The Senate has approved a House bill that would change the definition of modified adjusted gross income under the healthcare reform law, according to an AHA News Now report.
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The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been awarded a $16 million from the National Institutes of Health to establish a global center of excellence to address the childhood obesity epidemic.
Jackson Health System in Miami has ordered nearly 11,000 employees to take two weeks of unpaid leave from now until Sept. 30, 2012, according to a Miami Herald report.
EMH Healthcare, based in Elyria, Ohio, announced that it will cut 55 positions across the health system, with most of those cuts affecting EMH Elyria Medical Center, according to a Chronicle-Telegram report.
Sarah Krevans has been named COO of Sutter Health, a 24-hospital healthcare system based in San Francisco, according to a San Francisco Business Times report.
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare–St. Francis in Milwaukee is planning an estimated $27.8 million neurology outpatient center, according to a health system news release.
SunLink Health Systems, based in Atlanta, has named Senior Vice President and COO Ron Turner chief development officer.
Daniel Knell has been appointed president of Quincy (Mass.) Medical Center, which was acquired by Steward Health Care in late September, according to a Patriot Ledger report.
Health information exchange access was associated with an annual cost savings of $1.9 million at emergency departments in Memphis, Tenn., according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Regional Hospital of Scranton (Pa.) has named Brooks Turkel CEO, effective Nov. 21, according to a Times Leader report.