Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed three new members to the state's Health Facilities Board, filling the remaining vacancies for a full board, according to a Chicago Business news report.
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New Orleans' planned $1.2 billion, 424-bed University Medical Center may need approximately $100 million from the state general fund annually by 2020, according to a Times-Picayune report.
A redevelopment project by Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver may create 1,400 construction-related jobs annually and $340 million in labor compensation from now until the project's planned completion in 2014, according to a hospital news release.
Baptist Regional Medical Center in Corbin, Ky., has reduced its staff by the equivalent of 117 full-time employees since April 1, according to a Times-Tribune report.
Many hospitals lose tens of thousands of dollars every year, appear older and in need of capital improvement by leaving equipment that should be disposed of on their fixed asset ledger. Maintaining clean records of assets being purchased and being…
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A judge has dismissed what he called an “unconstitutionally vague” 10-count indictment against Lacy Thomas, the former chief of University Medical Center in Las Vegas, according to a Las Vegas Review-Journal report. Prosecutors alleged that Mr. Thomas steered $10 million…
Roosevelt Hairston Jr., the former executive vice president and general counsel for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has been accused of embezzling $1.7 million from the facility, according to a Reuters report. Mr. Hairston allegedly hid the theft by creating shell…
HCA's affiliation with Tampa, Fla.-based University of South Florida Health to develop a state-wide network of trauma care is being challenged by three hospitals that argue there is not adequate demand to justify the expansion, according to a Tampa Tribune…
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare, based in Louisville, Ky., has filed for a certificate of need to become a partner in an orthopedic surgery center in Louisville, according to a Business First report.
The Illinois Legislature has passed a bill that reforms the state's workers' compensation system, slashing reimbursement rates to hospitals by approximately, 30 percent.