Florida hospitals will lose $287.3 million in Medicaid funding as part of a new state budget passed by the legislature and sent to Gov. Charlie Crist to sign, according to a report by the Orlando Business Journal.
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RegionalCare Hospital Partners expects to complete its plans to acquire two debt-laden hospitals in Alabama by June 30, according to a report by the Times Daily.
AstraZeneca contributed $1 million to Wilmington (Del.) Hospital toward a $210 million expansion and renovation project aimed to increase the hospital's capacity and add nearly 600 jobs, according to a news release from Christiana Care Health System.
Douglas H. Irvine, MD, PhD, is an anesthesiologist at East Portland Surgical Center in Portland, Ore.Q: Many spine-focused ASCs struggle to recruit well-regarded anesthesiologists. How can ASCs make themselves attractive to such practitioners?
After turning around Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital, Carl Gerlach will return to his job as a consultant and hand the hospital's interim CEO position over to CFO Timothy J. Noakes, according to a report by the Sonoma News.
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Jim Paquette, president and CEO of St. Vincent Healthcare, a 286-bed hospital in Billings, Mont., will retire in May 2011, according to a report by KTVQ TV.
RegionalCare Hospital Partners has acquired 150-bed Clinton Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, Ohio, according to the Wilmington News Journal.
Methodist Willowbrook Hospital in Houston has announced completion of a $240 million, 473,000-square-foot expansion, according to a release from the hospital.
Ross Alexander, MBA, administrator of The Surgery Center of Fort Collins (Colo.), shares four approaches his ASC takes to ensure effective working relationships with its anesthesiologists.
Arizona Heart Institute, a physician-owned cardiology group based in Phoenix, has signed a letter of intent to merge with Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems, which operates the five-hospital Abrazo Health Care system, according to a report in The Arizona Republic.