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Negotiations between Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital and UnitedHealthcare are stalling, the hospital told the Herald-Tribune Thursday.

East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Ala., plans to build a freestanding emergency department to combat growing ED wait times linked to increases in emergency room volume, according to a WRBL report.

Misinformation on health topics can be found all over Pinterest, a website where users save infographics and other images hyperlinked back to not-always-verified sources, BuzzFeed News reports.

Norwich, Ct.-based William W. Backus Hospital went on diversion and transferred four emergency department patients to Hartford (Ct.) Hospital after it lost power Wednesday night, according to The Day.

A water main break caused Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital, a 528-bed facility, to temporarily suspend emergency room services Wednesday morning, according to the Democrat & Chronicle.

  Officials at Florida Hospital Oceanside, an 80-bed hospital in Ormond Beach, said the hospital will remain closed for a minimum of 18 months to repair damages the facility suffered after Hurricane Irma made landfall in the state in early…

Eric Dishman, director of the All of Us Research Program, emphasized individuals must share their EHR information to reap the program's full benefits in an Oct. 26 YouTube video.

Parkland Health & Hospital System and UT Southwestern Medical Center, both located in Dallas, launched a project in 2009 that resulted in a 61.4 percent HPV vaccine up-to-date rate at Parkland in 2016.

Although roughly 43.3 percent of U.S. adults got the flu vaccine in 2015-16, an estimated 24.5 million fell ill with the virus, according to CNBC.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare on Monday unveiled a retrofitted $7 million high-speed jet, which is devoted entirely to organ retrieval and similar trips to and from Utah, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.