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The approximately 243,000 Marylanders enrolled in individual exchange plans will see an average 33 percent premium increase for 2018.

In 2010, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center faced a growing number of one day stays on its inpatient unit.

A 17-bed ICU of a not-for-profit community hospital was struggling with high length of stay (LOS) and infection rates, staff turnover, and an inability to implement sustainable change.

Joel Diamond, MD, and Assaf Halevy launched 2bPrecise in mid-2015 to connect physicians with precision medicine insights at the point of care.

Patients admitted to cardiac intensive care units often are not suffering from cardiac conditions, rather they are admitted for other conditions, such as sepsis or renal failure, according to a study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital. Yale-New Haven Hospital’s Yale Cancer Center has earned the National Institute of Cancer comprehensive cancer center designation since 1974. The center is a collaboration between the Yale School of Medicine and Smilow Cancer Hospital, which includes 168…

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.).  The Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has held the National Cancer Institute’s comprehensive cancer center designation since 1990. In 2016, the hospital’s blood and marrow transplant program served 120 patients…

Via Christi Health, Wichita (Kan.), a member of Ascension. Via Christi Health, a member of St. Louis-based Ascension, is the largest healthcare provider in Kansas. Via Christi Cancer Institute, located at Via Christi Hospital St. Francis, has 40 private patient rooms…

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.).  Vanderbilt University Medical Center is home to the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. The cancer center was established in 1993 and is one of 27 participants in the National…

Valley Hospital (Ridgewood, N.J.). The Blumenthal Cancer Center at Valley Hospital is a partnership between New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System and Ridgewood, N.J.-based Valley Health System. In 2015, the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer presented Valley Hospital…