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Nueterra, a privately held company formerly specializing in developing equity partnerships and healthcare facilities, has split into a pair of new companies -- NueHealth and Nueterra Capital.

For six months now, Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Wyoming has puttered along without a chief financial officer. Now that's changed, with longtime hospital pro Jim Bands selected to help steer the facility into the future.

As part of the development of four new operating rooms, the University of Michigan Health System announced Monday that it will become one of the first hospitals in the country to integrate new neurosurgical imaging equipment called BrightMatter.

The Department of Health and Human Services is looking at ways to improve the quality of care at facilities operated by the Indian Health Service, focusing especially on the Great Plains area.

In its annual Community Benefit Report, the Minnesota Hospital Association announced that the state's nonprofit hospitals and health systems chipped in more than $4.3 billion in programs and services in 2014 to benefit community health. That's an uptick of 4.6 percent compared to the previous year.

Financial challenges once again ranked as the top concern for hospital chief executive officers in 2015, according to a new study by the American College of Healthcare Executives. Patient safety and quality, and governmental mandates came in as the 2nd and 3rd highest concerns.

Northwell Health, which until January was known as the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, will air its first-ever Super Bowl ads during Sunday's game -- a 30-second spot in the second quarter, and two 30-second ads that will run during pre-game coverage.

The Pardee Hospital Foundation has received $200,000 from the James H. Cummings Foundation and $150,000 from the Cannon Foundation to support ongoing renovations to the North Carolina hospital's operating rooms, part of the facility's Comprehensive Cancer Center Capital Campaign.

As patient financial responsibilities continue to increase, providers must both adopt and adapt to new technologies and strategies to help patients meet their obligations, or suffer a potentially calamitous drop-off in collections, according to Lah, who has over 30 years of experience in healthcare operations.

Six hospitals in the North Carolina-based Vidant Health system will join Winston-Salem's Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Telestroke Network by the end of the year, Wake Forest Baptist announced in a statement Wednesday.