Policy and Funding - Page 1

UnitedHealthcare grants $2.2m to Los Angeles-area nonprofits
Monday, March 18, 2013 UnitedHealthcare, an operating division of UnitedHealth Group in the US, has granted $2.2m to three nonprofit healthcare organisations to help advance healthcare services and wellness and...

Health regulator issues subpoenas to four HealthSouth hospitals over claim allegations
Wednesday, March 06, 2013 The US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) has issued subpoenas to four hospitals owned and operated by HealthSouth, as part of its investigation...

Nigeria on course to upgrade all federal teaching hospitals to global standards
Tuesday, February 05, 2013 The Federal Government of Nigeria is on course to upgrade all federal teaching hospitals in the country to global standards in a bid to support domestic hospitals and discourage people from...

SMART Technologies launches new appraisal and revalidation to support NHS Trusts
Friday, February 01, 2013 SMART Technologies, a subsidiary of workforce management solutions provider Kronos, has launched an improved appraisal and revalidation solution for National Health Services (NHS) Trusts in the...

New Zealand to spend over $400m to redevelop Canterbury earthquake-hit hospitals
Tuesday, September 04, 2012 New Zealand will invest more than NZ$500m ($400m) to redevelop Canterbury District Health Board's (DHB) earthquake-damaged hospitals following the cabinet's...

India to fund 200-bed ward complex in Sri Lanka
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 The Government of India will provide a grant of SLR200m ($1.5m) to construct a new ward complex at Vavuniya hospital in Sri Lanka as part of its development partnership with Sri...

NHS hospitals advised to go global for profit
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 The UK government has advised leading National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts to open facilities abroad to fund NHS services in the...

Indiana hospital to receive funding for new facility
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Cameron Hospital in Indiana, US, will construct the new Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Angola following a $47m loan approval from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural...

West Africa's Clinique Biasa receives financial boost by Aureos
Tuesday, July 03, 2012 Clinique Biasa, a private hospital and clinic in Lomé, Togo, West Africa, has received $1.7m investment from Aureos Capital's Africa Health Fund for the hospital's $5m modernisation and...

Inter-American Development Bank to fund Honduras maternal and neonatal care
Monday, June 25, 2012 Honduras, a republic in Central America, will receive a $30m loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in...

California hospital receives grant to reduce preventable readmissions
Friday, June 15, 2012 Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) has received a $690,926 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to launch a transitional care programme at its Highland Hospital in...

Canada's University Health Network receives $25m for surgery department
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, Canada, has received $25m in funding from The Sprott Foundation to support the hospital's Department of Surgery....

US hospital wins grant to upgrade rehabilitation equipment
Monday, May 21, 2012 St. Joseph's Hospital in New York, US, has received a $50,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes to support the purchase of rehabilitation...

NHS to receive over £330m in funding
Wednesday, March 07, 2012 The UK National Health Service will receive over £330m additional funding to construct new accident and emergency (A&E) units and operating theatres, improve community hospitals and...

US budget plan trims spending on federal health programmes
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 The US President's 2013 budget plan will cut spending on health programmes at the expense of hospitals and care...

US hospital receives transformational grant from Marcus Foundation
Thursday, January 12, 2012 Boca Raton Regional Hospital, US, has received a transformational $25m grant from the Marcus Foundation to create the Marcus Neuroscience Institute on the hospital's main...

Scottish Government invests £2bn in hospital infrastructure projects
Friday, January 06, 2012 The Scottish Government will invest £2bn in hospital infrastructure projects to deliver better facilities for the...

US health institute wins Aetna Foundation research grant
Wednesday, January 04, 2012 The National Public Health and Hospital Institute, the research affiliate of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH), has received a research grant from the...

NHGRI funds DNA sequencing technology development
Friday, August 26, 2011 National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has granted Stratos Genomics $829,000 to develop DNA sequencing techniques using Expansion technology. Stratos will use the funds to...

US researchers receive grant to develop fall prediction and monitoring system
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Researchers at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia have received a $1.2m grant from the National Science Foundation's Smart Health and Wellbeing Program to develop a portable...