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University of California, San Francisco, announced it is developing a new long-range development plan that may include upgrades of UCSF medical facilities.

Southside Regional Medical Center in Petersburg, Va., has broken ground on a $10 million cancer center and medical building, according to a Progress-Index report.

Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock, Ark., is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children from birth to age 21.

Saint Louis University Hospital based in St. Louis will open the region's first outpatient bone marrow transplant center later this month, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

Indianapolis-based Community Health Network announced the ground breaking of its new $24 million Community Regional Cancer Center-South at Community Hospital South in Indianapolis.

Singing River Health System in Pascagoula, Miss., announced the opening of its $5.7 million Neuroscience Center at Ocean Springs (Miss.) Medical Park.

Mitt Romney's remark that uninsured people can receive care in the hospital to avoid dying in their apartments is not sitting well with hospital and insurance groups, according to a Columbus Dispatch report.

A health policy paper published in The Lancet urges healthcare providers and policy makers in the United States and United Kingdom to collaborate on healthcare improvement efforts.

Health insurer WellPoint plans to reorganize into four business units, one of the first moves announced by interim CEO John Cannon, who took helm of the organization in August, according to a Bloomberg report.

Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center, an Arizona ophthalmology practice, has announced the opening of a new facility in Flagstaff, Ariz., according to a new release.