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Dallas-based Children's Medical Center has announced plans for an expansion that would include the construction of a pediatric outpatient facility, including an ambulatory surgery center, in Southlake, Texas, according to a report in the Star Local News.

An as-yet unnamed consulting group will run Santa Clara Valley (Calif.) Medical Center, following the departures of the director of the hospital and the CEO of its health system, according to a report by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

Baptist Health System, which operates five acute-care hospitals in the San Antonio area, has purchased a parcel of land in New Braunfels, Texas, where it plans to build a new hospital, according to the San Antonio Business Journal.

The new Oklahoma Heart Hospital South Campus has earned Medicare certification and state certification to treat Medicaid patients, according to a report by the Journal Record.

Fewer than one in three medical residents graduating from New Jersey medical schools said they intended to establish a practice in the state, according to a 2009 "Resident Exit Survey" prepared by the New Jersey Council of Teaching Hospitals.

Meridian, Miss.-based Rush Health Systems will break ground on the John C. Stennis Memorial Hospital in DeKalb, Miss., which replaces a hospital that closed years ago, according to a report by WTOK.

The Tehachapi Valley (Calif.) Healthcare District plans to break ground on a new hospital in spring 2011, according to a report by the Tehachapi News.

Executives at West Penn Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh discussed a reorganization that might lead to a new name and changes at its Allegheny General Hospital Suburban campus at a March 8 town hall meeting with employees, according to a…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have issued a notice advising physicians and healthcare providers who are not enrolled in Medicare or who have not updated their Medicare information since Nov. 2003 to complete an initial enrollment application, according…

Plans by Vassar Brothers Medical Center, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to build a new ASC as part of a larger $66 million expansion are moving forward, according to a story in the Poughkeepsie Journal.