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Riddle Hospital in Media, Pa., is beginning a $16.5 million expansion of its emergency department that would increase capacity by 60 percent, according to a Delaware County Daily Times report.

Penn State Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center announced an agreement between Carlisle (Pa.) Regional Medical Center and Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute to enhance oncology services for CRMC patients.

The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Albuquerque-based Lovelace Health System and its operator, Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health Services, after a physician alleged the organizations conducted an unreasonable peer review process that led to the suspension of…

To construct a truly outstanding patient-safety and quality control program, hospitals must first have a strong quality foundation. Many hospitals attempt to launch sophisticated initiatives and find they are unable to build upon their poor structural foundation and are surprised…

Every for-profit hospital company in the Fitch-rated group received a cash incentive payment from CMS' Electronic Health Record Program in 2011, and all except one company saw a consequential boost to their EBITDA as a result, according to a report…

Detroit Medical Center's Children's Hospital of Michigan is proposing a $50 million healthcare facility in Royal Oak, Mich., according to a metromode report.

In 2010, the highest-paid employee of the University of California San Diego Health System was not former CEO Thomas Jackiewicz — who made $819,059 — but Stuart Jamieson, MD, head of UCSD Health System's Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, who made…

Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma, La., has closed its labor and delivery department, including its neonatal care unit, due to budget constraints, according to a Houma Today report.

Maine Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew believes the state will have to repay CMS for providing Medicaid coverage to 19,000 eligible beneficiaries between September 2010 and January 2012, according to a Portland Press Herald report.

In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, two members of the Center for Studying Health System Change contend the recent slowdown in Medicare spending growth is not a fluke and is indicative of the future.