Leadership & Management

Lenox Hill Hospital in New York will join the North Shore-LIJ Health System, according to a press release from North Shore-LIJ.

Healthcare CFOs are less optimistic about their company's financial futures and the overall state of the economy than their peers in other industries, according to a new survey by Grant Thornton.

First-quarter net income for Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan rose 64 percent to $706 million, mainly due to investment gains, according to a release from Kaiser Permanente.

For-profit hospital operator Health Management Associates reported net income of $46.9 million for the first quarter, up from about $46 million in the year-ago quarter, according to a company news release.

Indianapolis-based Clarian Health has unveiled plans for a $375 million patient tower that would add 175-200 beds to Methodist Hospital in downtown Indianapolis, according to a report by the Indianapolis Business Journal.

Officials in Washington, D.C., have taken over United Medical Center in Southeast Washington, after the hospital's New Hampshire-based for-profit owner defaulted on loan agreements with the city, according to a report in The Washington Post.

Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Fla., has begun building a $25 million pavilion, according to a report by the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

The Seattle City Council has approved a $1 billion, 1.22 million-square-foot expansion of Seattle Children's Hospital, which would add 350 beds over 20 years, according to a report by the Puget Sound Business Journal.

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System plans to invest $500 million in an expansion of its flagship campus in Detroit, according to a report by the Detroit Free Press.

Physicians who originally had an 80 percent stake in a proposed Austin, Texas-area hospital have entirely dropped ownership due to the ban on physician-owned hospitals under the health reform law.