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Gordon Hospital in Calhoun, Ga., will open its new, approximately $2 million Harris Radiation Therapy Center to patients by mid-November, according to a Calhoun Times report.

Baptist Hospital East in Louisville, Ky., is planning a $10 million cancer center for outpatient treatment and education, according to a Courier-Journal report.

St. Luke's Hospital-Miners Campus in Coaldale, Pa., has opened its new Heart & Vascular Center, sleep lab and outpatient lab service site, according to a Morning Call report.

Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown, N.Y., is restructuring its administration as part of its strategic plan to grow services, according to a Watertown Daily Times report.

A hospital medicine emergency department team can improve patient flow, decrease ED diversion and treat patients boarded in the ED more quickly than can EDs without an HMED team, according to a study in Journal of Hospital Medicine.

DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit will hold an open house to showcase its new specialty center, according to an MLive report.

A member of the Maryland Health Care Commission has recommended the state reject the request of Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Md., to move to Silver Spring, Md., according to a Washington Post report.

Harrisburg, Pa.-based PinnacleHealth, Camp Hill, Pa.-based Holy Spirit Health System and Penn State Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center jointly conducted a community health needs assessment that found no need for another hospital, running counter to PinnacleHealth's plans for a…

Othello (Wash.) Community Hospital and Othello-based Columbia Basin Health Association, an organization offering family medicine and other medical services, have begun discussing a new strategic plan to collaborate on cutting costs, according to a Columbia Basin Herald report.  

Certified registered nurse anesthetist Donald Bell has been elected chairman of the Tennessee Board of Nursing, the first CRNA to be named to chair the state organization.