Tags: health reform | Physician Hospitals of America

Democrats' new push to pass their health reform legislation is reigniting concerns that Congress could ban any new growth of physician-owned hospitals. Read more...  

Tags: Pennsylvania | WellSpan

WellSpan plans to open a $73 million inpatient orthopedic surgery facility in York, Pa., according to a report by the York Dispatch.

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Tags: health reform | Molly Sandvig | Physician Hospitals of America | physician-owned hospitals

As the health reform bill, with its ban on physician-owned hospitals, flounders in Congress, officials at the Physician Hospitals of America are cautiously optimistic that the ban may not take place.

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Tags: economic impact | healthcare reform | Physician Hospitals of America | physician-owned hospital

A new analysis of both the U.S. House's passed healthcare bill and the bill currently under debate in the U.S. Senate suggests that language in the bills intended to limit physician-owned hospitals could affect nearly 70,000 jobs and reduce state and local economic activity by $5 billion, according to a Physician Hospitals of America news release.
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Tags: hospital | Kevin Nolan | Michael Young | profitability | recession

As the recession continues to beat up on the industry, we asked a number of hospital executives where they expect to still make a profit in 2010. Here are nine ways they suggest.
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Tags: Florida | Pasco Regional Medical Center | Stan Holm

Stan Holm, CEO of Pasco Regional Medical Center in Dade City, Fla., recently appeared in the St. Petersburg Times as an author of an op-ed piece in support of physician-owned hospitals. Read more...  

Northeast Health, St. Peter's Health Care Services and Seton Health, all located in the Albany, N.Y., region, will form an affiliation to share services between the secular and Catholic hospitals, according to a report from Fox 23 in Albany. Read more...  

Medtronic has signed agreements to acquire CoreValve and Ventor Technologies, according to Medtronic news releases. Read more...  

Erdman, a Cogdell Spencer company, has announced that it has broken ground on a new 150,000 sq. ft. hospital and an adjacent 120,000 sq. ft. physician office complex in Janesville, Wis. Read more...  

A subsidiary of Community Health Systems (CHS) has made an equity investment in Franklin, Tenn.-based Spheris, one of the largest global providers of clinical documentation and computer-aided medical transcription products and services to health systems, hospitals and medical practices.

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