Cincinnati-based Mercy Health will open the 250-bed Mercy Health-West Hospital in Cincinnati Nov. 10, according to a Cincinnati Enquirer report.
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Memorial Hermann Katy (Texas) Hospital is planning a $15 million medical building, along with its $70 million patient tower, as part of a new expansion project, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
Spirit Lake, Iowa-based Lakes Regional Healthcare is planning a $20 million expansion at its hospital in Spirit Lake, according to a Dickinson County News report.
Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health plans to transfer its Springville (N.Y.) Primary Care Center services to Springville-based Bertrand Chaffee Hospital, expanding on an existing affiliation between the two healthcare providers, according to a Buffalo Business First report.
In a "State of the University" speech Tuesday, University of California, San Francisco Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, revealed plans to start an accountable care organization at UCSF Medical Center.
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Hospitals and health systems interested in building or strengthening their ambulatory care networks need to be prepared to challenge the status quo, according to Mark Coughlin, senior vice president of advisory services at Hammes Company. Ambulatory settings are quite different…
San Diego-based Sharp Community Medical Group, an independent practice association with more than 700 participating physicians, and Aetna have announced an accountable care collaboration.
HCA East Florida, a Fort Lauderdale subsidiary of Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corp. of America, has filed a certificate of need with Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to build a 100-bed teaching hospital with Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Fla.
Anesthesiologists and other physicians must soon decide whether or not to participate in the health insurance exchange health plans that are seeking to sign them up, since coverage under the health insurance plans will begin as early as Jan. 1,…
Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, N.C., has opened the first phase of a $30 million emergency department addition and renovation, according to a Times-News report.