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House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said last week that House Democrats may advocate for a one-year repair of the sustainable growth rate, saying they will work for "seniors' ability to see their doctors for the rest of the…

The American Hospital Association and three other hospital groups have filed an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief with the Supreme Court that gives their support to the individual mandate requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance or face a penalty, according…

Quincy (Mass.) Medical Center and its parent organization, for-profit Steward Health Care in Boston, will spend $12.8 million to bring back its maternity ward, which was originally closed in Oct. 1998, according to a Patriot Ledger report.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released the fourth version of its Emergency Severity Index, a triage tool for emergency department personnel.

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago opened its Robert R. McCormick Foundation Center for Advanced Emergency Response today.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled a 2009 law that excludes legal immigrants from the state's Commonwealth Care program violated those residents' rights, according to a Boston Globe report.

Sheridan (Mich.) Community Hospital has developed a new neurosurgery program, according to an Ionia Sentinel-Standard report.

John Noseworthy, MD, president and CEO of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, defends the system's investment in two proton beam therapy facilities in a Star Tribune report.

El Paso (Texas) Children's Hospital is set to open in just 40 days, according to a KTSM report.

Adolph H. "Buddy" Giesecke Jr., MD, an anesthesiologist who treated President John F. Kennedy in a Dallas hospital's emergency room, has died at 79, according to a Sun Times report.