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The Illinois state health facilities board today approved two hospital merger deals intended to reshape the landscape of healthcare in the suburbs.
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A lawsuit filed Thursday claims a not-for-profit hospital in northwest Chicago failed to provide charity care to two low-income, uninsured patients, reopening a longstanding controversy in Illinois over whether hospitals are doing enough charitable work to qualify for lucrative tax exemptions.
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Advocate Health Care is scaling back a proposed hospital tower in Oak Lawn, Ill., cutting the cost by 13%, to about $300 million, citing reduced demand for beds due to the federal overhaul of healthcare.
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Advocate Medical Group, Oak Brook, Ill., has named Dr. Chae On Chu as vice president of medical management for the group's central region.
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Race plays a role in how patients fare on some of the outcome measures included in Medicare's pay-for-performance programs.
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Health Central, Ocoee, Fla., promoted Greg Ohe to president, effective June 1. Ohe, 52, steps into the role after Orlando (Fla.) Health's $181.3 million takeover of Health Central, which closed April 2. He replaces former President Richard Irwin, who retired March 31, according to an...
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Advocate Health Care, Oak Brook, Ill., announced the promotion of Richard Heim to president of Advocate South Suburban Hospital.
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Undertaking extensive efforts to improve the quality of care provided has not mitigated malpractice costs—including the cost of defensive medicine—for some providers, but it may in the future, representatives of several providers undertaking delivery reforms told a Senate panel.
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It is time, once again, for my dispatch from the hallways of the Non-Profit Health Care Investor Conference in New York.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—Construction on a $1.1 billion, 20-story expansion is well under way at Ohio State University and the school has renamed its medical center in honor of an alumnus who donated $100 million for the project.
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