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Kenneth Elmassian, DO, president of the Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists wrote into the Detroit Free Press on the subject of drug shortages this week, emphasizing the ASA's work to alleviate shortages nationwide.

Monitoring Internet traffic may serve as a better means of predicting surges in emergency departments due to influenza than waiting for government flu case reports, according to a news release from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, an HCA facility in Webster, Texas, will break ground on a $92 million expansion and renovation project this Thursday, according to a Galveston Daily News report.

Phoenix Children's Hospital has opened a new pediatric center in cooperation with Yuma (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center.

The Vernon Township Council unanimously rejected New Jersey-based Atlantic Health Systems' plans to build an urgent care center near Mountain Creek ski resort's Appalachian Hotel in Vernon, N.J., according to a New Jersey Herald report.

Roughly 82 percent of middle-income Americans on Medicare are either "extremely" or "very" satisfied with the access and quality of healthcare associated with the largest payor in the country, according to a study from the Bankers Life and Casualty Company…

Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting — ACOs, Physician-Hospital Integration, Improving Profits and Key Specialties May 17-18, 2012; ChicagoHotel Allegro Chicago

St. Mary's Janesville (Wis.) Hospital and the Dean Clinic-Janesville East opened today and began admitting patients almost immediately, according to the Janesville Gazette.

Healthcare spending in 2010 grew 3.9 percent, representing total health spending of $2.6 trillion, according to research published in Health Affairs.

More than 115 House Republicans have signed an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief filed by the American Center for Law and Justice asking the Supreme Court to declare the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, according to an ACLJ…