| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | CMS issues safety notice at Washington state hospital | | | As Washington state's largest psychiatric hospital faces a deadline to fix safety problems or lose millions of federal funds, federal inspectors issued an "immediate jeopardy" notice saying the facility failed to protect patients from harm. |
| Battle rages over Florida law limiting doctors' gun speech | | | As a pediatrician, Dr. Judith Schaechter can ask parents of her patients all sorts of questions regarding their safety and well-being: what the child eats, whether there's a backyard pool and whether the child gets enough sleep. Yet the question of... |
| Connecticut governor freezes big hospital deals until 2017 | | Friday, February 26, 2016 4:00 PM | |
| | The governor of Connecticut has ordered the state's health department to hold off on approving any major hospital mergers and acquisitions until next year -- a move that could delay at least one big deal. |
| Meaningful-use hardship exemption deadline extended | | Friday, February 26, 2016 1:15 PM | |
| | The CMS has extended the deadline for hospitals, critical-access hospitals, physicians and other eligible professionals to file applications for so-called "hardship" exemptions from the meaningful-use requirements of the electronic... |
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