced a Resolution of Inquiry (ROI), H.Res. 1561 requesting internal Health and Human Services (HHS) communications [...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Sugar Land Rehabilitation Hospital, a 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital located in southwest Houston, Texas. "The acquisition of Sugar Land Rehabilitation Hospital extends HealthSouth's outreach in the Houston market by providing high-quality, cost-effective inpatient [...]
Contact: Tim Graves, +1-512-458-1257, tgraves@txhca.org, or Rebecca Reid, +1-410-212-3843, rreid@txhca.org, both of Texas Health Care AssociationGraves Says Cumulative Medicaid/Medicare Funding Squeeze Jeopardizing Well Being of Texas’ Oldest CitizensAUSTIN, Texas, July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ In testimony today before the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) Council, the President of the Texas Health Care Association (THCA) [...]
To: HEALTH, AND STATE EDITORSContact: Tim Graves, +1-512-458-1257, tgraves@txhca.org, or Rebecca Reid, +1-410-212-3843, rreid@txhca.org, both of Texas Health Care AssociationGraves Says Cumulative Medicaid/Medicare Funding Squeeze JeopardizingWell Being of Texas’ Oldest CitizensAUSTIN, Texas, July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ In testimony todaybefore the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS)Council, the President of the Texas Health Care [...]
DALLAS, July 27 The American Heart Association issued the following news release:To improve emergency care for heart attack patients, new research suggests that expanding percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) capacity at hospitals is less effective than using emergency medical services (EMS) to transport patients directly to existing PCI centers. Outcomes are most improved and costs [...]
HOUSTON, July 27, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Sharps Compliance Corp. (Nasdaq:SMED) ("Sharps" or the "Company"), a leading full-service provider of cost-effective management solutions for medical waste and unused dispensed medications generated outside the hospital and large healthcare facility setting, today announced that it will release its fourth quarter and fiscal year end 2010 results before [...]
