A majority of Rhode Island House lawmakers expressed support of a proposed $7.7 billion budget, a majority of which includes payment cuts to healthcare providers, according to a Providence Journal news report.
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Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, Md., part of Hagerstown-based Meritus Health, is eliminating approximately 15 positions due to campus consolidation, according to a Herald-Mail report.
Hundreds of Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System employees staged the hospital's first-ever strike yesterday, according to a Californian report.
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.
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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.
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.