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Scott & White Healthcare Finalizes Agreement With Johns Community Hospital
(Matching tags: Scott & White Healthcare,Johns Community Hospital,Texas) Temple, Texas-based Scott & White Healthcare has finalized its agreement to merge with Johns Community Hospital in Taylor, Texas, according to a news release from Scott & White. ... -
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Texas's Seton Hospitals Plans to Acquire Smithville Hospital
(Matching tags: Seton Family of Hospitals,Smithville Regional Hospital,Texas) Central Texas-based Seton Family of Hospitals is planning to acquire Smithville (Texas) Regional Hospital, according to a report by the Austin American Statesman. ... -
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San Antonio's Methodist Healthcare May Acquire Cardiology Group
(Matching tags: merger,Texas,San Antonio,Methodist Healthcare,Cardiology Clinic of San Diego,cardiology practice) Methodist Healthcare System of San Antonio may soon acquire Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio, a 23-physician cardiology group, according to a report by the San Antonio Express-News. -
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New Children's Hospital in Texas Names CEO
(Matching tags: CEO,Texas,Larry Duncan) Larry Duncan has been named CEO of the new El Paso (Texas) Children's Hospital, which opens in spring 2012, according to a report by KFox 14. ... -
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CEO of Illinois Hospital Tapped to Head Methodist Richardson in Texas
(Matching tags: CEO,Texas,Methodist Richardson,E. Kenneth Hutchenrider,Galesburg Cottage Hospital) E. Kenneth Hutchenrider has been appointed president of 141-bed Methodist Richardson (Texas) Medical Center, according to a report by the Dallas Business Journal. ... -
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Heart Hospital in Houston Set to Start $17M Expansion
(Matching tags: Texas,expansion,Clear Lake Regional Hospital,Heart and Vascular Hospital) Clear Lake Regional Hospital in Houston is about to start a $17 million expansion of its Heart and Vascular Hospital, according to a report by the Houston Business Journal. -
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How to Turn Around a Bankrupt Hospital: 4 Lessons From South Hampton Community Hospital in Dallas
(Matching tags: CEO,bankruptcy,Texas,hospital,turnaround,Ed Downs,South Hampton Community) When Ed Downs took the reigns as CEO of South Hampton Community Hospital in Dallas last summer, the hospital was emerging from its second bankruptcy, which included a forced closure of the facility that ... -
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Texas Regional Medical Center Opens Heart & Vascular Center
(Matching tags: Texas,opening,Texas Regional Medical Center,Heart & Vascular Center) Texas Regional Medical Center at Sunnyvale recently opened its Heart & Vascular Center, according to a report by dBusiness News. ... -
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Federal Investigators Continue Probe in Alleged Fraudulent Billing Charges at UT Southwestern Hospitals
(Matching tags: Medicare fraud,Texas,billing,UT Southwestern,Parkland Memorial Hospital,residents) Federal investigators are looking into billing practices at Dallas' University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital, after previous investigations discovered the hospitals ... -
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Houston Northwest Medical Center's Bariatric Program Recognized as Center of Excellence
(Matching tags: Texas,center of excellence,bariatrics,Well Beginnings) Houston Northwest Medical Center's bariatric program, Well Beginnings, has again been chosen as an OptumHealth Bariatric Center of Excellence, according to an HNMC news release. -
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Doctors Hospital, Stryker Host Live Surgery Symposium
(Matching tags: orthopedics,Texas,Doctors Hospital,Stryker,surgery symposium,reconstructive surgery) Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake in Dallas and Stryker Corp. recently hosted a live, one-day surgery symposium for over 30 orthopedic surgeons with a focus on hip and knee reconstruction, according ... -
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Reduced Wait Times Drives Patients to Dallas Hospital's ER
(Matching tags: Texas,hospital,Dallas,emergency room,Parkland Memorial) Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas is expecting to see 200,000 ER visits this year, one-third more than expected, driven in part by a 25 percent reduction in ER bed wait times, according to The Dallas ... -
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Massachusetts Hospitals Partner With Texas Physicians for Cancer Care
