http://www.modernhealthcare.com In the News for the Midwest en-us 144 21 http://www.modernhealthcare.com http://www.modernhealthcare.com/graphics/icons/rss.gif Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:59:00 EST Less than a week after abruptly losing its CEO, not-for-profit Alegent Health in Omaha, Neb., has accepted the resignations of its executive vice president, its chief medical officer and two other executives. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:59:00 EST CHICAGO -- The county-run healthcare system in the Chicago area is notifying 335 employees they will lose their jobs as part of a comprehensive effort to balance staffing with services. The cuts, which also include the elimination of... Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:59:00 EST EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. -- The board of directors of 294-bed Little Company of Mary Hospital voted to move forward with plans to build a new pavilion that will be the centerpiece of plan to modernize the campus just southwest of Chicago. The... Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:59:00 EST LANSING, Mich. -- Blue Care Network of Michigan, Southfield, struck a deal to acquire the membership of Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michigan from Sparrow Health System, Lansing. Mid-Michigan was founded in 1980 as an HMO and now has... Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:59:00 EST What a local community group couldn't negotiate from Catholic Health Initiatives, Kansas Attorney General Steve Six will try to win in court. Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:59:00 EST MILWAUKEE -- Patients looking for a natural refuge during their hospital stays at 733-bed Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center can now visit the hospital's all-season rooftop healing garden. The $4.9 million project includes the... Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:59:00 EST FALLS CITY, Neb. -- The new Community Medical Center is set to open this November. Construction began April 20, 2008, on the $22 million, 58,000-square-foot facility that replaces a 25-bed facility originally built in 1918. The new... Mon, 18 May 2009 05:59:00 EST JOPLIN, Mo.—Sisters of Mercy Health System, Chesterfield, Mo., and Catholic Health Initiatives, Denver, said earlier this month that they have signed a letter of intent to explore the sale of CHI’s 357-bed St. John’s Regional Medical Center,... Mon, 2 Mar 2009 05:59:00 EST WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich.—On March 15, Henry Ford Health System plans to open Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, its seventh hospital and the first new one the system has built since Henry Ford Hospital (now with 768 beds) opened in Detroit in... Mon, 2 Feb 2009 05:59:00 EST BOARDMAN, Ohio—Akron Children’s Hospital opened a 32-bed children’s hospital called Beeghly Campus in Boardman on Dec. 8, 2008. In late 2007 the 253-bed Akron hospital and Humility of Mary Health Partners, a region of Catholic Healthcare...