Alphabet, Google's parent company, reportedly held talks with executives from Lyft about a potential $1 billion investment in the rideshare company, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
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Stuart, Va.-based Pioneer Community Hospital of Patrick began diverting patients from its ER Wednesday before announcing later in the day that it will soon close within days, according to WDBJ7.
In a recent press release from Medicus Healthcare Solutions, they review news items for hospital administrators, practice managers, and other healthcare executives to peruse this week.
The following hospitals announced or completed plans in the last week to expand, upgrade or renovate their facilities.
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Sixty-three counties nationwide are expected to lack a health insurer selling policies on the 2018 ACA exchanges as of Sept. 13, CMS said.
San Diego-based Rady Children's Hospital will create a pediatric psychiatric emergency department, believed to be the first in the nation, thanks to more than $6 million in donations, according to The San Diego Union Tribune.
St. Paul, Minn.-based United Hospital unveiled its newly expanded emergency department on Tuesday, according to the Pioneer Press.
Elkhorn, Neb.-based Methodist Women's Hospital unveiled its $19.3 million neonatal intensive care unit expansion Tuesday, which nearly doubled the number of beds, according to KMTV.
The five largest U.S. commercial health insurers — Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Humana and UnitedHealth Group — were mentioned on social media and in publications 26,700 times during the last week of August, according to a talkwalker report.