Leadership & Management

MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Wash., has announced plans for a new 58,500-square-foot medical building to open in summer 2011.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved a $292.5 million mortgage loan to build a new hospital in East Norriton, Pa., according to a press release from HUD.

A panel charged with finding a buyer for Prince George's County's financially troubled hospital system in Maryland recommended the county transfer hospital assets to Dimensions Healthcare System, the nonprofit operator of the hospitals, according to a report in the Washington…

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.

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.

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.