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Regional News/West
By Modern Healthcare | August 10, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
LEADVILLE, Colo.—An affiliation and services agreement has been signed between Centura Health and St. Vincent Hospital, a 12-bed critical-access institution in Leadville, with a 13-bed nursing home unit. The affiliation agreement calls for developing shared programs to complement and...
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Regional News/West
By Modern Healthcare | July 20, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
ROSEVILLE, Calif.—Adventist Health, a California-based health system with 18 hospitals in four states, plans to seek California's approval for an insurance license before the end of the year. It would be Adventist's first insurance license, though it will be a limited license. An...
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Regional News/West: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan fined $4 million by California
By Modern Healthcare | June 29, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
OAKLAND, Calif.—The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan was fined $4 million by the state of California for failing to correct violations of mental health laws, including publishing materials that wrongly said the organization could deny...
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Regional News/West: Billings Clinic and RegionalCare Hospital form joint venture, and other news
By Modern Healthcare | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
BILLINGS, Mont.—Not-for-profit Billings Clinic and RegionalCare Hospital Partners, a for-profit hospital company based in Brentwood, Tenn., formed a joint venture that seeks to draw on the operational expertise and financial resources of both organizations. “We don't think it's...
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Regional News/West: Adventist to pay $14 million over allegations it improperly compensated physicians, and other news
By Modern Healthcare | May 11, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
LOS ANGELES—Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health agreed to pay $14.1 million to resolve allegations that it improperly compensated physicians who referred patients to the system's White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. White Memorial also agreed to enter a five-year corporate...
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Regional News/West: Stanford starts four year construction of seismically sound hospital, and other news
By Modern Healthcare | May 04, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Stanford Hospitals & Clinics embarked on the four-year construction of a state-of-the-art and seismically sound hospital. The hospital broke ground on a facility that will add 824,000 square feet to the existing hospital and expand inpatient capacity to 600 beds. The...
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Regional News/West: Two Montana hospitals pay $4 million | Following internal review, Sisters of Charity settles Medicare fraud claims
By Joe Carlson | May 04, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Two Montana hospitals sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System are paying federal authorities $4 million after an internal review turned up more than 100 potentially illegal arrangements for paying doctors.
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Regional News/West: Fewer California employers offering healthcare coverage, and other news
By Modern Healthcare | April 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
OAKLAND, Calif.— The percentage of California employers that offer healthcare coverage to their employees has plummeted in the past decade. In 2012, 60% of California employers offered coverage to their employees, down from 71% in 2002, according to a survey by the California...
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Regional News/West: Jury orders $500 million payment in lawsuit over Nevada hepatitis outbreak
April 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
LAS VEGAS—A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest health management organization to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak. Two companies—both subsidiaries of UnitedHealth...
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Regional News/West: Talks break down | CHI, PeaceHealth at odds over 'shared services'
By Joe Carlson | April 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Just months before the creation of a $4 billion health system, the two Roman Catholic hospital operators behind the deal have abandoned talks for now, citing disagreements over back-office functions.
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