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Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health announced the receipt of two proposals for reuse of the old Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital in Buffalo.

Florence (Ariz.) Community Healthcare, owned by hospital management company Initiatives Healthcare, closed Monday after less than two years of operation, according to a Florence Reminder & Blade-Tribune report.

Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va., announced the completion of its more than $8 million cancer center expansion.

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted on Thursday to approve a fiscal year 2013 appropriations bill that provides $71 billion in discretionary funding for HHS programs, according to an AHA News Now report.

The healthcare industry saw a 0.2 percent increase in prices from April to May, according to the latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Index.

A subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee approved funding on Wednesday that increases discretionary spending for HHS programs by $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2013, supporting funding for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Prime Health Service, a nationwide preferred provider organization, has acquired Denver-based Casualty Management Network, another PPO network.

LHC Group, a national provider of post-acute care services, announced the completion of its review of strategic alternatives for the company.

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has announced it will invest $20 million over three years to expand its research and development functions and better align its current research programs.

Next month, Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn., will break ground on a new $34.5 million cancer center as part of its recent partnership with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, according to a Hartford Business Journal report.