Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems will offer $1 billion in senior notes due in 2020 in order to pay off other debt that is due in 2015.
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Truckee, Calif.-based Tahoe Forest Health System will soon open its new $32.6 million cancer center, according to a Sierra Sun report.
Indianapolis-based health insurer WellPoint and Amerigroup, one of the largest Medicaid managed care insurers in the country, have agreed to terms in which WellPoint will acquire Amerigroup for $4.9 billion.
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The challenge For most healthcare leaders, reform has focused on the implications of changes in payment models. Yet the objectives outlined in the Triple Aim require a significant redefinition in the way frontline personnel must work together to deliver service.…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has announced it will open its new $461 million hospital in Anaheim, Calif., on Sept. 12, according to an Orange County Business Journal report.
Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown, N.Y., has announced the opening of a Level 2 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
IPC The Hospitalist Company, based in North Hollywood, Calif., has announced it has acquired two hospital medicine practices — Hospital Medicine Associates of Florida, based in Ocala, Fla., and Transitions of Care, based in Chicago.
Hawarden (Iowa) Community Hospital and the Hawarden and Ireton (Iowa) Community Clinics announced they will operate under a new parent organization name: Hawarden Regional Healthcare.
Measures of emergency department utilization should be standardized, because reporting ED encounters compared with ED patients provides different views of utilization, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.