Care Coordination

There is a "growing consensus" that tighter clinical integration of hospitals and physicians is necessary, but there are different kinds of integration and the approach faces legal barriers, according to a new report by the American Hospital Association.

The board of regents for UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has approved plans to build a new university hospital to replace the center's current facility, according to a report by the Dallas Morning News.

The International Anesthesia Research Society announced 10 grant recipients in 2009, committing over $1 million to anesthesia research and other projects that will advance the specialty of anesthesiology, according to an IARS news release.

Whether or not broad-based healthcare reform is enacted in the near future, provider payment reform that encourages integration of healthcare delivery has bipartisan support but faces hurdles, said several speakers at a recent National Health Policy Conference co-sponsored by AcademyHealth…

Oneida (N.Y.) Healthcare Center received a $123,000 donation from the hospital's auxiliary, which will go towards $3 million the hospital is trying raise to help with an $18 million capital project, according to a report in The Oneida Daily Dispatch.

BayCare Health System has opened 108-bed St. Joseph's Hospital-North in Lutz, Fla., just north of Tampa, according to a release from BayCare.

After walking away from negotiations to buy land for a new hospital in Marble Falls, Texas, Scott & White Healthcare announced that has about a dozen other potential sites in the area, according to a report by the Austin Statesman.

The following quality improvement activities for office-based anesthesia are recommended by the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Ambulatory Surgical Care and the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia's Committee on Office Based Anesthesia.

San Antonio-based Methodist Healthcare has reached an agreement to manage Val Verde County Regional Medical Center in Del Rio, Texas, according to a report by the San Antonio Business Journal.

The former 189-bed St. James Hospital, a Catholic facility in Newark, N.J., shuttered in 2008, will reopen as a health clinic in June, according to the Star-Ledger.