C. Wright Pinson
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March 14, 2013
VUMC testing new payment system for Medicare patients
Over the next three years, Medicare will test a new payment arrangement that rewards participating hospitals when Medicare patients require fewer inpatient and post-discharge services, but extracts financial penalties when patients require more of these services. -
March 14, 2013
Morath to oversee quality efforts for California Hospital Association
Having served since 2009 as Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s chief quality and safety officer, Julie Morath, MSN, is leaving to become senior vice president for the California Hospital Association, where she will have oversight for hospital and health system quality and safety strategy and alignment. She will also be appointed CEO of the new California Hospital Quality Institute. -
February 14, 2013
Meeting looks at VUMC’s financial picture
At a midyear Clinical Enterprise Town Hall meeting, those attending were updated on Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s year-to-date performance and the ongoing impact of separate pieces of federal legislation — the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the Budget Control Act of 2011, which has come to be known as sequestration. -
January 30, 2013
Vanderbilt’s statewide impact focus of annual Day on the Hill
Vanderbilt’s 12th annual Day on the Hill highlighted the university and medical center’s contributions to all 95 counties in Tennessee and offered the opportunity for conversations between Vanderbilt officials and state lawmakers. -
December 13, 2012
Quality, innovation key to VUMC’s fiscal health: Balser
As medical centers across the country respond to declining revenue streams and a federal budget crisis, focusing on the quality of the patient experience becomes ever more important. -
December 4, 2012
Vanderbilt again leaps onto hospital quality list
Vanderbilt University Hospital and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are among the nation's 89 Leapfrog Top Hospitals for 2012. -
October 29, 2012
Cancer research and education agreement announced between Baptist Memorial Health Care and Vanderbilt University