According to the office of U.S. Senator Charles E. Shumer (D-NY), the $1.13 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance funding for Sandy repair work and mitigation projects at New York University’s (NYU) Langone Medical Center is the second-largest Project Worksheet in FEMA’s history.

UCSF Medical Center and John Muir Health have signed a letter of intent to develop a new company that will be equally owned and operated by both organizations. This new company, the healthcare systems say, will allow them to each remain independent yet at the same time work together on a health care network covering the whole San Francisco Bay Area region.

Community Health Systems had a slow first quarter with winter weather disruptions that plagued its initial months of operation following its blockbuster merger with Health Management Associates. The second quarter did not do enough to lift revenue and the leading U.S. hospital operator came in short of guidance by $90 million just after other companies like LifePoint Hospitals and HCA Holdings had released stellar Q2 results for their hospitals.

Some physicians in the St. Louis, Missouri area are opting out of their employment contracts with the non-profit Catholic healthcare system Mercy over new efforts to standardize physician pay by linking them more directly to individual physician RVUs.

Fewer uninsured and charity-care patients, more admissions and emergency room visits, and a higher acuity and longer stays for admitted patients — these are just a few of the effects of healthcare reform that are lifting revenue for HCA Holdings, the nation’s largest publically traded hospital operator say company officials.

Bonnie, a tool designed to support streamlined and efficient pretesting of electronic clinical quality measures used in Meaningful Use, was updated to support new measure formats and logic constructs.

After multiple quarters of consistent declines in hospital inpatient volumes, financial analysts from Jefferies LLC found a modest 0.4 percent average inpatient admission increase in their survey on 2014 second quarter volume trends.

Any hospital or medical group expansion project will eventually face objections from a NIMBY (not in my back yard) group, and New York Methodist Hospital is facing down what may be the ultimate NIMBY group, the residents of the affluent northwest Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope.