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The Vernon Township Council unanimously rejected New Jersey-based Atlantic Health Systems' plans to build an urgent care center near Mountain Creek ski resort's Appalachian Hotel in Vernon, N.J., according to a New Jersey Herald report.

The Detroit Medical Center plans to break ground on a $78 million cardiology facility next week, according to an Associated Press/Chicago Tribune report.

Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center is opening a new heart center at Glenpointe in Teaneck, N.J., according to a hospital news release.

Roughly 82 percent of middle-income Americans on Medicare are either "extremely" or "very" satisfied with the access and quality of healthcare associated with the largest payor in the country, according to a study from the Bankers Life and Casualty Company…

Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting — ACOs, Physician-Hospital Integration, Improving Profits and Key Specialties May 17-18, 2012; ChicagoHotel Allegro Chicago

St. Mary's Janesville (Wis.) Hospital and the Dean Clinic-Janesville East opened today and began admitting patients almost immediately, according to the Janesville Gazette.

Healthcare spending in 2010 grew 3.9 percent, representing total health spending of $2.6 trillion, according to research published in Health Affairs.

Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Ore., has completed the skeleton of its approximately $45-million new wing, which will house an intensive care unit and catheterization lab, according to a report by The World.

Rockford, Ill.-based SwedishAmerican Health System is collaborating with Madison, Wis.-based UW Health and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center to build an outpatient cancer center, according to a SwedishAmerican news release.

More than 115 House Republicans have signed an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief filed by the American Center for Law and Justice asking the Supreme Court to declare the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, according to an ACLJ…