Vanguard Health Systems news and information

Dr. Mark Smith, founding president and CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation, will step down at the end of the year. Smith, 61, will continue as a clinical faculty member at the University of California at San Francisco and practicing at San Francisco General Hospital's Positive Health...
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Dr. Anthony Tedeschi, chief medical officer for the Vanguard Health Systems' four Chicago-area hospitals, has been named CEO at one of those facilities: 184-bed Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
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Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville, has made further inroads into Connecticut, signing a second deal in the state with a letter of intent to acquire Bristol (Conn.) Hospital and Health Care Group.
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When Detroit Medical Center CEO Mike Duggan announced the April hiring of Joe Mullany to the new post of president, he said the primary reason was Mullany had managed hospitals in Massachusetts under that state's version of healthcare reform, championed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney and the predecessor...
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Hospital stocks reacted with optimism to the news that President Barack Obama had won a second term—as the fate of the healthcare reform law becomes even more certain.
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Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn's administration passed over University of Chicago Medicine and the University of Illinois hospital to run pilot programs designed to cut Medicaid costs, picking six ventures mostly led by not-for-profits.
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Tenet Healthcare Corp. is taking advantage of favorable debt markets to launch a $400 million buying spree that will allow it to gain strength in key markets.
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Mike Duggan, the powerfully connected CEO of Detroit Medical Center, is considering a run for mayor because he believes he can fix the city.
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Vanguard Health Systems and Tufts Medical Center are making a play together for influence in Massachusetts, forging another in a growing array of hookups in rapidly consolidating healthcare markets.
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Tufts Medical Center, Vanguard Health Systems and a physician network said they are in talks to create a joint venture that would offer a flexible option to hospitals looking to join a larger system.
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