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According to a Crain's Chicago report, Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare will pay approximately $350 million to acquire Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, a 900-physician practice affiliated with the health system's namesake university.

Due to soft admissions and one-time nonrecurring expenses, net income at Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. dropped 30 percent in the third quarter of this year, from $40 million to $28 million.

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United Surgical Partners International has announced 17.7 percent increase in consolidated net revenue in the third quarter of 2013 over the same period last year.

Checklist fatigue is a common phenomenon among healthcare professionals. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement invited Thomas Varghese, MD, medical director of Seattle-based University of Washington's program Strong For Surgery, to address surgical checklists as a contributor on its Patient Safety…

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