Leadership & Management

Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Ill., has officially begun construction on its $220 million patient care tower, according to a hospital news release.

City officials have approved Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford University's proposed plans for a $5 billion hospital expansion, according to a Sacramento Bee news report.

Financially embattled Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital in East St. Louis, Ill., has shut down its emergency services after hospital owners were alerted air conditioning was not working in the facility, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch news report.

Akron (Ohio) General Health System has published its 2010 outcomes in its yearly annual report, which includes more than $571 million in total operating revenues, according to the report.

Valley Baptist Medical Center, with locations in Brownsville, Texas, and Harlingen, Texas, was forced to pay employees for unpaid back overtime, according to a KRGV.com report.

Regional Medical Center at Memphis (Tenn.) has proposed a 2012 budget that includes $20 million for capital improvements of the current facility and $40 million for construction of a replacement hospital, according to a Commercial Appeal report.

Marin County has partnered with Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif., Prima Medical Foundation and Marin Community Clinics to continue its full service OB/GYN program for patients without private insurance, according to a hospital news release.

The American Hospital Association is urging CMS to include additional patient characteristics — including race and limited English proficiency — to the risk-adjustment methodology for its hospital readmission program, according to a letter written to the agency.

Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, N.H., received a certificate of need to renovate the main hospital facility, according to a hospital news release.

Federal prosecutors have declined to intervene in the portion of a qui tam lawsuit that names specific Tennessee hospitals as participants in falsifying medical reports made by a physician, according to a Jackson Sun report. The suit was filed by…