Care Coordination

University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, announced the completion of its $46 million expansion project.

Ann Arbor, Mich.-based University of Michigan Health System announced the U-M Board of Regents approved two projects to renovate the A. Alfred Taubman Health Care Center at a cost of $20.5 million.

Researchers from the RAND Corporation and other institutions have begun pilot-testing a web-based tool designed to help parents and adult caregivers determine whether to seek urgent medical attention for a sick child with flu-like symptoms.

Johns Hopkins Medicine International, working in collaboration with Perdana University in Malaysia, has completed the strategic programming and planning phase for a new healthcare system, Malaysia's first fully-integrated private four-year graduate medical school and teaching hospital.

The use of rapid flu clinics that are set up outside hospital emergency departments may help ease emergency department overcrowding while still maintaining care for influenza patients, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

TeleTracking Technologies announced registration is open for a free symposium on patient throughput and overcrowding, asset management and inter-hospital patient transfers.

Stuart, Fla.-based Martin Health System announced the ground breaking of its more than $110 million new hospital 14 years after it first sought approval for construction.

Gettysburg (Pa.) Hospital will open its new $18.1 million emergency department April 4, according to a Central Penn Business Journal report.

Fremont-Rideout Health Group has broken ground on a $225 million expansion of Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville, Calif., according to a news release.

The University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City announced updated plans for its $56.7 million expansion project.