Two Ohio hospitals were among 65 named to a coalition of healthcare buyers’ list of the top U.S. hospitals, in terms of quality and safety. The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati and the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus took the honors from Leapfrog Group, which advocates for employers that purchase healthcare.

The Christ Hospital has purchased two Cincinnati-area orthopedics practices that operate in a total of five locations.

Reversing course on an earlier position, The Christ Hospital entered into an agreement that’ll give the federal government’s inspector general the right to monitor the hospital for five years — and continue receiving Medicare and Medicaid payments.

The Christ Hospital has acquired the orthopedics practice of a physician in suburban Fairfax.

The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati and The Christ Hospital have settled a whistleblower lawsuit accusing the hospital of defrauding federal healthcare programs by making improper payments to cardiologists in exchange for generating hospital revenue.The health alliance and hospital signed a civil settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve the manner [...]

Two years after emerging as an independent with aspirations to become one of the nation’s top hospitals, Christ Hospital in Mount Auburn hopes to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the next decade, recruit more than 200 doctors to Greater Cincinnati and build a network of about five ambulatory centers around the region, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Christ Hospital and the federal government have reached a settlement agreement on a whistle-blower lawsuit that accused the hospital of defrauding federal health-care programs, reported the Business Courier of Cincinnati.

HealthGrades, the independent health-care ratings organization, has named eight Ohio hospitals to its America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2009 list. Hospitals named to the list “represent an elite group of the highest-performing health care organizations in the nation,” HealthGrades says.