http://www.modernhealthcare.com In the News for the Northeast en-us 144 21 http://www.modernhealthcare.com http://www.modernhealthcare.com/graphics/icons/rss.gif Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST MONTCLAIR, N.J. -- Montclair Health System set plans in motion to acquire Mountainside Hospital in Montclair by filing a certificate-of-need request with the state department of health to transfer the facility's ownership. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120204/MAGAZINE/302049963 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST DOVER, Del. -- BayHealth Medical Center completed a $47 million expansion of its Kent General Hospital campus. The project, which began in August 2008, added a 375-space parking garage and treatment bays to the hospital's emergency room, a... http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120128/MAGAZINE/301289964 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed legislation that would give state health officials power to remove hospital managers and not-for-profit hospital board members. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120121/MAGAZINE/301219944 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST NEW YORK -- Insurer Cigna Corp. announced an accountable care effort with the Weill Cornell Physician Organization, New York, that will employ registered nurses to coordinate patient care. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120114/MAGAZINE/301149964 Mon, 9 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST SCRANTON, Pa. -- Community Health Systems has completed its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Moses Taylor Health Care System, a two-hospital system in northeast Pennsylvania. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120109/MAGAZINE/120109990 Mon, 9 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST West Penn Allegheny Health System ended 2011 with a legal setback and questions about its financial viability. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120109/MAGAZINE/301099943 Mon, 2 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST BOSTON -- Steward Health Care System resigned from the Massachusetts Hospital Association, stating that the for-profit system can do more good on its own for the state's hospital industry by transforming into an accountable care... http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120102/MAGAZINE/301029889 Mon, 2 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST An already controversial situation in which a for-profit hospital chain agreed to buy a not-for-profit hospital in Jersey City, N.J., got even more interesting with aggressive interest shown by a second for-profit company. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120102/MAGAZINE/301029939 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:01:00 EST ALBANY, N.Y. -- Under a proposal to overhaul New York's safety net financing, the state would contract with accountable care organizations or health plans for seniors who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20111212/MAGAZINE/312129943 Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:01:00 EST PITTSBURGH -- A federal judge ordered Pittsburgh's rival health systems to mediation over a lawsuit by West Penn Allegheny Health System that claims UPMC conspired to stifle competition. http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20111205/MAGAZINE/312059943