Marietta, Ga.-based WellStar Health System is planning to build a 112-bed, $125 million facility to replace WellStar Paulding Hospital in Dallas, Ga., according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution report.
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Highmark has filed a breach of contract and a false and deceptive advertising lawsuit against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and its affiliated hospitals, according to a Highmark news release.
Bamberg (S.C.) County Hospital may be announcing another round of layoffs as hospital executives continue to restructure the fiscally strapped hospital, according to a Times and Democrat news report.
Mercy Health System, based in Janesville, Wis., has submitted a $1.7 million plan to renovate Harvard (Ill.) Hospital, according to a Northwest Herald news report.
Hospitals have long tracked patient satisfaction ratings, but they didn't always carry great significance. While all hospitals want happy patients, hospitals have been historically plagued with the "doctor knows best" mentality — a mentality where clinical outcomes outweigh "touchy-feely" indicators…
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More than 200 hospital leaders from across the United States traveled to Capitol Hill yesterday, the American Hospital Association's Advocacy Day, to urge their lawmakers from further cutting hospital payments, according to an AHA New Now report.
Greenwood (Miss.) Leflore Hospital has prevailed a second time in a discrimination lawsuit filed against by a former hospital board attorney, according to a news report by The Republic.
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Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, N.Y., will lay off 60 employees, which could include 15-20 registered nursing per-diem employees, according to a Staten Island Advance news report.
Mendota (Ill.) Community Hospital is on target to re-open this October after two years of construction to expand its original facility, according to a News Tribune news report.