Hundreds of Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System employees staged the hospital's first-ever strike yesterday, according to a Californian report.
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Hospital operator Vanguard Health Systems raised $450 million in its initial public offering, less than initial estimates of $661 million, according to a Bloomberg report.
A circuit court judge has overturned Alabama's Certificate of Need Review Board's approval for Brookwood Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., to build a free-standing emergency department in Hoover, Ala., according to a Birmingham News report.
A recent survey by Rivkin & Associates and Bauman Research & Consulting, both based in Glen Rock, N.J., suggests that consumers prefer a "hospital" over a "medical center."
St. Francis Health, with four locations throughout Indiana, announced it will be closing its Beech Grove campus, according to a local FOX news report.
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Connecticut's State Bond Commission will most likely approve an $8.4 million expansion of Windham Hospital in Willimantic, Conn., according to a Hartford Business news report.
A planned Universal Health Services hospital in Temecula, Calif., has broken ground after several delays, according to a news report by The Californian.
After a review of coronary stent procedures at its Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg, Pa.-based Excela Health has concluded 192 patients have undergone procedures potentially unnecessary in the past two years, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report. Excela went public with the…
Oklahoma State University Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla., has begun renovating its emergency department after it was damaged in a flood stemming from a faulty sprinkler pipe in August, according to a Tulsa World news report.
A new generation is formed every 20 years, marked by differences in beliefs, attitudes and behaviors from the generation before them, according to the generationalist theory. There are currently four generations in the American workplace: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X…