(Matching tags: Texas,Massachusetts,Southcoast Health System,MD Anderson) Southcoast Health System, a hospital system in Southeastern Massachusetts, has signed an affiliation agreement with physicians from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston — instead of one of Boston's hospitals ... -
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Houston's Methodist Willowbrook Hospital Completes $240M Expansion
(Matching tags: construction,Texas,Methodist Willowbrook Hospital) Methodist Willowbrook Hospital in Houston has announced completion of a $240 million, 473,000-square-foot expansion, according to a release from the hospital. -
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Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital in Texas Begins $104M Expansion
(Matching tags: Texas,Memorial Hermann,expansion,The Woodlands Hospital) Memorial Hermann The Woodlands (Texas) Hospital has started a $104-million expansion project, according to Ultimate Woodlands. ... -
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Texas Physicians Opting Out of Medicare at Higher Rate
(Matching tags: Medicare,Texas,opt out) About 100 to 200 Texas physicians each year are ending all involvement with Medicare, up from "less than a handful" per year in 2007, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle. ... -
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Merger Talks Between Texas' Valley Baptist and Knapp Medical Center End
(Matching tags: merger,Texas,Valley Baptist,Knapp Medical Center) Merger plans for Valley Baptist Health System, based in Harlingen, Texas, and Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco, Texas, have ended, according to a report by the KGBT News. ... -
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Texas Hospital Plans Heart Unit
(Matching tags: construction,Texas,heart unit) Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas, has announced plans for a new $3 million heart unit, according to a report by KLTV. ... -
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Texas Hospital Expects to Lose $25M in First 10 Years of Reform
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Texas,Midland Memorial Hospital) The new healthcare reform law will have a $25 million "negative impact" on 321-bed Midland (Texas) Memorial Hospital over 10 years, according to a report in the Midland Reporter-Telegram. ... -
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8 Keys to Texas Heart Institute's Success
(Matching tags: Texas,Texas Heart Institute,Denton Cooley) The Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston has been leading the nation in cardiovascular care and cardiovascular surgery since 1962, when Denton A. Cooley, MD, the first surgeon ... -
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Children's Medical Center Dallas to Open Specialty Center Near Rival
(Matching tags: construction,Texas,specialty care center) Children's Medical Center Dallas plans to build a $21 million, 34,000-square-foot specialty-care center in Southlake, Texas, near its competitor, Cook Children's Health Care System in Fort Worth, according ... -
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Orthopedic Surgeons From Texas' Foundation Surgical Hospital Lend Support to Haiti Relief Efforts
(Matching tags: Haiti relief effort,orthopedic surgeons,Foundation Surgical Hospital,Texas) Orthopedic surgeons Brian Parsley, MD, and Rex Marco, along with physician assistant Jerry Buchert, of Foundation Surgical Hospital in Bellaire, Texas, offered their services to help with the relief effort ... -
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Dallas Children's Hospital to Build Outpatient Center
(Matching tags: construction,Texas,outpatient center) Children's Medical Center Dallas plans to build a $21 million, 34,000-square-foot outpatient specialty center in Southlake, Texas, according to a report in the Dallas Morning News. ... -
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Physician-Owned Doctors Hospital in Texas Attributes Success to Community Focus
(Matching tags: patient satisfaction,Texas,physician-owned hospital) With 503 beds, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, in Edinburg, Texas, is one of the nation's largest physician-owned hospitals. Adjacent to McAllen in South Texas, it also is located in one of the nation's ... -
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Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and LHP Hospital Group Partner to Acquire Wilson N. Jones Medical Center
(Matching tags: Texas,LHP Hospital Group,Dan Moen,Texas Health Resources) Texas Health Resources, the largest healthcare system in North Texas in terms of patients served, and LHP Hospital Group, have formed a joint venture to acquire 241-bed Wilson N. Jones Medical Center in ... -
