By Todd Wallack, Globe Staff | March 16, 2010 The chief executive of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state’s largest private health insurer, abruptly resigned yesterday, just… Read more »
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Top executive resigns at struggling Blue Cross
Insurer details its unequal payments
Harvard Pilgrim lists hospital, doctor fees; State to open hearing on health care costs By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff | March 16, 2010 Newly released documents from a major insurer… Read more »
Massachusetts House Passes Bill to Stiffen Penalties for Those Who Assault Nurses and Other Health Care Providers
Unanimous Vote Comes as More Than 250 Nurses Flooded the State House Pushing for Passage of Legislation to Curtail Increasing Incidents of Workplace Violence Against Health Care Workers
Region 4 Nurses Work to End Workplace Violence in March
MNA members from Region 4 were very busy in March, meeting with their legislators to help put an end to workplace violence. On March 15th, a group of Region 4… Read more »
Video from Lobby Day 2010
Study: Patient Safety Incidents at U.S. Hospitals Show No Decline, Cost $9 Billion
Nearly One Million Incidents Among Medicare Patients in Years 2006-2008 Top-Performing Hospitals Identified in Study; 39 States Have at Least One Top Performer GOLDEN, Colo. (March 31, 2010) – Nearly… Read more »
At Caritas helm, a doctor turned dealmaker
De la Torre’s rise fueled by energy, talent, ‘edge’ By Robert Weisman, Liz Kowalczyk, and Casey Ross, Globe Staff | March 28, 2010 Wall Street power broker Robert Nardelli remembers… Read more »
Hundreds of Nurses to Converge at State House on March 31 For Press Conference and Lobby Day To Push for Passage of Legislation to Prevent Workplace Violence As the House Takes Up Bill to Strengthen Penalties for Those Who Assault Nurses
WHAT: More than 200 nurses from across the Commonwealth, many of whom are the victims of workplace violence, will converge at the State House for a press conference and lobby… Read more »
On kids’ care, insurance weaseling begins
By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist | March 30, 2010 IN THE days before the health care bill was passed, President Obama vowed it would “end the worst practices of… Read more »
Seeking lower-cost care
Caritas hospitals could carve niche under new owner By Steven Syre and Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | March 30, 2010 The New York private equity firm that last week struck… Read more »
