Care Coordination

Boston-based Steward Health Care shuttered the labor and delivery unit at Morton Hospital, a 125-bed facility in Taunton, Mass., alleging the Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and its parent company Boston-based Partners HealthCare, which staff the department, are no longer sending…

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, La., is opening an emergency room in north Baton Rouge, an area that has spent several years without emergency care options, according to the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report.

Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center in Panama City, Fla., completed phase one of a $13.3 million, three-phase emergency room expansion project, according to a WJHG report.

West Boca Medical Center in Boca Raton, Fla., launched a senior care emergency room Tuesday morning, according to a WPEC report.

A study, published in Obesity, examines consumption of sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages by U.S. children and adults between 2003 and 2014.

San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, N.M., is planning a $2.5 million emergency room renovation, according to a KOB report.

Memorial Hospital switched emergency room physician providers at locations in Belleville, Ill., and Shiloh, Ill., according to a Belleville News-Democrat report.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, said he is "fully committed" to adding calorie counts to restaurant menus by May 7, 2018, according to a Nov. 7 statement.

The American Academy of Ophthalmologists and Research to Prevent Blindness teamed up to offer a new grant category for those conducting population-based research on blindness prevention and ophthalmology using the Academy's IRIS Registry database.  

Kootenai Health in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, is spending $45.2 million on an emergency department and operating room expansion.