New Jersey ruling leaves property-tax headache | NJ Spotlight
Hospitals are worth a lot to their communities—in terms of the healthcare they provide, workers they employ, and local charitable efforts they support. But now municipal tax assessors are assessing how much not-for-profit hospitals are worth for property-tax purposes.
Meet former Baxter exec whose company just sold for $2.58 billion | Crain's Chicago Business
When David Jonas retired from Baxter International after 25 years, he started a new company, PharMEDium Healthcare. It just sold for $2.58 billion.
Midwives open non-hospital birth center in N.C. | Charlotte (N.C.) Observer
Elizabeth Brooks delivered her first baby in a hospital. But for the second, she and her husband wanted a more homelike setting, with a nurse midwife attending the birth. They've signed up to use a non-hospital-based birth center, which opens this weekend in Charlotte, N.C.
Michigan Nurses Association files complaint against Lansing hospital | Michigan Radio
The Michigan Nurses Association has filed an unfair labor complaint against Sparrow Hospital in Lansing. It stems from the hospital's recent decision to close its substance abuse intake unit and move services to the hospital's main campus.
States lead effort to let pharmacists prescribe birth control | New York Times
New laws in California and Oregon will allow pharmacists to dispense hormonal birth control to women without a doctor's prescription, and other Western states may follow suit, the New York Times reports. The laws are an attempt by states to make birth control more accessible and reduce the number of unintended pregnancies.
