Sutter Health, a 26-hospital health system based in Sacramento, Calif., has halted the construction of several projects, according to a report in The San Francisco Business Times.
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The U.S. House Budget Committee approved a fiscal year 2010 budget resolution that contains a reserve fund that would allow for future healthcare reform, according to a news release from the American Hospital Association.
Virtua Health may have to delay its plan for a new "state-of-the-art, digital" hospital in Voorhees, N.J., due to issues in finding financing, according to a report by the Associated Press.
SSM Healthcare of Wisconsin's plans to build a new hospital in Janesville, Wis., have been put on hold, according to a report in the Wisconsin State Journal.
Wells Fargo has named Peter Myhre has the senior vice president of the company's newly formed equipment finance division, according to a news release.
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Children's Hospital and Touro, both based in New Orleans, have joined together to create a two-hospital nonprofit community-based hospital system, according to a news release.
St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital, based in Mt. Vernon, Ill., has received approval for certificate of need applications to build a new hospital, surgery center and medical building, according to a report from the Mt. Vernon Register-News.
Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., has been forced to halt its $89 million expansion project due to downturns in financial markets, according to the Charlotte Business Journal.
Virtua Health, a multi-hospital healthcare system based in Marlton, N.J., has announced that the steelwork of its new, replacement Vorhees, N.J., hospital is completed, according to a news release.
The Illinois health planning board has approved a replacement for Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln and a new surgery center in Springfield, according to The State Journal-Register.