In December, Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health System moved patients to its new $754 million C.S. Mott Children's and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital. The new hospital is 1.1 million square feet, compared with the previous hospital's 267,000 square feet.…
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Deaconess Gateway Hospital in Newburgh, Ind., plans to open its emergency department expansion June 1, according to a Tristate-Media report.
TeamHealth in Knoxville, Tenn., has entered into a joint marketing agreement with InQuicker, a provider of an Online Waiting Room, which allows patients to skip the waiting room at emergency departments and urgent care centers nationwide.
Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network announced the opening of Children's Hospital at Lehigh Valley Hospital — the only children's hospital in the region.
St. Louis-based Mercy announced the United Arab Emirates Embassy has given a $5 million gift to fund a pediatric section at the new Mercy Hospital Joplin (Mo.).
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Hospices are looking to partner with hospitals in an attempt to work around a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a USA TODAY report.
In a session at the Becker’s Hospital Review annual meeting in Chicago on May 17, Surgical Care Affiliates’ Senior Vice President Gerry Biala and Senior Director Matthew Kossman discussed service line co-management relationships — both how they’ve evolved and how…
Overall healthcare utilization trends were flat or decreasing from 2007 to 2010, according to the Health Care Cost Institute's Health Care Cost and Utilization Report: 2010 (pdf).
Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System and Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., are in talks to create a partnership for specialty pediatric programs and research, according to a Washington Business Journal report.
Since patient flow problems in a hospital are never limited to one area or department, managing that patient flow has become an immense challenge among hospitals today. Any patient flow inefficiencies that are present within an operating room will cascade…