Author: HCN Staff

Although the Commonwealth’s FY ’06 budget has yet to be finalized, local hospital administrators are saying they’re worried about what

Area hospital administrators were given some reason to hope recently, when the state Senate’s Ways & Means Committee came out

GREENFIELD – Franklin Medical Center’s Radiology Department recently ranked in the 100th percentile for its patient satisfaction overall quality of

WALTHAM — Four organizations in Western Mass. are among the recipients of 13 grants totaling $246,500 recently awarded by the

Surgery to fully remove the prostate, once thought to be unnecessarily risky during the early stages of prostate cancer, is

SPRINGFIELD — On June 26, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., representatives from Keystone Senior, LLC, local dignitaries, and members

SPRINGFIELD, MA—Mercy Medical Center will host Knowing . . . The Face of Human Trafficking on May 31 from 8

WALTHAM – Three communities, including North Adams, have been selected as pilots sites for the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative’s (MAeHC) first

Everybody is talking about health care reform, from politicians and businessmen to doctors and patients. In recent weeks, Gov. Romney

According to a recent survey by the Medical Group Management Assoc. (MGMA), 77.3{06cf2b9696b159f874511d23dbc893eb1ac83014175ed30550cfff22781411e5} of respondents employ non-physician providers (NPPs). The

BOSTON – Gov. Mitt Romney, Senate President Robert E. Travaglini and Speaker of the House Salvatore DiMasi recently kicked off

NORTHAMPTON – Smith College recently announced a commitment of $150,000 to Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s Caring for the Future fundraising campaign,

SPRINGFIELD— MassVOTE, a statewide, non-partisan voting rights organization, launched its newest non-profit voter education coalition late last month, SpringfieldVOTE. The

SPRINGFIELD – The American Medical Association (AMA) kicked off its 2005 ‘Doctors Back to School’ program recently at Lincoln Elementary

SPRINGFIELD – Baystate Medical Center, a national leader in patient safety and health care quality, scored higher than national and

In the April issue we discussed the meaning of and requirements for ‘incident to’ billing for nonphysician practitioners (NPPs) and

On July 19, 2004, Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law amendments to the state’s already restrictive Independent Contractor law that

Too often, we perceive that major medical advances are made first in Boston, and eventually trickle west. But as health

SPRINGFIELD – After learning about Baystate Health System’s leadership role in patient safety, Kenneth Thorpe, PhD, former deputy assistant secretary

There is no question that the Terri Schiavo case has sparked considerable attention both in the media and the public