By Gregg Blesch |
March 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription The remaining members of the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati have reached a memorandum of understanding that leaves the University of Cincinnati as the alliance's sole member and guides an orderly divvying up of shared assets. FULL STORY »
By Gregg Blesch |
March 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Leaders of Methodist Hospitals, based in Gary, Ind., are heralding signs that their rescue efforts have paid off. FULL STORY »
March 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription CLEVELAND—The Cleveland Clinic is planning to spend $848 million on capital projects in 2010, President and CEO Delos “Toby” Cosgrove told employees in his “State of the Clinic” address, according to a summary provided by the system. Much of the investment will go toward the renovation of inpatient and outpatient space on the Cleveland campus that was vacated with the openings last year of a new heart pavilion and urological and kidney tower. The work started in 2008 and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2010, Cosgrove said. While noting that the... FULL STORY »
February 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription ST. LOUIS—Success Healthcare, Boca Raton, Fla., said it will consolidate most of the inpatient services at its two St. Louis hospitals at one site to stem financial losses by cutting its workforce by a quarter. Success plans to apply with the state of Missouri for a single license covering both hospitals in order to put both sites under a single management team and board, according to Success. The hospitals expect to receive $24 million less from the state in reimbursements for the two state fiscal years that begin July 1, spokeswoman Janet Conners said. Uncompensated-care cost... FULL STORY »
February 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription TOPEKA, Kan.—Kansas hospitals employed more than 68,000 people in 2009, or about 3.8% of the state’s employment, with a total payroll of about $3.8 billion, according to an economic report released by the Kansas Hospital Association. Hospitals also generated $132 million in sales tax, according to the report, compiled by researchers from the Office of Local Government of Kansas State University Research and Extension. Broadly defined, healthcare employed more than 200,000 Kansans in 2009, or 10.8% of the workforce. FULL STORY »
March 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Unity Health System is expected to begin construction preparation in April for a $158 million expansion and renovation of Unity Hospital. The project, once completed in 2014, will add a fourth floor and 35 beds to the 441-bed hospital with capacity for another 50 beds. State health officials approved the project in January and February. Officials in the town of Greece, N.Y., cleared the deal this month, said Patrizia Corvaia, a Unity spokeswoman. Renovation plans will convert the hospital's nursing home annex into space for its gastrointestinal unit and dialysis... FULL STORY »
February 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription HARRISBURG, Pa.—The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania last week rejected a proposal in the governor's budget that the trade group said would cut state Medicaid payments to hospitals by roughly $31.9 million. The trade group said Gov. Edward Rendell's $66.4 billion budget would reduce overall Medicaid reimbursement by $73.4 million after factoring in the loss of federal funds that match state spending for the safety net program. Federal funding for Medicaid increased temporarily under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If extended through June... FULL STORY »
February 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—St. Vincent’s Medical Center began accepting patients at the new Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care. The 125,000-square-foot building cost about $50 million and is designed to consolidate cancer prevention, diagnostic and treatment, according to a news release from St. Vincent’s. SWIM Across the Sound is a not-for-profit affiliate of St. Vincent’s focused on cancer education, prevention and screening at low or no cost. The four-story cancer center building also houses the new Michael J. Daly Center for Emergency and Trauma Care. The... FULL STORY »
December 14, 2009
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Basic Web Registration BUFFALO, N.Y.—Kaleida Health said it will create a committee to oversee public hearings in 2010 on uses for its Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital, also in Buffalo, which is scheduled to close the following year. Services from Millard Fillmore Gates will be transferred to Kaleida's 1,161-bed Buffalo General Hospital, which will undergo a $140 million expansion. Kaleida Health announced in a news release its governing board will name a nine- to 11-member committee in 2010 to oversee reuse plans for Millard Fillmore Gates and its nearly nine-acre campus. The committee will... FULL STORY »
November 23, 2009
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Basic Web Registration NEW YORK—The NYU Langone Medical Center opened a 22,000-square-foot outpatient surgery center after a yearlong renovation project. The $16 million overhaul is part of the 806-bed hospital's newly created musculoskeletal institute, one of six centers of excellence chosen by the hospital to share funding totaling $15 million over three years. Steve Abramson, a New York University professor of medicine, and Joseph Zuckerman, an orthopedic surgery professor and the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases orthopedic surgery department chairman, were named joint directors of the... FULL STORY »
