Care Coordination

Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif., is looking to the public in hopes of raising $6 million, which will go toward building a new hospital in Sonoma County, according to a Press Democrat report.

CMS has announced a call for applications for the new the Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration.

The Institute of Medicine has released a report to guide healthcare organizations in responding to catastrophic disasters.

When emergency physicians are faced with limited resources or extreme demand, they need to employ specific strategies to optimize resource utilization and outcomes, according to an article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Utah could have a health insurance cooperative by 2013, if federal officials endorse the Aarches Community Health Care plan introduced today.

More than 140 members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote a letter to members of the House's Committee on Appropriations urging them to protect funding for the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program, according to an AHA News Now…

St. Charles Parish Hospital in Luling, La., is planning to construct an adult outpatient clinic in Destrehan, according to a Times-Picayune report.

A new medical office building under development in East Norriton, Pa., will include an ambulatory surgery center, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report and the website for the medical arts building.

Chesapeake (Va.) Regional Medical Center announced that it joined the radiosurgery center partnership of Riverside Health System in Newport News, Va., and Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System.  

Akron (Ohio) General Health System has opened a new satellite emergency department in Green, Ohio, according to an Akron Beacon Journal report.