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While employment among all healthcare sectors continued to grow from November to December, employment in physicians' offices and outpatient care centers, including ASCs, grew faster than in hospitals, according a release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Department of Health and Human Services is planning a national claims database that would include information from Medicare, Medicaid and private payors, according to a report in American Medical News.

The American Hospital Association has issued a 27-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that outlines the trade organization's perspective on the combined Congressional healthcare reform bill.

Knoxville, Tenn.-based TeamHealth has acquired Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.-based Anesthetix Management, a national provider of comprehensive anesthesiology and pain management service solutions to hospitals and surgery centers in 10 states, according to a TeamHealth news release.

Birmingham, Ala.-based HealthSouth Corp. has signed an agreement to sell HealthSouth Rehabilitation of Baton Rouge, La., to Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital, according to a HealthSouth news release.

Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, N.Y., will open an ASC and an urgicare center between April and July 2011, according to a report in the Staten Island Advance.

The American Hospital Association has announced that Stephen Smart, DDS, will be chair and Penny Brooke will be chair-elect for the AHA's 2010 Committee on Governance, according to an AHA news release.

Lexington (N.C.) Memorial Hospital, a subsidiary of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, has announced plans to reorganize, according to a report by The Dispatch.

Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs, Colo., may potentially be offered for sale, according to a report by KKTV.

NYU Langone Medical Center has formally withdrawn as a potential merger partner for Lenox Hill Hospital, according to a report by Crain's New York Business.