Utter the phrase “South Florida” in a room full of healthcare executives, and many thoughts will go right to the region's national reputation for fraud and high cost. However, hospital operators who actually work in the market say there's a larger story to tell. FULL STORY »
The healthcare consolidation wave that has dominated many regions of the country arrived late for the more than 40 hospitals in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Despite the slow start, that trend is in full swing now, according to local providers. FULL STORY »
More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association began laying the foundation for an integrated emergency preparedness network that the state relies on for emergencies today. FULL STORY »
With 14 hospitals, six nursing schools and three medical schools, the Texas Medical Center leaves a large footprint in the Houston healthcare market. FULL STORY »
In June, workers placed the final steel beam on a 10-story, 242-bed hospital under construction in Sacramento, Calif. The event marked a milestone in a $724 million, multistructure project for Sutter Health. FULL STORY »
Philadelphia's Temple University School of Medicine will invest more heavily in Western Pennsylvania's competitive healthcare marketplace as it moves to open its second branch campus. FULL STORY »
In the great national march toward integration, the Minneapolis-St. Paul market got off to an early start in the 1980s and '90s, which has led to a more concentrated market but one in which competitors can still come to the table to cooperate. FULL STORY »
Just in the past decade, Seattle has become a mecca for healthcare transformation. That's because it's home to the Virginia Mason Health System, which has pioneered the application of manufacturing efficiencies to healthcare. FULL STORY »
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