Dallas-based Texas Oncology announced plans for a $105 million proton therapy facility to be developed in collaboration with McKesson Specialty Health, a division of McKesson Corp., and Baylor Health Enterprises, an affiliate of Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System.
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Columbia St. Mary's in Milwaukee, part of St. Louis-based Ascension Health, announced the opening of a new Multiple Sclerosis Clinic in its Orthopaedic & Neuroscience Institute at Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee.
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…