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President Barack Obama defended his fiscal year 2010 budget proposal in a meeting Tuesday with Congressional budget committee leaders, saying it makes hard choices but will build health reform to ease the burden on businesses, budgets and families.

Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed a $45 million financial order Tuesday to pay a portion of the state's obligation to hospitals under an October 2006 settlement agreement.

The Loving Care Agency, Inc., a provider of pediatric skilled nursing and home health aide services, has acquired six homecare branches from Gentiva Health Services, Inc.

The University of California, San Francisco has received one of the largest donations in its history to build a hospital complex on its newest campus.

Forty percent of Americans are giving the U.S. healthcare system a failing grade, according to a new study.

Kaiser Permanente is cutting 860 information technology jobs nationwide under a realignment that includes a $500 million deal giving IBM management duties at Kaiser's medical records data centers.

MVP Healthcare and Excellus BlueCross BlueShield will work with primary care physicians in the Rochester, N.Y. area to improve the way patients receive care.

An incremental healthcare reform model, exemplified by the creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, is not bold enough for broad-based reform that would create universal coverage, according to a new study.

Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., laid off 240 doctors, nurses and other workers on Monday.

Picis, Inc., of Wakefield, Mass. has announced that CHRISTUS Health has gone live with LYNX E/Point, a product of LYNX Medical Systems of Bellevue, Wash., in 18 of its acute care hospitals in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Utah and plans to implement the ED charging software in three additional hospitals soon.