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Below are profiles on acute-care hospitals across the country. Each profile features the "Top 10 Things" to know about each of the organizations.If you would like to have your organization featured here or would like to request a change be…

Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) General Hospital, an affiliate of Commonwealth Health in Northeastern Pennsylvania, has completed its new $53 million heart and vascular institute tower and emergency department, according to a Citizens' Voice report.

Biggs-Gridley (Calif.) Memorial Hospital is adding a new cardiovascular lab to its Medical Specialty Center, according to a Gridley Herald report.

UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas announced plans to operate a proton therapy center that would be funded by Advanced Particle Therapy, a proton therapy center developer.

Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center in Boston announced plans to create a personalized cancer care center and consortium using a $2.5 million gift.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center announced it has been chosen by Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan to conduct a feasibility study on the development of a national oncology treatment and research center in that country.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education will soon begin testing the site visit process for its new Clinical Learning Environment Review Process, the Council's new outcomes-based accreditation system, according to an AHA News Now report.

Here are 13 hospital cancer center expansions from the past month, beginning with the most recent announcement.

More research is needed to develop policies and strategies for allocating scarce healthcare resources during a mass casualty event, according to an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report (pdf).

CMS has named 89 new accountable care organizations that will participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, effective this month. The new Medicare ACOs will coordinate care for nearly 1.2 million beneficiaries in 40 states and in Washington, D.C. With…