Care Coordination

Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin, Texas, announced that it will open its $48 million bed tower on May 6, according to an Austin American-Statesman report.  

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health has allocated $96.7 million for expansions at member health system Mercy Health Partners' Muskegon, Mich., campus, according to a news release.   

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health's 12 hospitals in Michigan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan have signed a new value-based reimbursement contract that will move the two parties away from fee-from-service payments.

Stanford Hospital & Clinics, based in Palo Alto, Calif., will break ground tomorrow on a new 824,000 square-foot facility, part of its plans to renovate its aging hospital facilities.

Almost 22 percent of hospital executives say their organizations participate in an accountable care organization, with 55 percent planning to be in one by the end of 2013, according to the spring 2013 edition of the "Economic Outlook" survey, by…

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Stamford (Conn.) Hospital has announced plans to break ground on a new hospital in May.

The number of physicians participating in accountable care organizations has increased drastically since 2012, according to Medscape's 2013 Physician Compensation Report.

Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Health System and United Physicians, a Bingham Farms, Mich.-based organization with more than 2,300 physicians, have partnered to form a clinically integrated organization.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health has announced Baptist/Wolfson Children's Emergency Center will open this week on the new Baptist Clay Medical Center campus in Fleming Island, Fla.