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Looking Back to Move Ahead: Leading Hospitals Through Fast-Paced Change Healthcare executives might remember time moving a bit more slowly before March 23, 2010. That was the day President Obama penned his signature, supposedly letter by letter, onto the Patient…

The newly expanded $330 million St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., will begin transitioning patients to the facility on Oct. 13, according to a St. Luke's Health System release.

Mayo Clinic has announced it will expand its Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn., to Arizona, according to a health system release.

Somnia Anesthesia Services has issued a new white paper titled "How Anesthesia Can Help Hospitals with Value-Based Purchasing: Building a Foundation for the Outcomes-Based Business Model."

The cardiology practice Midland Heart and Vascular is expanding its services to provide care to inpatients at Saint John Hospital in Leavenworth, Kan., according to a Kansas City Nursing News report.

Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa, has broken ground on its $129 million expansion project, according to an Ames Tribune report.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., has hired five cardiologists from rival Saint Thomas Heart in Franklin, Tenn., according to a Tennessean report.

Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Medical Center has opened a new Valve Center within its Heart Center to treat valvular heart disease, according to a hospital news release.

A group of healthcare professionals, policy makers and cancer survivors provided insight into the reasons for the high cost of cancer care and offered possible solutions to make a "radical shift in cancer policy" in a report in The Lancet…

South Jersey Healthcare, based in Bridgeton, N.J., has received the green light from state officials to proceed with expansion plans to make room for its residency program, according to a Daily Journal report.