Montefiore Health System news and information

Montefiore Medical Center is buying two more hospitals at fire-sale prices, just months after acquiring bankrupt New York Westchester Square Medical Center.
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SUNY Downstate Medical Center announced Friday afternoon that it has withdrawn a closure plan it filed with the New York State Department of Health for Long Island College Hospital.
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Radiologists are pushing back against critics of medical imaging overuse with a broad effort that seeks to defend the role of radiology and imaging within new payment and care-delivery models.
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More than 1 million Americans wind up back in the hospital only weeks after they left for reasons that could have been prevented—a revolving door that for years has seemed impossible to slow.
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Maimonides Medical Center and Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center are in the early stages of exploring a possible merger or formal affiliation, according to Crain's Health Pulse.
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Ambulatory care is getting more sophisticated, and advanced healthcare services that once required hospitalization can now be delivered on an outpatient basis.
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Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but what about the many other ways obesity can damage your health? Carrying too many pounds may lead to or worsen some types of cancer, arthritis, sleep apnea, even infertility. But a new poll suggests few Americans realize the links.
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Montefiore Medical Center is expected to buy bankrupt New York Westchester Square Medical Center when the Bronx community hospital puts itself on the auction block next month for about $14 million.
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Hospitals shuttled staff to work, erected makeshift employee sleeping quarters and stockpiled supplies as Hurricane Sandy forced major cities along the East Coast to shut down roads and public transportation, and the storm's size and might prompted the president to urge caution and patience.
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Montefiore Medical Center, New York, has signed a lease to operate an ambulatory-care center in an 11-story, 280,000-square-foot building to be built on a suburban-style medical complex in the Bronx.
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