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Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston). In 1980, three of Boston’s oldest hospitals — the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital and the Boston Hospital for Women — merged to form Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which now serves…

 Billings Clinic (Billings, MT). Billings Clinic grew from the general medicine office of Arthur J. Movius, MD, who founded his practice in Billings in 1911. Eventually, the practice expanded into what was then known as Billings Deaconess Hospital, which opened its…

Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis). Robert Barnes came to St. Louis in 1830 without a dollar to his name. After working his way up as a bank president, he died in 1892 and bequeathed $850,000 to the city to build a…

Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Lurie Children’s, formerly Children’s Memorial Hospital, was founded in 1882 in an eight-bed cottage by a young widow whose son died of acute rheumatic fever. After more than 130 years, it has…

Abbott Northwestern Hospital, part of Allina Health (Minneapolis). Though it is now the largest hospital in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Abbott Northwestern has humble beginnings: Forty-four women opened Northwestern Hospital in a small rented house in…

Craig Veach, senior VP of corporate sales at AmkaiSolutions, will join a panel on the the biggest challenges in our ASCs at Becker’s 12th Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference.

A new medical office building to house the 'Specially for Children physician group has been built on the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas in Austin, according to a news release.

Physicians are increasingly ordering neuroimaging tests for patients with headaches or migraines, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute has set a new record for U.S. heart transplantation by completing 119 adult heart transplants in 2013.

Duke University Medical Center (Durham, N.C.) Buchanan Duke, a talented businessman who made fortunes in the tobacco and textile industries, left millions after his death in 1925 with the specification that some of the money go toward the establishment of…