Midwest Region news and information

JOPLIN, Mo.—McCarthy Building Cos. has topped out the new Mercy Hospital Joplin, the 875,000-square-foot, seven-story structure built to replace St. John's Regional Medical Center. The former hospital was destroyed in May 2011 when the deadliest tornado to hit the U.S. since 1947...
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ISHPEMING, Mich.—LifePoint Hospitals, Brentwood, Tenn., forged its second deal in Michigan in less than a week as the company seeks to build a presence in the state's Upper Peninsula. The publicly traded system made its first purchase in Michigan last year when it acquired Marquette...
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CLEVELAND—The Cleveland Clinic has agreed to share electronic records through the state of Ohio's CliniSync electronic medical-record exchange system, said Dan Paoletti, CEO of the Ohio Health Information Partnership, which runs CliniSync. University Hospitals announced a similar...
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The experiences of Milwaukee's Froedtert Health system during the past several weeks represent something of a microcosm of what the nation's healthcare system as a whole is going through.
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CLEVELAND—MetroHealth System received approval from federal regulators on a complex legal maneuver that could extend Medicaid coverage to as many as 30,000 people in Cuyahoga County earlier than they would qualify for the coverage if the state expands eligibility in 2014 under the...
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Methodist Health Services Corp. in Peoria, Ill., is suing its larger local competitor for more than $300 million, saying the bigger hospital is breaking state and federal antitrust laws in contracts with insurance companies.
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COLUMBIA, Mo.—Statewide health information exchanges in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois will be able to send and receive basic healthcare messages between each using the federally developed secure messaging protocol. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
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CHICAGO—University of Chicago Medicine will open a 10-story, $700 million replacement hospital next month, and officials gave politicians and other VIPs a sneak peek at the hospital last week. The hospital is set to admit its first patients Feb. 23. The new facility, named the Center...
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North Dakota's oil boom is leading to a corresponding healthcare building boom.
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CHICAGO—The estimated cost of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago's new tower in downtown Chicago has shot up more than 10% since January, to nearly $523 million, as hospital executives fine-tune their plans, according to an application filed with the Illinois Health Facilities and...
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