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Feds provide more funding for opioid crisis

by Tim Stumm | Sep 21, 2018 | Federal Government, Opioids, Top Stories | 0

The state is receiving an additional $29 million in federal funding to fight the opioid crisis, bringing its recent total to $61 million. The new funding is from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and is part of $930 million in state opioid response grants announced nationally […]

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Washington County Hospital names new president

by Tim Stumm | Sep 21, 2018 | Hospitals, Top Stories | 0

Brian Monsma is the new president of Washington County Hospital. He’ll report to Washington County’s board of directors as well as the regional president for SSM Health. Washington County Hospital entered a management agreement with SSM in May. Monsma succeeds Nancy Newby, who has led the hospital for nearly 20 years. Monsma most recently served […]

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Report: Readmissions higher at for-profit hospitals

by Tim Stumm | Sep 20, 2018 | Hospitals, Top Stories | 0

Patients at for-profit hospitals are more likely to be readmitted than those receiving care at non-profit or public hospitals. That’s according to a new study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which looked at general-acute non-profit, public and for-profit hospitals across the country.

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Supreme Court upholds hospital property tax exemption law

by Tim Stumm | Sep 20, 2018 | Hospitals, Top Stories | 0

The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of a 2012 law that sets standards for property tax exemptions for state hospitals.

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