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For-profit hospital chain Prime Healthcare Services donated Huntington Beach (Calif.) Hospital to an affiliated not-for-profit foundation, which also bought a controlling stake in a Texas facility.
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One snapshot of capital spending by hospitals, physician groups and ambulatory-care centers found budgets were somewhat likelier to increase than to shrink this past year.
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The private-equity firm that recently bought one of the largest safety net health systems in New England is also the owner of the nation's largest gun-manufacturing corporation—but that's about to change, following last week's horrific schoolhouse massacre in Connecticut.
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State and federal funding cuts have undermined preparedness for public health emergencies amid a troubling array of threats, made clear again in October by superstorm Sandy, according to a study released today by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Borrowing costs could climb for hospitals in tax-exempt bond markets under one White House-backed proposal to help avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
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Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn., has received consents from its lenders for an amendment to an existing credit agreement that will increase its ability to make buys.
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An interactive physical therapy software that cuts rehab costs is getting a $4.25 million injection from the West Health Investment Fund.
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Waud Capital Partners, Chicago, announced the purchase of ProNerve, a Broomfield, Colo.-based intraoperative neuromonitoring services provider.
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Having had four different CEOs over the last four years, luke-warm to nonexistent positive operating margins and a competitor that's more than doubled in size over the last decade, Akron (Ohio) General Health System by all accounts has a tough haul ahead if it plans to stay in the game.
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The newest threat to physician-hospital ownership is market consolidation that has led to hospitals aggressively pursuing medical specialists, a speaker said at the PHA conference in Texas.
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