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Robert Turbow, MD, a neonatologist, has been named chief patient safety officer for San Francisco-based Dignity Health's Central Coast hospitals, according to a San Luis Obispo report.
HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minn., has announced a major leadership shift in its corporate structure, according to a Star Tribune report.
Lynn Orfgen has announced his retirement as CEO of Crittenton Hospital Medical Center in Rochester, Mich., according to a Crain's Detroit Business report.
Wheeling, W.Va.-based Ohio Valley Health Services and Education Corp., parent company of Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, W.Va., and East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry, Ohio, has signed a letter of intent to affiliate with Franklin, Tenn.-based Community…
Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia, Tenn., announced the addition of neurosurgery to its specialty services.
The $248 million expansion planned by West Virginia University Hospitals in Morgantown will be further delayed as the certificate of need hearing is rescheduled for July, according to a WBOY report.
The rate of mortality per dollar spent at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston can be divided into four phases, with the current period marked by escalating costs, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
An HHS phone-center program that has provided case management services to more than 200,000 people in 22 states looking for health insurance assistance will receive $2.5 million more in funding, according to an HHS announcement.
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