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Behavioral health center manager Acadia Health will buy Highland Hospital Association, an 80-bed psychiatric hospital, and two other related companies in Charleston West Virginia.

Even for states that have managed to institute some kind of method for consumers to compare prices for healthcare services, patients have few options for finding current pricing on common procedures. That's what a study from the nonprofit advocacy group Public Citizen shows.

Dignity Health-GoHealth Urgent Care, a joint venture created to bring urgent care centers to California's Bay Area, this week opened its latest clinic.

Crews in Minot, North Dakota are continuing work on a $250 million medical park for Trinity Health, taking advantage of dry weather to ensure the revamped campus is built on a solid foundation.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named the hospitals that will participate in their Frontier Community Health Integration Project Demonstration, also known as FCHIP, an initiative meant to increase access to healthcare in rural areas.

Community Health Systems is set to unload two more hospitals than originally planned, bringing the total number to 12, according to a transcript of a second-quarter earnings call.

Fewer than one-fifth of U.S. hospitals indicate they regularly review the patient-reported measures to guide medical care, according to a new survey from Health Catalyst.

Banner Health revealed that hackers may have accessed the healthcare, payment and health plan information of up to 3.7 million individuals.

According to researchers at the University of Michigan, the more a hospital relies on its ICU to treat heart patients, the worse their results are, especially when it comes to 30-day morbidity.

Evidence suggests the technology can assist clinicians in earlier detection of patient deterioration, helping to reduce patient length of stay, minimize use of intensive care units, reduce falls and pressure ulcers and avoid cardiac and respiratory arrests.