Ingham Regional Medical Center starts layoffs this week
Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing will start laying off about 7 percent of its workforce this week. Interim hospital CEO Patrick Salow says a 10 percent decline in patient numbers over the past...
View ArticleSequestration, Medicare & Michigan hospitals
Michigan hospitals could be among those hardest hit by automatic federal budget cuts this week. Under the sequestration, Medicare reimbursements to doctors and hospitals would be cut by two percent....
View ArticleMichigan hospitals may be asked to be more 'transparent' about their...
There’s a bill making its way through the state legislature that would require Michigan hospitals to reveal when they will withhold treatment from severely ill patients. Many hospitals have ‘futility’...
View ArticleMichigan hospitals working through IV fluid shortage
Since January, Michigan hospitals have been dealing with the effects of a nationwide shortage of a critical supply of intravenous fluid. The fluid is used in a wide variety of intravenous therapy,...
View ArticleNearly a third of Michigan hospitals get A's in patient safety, but some...
A new report finds patient safety varies widely across Michigan. A Washington D.C.-based group looked at how hospitals across the U.S. handled problems like mistakes in the operating room, drug mix-ups...
View ArticleMichigan hospitals await key court ruling on Affordable Care Act law
Michigan hospitals may pay a price if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a key provision of the Affordable Care Act. King v. Burwell is one of the final seven cases before the high court this term....
View ArticleMichigan hospitals concerned about proposed repeal of Obamacare
Michigan’s hospital administrators are concerned what will happen if Congress repeals Obamacare in 2017. Repealing the Affordable Care Act tops the agenda for Republicans after the new congress is...
View ArticleWhat repealing the Affordable Care Act could mean for Michigan hospitals
All this week on Stateside, we look at how the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, will affect Michigan residents, hospitals and governments. There are hundreds of hospitals in...
View ArticleMichigan hospitals call new Republican health care plan "unacceptable"
Michigan hospitals are coming out against the Republicans’ latest plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The new bill, sponsored by U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham, would...
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