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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett became the 10th Republican governor Mondayto support accepting federal Medicaid expansion dollars to insure hundreds of thousands of working poor, although it remained to be seen how the Obama administration will respond to a list of demands Corbett wants satisfied.
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Gov. Tom Corbett will start a three-day tour Monday to lay out his plans to improve healthcare and reveal the conditions under which he would accept additional Medicaid dollars under the sweeping federal healthcare law designed to provide insurance to more working poor.
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Hundreds of thousands of low-income Pennsylvania adults could get healthcare coverage now that federal law expands Medicaid's income eligibility guidelines to 133% of the federal poverty level, or about $31,300 for a family of four.
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Seattle Children's cancer-, critical- and emergency-care expansion project serves as the foundation of the institution's 2030 master plan, and its architects say they wanted to set the standards for future development with Building Hope's flexible design, sophisticated lighting and colors, and...
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Design awards judges praised the landscaping of the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital, and architect Kevin Sullivan explains that “embedded nature” was the central theme of the Award of Excellence-winning project.
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Outliers has long known that competition among Pittsburgh's health systems and insurers has been fierce and caustic, with skirmishes between major players spilling into courtrooms and headlines.
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Designers tried to put themselves in the shoes of cancer patients when they planned the Hughes Cancer Center, says Andrew Jarvis, principal with EwingCole architects, adding that cancer patients are repeat visitors who get bored and need new things to look at.
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Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is planning a Monday press conference to throw his support behind a version of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, industry and legislative sources say.
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Geisinger Health System said it signed a letter of intent to explore an affiliation with Holy Spirit Health System, a 290-bed hospital in Camp Hill, Pa.
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Americans seeking information on the new federal healthcare law will be able to find it at a Pennsylvania-based drugstore chain.
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