Gundersen Health System (La Crosse, Wis.). In 2008, Gundersen began making efforts toward improving efficiency and developing regional partnerships to produce renewable energy. By 2014, Gundersen became the first hospital system in the nation to achieve energy independence by producing…
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Visits to the emergency department for dental issues have doubled from 1.1 million in 2000 to 2.2 million in 2012, according to data analyzed by the American Dental Association and featured in the USA Today.
The Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has launched an initiative to make neighborhoods more amendable to walking, biking and other forms of physical activity.
HHS is considering adopting guidance from an independent panel of medical experts that recommends against regular mammograms for women under 50 unless they are at acute risk for breast cancer. If this guidance is adopted, insurance companies will no longer…
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UAB Hospital (Birmingham, Ala.). Licensed for 1,157 beds, UAB Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in the nation by bed size and is the largest academic medical center in the state. Not only is it large, it is also…
Honor Shea Medical Center. Established as a small hospital on the outskirts of Scottsdale, Shea Medical Center has grown to become a large medical and research facility. The 433-bed hospital offers a wide variety of services, including a Level III…
Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown, Pa.). Lehigh Valley Hospital is the flagship of the Lehigh Valley Health Network, comprised of five full-service hospitals, a children’s hospital, community health centers, home health and hospice services and a physician group. In 2014, the…
A group of 50 activists from the Trauma Care Coalition chained together and blocked traffic on Michigan Avenue in Chicago Thursday night to demand the University of Chicago build a trauma center on the city's South Side, according to NBC…
Sierra Leone government ministers have lost track of more than $3 million in internal emergency funds for fighting the Ebola virus, according to Sierra Leone's national auditor general, Lara Taylor-Pearce, The New York Times reports.