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Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville, Mo., has opened a new heart center and added two new cardiologists as part of an effort to attract patients to the hospital and prevent them from needing to travel to Columbia, Mo., for…

Annual growth in advanced diagnostic imaging has decreased from approximately 6 percent during the mid-1990s to mid-2000s to between 1 percent and 3 percent among both Medicare and commercially insured patients from 2007 to 2009, according to a study in…

The U.S. government has approved a joint contract with Vantage Outsourcing, establishing the first-ever joint contract in the history of government contracting.

Hurricane Irene ravaged the state of Vermont last year with heavy rains, but not even a torrential downpour could slow down Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, considered to be one of the top hospitals in central Vermont.

CMS has announced it will increase the payment rate to inpatient rehabilitation facilities by 2.1 percent for fiscal year 2013.

Indiana University's schools of optometry and medicine are creating a new academic exchange program with four eye institutes and hospitals in India, according to a news release.

Suzy Cobin, senior vice president of Chicago-based of HSA PrimeCare, a real estate developer and private equity source with a primary focus on healthcare real estate, discusses the top ten things physicians should know about real estate development for surgery…

From 2001 and 2007, there was an annual average of 2.7 percent pediatric 72-hour return visits to the emergency department, according to a Pediatric Emergency Care study.

David C. Watts, MD, the Vice President of Education for the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF), discusses five key factors in the process of obtaining and maintaining Medicare accreditation in ambulatory surgery centers.

Fremont (Neb.) Area Medical Center has opened a new cancer resource center, according to a Fremont Tribune report.