March 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription HARTFORD, Conn.—The University of Connecticut Health Center would expand and renovate its John Dempsey Hospital under a proposed network between the academic medical center and other Connecticut hospitals and health systems. The $352 million proposal—of which just $25 million has been financed—would add a $236 million patient tower at the John Dempsey Hospital, Farmington, Conn., and another $96 million in further renovations to the 155-bed hospital. The remaining $20 million would finance other network projects, including a simulation center at Hartford Healthcare's... FULL STORY »
March 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Unity Health System is expected to begin construction preparation in April for a $158 million expansion and renovation of Unity Hospital. The project, once completed in 2014, will add a fourth floor and 35 beds to the 441-bed hospital with capacity for another 50 beds. State health officials approved the project in January and February. Officials in the town of Greece, N.Y., cleared the deal this month, said Patrizia Corvaia, a Unity spokeswoman. Renovation plans will convert the hospital's nursing home annex into space for its gastrointestinal unit and dialysis... FULL STORY »
February 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription HARRISBURG, Pa.—The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania last week rejected a proposal in the governor's budget that the trade group said would cut state Medicaid payments to hospitals by roughly $31.9 million. The trade group said Gov. Edward Rendell's $66.4 billion budget would reduce overall Medicaid reimbursement by $73.4 million after factoring in the loss of federal funds that match state spending for the safety net program. Federal funding for Medicaid increased temporarily under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If extended through June... FULL STORY »
February 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—St. Vincent’s Medical Center began accepting patients at the new Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care. The 125,000-square-foot building cost about $50 million and is designed to consolidate cancer prevention, diagnostic and treatment, according to a news release from St. Vincent’s. SWIM Across the Sound is a not-for-profit affiliate of St. Vincent’s focused on cancer education, prevention and screening at low or no cost. The four-story cancer center building also houses the new Michael J. Daly Center for Emergency and Trauma Care. The... FULL STORY »
December 14, 2009
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Basic Web Registration BUFFALO, N.Y.—Kaleida Health said it will create a committee to oversee public hearings in 2010 on uses for its Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital, also in Buffalo, which is scheduled to close the following year. Services from Millard Fillmore Gates will be transferred to Kaleida's 1,161-bed Buffalo General Hospital, which will undergo a $140 million expansion. Kaleida Health announced in a news release its governing board will name a nine- to 11-member committee in 2010 to oversee reuse plans for Millard Fillmore Gates and its nearly nine-acre campus. The committee will... FULL STORY »
November 23, 2009
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Basic Web Registration NEW YORK—The NYU Langone Medical Center opened a 22,000-square-foot outpatient surgery center after a yearlong renovation project. The $16 million overhaul is part of the 806-bed hospital's newly created musculoskeletal institute, one of six centers of excellence chosen by the hospital to share funding totaling $15 million over three years. Steve Abramson, a New York University professor of medicine, and Joseph Zuckerman, an orthopedic surgery professor and the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases orthopedic surgery department chairman, were named joint directors of the... FULL STORY »
October 19, 2009
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Basic Web Registration HARRISBURG, Pa.—Pennsylvania's overdue budget included smaller cuts to hospital revenue than proposed, but redirected existing taxes and fees into the state's $27.8 billion general fund from healthcare funds and added a Medicaid managed-care tax. The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania said the 2009-10 budget, signed by Gov. Ed Rendell earlier this month, scaled back $280 million in proposed cuts to state and federal hospital revenue for trauma and burn centers, academic medical centers, critical-access hospitals, medical education, community access and... FULL STORY »
September 21, 2009
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Basic Web Registration ALBANY, N.Y.—New York Gov. David Paterson last week signed into law a bill that forces hospitals to publicly report nurse-patient staffing data along with information on patient outcomes. Officials with the New York State Nurses Association said the data could someday lay the groundwork for a nurse-patient-ratio staffing law similar to the one in California, which mandates hospitals maintain specific ratios of direct caregivers and patients. New York nurses' union spokeswoman Nancy Webber said the state already has a law on the books requiring hospitals to provide... FULL STORY »
August 31, 2009
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Basic Web Registration NEW YORK—Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University agreed to extend an affiliation in place since 1968 by 10 years. Under the agreement, 1,094-bed Montefiore will be responsible for the oversight of residency programs while Albert Einstein will have oversight of National Institutes of Health-funded clinical and translational research, said Brian Currie, vice president and medical director for research at Montefiore and assistant dean for clinical research at the medical college. “We're playing to each others'... FULL STORY »
May 18, 2009
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Basic Web Registration TUNKHANNOCK, Pa.—Tyler Memorial Hospital and the Northeast region of Mercy Health Partners, Scranton, Pa., said last month that they have agreed on a memorandum of understanding in order to investigate a deal between them. The not-for-profits expect to spend 90 to 120 days in due diligence before deciding whether to collaborate and in what form. Mercy, which is part of Cincinnati-based Catholic Healthcare Partners, operates 230-bed Mercy Hospital of Scranton and 68-bed Mercy Special Care Hospital, Nanticoke, Pa. Scranton is about 25 miles away from 58-bed Tyler Memorial. Denise Gieski,... FULL STORY »
