Kingwood (Texas) Medical Center is expanding its women's and neonatal services with the construction of the $71 million South Tower, according to a Tribune report.
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Healthcare leaders are increasingly looking at hospice and home health services as they seek to serve patients throughout the continuum of care. In February, San Diego-based Scripps Health entered the hospice market when it acquired Poway, Calif.-based Horizon Hospice. In…
In the past year, many hospitals, including Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton, Ill., Pasco Regional Medical Center in Dade City, Fla., New Milford (Conn.) Hospital, St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo, Calif., and Mesa View Regional Hospital in Mesquite,…
St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor (Mich.) and the University of Michigan Health System have announced a collaboration to open a new geriatric care center in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System and CHS Health Services, a workforce healthcare provider, announced an agreement to comanage two onsite health centers for BayCare employees, who total roughly 21,000.
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ThedaCare, a five-hospital system based in Appleton, Wis., will join Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield's Blue Priority, the payer's accountable care organization network, effective June 15.
Emergency department staff spend roughly 12 minutes per hour on the online social networking site Facebook, and this time increases when patient volume and severity increase, according to a study in Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Aetna has announced an accountable care organization collaboration with Riverside Health System, a five-hospital, 941-bed system based in Newport News, Va.
The following is a list of 19 accountable care organizations that have been announced in the last three months, in alphabetical order by payor. (Note: Number 8 alone involves seven ACOs.)
Gates Vascular Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., part of Buffalo-based Kaleida Health, was founded in April 2012. The center features specialists ranging from interventional radiologists to cardiologists to neurosurgeons to vascular surgeons working together to provide comprehensive cardiac, stroke and vascular…