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As many state legislative sessions have finished or are nearing completion, advocates of expanding Medicaid eligibility are looking at their next steps.
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Robert Ritz was named president of Mercy Medical Center-Des Moines (Iowa). Ritz, 51, is president and CEO of St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Ill., which is operated by Springfield-based Hospital Sisters Health System.
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COLUMBIA, Mo.—The University of Missouri Health System recently opened a $190 million expansion to University Hospital. The 310,500-square-foot addition includes a 100,000-square-foot replacement for its Ellis Fischel Cancer Center on two of the towers' eight floors. The building has...
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Hundreds of immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally have been repatriated not by the federal government trying to enforce laws but by hospitals seeking to curb high costs.
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Iowa Health System, Des Moines, said it would abandon its geographically apt name for UnityPoint Health. The switch comes after the health system, which owns or manages 20 Iowa hospitals and another two in Illinois, began to consolidate its nine physician groups in 2012 and sought to brand doctors...
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Senate Democrats never called a hearing to confirm Dr. Donald Berwick as CMS administrator because they feared it would give Republicans a venue for toxic attacks on the healthcare reform law.
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Here in Iowa, we like to get going early. That's particularly the case with my hospital.We started our EHR journey in 2004.
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The healthcare reform law is already driving big changes in the ways hospitals deliver care and get paid for it. In a matter of months, the law will extend health coverage to millions of Americans through the new insurance exchanges and broader Medicaid eligibility.
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President Barack Obama used his weekend radio address to push for including an assault weapons ban in gun legislation now before Congress.
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A growing number of states want to use the coming health insurance exchanges as a means to expand Medicaid coverage, and the approach carries both promise and pitfalls for providers.
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