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By Richard Pizzi | 11:42 am | March 03, 2009
Hospital officials at Coral Springs Medical Center recently broke ground for a $21 million emergency department expansion.
By Richard Pizzi | 11:07 am | March 02, 2009
A number of economic factors are driving unprecedented membership losses at most health insurance plans, according to a recent study.
By Richard Pizzi | 12:03 pm | February 27, 2009
President Barack Obama's first proposed budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs expands eligibility for healthcare to an additional 500,000 veterans over the next five years.
By Richard Pizzi | 10:22 am | February 27, 2009
The U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to approve a fiscal year 2009 omnibus spending package for the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies.
By Richard Pizzi | 01:16 pm | February 26, 2009
Huge inefficiencies in the U.S. healthcare system are harming the nation's ability to expand access to care, according to a new analysis of Medicare spending by researchers of the Dartmouth Atlas Project in the New England Journal of Medicine.
By Richard Pizzi | 12:11 pm | February 26, 2009
The board of directors of the Boston-based Partners Healthcare system has named Brigham and Women’s Hospital President Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, as its next president and CEO.
By Richard Pizzi | 11:18 am | February 26, 2009
Nemours, one of the nation’s top pediatric health systems, has broken ground on a new children’s hospital in central Florida.
By Richard Pizzi | 10:49 am | February 26, 2009
President Obama intends to create $634 billion reserve fund dedicated to healthcare, paid for in part by further tax increases on wealthy Americans.
By Richard Pizzi | 11:48 am | February 25, 2009
The medical device maker Medtronic has announced it will voluntarily disclose payments to U.S. physicians.
By Richard Pizzi | 11:21 am | February 25, 2009
Health insurance is essential for people's health and well-being, and safety-net services are not enough to prevent avoidable illness, worse health outcomes, and premature death, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.