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Similar to polling results in 2010 when the law was passed, 54 percent of Americans oppose the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but not for the same reasons, according to a CNN/ORC International poll.

Exeter (N.H.) Hospital is a community-based, acute-care hospital.

Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health and the Gaston County Veterans Council have reached a compromise over the controversial name change of Gaston Memorial Hospital to CaroMont Regional Medical Center, according to a Charlotte Observer report.

St. John's Lutheran Hospital in Libby, Mont., announced its name will change to Cabinet Peaks Medical Center upon completion of its $32 million replacement facility.

Tacoma, Wash.-based Franciscan Health System and Seattle Children's Neonatology have entered into a partnership to open a Level III neonatal intensive care unit at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Tacoma.

Clorox Company announced that the San Francisco Business Times has named two of the company's executives to its 2013 list of the most influential women in Bay Area business.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has approved five presidential nominations to the National Labor Relations Board, according to an AHA News Now report.

Boone Hospital Center in Columbia, Mo., is an acute-care hospital.

Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston is collaborating with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for cancer care, according to a Sun Journal report.

TeleTracking Technologies in Pittsburgh announced that Nanne Finis, RN, has joined its team as vice president of consulting services.