Approximately 3,500 members of the Service Employees International Union Healthcare Minnesota voted to authorize a two- to five-day strike at eight hospitals in the Twin Cities metro area, according to a Star Tribune report.
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Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network has partnered with The Wistar Institute, a biomedical research group in Philadelphia, to advance cancer research, according to a Morning Call report.
Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., has broken ground on a $100 million expansion of its Cooper Cancer Institute, according to a Courier Post report.
Kansas City, Mo.-based Saint Luke's Health System announced the opening of a new thoracic center at Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City.
Temple University in Philadelphia and Joseph J. Kubacki, MD, former chairman of the medical school's ophthalmology department, agreed to pay a combined settlement of roughly $1.09 million over Temple's voluntary disclosure of fraudulent billing.
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St. Paul, Minn.-based HealthEast System plans to open a spine clinic in a space formerly occupied by a Gander Mountain Store in Maplewood, Minn., according to a Twin Cities Pioneer Press report.