Innovation

The Medical Center of Southwest Texas is starting construction on an outpatient surgery center in Port Arthur, Texas, according to a release from Urban Constructors, the construction company working on the project.

Dennis D. Keefe, CEO of Cambridge (Mass.) Health Alliance discussed his own struggle with Type 2 diabetes and the insight it provided him about the challenges in creating true health reform, in an article he authored for WBUR.org, the Web…

Kaiser Permanente will move specialty services from its Kaiser Permanente Hospital-Zion in San Diego, Calif., to a new $53-million facility south of University Towne Center, according to a report in the San Diego Business Journal.

Beatrice (Neb.) Community Hospital and Health Center recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new facility, according to a report by the Beatrice Daily Sun.

The 192-bed Shands Cancer Hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville, which opens Nov. 1, has energy-efficient features that make it "the hospital of tomorrow," according to a release from Shands Healthcare.

Children's Medical Center at Legacy in Plano, Texas, has opened its Sports Medical Center, which will focus on the treatment of pediatric and adolescent athletes, according to a report in the McKinney Courier-Gazette.

Kamal Thapar, MD, PhD, a neurosurgeon at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, Wis., laughs at the idea that only large academic medical centers can have cutting-edge technology.

A new treatment for Barrett's esophagus, a pre-cancerous condition associated with chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease, which may prevent esophageal cancer, was performed at Longview (Texas) Regional Medical Center's physician surgery center, according to a report in the Longview News-Journal.

HealthSouth CEO Jay Grinney said the company's "digital hospital," which it abandoned six years ago, after putting $225 million into it, was "a very bad business decision" for HealthSouth, according to a report in the Birmingham (Ala.) News.

Mentor, Ohio-based STERIS Corp. has entered into a collaborative relationship with Sunnyvale, Calf.-based Intuitive Surgical that will enable the companies to integrate their technologies into advanced minimally invasive surgical suites, according to a STERIS news release.