Care Coordination

Wasting time drives up costs, according to a TeleTracking blog post.

St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa., announced the completion of phase two of its $22 million emergency department and trauma center expansion.

St. Louis-based SSM Health Care announced plans to invest $180 million over the next few years in the St. Charles, Mo., region.

Sanpete Valley Hospital in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, has announced the impending opening of its new surgery center, created in partnership with Intermountain Health, according to a Daily Herald report.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services and Swedish Health Services in Seattle have announced a plan to form an accountable care network for self-insured companies and payors in western Washington by 2014.

St. Lucie Medical Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla., has begun a $9.3 million emergency department expansion project, according to a TC Palm report.  

From May 9 to 11, hospital and health system leaders will gather at the 4th Annual Becker's Hospital Review Meeting in Chicago to participate in a panel discussion on the best ideas for accountable care organizations, physician-hospital organizations and shared…

University of Wisconsin Health is set to begin construction on a $220 million medical campus in Madison, according to the Wisconsin State Journal report.  

In 2011, Americans spent $45 billion out-of-pocket on retail prescription drugs, according to a data brief by the National Center for Health Statistics.

Having been a part of the team that established The Spine Institute of Connecticut at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., Aris Yannopoulos, MD, chairman of orthopedic surgery at Saint Francis and research director of the institute,…