Texas Medical Center outlines plans for $1.5B campus | Houston Chronicle
The Texas Medical Center in Houston hopes to transform its area—and itself—by developing a new 28-acre campus complete with retail, a hotel, shared research space, and maybe even its own transit line.
Missouri hospital counts on procedure price list to increase business | National Public Radio
Price transparency can be hard to come by in health care. Putnam County Memorial Hospital, a small hospital in Missouri, is banking its future on having its prices out in the public.
Options on where to give birth dwindle as Georgia hospitals close labor, delivery units | Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
For many women in Georgia, the options for where to give birth have been dwindling rapidly as more hospitals close labor and delivery units or shut down altogether, particularly in rural areas.
In hiring weed czar, California seeks technocrat, not stoner | San Francisco Chronicle
If there's one nagging concern keeping you from applying to be the chief of California's new Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, here's some good news: There's no pre-employment drug test. But if passing that test would have been a problem, there's some bad news: You might not have what it takes to be California's first weed czar.
Crittenton shores up finances, invests | Crain's Detroit Business
Bleeding red ink most of the past five years, Crittenton Hospital and Medical Center in Rochester Hills, Mich., expects to turn the financial tide yet this year and embark on an ambitious capital improvement plan.
Kevorkian archive opens as physician-assisted deaths rise | Associated Press
A collection of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's files has been opened to the public at the University of Michigan. Kevorkian, a graduate of the university's medical school, sparked the national right-to-die debate.
