Care Coordination

Highland Community Hospital in Picayune, Miss., has unveiled its new $55 million hospital, according to a WDAM report.

Temple, Texas-based Scott & White Healthcare announced the creation of a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to improving healthcare processes through Lean principles.

Edinburg (Texas) Regional Medical Center is an acute-care hospital and is owned and operated by South Texas Health System in Edinburg, a subsidiary of Universal Health Systems in King of Prussia, Pa.

The Baltimore area is rife with well-known hospital organizations, such as Johns Hopkins, but Greater Baltimore Medical Center has been a leader in community hospital care for roughly 50 years.

Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles will become the preferred hospital provider in central Los Angeles for CareMore Health Plan, a Medicare Advantage Program based in Cerritos, Calif.

The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., announced the opening of its new Plainfield (Conn.) Emergency Care Center.

Northern Inyo Hospital in Bishop, Calif., will soon open its new hospital, according to an Inyo Register report.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has announced it will open its new $461 million hospital in Anaheim, Calif., on Sept. 12, according to an Orange County Business Journal report.

Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown, N.Y., has announced the opening of a Level 2 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Measures of emergency department utilization should be standardized, because reporting ED encounters compared with ED patients provides different views of utilization, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.