March 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription CHARLESTON, S.C.—The Medical University of South Carolina and Georgetown (S.C.) Hospital System said they are expanding their partnership with a new strategic affiliation agreement. The agreement will bring more medical specialty consultation services to Georgetown facilities via a telecommunications system that links the two providers and provides greater access to clinical trials and research. MUSC residents and medical students will gain training opportunities. The academic medical center and the Georgetown system jointly developed an $11 million cancer center in Georgetown... FULL STORY »
February 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Baptist Health, a three-hospital system based in Jacksonville, announced plans to enter a joint venture with an urgent-care provider that will rebrand its local network of clinics. Jacksonville-based Solantic owns nine clinics in the area already, and Baptist's undisclosed investment in the company will help allow the opening of up to three more local centers in the near future. Solantic and Baptist will have a 50-50 stake in the joint venture, paying half of the costs and reaping half of the profits, but the clinics will continue to be staffed and managed by... FULL STORY »
February 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription RALEIGH, N.C.—Rex Healthcare, Raleigh, said it will apply by Feb. 15 for a certificate of need for a $54 million project to add 60,000 square feet onto its 29-bed cancer unit and make a full-fledged cancer hospital. The 431-bed hospital, part of UNC Health Care, Chapel Hill, also will renovate 40,000 square feet of space for the North Carolina Cancer Hospital at Rex, said Lisa Schiller, associate vice president of marketing. The proposed cancer hospital would include specialty clinics devoted to various forms of cancer, Schiller said. If CON approval is granted and depending on... FULL STORY »
By Vince Galloro |
December 14, 2009
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Basic Web Registration For Novant Health and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, playing the certificate-of-need waiting game isn’t so bad. FULL STORY »
December 14, 2009
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Basic Web Registration FORT SMITH, Ark.—Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla., said it completed its acquisition of Sparks Health System, which consists primarily of Sparks Regional Medical Center, Fort Smith, effective Dec. 1. Terms were not disclosed. HMA owns one other hospital in Arkansas, Summit Medical Center in Van Buren, which is about seven miles from Sparks Regional. In March, the board of not-for-profit Sparks signed a letter of intent to sell the system to Jackson Hospital Affiliates; the hospital division of staffing firm Jackson Healthcare, Alpharetta, Ga. Jackson and Sparks scuttled... FULL STORY »
March 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription VALLEJO, Calif.—Kaiser Permanente has opened a new hospital, Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center. The 457,000-square-foot facility has five stories and includes 120 medical/surgical beds, 38 emergency room bays and expanded emergency, radiology and surgery services. The hospital is fully wired for Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect, the Oakland, Calif., managed-care giant's electronic health-record system. The hospital, about 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, cost an estimated $450 million. It was originally slated to open in November 2009 but was delayed. FULL STORY »
February 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription DOWNEY, Calif.—The Daughters of Charity Health System has entered exclusive negotiations to purchase a not-for-profit hospital in bankruptcy in Downey that serves southeast Los Angeles County, the two organizations said. Daughters of Charity, a six-hospital Roman Catholic system based in Los Altos Hills, Calif., has received notice that officials for 181-bed Downey Regional Medical Center have approved a letter of intent for affiliation with the system. A news release from Daughters of Charity said Downey Regional filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last September, and... FULL STORY »
By Gregg Blesch |
February 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Several legal cases are drawing to a close for two former Los Angeles hospital owners accused of filling beds with patients recruited from the area known as Skid Row. But the matter appears far from over. FULL STORY »
December 14, 2009
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Basic Web Registration LONG BEACH, Calif.—Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach is set to open a new $199.5 million patient pavilion at the end of December. The four-story, 124,000 square-foot building houses a pediatric surgery center with seven operating rooms and a pediatric imaging center. The pavilion has 93 neonatal intensive-care-unit beds, with an additional 24 NICU beds to be added later. A family resource center, sibling playroom and meditation sanctuary are also on site. Proposition 61, a statewide children's hospital bond initiative passed in 2004, provided $74 million for the project, and... FULL STORY »
November 23, 2009
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Basic Web Registration SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center broke ground on a new inpatient care building on Oct. 22. The $887.4 million construction project is funded through a general obligation bond initiative overwhelmingly passed by 84% of city voters in November 2008. The new 448,000 square-foot, nine-story facility will have 284 beds—32 more beds than the current facility, and will allow the county hospital to meet state seismic safety requirements. The new building, slated to open in 2015, will house the emergency room, trauma center, intensive care unit,... FULL STORY »
