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VHA Inc., the national health care alliance, announced today that it has combined two of its regional offices, VHA Metro and VHA Empire State, to create a single entity, VHA Empire-Metro, which will serve hospitals in New York and four health care organizations in adjacent states whose markets include New York. Operating under a single governing, management, and financial structure, VHA Empire-Metro will maintain two offices, one in New York City and one in Syracuse. Edward M. Dinan, FACHE,...

VHA Inc., the national health care alliance, has hired Michael Regier as its new general counsel and senior vice president of legal and corporate affairs. Regier, 48, joins VHA from Seton Healthcare Network in Austin, Texas, where he was senior vice president of legal affairs and general counsel for the multi-hospital system. Over the last 12 years, Regier has managed the legal department and health care compliance program for Seton, which includes eight acute-care hospitals, a health...

VHA Inc., the national health care alliance, has hired Trent T. Haywood, M.D., J.D., deputy chief medical officer for the Office of Clinical Standards and Quality within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, to fill the newly created position of chief medical officer. As the deputy chief medical officer, Haywood was part of the senior management team directing quality measurement and quality improvement initiatives connected to Medicare. His responsibilities included oversight of...

San Diego-based BidShift, the leading provider of web-based flexible workforce management technology for healthcare providers, has implemented its program at eleven more VHA Georgia hospitals to provide an automated approach for filling open shifts, empowering employees, and achieving effective staffing. VHA Georgia hospitals that recently launched include Gwinnett Health System (Gwinnett Medical Center in Duluth, and Gwinnett Medical Center, Gwinnett Women's Pavilion, Gwinnett Extended Care...

An estimated 90,000 people die in the U.S. each year because of hospital-acquired infections. In addition, two million hospital-acquired infection cases add between $7 billion and $30 billion to the nation's healthcare bill each year. The good news is that clinical studies have shown that these healthcare associated infections are largely preventable, and VHA Inc., the national health care alliance, is launching a national initiative to reduce and eliminate hospital-acquired infections...