By Vince Galloro |
December 14, 2009
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Basic Web Registration For Novant Health and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, playing the certificate-of-need waiting game isn’t so bad. FULL STORY »
December 14, 2009
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Basic Web Registration FORT SMITH, Ark.—Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla., said it completed its acquisition of Sparks Health System, which consists primarily of Sparks Regional Medical Center, Fort Smith, effective Dec. 1. Terms were not disclosed. HMA owns one other hospital in Arkansas, Summit Medical Center in Van Buren, which is about seven miles from Sparks Regional. In March, the board of not-for-profit Sparks signed a letter of intent to sell the system to Jackson Hospital Affiliates; the hospital division of staffing firm Jackson Healthcare, Alpharetta, Ga. Jackson and Sparks scuttled... FULL STORY »
November 23, 2009
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Basic Web Registration HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Huntsville Hospital said it expects to break ground on a new 60-bed, $71 million hospital next month. The new facility to be built in Madison, Ala., will have full services including an emergency/urgent-care department, medical, surgical, obstetrics, noninvasive cardiology, diagnostic, as well as therapy and wellness services. There will be capacity to expand the hospital to 200 beds as the community grows, according to Huntsville. Huntsville said it expects the hospital to employ about 500 people and open for care in February 2012. FULL STORY »
October 26, 2009
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Basic Web Registration WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla., and Novant Health, Winston-Salem, earlier this month said that they have restructured their joint venture over seven hospitals in the Carolinas. Last year, HMA sold a 27% interest in the hospitals to Novant for $300 million. In the restructuring agreement, HMA received Novant's 27% interest in four of the hospitals, while Novant received an operating contract that gives the not-for-profit system a 99% interest in two of the hospitals, according to a securities filing by HMA. At 103-bed Lake Norman Regional Medical... FULL STORY »
October 19, 2009
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Basic Web Registration TALLAHASEE, Fla.—Holly Benson, the secretary of Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration, tendered her resignation, effective Oct. 28, according to a copy of her resignation letter provided by the AHCA. Benson, 38, was appointed to the position in February 2008 by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican. In her resignation letter to Crist, Benson wrote that after meeting with the governor this week to discuss her future plans, it was clear that she needed to resign in order to pursue those opportunities. The speculation has been that Benson would run for the Republican... FULL STORY »
September 21, 2009
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Basic Web Registration CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—The University of North Carolina Health Care System, Chapel Hill, conducted a grand opening for its North Carolina Cancer Hospital and medical office building on Sept. 15. The 315,000-square-foot hospital cost $178 million to build. It includes 50 inpatient beds, 72 infusion stations, three linear accelerators and 101 exam rooms. The 105,000-square-foot medical office building cost $29 million. Services began at the complex last month. The facilities are part of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. FULL STORY »
August 31, 2009
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Basic Web Registration AUSTIN, Texas—St. David's HealthCare completed construction on its new, $89 million St. David's Women's Center of Texas in late spring. Three stories high, the 221,568-square-foot facility includes 29 labor-and-delivery rooms, five Cesarean-section surgical suites, a Breast Cancer Resource Center, diagnostic imaging, physicians' offices and a reflection garden. It is connected by a sky bridge to the second floor of 228-bed St. David's North Austin Medical Center, where there are renovated postpartum rooms and an expanded Level III neonatal intensive-care unit. Donald Wilkerson,... FULL STORY »
By Vince Galloro |
August 17, 2009
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Basic Web Registration BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The city of Irondale, Ala., sued Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn., and a real estate developer over Community's decision to relocate a hospital replacement project from Irondale to the former “digital hospital” site that HealthSouth Corp. was developing before its accounting fraud scandal in 2003. FULL STORY »
August 17, 2009
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Basic Web Registration DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—At about 9 a.m. ET on July 14, obstetrician Irwin Landau delivered the last baby at the 42-year-old, 324-bed Florida Hospital-Ormond Memorial in Ormond Beach, Fla. Less than four hours later, Landau delivered the first baby at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center, the $270 million replacement hospital three miles away, hospital spokeswoman Michelle Lynch said. Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center is a 12-story hospital tower that includes 718,000 square feet of space on a 135-acre campus just off Interstate 95, a location that hospital officials said... FULL STORY »
May 18, 2009
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Basic Web Registration TOWSON, Md.—Three top executives at 332-bed St. Joseph Medical Center resigned as the hospital continues to cooperate with a federal investigation into the financial relationship between the hospital and an unnamed physician group. Beth O’Brien was made interim president and CEO of the hospital effective May 8, hospital spokeswoman Vivienne Stearns-Elliott said. O’Brien has been the acting administrative head of the hospital since Feb. 26 (May 11, p. 17). O’Brien is a senior vice president with St. Joseph’s corporate parent, Catholic Health Initiatives. Stearns-Elliott would not... FULL STORY »
