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Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., announced the opening of a new $6.5 million inpatient unit.

Although many executives at the eight largest for-profit hospital companies experienced increases in total compensation in 2011 compared with 2010, base salaries did not fluctuate much.

CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and several American Hospital Association leaders shared sentiments during the AHA's annual meeting in Washington D.C., according to an AHA News Now report.

In this year's May issue of Health Affairs, four detailed studies look at different Medicare spending trends and what is driving the variations.

Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City has agreed to pay close to $12 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed Senate Bill 134 into law, which will require Colorado hospitals to discount care to any uninsured patient that makes less than 250 percent of the federal poverty level, according to a Denver Business Journal report.

David Rosen, the former CEO of New York City-based Jamaica Hospital, Flushing Hospital, Brookdale Hospital and the management company overseeing them, has been sentenced to three years in prison for participating in a bribery scheme with state lawmakers, according to…

Madison, Wis.-based UW Health is planning a series of expansion projects that could cost up to $291 million, according to a Wisconsin State Journal report.

First quarter net income at Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare (pdf) totaled $58 million, a 20.5 percent decrease from the $73 million profit it recorded in the first quarter of 2011.

Stanford (Calif.) University announced a new $1 billion campaign to support medical research, education and a new hospital.