Proposed Atrium, Wake Forest Baptist agreement moves forward
Atrium Health, Wake Forest Baptist and Wake Forest University are moving closer to merging health operations.
Rocky Mount’s hospital is on the comeback trail
Lee Isley took on an intriguing challenge when he became CEO of Nash UNC Health Care in Rocky Mount a year and a half ago. The hospital in the home county of Governor Roy Cooper hasn’t had an [...]
Mission Health’s sale to for-profit HCA surprises N.C. lawmaker
Mission Health has led the North Carolina hospital industry in many ways for a long time, so maybe it’s appropriate that the Asheville-based health care system lead the consolidation wave. [...]
Health care’s need-to-know basis
Capital Goods: Relaxing certificate-of-need requirements is just one way GOP legislators seem intent on creating something resembling a free market for health care.
Medical evidence
Hospitals will have to prove to insurers they provide quality care as pay-for-performance contracts prevail.
When health care is wealth care
Fine Print: It’s beginning to feel that health care is the American domestic equivalent to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.