Saint Clare's Health System, owned by Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives, has filed a certificate-of-need application with New Jersey to discontinue inpatient services at its Sussex, N.J., hospital, according to a Star-Ledger report.
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Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Memorial Health System posted a profit of $29 million in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2011, an outcome hospital officials said was due to higher-than-expected patient volumes, according to a News-Press report.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed a group of healthcare veterans to his Brooklyn Work Group, and has tasked them will saving Brooklyn's private safety-net hospitals, which together are in the hole for more than $1 billion, according to…
Three health systems in Miami-Dade County, Fla., are planning new trauma centers to compete with Jackson Memorial Hospital, which is home to the only current adult trauma center in the county, according to a Miami Herald report.
New York Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., has been acquitted of corruption charges for allegedly accepting $175,000 in bribes from Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn in return for advocating for the hospital at the state capital, according to…
Great River Health Systems in West Burlington, Iowa, has agreed to acquire the Keokuk (Iowa) Clinic, effective Jan. 1, 2012, according to a news release.
Members of the Scranton, Pa., community have shown “overwhelming support” to sell its Moses Taylor Hospital to Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, according to a Times-Tribune report. A public hearing on the transaction was held last night, where Moses Taylor…
Three Republican senators have expressed concern that The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and its $10 billion budget is a waste of money, according to a report from The Hill. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Tom…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its Medicare Shared Savings Program application and will accept applications beginning Dec. 1.
Physicians at UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center have performed the city's first-ever coronary revascularization procedure using a hybrid operating room, according to a UC San Diego Health System news release.