Care Coordination

Mountain View Regional Hospital, a physician-owned hospital in Casper, Wyo., is opening a clinic in Billings, Mont., which will be led by two neurosurgeons, according to a Billings Gazette report.

Choctaw (Ala.) General Hospital held a grand opening ceremony over the weekend to celebrate its new facility after officially opening in March, according to a WTOK report.

Spine surgery has gone through a tidal wave of change in the thirty years, and Chris Lycette, MD, a spine surgeon and co-chief of the Division of Spine Surgery at Bethlehem, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network for nearly a decade,…

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear announced Friday that the state will exempt hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers from the federal requirement that certified nurse anesthetists must be supervised by a physician when administering anesthesia.

Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy, Ohio, has completed its $11.1 million cancer center expansion, according to a WHIOTV report.

The San Francisco Planning Commission has approved a $2.5 billion development project by San Francisco-based California Pacific Medical Center, according to a San Francisco Examiner report.

Temple, Texas-based Scott & White Healthcare announced plans to open a new hospital bed tower by 2014 — two years earlier than originally planned.

San Diego-based Scripps Health announced its Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas (Calif.) has broken ground on a critical care facility that is part of the hospital's $94 million second phase of expansion.

Several Pennsylvania hospitals have seen increases in volume as former patients of Carbondale, Pa.-based Marian Community Hospital, which closed Feb. 28, seek care elsewhere, according to a Scranton Times-Tribune report.

Salem, Ore.-based Salem Health announced its Salem (Ore.) Hospital and West Valley Hospital in Dallas, Ore., will test their triage, transport and patient tracking processes May 1.