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Physician-Owned Hospital in Texas to Open at End of Month
(Matching tags: physician-owned hospital,Texas,Texas Health) Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound (Texas), a joint venture between 80 physicians and Texas Health Partners, a 12-hospital system in Arlington, Texas, is expected to open at the end of the ... -
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Former Physician-Owned Hospital to Move Ahead With $167M Federal Loan
(Matching tags: Texas,HUD,financing,physician ownership) Physicians who originally had an 80 percent stake in a proposed Austin, Texas-area hospital have entirely dropped ownership due to the ban on physician-owned hospitals under the health reform law. ... -
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St. David's HealthCare to Build Freestanding ER in Bee Cave, Texas
(Matching tags: Texas,emergency room,St. Davids Healthcare,REIT Management) St. David's HealthCare has signed a lease with REIT Management & Research to build a freestanding emergency room in Bee Cave, Texas, according to a report in the Community Impact Newspaper. ... -
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Texas' Scott & White Converting Facility Into Children's Hospital
(Matching tags: Texas,Childrens Hospital,Kings Daughters Hospital,Scott & White Healthcare) Scott & White Healthcare in Temple, Texas, will spend $32 million to convert 150-bed King's Daughters Hospital to a regional children’s hospital, according to a Scott & White release. ... -
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Houston Women Plead Guilty to DME Medicare Fraud Scheme
(Matching tags: Medicare fraud,Texas,guilty plea,DME,arthritis kits) Rolondae Mitchell-Straughter and Ana Quinteros both pleaded guilty in connection with their roles in an "arthritis kit" Medicare fraud scheme, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ... -
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Some States Vow to Take Healthcare Reform Battle to Courts
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Georgia,Texas,legislation,Kansas,Constitution) As President Obama signed the sweeping healthcare reform overhaul bill into law, some states are planning to challenge it in court. Already, several states have moved in that direction, arguing the bill's ... -
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HCA Closing Houston's Spring Branch Medical Center
(Matching tags: Texas,houston,HCA,closing,Spring Branch Medical Center) HCA plans to close 160-bed Spring Branch Medical Center in Houston by May 1 due to significant losses and increasing competition in recent years, according to a story in the Houston Chronicle. The hospital ... -
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Dallas' Children's Medical Center Reveals Plans for Outpatient Surgery Center
(Matching tags: Texas,surgery center,outpatient center,Childrens Medical Center) ... Texas, according to a report in the Star Local News. ... -
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San Antonio's Baptist Health System to Build New Hospital
(Matching tags: construction,Texas,hospital,Baptist Health System) Baptist Health System, which operates five acute-care hospitals in the San Antonio area, has purchased a parcel of land in New Braunfels, Texas, where it plans to build a new hospital, according to the ... -
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Texas Physician Assistant, Wife Indicted on Healthcare Fraud
(Matching tags: Texas,indictment,healthcare fraud,mail fraud,La Hacienda Family Clinic) Manuel Anthony Puig and his wife Romelia Sanchez Puig, both of Edinburg, Texas, were indicted by a federal grand jury for healthcare fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, according ... -
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Texas' Midland Memorial Hospital Breaks Ground on New Tower
(Matching tags: construction,Texas,Midland Memorial Hospital) Midland (Texas) Memorial Hospital has broken ground on a $175 million patient tower, after County voters approved a $100 million bond to pay for most of it, according to a report from the Midland Reporter-Telegram. ... -
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Top 20 Grossing Texas Hospitals
(Matching tags: hospitals,Texas,revenue,top grossing) Here are the top 20 Texas hospitals by gross revenue (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred million), according to the American Hospital Directory. Number of beds listed in parentheses. ... -
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Mary Shiels Hospital in Dallas Building Replacement Facility
(Matching tags: construction,Texas,replacement hospital,Mary Shiels Hospitals) Mary Shiels Hospital, a 14-bed surgical hospital in Dallas, is building a $20 million replacement hospital that will open in early 2011, according to a report by the Dallas Morning News. -
