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Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, an HCA facility in Webster, Texas, will break ground on a $92 million expansion and renovation project this Thursday, according to a Galveston Daily News report.

Phoenix Children's Hospital has opened a new pediatric center in cooperation with Yuma (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center.

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…

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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.