As it waits on state approval for its takeover of West Penn Allegheny Health System, Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark is currently recruiting a new executive management team for system, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.
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Sioux Center (Iowa) Community Hospital & Health Center Avera, part of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health, has broken ground on a new $48.5 million medical campus focused on outpatient and specialty services, according to a Sioux City Journal report.
Columbia Basin Hospital in Ephrata, Wash., will break ground on a new wing Friday, according to a Columbia Basin Herald report.
Valparaiso, Ind.-based Porter Health System's new Porter Regional Hospital in Valparaiso is part of the health system's vision of delivering personalized, patient-centered care in Northwest Indiana, according to an nwitimes.com report.
Lars Houmann is the president and CEO of Florida Hospital in Orlando and the Florida Division of Winter Park, Fla.-based Adventist Health System, which includes 22 hospitals throughout the state.
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Medical City Hospital, in Dallas, is part of Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America.
Saint Louis University Hospital is an academic teaching hospital in St. Louis.
For most of her life, Donna Shalala, PhD, president of the University of Miami, has been engrossed in academia. Then, in the early 1990s, healthcare became her new academia.
Cook County Health and Hospitals System in Chicago will undergo a massive Medicaid expansion to boost revenue by an estimated 11 percent to $712 million in the next fiscal year, according to Modern Healthcare.
Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health announced the opening of the clinical building of its new IU Health Neuroscience Center.