Of the roughly $16 billion dollars the Justice Department has recovered through healthcare whistleblower cases since 1987, about 36 percent has come since 2009, reflecting a surge in qui tam action, according to USA Today report.
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Salem (Ore.) Hospital plans to roll out $30 million in organizational cuts to battle its growing deficit and decline in inpatient admissions, according to a Statesman Journal report.
Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Williamsville, N.Y., has applied for a certificate of need to add a 10-bed neonatal intensive care unit, according to a hospital news release.
A collaboration of Montana hospitals has applied for the three-year, $16 million Innovative Challenge Grant from CMS to form an accountable care organization with 48 of the state's rural hospitals, according to a Montana Watchdog report.
Geneva (N.Y.) General Hospital has broken ground on a $56 million construction project, according to a Democrat and Chronicle report.
Jackson General Hospital in Ripley, W.Va., will make another attempt at critical access hospital designation, the second attempt since 2008, according to a Jackson Newspapers report.
Williamsport, Pa.-based Susquehanna Health has completed a new tower — the largest addition in the health system's $250 million construction project called Project 2012, according to a health system news release.
In the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011, five Pittsburgh-area hospitals and health systems recorded operational losses, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report.
Executives at Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital in Tarpon Springs, Fla., have told city commissioners they will seek a name change for the hospital, which is now affiliated with Adventist Health System, according to a Tamba Bay Times report.
The Christ Hospital, based in Cincinnati, will begin a $265 million expansion project in June 2012, according to a hospital news release.