Midwest Region news and information

CLEVELAND—Healthcare leaders and local officials celebrated the completion of the Global Center for Health Innovation, a long-planned venue to showcase healthcare technology and ideas. Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald told about 400 invited guests to the Oct. 8 ceremony that the...
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MINNEAPOLIS—Fairview Health Services, looking to rebound from a billing controversy and a failed deal with Sanford Health, announced that system has hired Rulon Stacey to take the helm Nov. 4. Stacey, who recently said he would leave the University of Colorado Health, will succeed Mark...
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Ruth Rothstein, the former chief of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services who was credited for turning around what was once an outdated public health system in Chicago into one of the country's leading models and was considered a major figure among public...
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MAYWOOD, Ill.—Loyola University Chicago is scheduled to break ground Aug. 16 on a new $137 million medical research and education building at its Health Sciences Campus in Maywood. A collaborative project with Catholic Health East-Trinity—the parent of Loyola University Health...
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JOLIET, Ill.—A Will County judge last week ordered the Illinois health facilities board to explain why it approved Centegra Health System's plan for a new $233 million hospital in Chicago's northwest suburbs even though the panel's staff found that the proposal didn't meet state...
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LUDINGTON, Mich.—Memorial Medical Center in Ludington is the latest hospital with plans to become a member of Spectrum Health. Memorial Medical, an 80-bed hospital near the shore of Lake Michigan, signed a nonbinding letter of intent to join the not-for-profit system, based about 90...
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Five clinical service chiefs at Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Health System delivered a letter to the Beaumont board of directors asking the board to reconsider its proposed merger with Henry Ford Health System, sources told Crain's Detroit Business.
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LIVONIA, Mich.—Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan and Trinity Health-Michigan have signed a three-year reimbursement contract that gives Trinity's 12 hospitals in Michigan financial incentives for improving care with affiliated physicians. Blue Cross has similar contracts with...
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COLUMBIA, Mo.—The University of Missouri Health System recently opened a $190 million expansion to University Hospital. The 310,500-square-foot addition includes a 100,000-square-foot replacement for its Ellis Fischel Cancer Center on two of the towers' eight floors. The building has...
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MINNEAPOLIS—Sanford Health, a South Dakota health system on an acquisition streak, called off merger talks with Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services after the deal met resistance from Minnesota officials. Sanford CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft said in a statement that the health system...
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