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Author and anesthesiologist Barry Friedberg, MD, has joined Marty Makary, MD, in calling for greater medical transparency and accountability to protect patients from harm.

Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Fla., is part of Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System.

Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla (Calif.) is part of San Diego-based Scripps Health.

Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis is part of Indiana University Health System.

The partnership between Yakima (Wash.) Valley Memorial Hospital and the Yakima (Wash.) Heart Center has begun as the heart center welcomed the hospital's Cardiovascular Imaging Center to its facility, according to a KAPP TV report.

San Diego-based Scripps Health announced the opening of its new $43.9 million radiation therapy center.

University Medical Center in Lafayette, La., part of Baton Rouge-based Louisiana State University Health Care Services Division, has opened its new $90,000 cardiology wing, according to a KLFY report.

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Lisa Rock, President of National Medical Billing Services, will give a presentation titled "Handling of Out-of-Network Successfully From a Billing and Coding Perspective."

Ophthalmologist Robert Massof, MD, founder and director of the Lions Vision Research and Rehabilitation Center, a division of the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, was honored earlier this week at the White House for his volunteer services, according to a…

President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will face off in the first of three debates tomorrow night, and one of the debate's six segments is dedicated to healthcare, according to a report from The Hill.