Rex Healthcare will submit a Certificate of Need application to the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation for three new operating rooms — two rooms at Rex's Holly Springs, N.C., facility, to be completed in 2012, and one for…
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Charles C. Njoku, MD, of Powell, Ohio, and Veronica Scott-Guiler of Orient, Ohio, were indicted on 14 counts of making false statements tied to healthcare payments, one count of healthcare fraud and four counts of illegal distribution of controlled substances,…
University Medical Center in Lebanon, Tenn., has broken ground on its new ambulatory surgery center, located on UMC's main campus, according to a report in The Tennessean.
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With health reform, President Obama had a great opportunity to correct some rampant flaws in the healthcare system. But for several reasons, which I'll itemize, the reform process has become its own worst enemy. The election in Massachusetts is the…
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.