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Ann Arbor, Mich.-based University of Michigan Health System plans to open its new C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital in November, according to a UMHS news release.

Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma, La., plans to open its $14.8 million Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center in September, according to Daily Comet report.

Hospitals are always trying to improve their programs and service lines, whether by acquiring new equipment, building additional space, recruiting talented professionals or partnering with other organizations. While typically hospitals will partner with other hospitals, health systems or outpatient centers,…

Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Kovler Organ Transplantation Center performed more than 300 kidney transplants in 2010, making it a record year, according to a hospital release.

Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Va., has opened its new Regional Cancer Center, according to a Free Lance-Star report.

Cardiology programs at hospitals in the Cincinnati area are competing more heavily for heart patients than in the past, according to a Community Press report.

St. John's Mercy Heart and Vascular Hospital in St. Louis recently started a cardiology hospitalist program to increase focus on care for hospitalized heart patients, according to a St. Louis Today report.

The Brain Attack Coalition has updated recommendations for primary stroke centers, which the coalition believes should be the central point for stroke treatment, according to a National Institutes of Health news release.

Comprehensive stroke centers can decrease the "weekend effect," in which stroke patients admitted on weekends have a higher risk of death, according to a study published in Stroke.

Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville has opened a new chest pain emergency room, according to a hospital news release.