Jackson Health System turned a surplus in March even as the University of Miami reported that Jackson’s long-standing financial problems have made it “necessary to streamline.”
A national watchdog group asks Jackson Memorial and Broward Health to kick McDonald’s off their campuses because they’re contributing to the national obesity epidemic.
Memorial Healthcare System announced Thursday it has started sending letters to 9,500 patients who may have had their personal information taken by two former employees who may have been intending to file fraudulent tax returns.
A veteran Georgia hospital administrator who has worked in South Florida is named Jackson Health System’s chief strategy officer to replace Donn Szaro, who died 10 days ago.
Hoping to change its image as a public hospital, Broward General will get a new name this summer.
The life-or-death subspecialty of pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists is at the center of negotiations between the university and hospital.
In the midst of 900 persons being laid off in the public hospitals, Miami -Dade County Commissioners has approved the three-year contract between Jackson Health System and the 4,000 members of Local 1363 of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees.
The former basketball star is forming an alliance with Simply Healthcare Plans to launch a Medicaid plan for HIV patients that takes advantage of a bill signed into law by Florida Gov. Rick Scott last week.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, the state’s largest health insurer, has changed its name to Florida Blue in a rebranding campaign that will soon be seen in advertising, signs and sponsorship, the company announced Monday.
Donn Szaro, 61, chief strategy officer of Jackson Health System, given the mission to find new sources of revenue, died Saturday at his mother’s home in Sun City.
Donn Szaro, 61, the chief strategy officer of Jackson Health System, died unexpectedly Saturday in Sarasota, the system announced.
Hundreds of Jackson Health System employees were notified this week that their positions were being eliminated.
Paul M. Russo is coming from North Carolina to replace Mary Berrocal, who retired in November.
Jackson Health System and AFSCME Local 1363, representing about half of the workers at the Miami-Dade County public health system, announced Tuesday that they have reached a tentative agreement for a new, three-year labor contract.
The hospital that serves South Florida’s military veterans has been performing operations in temporary facilities while its decades-old OR was being renovated.
Commissioners expressed concerns about impending job cuts at the Jackson Health System but did not do anything to block the layoffs.
Jackson Health System is slashing its workforce, but experts wonder if that will put the troubled system on the right course.
President Obama’s secretary of health and human services, in a visit to Miami, touted the benefits of healthcare reform for women and criticized “misinformation’’ spread by the law’s opponents.
Saying its members have earned a stake in the debate on Medicare and Social Security, the senior citizen lobby is urging people make sure their opinions will be heard by Washington politicians.
A Jackson board committee approved management’s plans to cut more than 1,100 jobs after hearing a string of bad financial news.
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