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The Wisconsin Assembly approved a bill Wednesday changing the standard for what doctors must tell patients when they diagnose them, which Republicans said was necessary in light of a state Supreme Court decision that they see as creating too many problems.
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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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SSM Healthcare, St. Louis, has agreed to purchase Dean Health Systems, a physician group with more than 60 clinics headquartered in Madison, Wis.
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Ascension Health, St. Louis, has completed its deal to acquire Marian Health System, the Tulsa, Okla.-based provider with three regional divisions.
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The unhealthiest counties in the nation have the highest rates of preventable hospital stays, smoking and adult obesity, according to the 2013 County Health Rankings.
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St. Louis-based SSM Health Care will soon own and operate Audrain Medical Center in Mexico, Mo., along with its nine MedChoice rural clinics. The Catholic not-for-profit health system signed an agreement with the 49-bed acute-care hospital that goes into effect April 1.
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CLEVELAND—The Cleveland Clinic has agreed to share electronic records through the state of Ohio's CliniSync electronic medical-record exchange system, said Dan Paoletti, CEO of the Ohio Health Information Partnership, which runs CliniSync. University Hospitals announced a similar...
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The experiences of Milwaukee's Froedtert Health system during the past several weeks represent something of a microcosm of what the nation's healthcare system as a whole is going through.
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The experiences of Milwaukee's Froedtert Health system over the past several weeks represent something of a microcosm of what the nation's healthcare system as a whole is going through.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced Wednesday that he won't propose expanding Medicaid services in the state, breaking with other Republican governors who decided to accept federal money for an expansion as offered under the healthcare overhaul law.
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