Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, a Cleveland Clinic Hospital, has opened a $1.7 million catheterization lab, according to a Hillcrest Patch report.
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Auburn (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital has changed its name to Auburn Community Hospital, according to a hospital news release.
Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville, Pa., has opened a second catheterization lab, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report.
Small hospitals are less likely to provide recommended heart failure care compared with larger hospitals, according to a study in the American Heart Journal.
Anil Potti, MD, former researcher at Duke University in Durham, N.C., has been accused of purposely falsifying data, according to a Chronicle report.
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Adult hospital stays principally for cancer cost $20.1 billion, accounting for 6 percent of adult inpatient hospital costs in 2009, according to a statistical brief published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., part of Brentwood, Tenn.-based TriStar Health System, has opened the $150 million TriStar Centennial Heart & Vascular Center, according to a Nashville Business Journal report.
Finley Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa, is filing a certificate of need to build a cardiac catheterization laboratory, according to a hospital news release.
Summit Health in Chambersburg, Pa., has expanded its cardiology practice by attracting cardiologists from Keystone Cardiology to the health system, according to a Public Opinion report.
A senator and three professional medical associations have sent messages urging pharmaceutical companies to increase production of a pediatric cancer drug that is in dangerously low supply, according to a Washington Post report.