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Recent research by Technomic shows that group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in the foodservice channel continue to grow in size, scope and influence. From 2009 to 2012, foodservice operator purchases made through GPOs significantly outpaced the broader industry...

The top-selling class of blood-pressure drugs is under attack from an unusual source: a senior regulator at the Food and Drug Administration. Bucking his bosses, Thomas A. Marciniak is seeking stronger warnings about the drugs known as angiotensin receptor blockers,...

In recent weeks, we have been receiving great feedback from administrators and employees of facilities that have joined the Prime Source Employee Perks Program. Having an employee perks program can deliver widespread benefits for LTC owner-operators. Employee perks...

In New Jersey there currently is a rebate program (it’s a 2012 program that was extended through the second quarter of 2013) that will subsidize up to 100% of the cost to a commercial facility for upgrading their existing light bulbs to energy savings LEDs. Additional...

Three years after Bayonne Medical Center’s new for-profit owners bought the hospital at bankruptcy for the equivalent of $32 million, they sold its land and buildings for $58 million. Then they leased it back and continued to run the hospital — enhancing their profits...

“If you’re not working to save money, you’re losing money,” said Donna Worsham, senior vice president of National Surgical Hospitals in Chicago. During a panel discussion at the Becker’s Hospital Review 4th Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 9, Ms. Worsham, along with...

Funding cuts have turned county-run nursing homes in many states into an endangered species in the past couple of years resulting in multiple facility closures, but one county is taking several steps to keep its nursing home open and, eventually, profitable....

The recession's drag on health spending did not fully explain the recent record slow growth in health spending, according to the latest studies that aim to identify what, if anything, suggests the slowdown may last. The papers, published in the journal Health Affairs,...

The Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA) has announced the winners of the ALFA 2013 Hero Awards, which honor extraordinary individuals who serve older adults in senior living communities. Six heroes were chosen as representatives and role models for the tens...

Hospices would receive a $180 million boost from Medicare in the next fiscal year under a proposed rule issued Monday (PDF). The proposed rule would provide a 1.1% increase in fiscal 2014 payments to hospices, which treated more than 1.3 million Medicare beneficiaries...