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Reform will boost health care coverage, but the consequences won't be nearly as cut and dried as you might expect

This year's landmark health reform legislation includes a five-year pilot project for bundling payments for episodes of care to hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities and other Medicare providers.

Hospitals have just under a year to comply with the Joint Commission's recently revised medical staff bylaw standards, but top commission officials are urging administrators not to make a beeline for their lawyers.

For struggling hospitals, challenging the status quo may be the only way out of the zone of insolvency

Government-owned hospitals currently can use the bonds to finance new construction, acquisitions and other capital expenditures.

Two common conditions caused by hospital-associated infections killed 48,000 people and ramped up health care costs by $8.1 billion in 2006 alone, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

More risk managers than physicians strongly agreed that serious errors should be disclosed to patients.

How to reduce the risk of a regulatory failure

The recession, credit crisis and concerns about reform muffled a nearly decade-long hospital building boom in 2009.

As health care purchasers look for strategies to both improve the quality of care patients receive and reduce costs, there is increasing interest in examining hospital readmissions.