Care Coordination

Rapid City (S.D.) Regional Hospital has opened its $5 million emergency department expansion, according to a Rapid City Journal report.

Lynchburg, Va.-based Centra Health is proposing an expansion of its Gretna (Va.) Medical Center, according to a News & Advance report.

Mount Sinai Hospital Queens in New York City is seeking approval for a $113 million expansion project, according to a New York Daily News report.

Phoenix Children's Hospital has broken ground on a $17 million specialty and urgent care center in Avondale, Ariz., according to a Republic report.

Vermont has issued a certificate of need to Brattleboro (Vt.) Memorial Hospital for a $7.7 million expansion project, according to a Brattleboro Reformer report.

Mercy Hospital Joplin (Mo.), which was destroyed by a tornado last year, will be the quickest and largest acute-care hospital to be built in the United States and meet the International Building Code requirements, according to a news release.

HDMS has announced the launch of a Centers of Excellence reporting tool that aids health plans in assessing an individual facility's quality in treating certain conditions or performing certain procedures.

TeleTracking has announced it will offer a seminar March 21 through March 23 in Raleigh, N.C., on managing a hospital's transport department.

Management and consulting firm Enhance Healthcare announced that principals Howard Greenfield, MD, and Robert Stiefel, MD, will each present at the University of Chicago's 13th Anesthesia Billing and Practice Management Seminar May 4 to May 6 in Las Vegas.

One of the overall goals of healthcare reform is to move from a fragmented healthcare system to an integrated model that provides services more efficiently and at less cost. Within hospitals, this fragmentation is seen in the different silos in…