Facing a lack of capital and major cuts to their funding sources, almost every healthcare facility in the North Bay region of California will break ground and take on major construction this year, according to the North Bay Business Journal.

A dearth of applicants for nursing jobs is forcing recruiters to try a variety of creative methods just to get qualified individuals to visit organizations, according to the Associated Press.

Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, N.M., is set to begin several new expansion projects that will cost more than $20 million, according to Las Cruces Sun-News.

Page Memorial Hospital (PMH) in Luray, Va., and Winchester, Va.-based Valley Health in have merged, according to The Daily News Record.

SSM Health Care of Oklahoma is combining the emergency rooms at two of its Oklahoma City hospitals, according to published reports.

A coalition of three dozen social service, healthcare, labor and legal groups are asking Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to use part of the federal stimulus package the state will receive late January to support healthcare programs, according to The Boston…

Dick Hanley, president and CEO of Broomfield, Col.-based Health Inventures, which specializes in developing and managing ASCs and imaging centers, often brokering partnerships between hospitals and physicians, offers the following six predictions and assessments relating to physician/hospital ASC joint venture…

Cleveland Clinic has made the business relationships of its physicians visible online as part of its commitment to transparency.

CMS has proposed today three national coverage determinations (NCDs) to establish uniform national policies that would prevent Medicare from paying for certain serious, preventable errors, or "never events," identified in the National Quality Forum's (NQF's) list of Serious Reportable Events:…

In this case study, a health system collaborated with an existing ASC and its physicians through resyndication. Learn how the health system, with market assessment, strategic planning, feasibility analysis and financial planning expertise from Health Inventures, was able to make…