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Ensign Group acquires Texas skilled-nursing facility

January 05, 2009
The Ensign Group, a Mission Viejo, Calif.-based long-term-care provider, said it has acquired Southland Healthcare Center, a 150-bed skilled-nursing facility in Lufkin, Texas, from an outside operator who purchased the facility in November 2006 . Financial terms of the deal—effective Jan. 1—were not disclosed. The facility’s name has changed to Southland Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center.
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Former Clinton economist tapped for top CBO post

December 31, 2008
Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill have named Douglas Elmendorf, a former Clinton administration economist, to head the Congressional Budget Office.
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Curbs put on Mass. General researcher’s activities

December 31, 2008
Just a week after Emory University took action against one of its prominent psychiatric researchers, Massachusetts General Hospital and its parent, Partners HealthCare System, in Boston are putting some distance between themselves and Joseph Biederman, chief of the clinical and research program in pediatric psychopharmacology and the adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder program at Massachusetts General and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
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Tenet critic dissolves whistle-blowing group

December 31, 2008
A longtime critic of Tenet Healthcare Corp. is dissolving his whistle-blowing group, the Tenet Shareholder Committee, but not without taking one last shot at the large hospital operator.
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Moog buys Lithuania-based devicemaker Aitecs

December 31, 2008
Moog, an Aurora, N.Y.-based manufacturer of precision control systems, has acquired Aitecs Medical UAB, a Vilnius, Lithuania-based manufacturer of infusion-therapy pump syringes for $21 million cash, according to a news release.
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Amerigroup kills deal for Centene Medicaid unit

December 31, 2008
Amerigroup Corp., Virginia Beach, Va., said it terminated its deal to acquire certain assets of the University Health Plan, a New Jersey Medicaid subsidiary of Centene Corp., St. Louis.
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Eclipsys to acquire Premise for $38.5 million

December 31, 2008
Eclipsys Corp. signed a definitive agreement to purchase Premise Corp. for $38.5 million, the company announced.
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Tenn. hospitals feeling strained, survey finds

December 30, 2008
Most hospitals responding to a survey in Tennessee have reduced their workforces, and many are even cutting services in response to a recession that appears to be hitting healthcare providers harder than past downturns.
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Many are worried sick about finances: survey

December 30, 2008
American adults say they are worried sick about the economic downturn. Literally. According to a new survey by the AARP, one in five adults said that they suffer from health problems because of financial worries, and 22% said that they have delayed seeing a doctor because of cost concerns.
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Daschle hears tales of healthcare woe

December 30, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system told a town hall meeting in Dublin, Ind., that the task is not impossible if all sides work together.
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CMS cracks down on equipment suppliers

December 29, 2008
The CMS said it has revoked billing privileges for more than 1,100 medical equipment suppliers in Southern California and South Florida, and has suspended payments to a number of home-health agencies in the Miami-Dade, Fla., area.
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State association finds Ala. hospitals struggling

December 29, 2008
Hospitals in Alabama are struggling to make ends meet as they see a decline in admissions amid the current financial turmoil and pending cuts to Medicaid reimbursements, according to a survey by the Alabama Hospital Association.
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Pa. company to buy diabetes-supply business

December 29, 2008
Healthcare-products distributor Owens & Minor, Richmond, Va., has signed an agreement to sell portions of its direct-to-consumer diabetes-supply business to Liberty Healthcare Group, Bala Cynwyd, Pa., a contract medical-management company, for $63 million cash, according to a news release.
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CHIME survey shows hospitals preparing to meet data technology standards

December 24, 2008
Healthcare information technology executives are making the first moves to ready their hospitals for the proposed upgrades to Accredited Standards Committee X12 Version 5010 data-exchange standards and the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, or ICD-10, code sets, according to a recent survey by the College of Health Information Management Executives.
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N.Y. unveils quality site to boost preventive care

December 24, 2008
The New York State Health Department launched a new Web-based quality tool to help patients gauge care at hospitals across the state as it attempts to increase the amount of preventive care residents receive.
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North Carolina center gets OK on $96 million hospital

December 24, 2008
Forsyth Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C., said it received a conditional certificate-of-need approval to build a $96 million, 50-bed hospital in Clemmons, N.C. The 842-bed medical center, which is part of not-for-profit Novant Health, also in Winston-Salem, said the new hospital will include four operating rooms, a 12-bed emergency department and a range of imaging services.
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FTC announces antitrust settlement with doc groups

December 24, 2008
Two physician groups separately have settled charges that they violated federal antitrust law by engaging in price-fixing conspiracies to extract higher payments from certain health insurers, the Federal Trade Commission announced.
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AHRQ awards $12.8 million in research grants

December 24, 2008
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality awarded $12.8 million in research grants to 19 quality, efficiency and safety projects.
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Calif. court orders state to enforce HIV/AIDS law

December 23, 2008
A California court is ordering the state to implement a 2002 law requiring Medicaid to extend coverage to HIV-positive residents.
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Emory takes action after conflict-of-interest probe

December 23, 2008
After an investigation of alleged conflicts of interest, Emory University announced that former department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences chairman, Charles Nemeroff, will not be reinstated from the leadership post that he held for 17 years and stepped down from on Oct. 3. The Atlanta-based school also said it will not apply for any National Institutes of Health grants or contract requests on which Nemeroff’s name is listed for the next two years.
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