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Saint Alphonsus Health System, based in Boise, Idaho, has announced it will invest $33.5 million to expand medical services in Nampa.

Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Ill., will be opening its new replacement facility in New Lenox on Feb. 26.

Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview, Texas, has begun construction on an emergency center in Kilgore, according to a KETKNBC report.

The following article is reprinted with permission from Western Pennsylvania Hospital News.Many emergency medicine departments in [Pennsylvania] and throughout the country are experiencing overcrowding and heavy resource demand.

Rep. Wally Herger (R-Calif.), who currently serves as the chair of the House Subcommittee on Health will not seek reelection, according to a report by The Hill.

UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica (Calif.) officially opened its doors over the weekend and began treating patients, according to a UCLA news release.

The following is reprinted with permission from the blog, "Not Running a Hospital," authored by Paul Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.I really like it when I agree with Zeke Emanuel and never more so…

The last 20 years might be considered the "golden age" for advances in anesthesiology, culminating in the first nationwide system for the collection of data that includes individual anesthesia problems in real cases, established in Oct. 2011, according to a…

Kenneth Elmassian, DO, president of the Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists wrote into the Detroit Free Press on the subject of drug shortages this week, emphasizing the ASA's work to alleviate shortages nationwide.

Monitoring Internet traffic may serve as a better means of predicting surges in emergency departments due to influenza than waiting for government flu case reports, according to a news release from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.