Advancing Nonprofit News

"Medicare Moratorium on new specialty hospitals" this December 12, 2003 article in the Witchita Business Journal summmarizes a change in Medicare law banning the construction of new specialty hospitals for the next 18 months and limiting the expansion and the addition of investors in existing ones during this same period. Click here to read the article.

"Taking Names: Attorney General Wants Boards to Sign Up for Good Governance" this 4-page lead article, by Fred Scaglione in the November 2003 issue of the New York Nonprofit Press, reports on New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s proposed legislation (and reactions of the nonprofit community thereto) that has been described as the nonprofit equivalent of the federal Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. Click here to read the article.

Zogby Survey Reveals Wide Gap Between Consumer Perceptions and Reality on Health Coverage October 3, 2003
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"The Institute of Medicine Report on the Quality of Health Care" by: Arnold S. Relman, M.D. Harvard Medical School from: New England Journal of Medicine, Vol 345, No.9 August 30, 2001

This is a book review of Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century by: The Committee on Quality of Health Care in America of the Institute of Medicine. Refer to www.nejm.org (New England Journal of Medicine homepage) for more information on this article.

"Fiscal Options for America's Best Hospitals" by Thomas P. Weil, PhD, Glenn M. Pearl, MHSA
from: Medicom International, Inc., June 1, 2001

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