http://blogs.usatoday.com On the night of her baby’s seizure in February, Brandy Nannini discovered a harsh reality of today’s overtaxed medical system. The ambulance crew that responded to her 911 call refused to take 23-month-old Bella to a nearby Washington, D.C., hospital where her doctor was waiting. The emergency room was so crowded it was closed […]

By Tanya Pérez-Brennan After healthcare reform was made law in Massachusetts in 2006, the number of newly insured patients in the state started to grow, and so did the demand for care. The demand, coupled with a longstanding shortage of primary-care physicians, is creating a real crunch for community clinics, say advocates of healthcare reform […]

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Suzanne Legue http://www.simcoe.com  “If we can just get them to spend some time in our community, they will never want to leave!â€? And who can argue with that logic? Janice Skot, RVH’s President and CEO made that comment to elected officials recently while announcing that Royal Victoria Hospital has been chosen as an official teaching […]

http://healthcare.dbusinessnews.com Portland — Acumentra Health and Northwest Physicians Insurance Company are pleased to announce the winners of the Patient Safety Alliance (PSA) Achievement Awards for patient care delivered in Oregon hospitals during 2007. The two organizations are cosponsors of the PSA collaborative, a multi-year quality and process-change initiative that engaged 19 Oregon hospitals in improving […]

Austin Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com Advocate MD Insurance of the Southwest Inc. has acquired a Mississippi medical liability insurance carrier. Austin-based Advocate MD bought Mississippi Medical Malpractice Availability Plan, a group with $25 million in assets. The Mississippi Insurance Department recently expedited the application process and licensed Advocate MD as a fully admitted medical liability insurance […]

http://www.businesswire.com NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AIG Risk Management (AIGRM), a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance, today announced several enhancements in support of its Higher Education, Real Estate, Healthcare and Temporary Staffing industry initiatives in the United States. In support of AIG Higher Education Risk Solutions, AIGRM’s Commercial Risk Division has refined its commercial auto product to now […]

NJ A.M. Best http://www.earthtimes.org/ OLDWICK, N.J. – (Business Wire) A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-â€? of AmerInst Insurance Group, Ltd. (AmerInst) (Bermuda). The outlook for both ratings is stable. These ratings reflect AmerInst’s conservative reserve position, its niche expertise as a […]

http://www.pr-inside.com/ Athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of internet-based business services to physician practices, and Physicians Practice(R), America’s leading practice management journal for physicians, today released the third annual PayerView(SM) Rankings announcing that Aetna has assumed the new number one overall ranking among national payers for their business dealings with physicians.