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    Banner Health to be replaced as operator of Alaska hospital | Fairbanks (Alaska) News-Miner

    The Greater Fairbanks (Alaska) Community Hospital Foundation is ending its 15-year affiliation with Phoenix-based Banner Health. The foundation, which owns the hospital, announced in a Thursday afternoon news release that it is considering an affiliation with "one of several health systems."

    UPMC invests in N.Y. hospital | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    UPMC on Thursday signed an affiliation agreement with the 317-bed WCA Hospital in Jamestown, N.Y., consummating a three-year collaboration between the two institutions.

    Creditors split on future of bankrupt Mich. hospital | Detroit Free Press

    The future of Doctors' Hospital of Michigan in Pontiac will remain uncertain for at least another week after creditors failed Thursday to reach a conclusive vote on competing bankruptcy reorganization plans for the long-struggling hospital.

    Michigan hospitals notify holdout CRNAs jobs end Dec. 31 | Crain’s Detroit Business

    St. John Health System is making it official: Nurse anesthetists at two Providence hospitals who haven’t signed a third-party employment agreement are out the door at month’s end, presumably with no hospital severance benefits or unemployment.

    Detroit City Council passes ordinance on medical marijuana dispensaries | Crain's Detroit Business

    After more than four hours of legal and council discussion and dozens of city resident comments, the Detroit City Council on Thursday evening approved by a vote of 6-1 a zoning ordinance that experts say could close up to half of the city's medical marijuana dispensaries.

    N.Y. Medicaid work group weighs in on value-based payments | Crain's New York Business

    The State of New York's roadmap for moving Medicaid to value-based payments calls for 90% of Medicaid managed care reimbursement using the model by 2020. That schedule is sparking significant concern among many not-for-profit groups that feel unprepared for the shift.

    St. Louis CEO to leave post in January | St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    Des Peres Hospital CEO Johan Grah is leaving his post in mid-January to become CEO at Lakewood Regional Medical Center in Lakewood, Calif. David Loving will serve as interim CEO.

    Washington Adventist Hospital to build new facility in 2016 | Washington Business Journal

    Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Md., received confirmation from state regulators on Thursday to build a new 170-bed facility in White Oak, M. Construction could begin as early as next month on the $331 million hospital.

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