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UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas Plans New Facility
(Matching tags: Texas,Dallas,UT Southwestern Medical Center,new facility) The board of regents for UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has approved plans to build a new university hospital to replace the center's current facility, according to a report by the Dallas Morning ... -
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Three Convicted in Texas Healthcare Fraud Case
(Matching tags: Texas,healthcare fraud,kickbacks,conviction,Orthopedic Specialists DME,San Antonio Orthotics) The owners of Orthopedic Specialists DME in Corpus Christi, Texas, and an orthotist were convicted on charges of a complex healthcare fraud and kickback scheme in which they attempted to defraud both the ... -
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MedCath to Sell Heart Hospital of Austin to St. David's Healthcare
(Matching tags: Texas,Heart Hospital of Austin,MedCath) Charlotte, N.C.-based MedCath and its physician partners have entered into a definitive agreement to sell Heart Hospital of Austin (Texas) to Austin-based St. David's HealthCare, according to a MedCath ... -
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Scott & White Healthcare in Texas Looking at New Sites for Hospital
(Matching tags: hospitals,construction,Texas,Scott & White) After walking away from negotiations to buy land for a new hospital in Marble Falls, Texas, Scott & White Healthcare announced that has about a dozen other potential sites in the area, according to a report ... -
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Methodist Healthcare to Manage Public Texas Hospital
(Matching tags: Texas,Methodist Healthcare) San Antonio-based Methodist Healthcare has reached an agreement to manage Val Verde County Regional Medical Center in Del Rio, Texas, according to a report by the San Antonio Business Journal. ... -
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Whistle-Blowing Nurse Acquitted of Felony Charge
(Matching tags: Texas,Anne Mitchell,acquittal,Rolando Arafiles) A Texas nurse who alerted the state medical board about the unsafe medical practices of a physician at the hospital where she worked was acquitted of a felony charge for the "misuse of official information," ... -
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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Changes Name to UTHealth
(Matching tags: Texas,houston,University of Texas,UTHealth,Health Science Center,name change) The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has changed its name to UTHealth, according to a release from UTHealth. ... -
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Nurse Who Blew Whistle on Doctor Stands Trial
(Matching tags: Texas,whistleblower lawsuit,Texas Medical Board,nurse,trial) In what may be an unprecedented prosecution, Anne Mitchell was scheduled to stand trial Feb. 8 in a Texas court for "misuse of official information," a third-degree felony charge, after reporting a physician ... -
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Texas's Methodist McKinney Hospital Opens
(Matching tags: Texas,hospital,opening,Methodist McKinney Hospital,Nueterra) Methodist McKinney (Texas) Hospital, a joint venture between area physicians, Methodist Health System and Nueterra Healthcare, is now open, according to a Nueterra news release. ... -
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Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas Plans $1.2B Replacement
(Matching tags: Texas,Dallas,replacement facility,Parkland Memorial Hospital) The board of managers for Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas has approved a preliminary site plan for a $1.2 billion replacement of its 54-year-old facility, according to a report by the Dallas Morning ... -
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Texas Law Allows Patients to Use Mediators to Resolve Health Bills But Mediators Reluctant to Participate
(Matching tags: Texas,health bill mediation,mediator) A Texas law passed in June allows Texans to use a mediator to negotiate disputed charges of more than $1,000 by healthcare providers, but many mediators are reluctant to participate in such negotiations, ... -
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Former Texas Hospital CEO, Nurse Arrested for Healthcare Fraud
(Matching tags: Texas,Stewart powers,Community Specialty Hospital,Brandon Allen Ray) Stewart Powers, CEO of the now closed Community Specialty Hospital in Sherman, Texas, and Brandon Allen Ray, RN, were arrested for their roles in a scheme to commit healthcare fraud, according to a news ...
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