After years of trying to find a buyer, Mount Sinai Medical Center has sold the Miami Heart Institute, located in a central Miami Beach single-family-home neighborhood where residents have fought hard to limit development.
Jackson Health System and SEIU agreed to a new three-year contract after months of intense bargaining, but union workers can earn back some of their concessions by finding efficiencies.
The case of a Hialeah single mother illustrates key issues — uninsured patients with complicated cases — facing Miami-Dade’s beleaguered public health system.
Jackson Health System is restructuring in response to lower patient volume and budget problems.
UM’s eye institute announced plans for a three-year expansion as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Limited data on 1,219 University of Miami patients was stolen in November when someone broke the back window of a pathologist’s car and took a briefcase that contained a flash drive.
Backers of the controversial, and expensive, procedure say it can zap tumors with such accuracy that surrounding tissue is unharmed.
Jackson Health System and the University of Miami are planning a new arrangement that would have some UM doctors practicing only at UM, while opening the way for FIU doctors.
Hospitals made disastrous decisions in the 1990s in hiring doctors. Now, they’re again buying physician practices — saying better management will make the difference this time.
Jackson Health System executives projected for the second straight year that the system might run out of cash this summer unless major steps are taken.
Federal authorities have rejected a request from Florida to get a waiver on a crucial reform requirement -- a move that could clear the way for state consumers to get more than $170 million in refunds on their health insurance.
A little-known part of the federal healthcare reform act could get Floridians $145 million in insurance rebates and perhaps put many insurance agents out of business.
Jackson Health System, which has lost $423 million the past three years, reported Wednesday that it had a $348,000 surplus in December.
The South Florida hospital association is once again asking the Legislature to ban guns in hospitals, but the gun lobby is adamantly opposed and legislators are showing little interest.
Dr. Alvin Poussaint, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and friend of Martin Luther King Jr., told FIU students to make their voices heard.
Scott Administration officials said Tuesday that dramatic changes are needed to cut Medicaid costs and make payments fair to hospitals -- but hospitals could suffer from huge reductions.
CareCloud of Miami, which offers a high-tech solution for managing medical records and streamlining practices, is attracting funding, adding jobs.
A commission formed by Gov. Rick Scott to examine public hospitals has recommended major changes that could impact the Broward hospital districts and the Jackson Health System.
Jackson executives are trying to settle a dispute with a doctors’ group and an Aventura landlord in which a county attorney says former CEO Eneida Roldan signed “an invalid contract.”
Leon Medical Centers is attempting to become a national example for good quality, low-cost Medicare by opening healthy living centers while making a major purchase of 13 acres in Doral.
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