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Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River, Mass., has entered into an agreement that will allow Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston to provide oncology care at the hospital, according to a report in the Boston Globe.

The partnership of KOL Bio-Medical Instruments, a service-disabled veteran-owned specialty medical device distributor, and Megadyne, an electrosurgical equipment and accessory developer/manufacturer, has resulted in KOL being awarded a Federal Supply Schedule contract to provide the Megadyne product line, according to…

Due to a software problem, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is requesting that the public resubmit comments made on the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System/Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System, originally submitted through www.regulations.gov, according to a CMS news…

Here are the top 10 states with the lowest number of community hospitals in 2007, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.

Here are the top 10 states with the highest number of community hospitals in 2007, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.

Former Joint Commission president Dennis O'Leary, MD, will become chief strategy officer at San Diego-based Awarepoint Corp., a developer of technology for monitoring patient flow and healthcare supplies, according to a release from Awarepoint.

Here is a list of the number of ambulatory surgeries performed in the United States in 2006 (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred thousand for procedures with volumes greater than 1 million) by facility type and location, according to…

Here is a list of the number of ambulatory surgeries performed in the United States in 2006 (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred thousand for procedures with volumes greater than 1 million) by procedure category, according to the National…

Ground breaking has begun for the new Denver Veterans Medical Center in Aurora, Colo., according to a report in the Denver Post.

CMS has announced results of demonstration programs for large physician practices, small and solo physician practices and hospitals, in which the agency pays providers for meeting certain quality markers, according to a press release from CMS.