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When Tenet Healthcare Corp. recently agreed to pay $4.3 billion to acquire Vanguard Health Systems—after being relatively quiet on the acquisition front—it...
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INVERNESS, Fla.—The Citrus County Hospital Board narrowed the bidding for its struggling Citrus Memorial Health System to three for-profit suitors. The board received five proposals from four bidders looking to take over the hospital, which is saddled with $80 million in debt and $30...
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The former top two executives of an Austin, Texas, medical-device company have been accused of defrauding shareholders and investors out of $400 million.
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Veteran investigative journalist Kurt Eichenwald has an important and scathing commentary in the new issue of Vanity Fair on the issue of how new state restrictions in Texas and other states on centers providing abortion and other women's health services are likely to affect diagnosis and treatment...
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Dr. Howard Novick winces as he recalls treating two and three women a week for infections and complications from botched abortions. It was the early 1970s, before the procedure was legalized, and the experience persuaded him to devote his life to this area of medicine.
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Republicans in the Texas Legislature passed an omnibus abortion bill that is one of the most restrictive in the nation, but Democrats vowed Saturday to fight both in the courts and the ballot box as they used the measure to rally their supporters.
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Garry Menzel will join DaVita Healthcare Partners as CFO in September. Menzel, 48, will start at the Denver-based company as senior VP of finance and then officially begin serving as CFO after the company files its third-quarter financial results. Since 2008, Menzel has served as COO and CFO...
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The Texas House has approved new abortion limits in a second special session, less than two weeks after Senate Republicans failed to finish work on the bill amid a filibuster and raucous protests.
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James Scoggin Jr. will retire as president of HCA's North Texas Division on Oct. 1. Scoggin, 55, is a 26-year HCA veteran who has served since 2006 as president of the division that includes 14 hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Oklahoma City markets.
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The Louisiana corrections agency reversed course on a contract that provides telemedicine-enabled medical care for inmates in state prisons. Legislators had complained when the state Department of Corrections chose a Texas firm to provide the services to replace LSU.
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