Officials from Cape Fear Valley Health System are opposing plans from FirstHealth of the Carolinas to build a new ambulatory surgery center in Hoke County, N.C., saying the population of the county can support two operating rooms, not three as…
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The Shriners Hospital for Children – Galveston is scheduled to re-open for the first time since Hurricane Ike on Nov. 8, after concerns the hospital would close for good earlier this year, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle.
A new survey of a limited sampling of physicians by KantarHealth Research finds that 57 percent believe health reform would have a negative impact on their businesses, while about a quarter think the impact would be positive, according to a…
Lakeside Medical Center in Belle Glade, Fla., has officially opened and is treating patients, according to a report by the South Florida Business Journal.
The AHA is providing member hospitals with an executive briefing book to help them prepare for the 2013 transition to the 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases clinical coding system, according to the AHA.
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Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System has reached a deal to partner with Civista Medical Center in La Plata, Md., and will provide the hospital with physicians, technology and specialists to help treat patients in Southern Maryland, according to a…
A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that patients who underwent minimally invasive surgery for prostate cancer had a higher rate of incontinence or impotence a year and…
An amendment presented by Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) that would provide four cancer hospitals with more Medicare money for treating cancer patients was left out of the Senate Finance Committee's healthcare reform bill, according to a…
Here are statistics on the top 10 most common principle diagnoses among 65-74-year-old hospitalized patients, as determined by the diagnosis rate per 1,000 hospitalized patients within that age range, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost…