Care Coordination

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health announced that it launching $80 million in construction projects in spring 2013.

Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care is planning a $247 million expansion and modernization of Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, Ill., according to a Northwest Herald report.

New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., has announced the opening of its new Center for Sleep Disorders.

MidMichigan Medical Center-Clare will open a new cardiac catheterization lab on Monday, according to a report in The Clare County Review.

Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth announced plans to build a $130 million patient tower at Cox Medical Center South in Springfield.

Waynesboro (Pa.) Hospital is planning a $15 million expansion project, according to a report by The Herald-Mail.

North American Partners in Anesthesia released the final two briefs in its six-part series on transforming hospital operating rooms in the age of healthcare reform.

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Cigna has expanded its collaborative accountable care program, its version of accountable care organizations, to 58 programs in 24 states.

OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center in Pontiac, Ill., is awaiting approval from the Illinois Department of Public Health of a $3.4 million expansion and renovation project, according to a Vidette Online report.