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The Ensign Group acquires Emmett Care & Rehabilitation Center and Parke View Rehabilitation & Care Center

The Ensign Group, Inc., announced today that it has acquired Emmett Care & Rehabilitation Center, a 72-bed skilled nursing facility in Emmett, Idaho, and Parke View Rehabilitation & Care Center, an 86-bed skilled nursing facility in Burley, Idaho. The acquisitions were effective January 1, 2010.

4 Jan 2010

Impending job cuts raises anxiety at Peterborough Regional Health Centre

The Central East LHIN, which oversaw a peer review that resulted in 220 job cuts in the Rouge Valley Healthcare system is deliberately downplaying the potential impact of the same process in Peterborough, says the union representing 540 employees at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre.

4 Jan 2010

Virtual Education and Simulation Training Center serves as virtual hospital

At Christiana Care Health System's VEST Center, babies are born every day, just as they are in a real hospital. Adults and children are rushed to the emergency department with injuries suffered in accidents. Patients are intubated, have their blood drawn and get IV drips.

4 Jan 2010

Study shows significant benefit of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to improve brain metabolism

A 5-year study of patients with severe traumatic brain injury conducted at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis shows significant benefit of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to improve brain metabolism and its ability to recover from injury.

4 Jan 2010

HTA acquires Select Rehabilitation Hospital of Denton

Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. ("HTA"), a self-managed, non-traded, real estate investment trust, announced the completed acquisition of the Select Rehabilitation Hospital of Denton building located in Denton, Texas, for approximately $15,485,000.

3 Jan 2010

Erectile dysfunction linked to RLS in older men

A study in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that erectile dysfunction was more common in older men with restless leg syndrome (RLS) than in those without RLS, and the magnitude of this association increased with a higher frequency of RLS symptoms.

3 Jan 2010

Acacia Research's subsidiary enters into license agreement with Stryker

Acacia Research Corporation announced today that its Hospital Systems Corporation subsidiary has entered into a license agreement with Stryker Corporation and Stryker Imaging Corporation covering a portfolio of patents that relate to medical picture archiving and communication system (PACS) technology.

From Stryker 31 Dec 2009

Prince Albert of Monaco leads the delegation in support of Art of the Olympians Gallery & Museum

Prince Albert of Monaco, an Olympian himself, led the delegation at the Florida House on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on December 1 in support of Art of the Olympian's efforts to establish a gallery and learning center in Ft. Myers, Florida where everyone can engage in an educational and cultural exchange while bridging differences and strengthening relationships.

31 Dec 2009

CMS and ONC issue regulations to implement widespread adoption of EHR incentive programs

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) encourage public comment on two regulations issued today that lay a foundation for improving quality, efficiency and safety through meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology.

31 Dec 2009

Majority of physicians think EMRs can compromise patients' safety

Press Ganey Associates' 2009 Hospital Pulse Report: Physician Perspectives on American Hospitals found physicians' satisfaction with electronic medical records (EMRs) is decreasing. Many physicians actually consider this increasingly common technology to be time-consuming and fear that it may compromise patient safety.

31 Dec 2009

Rh-negative blood supply prioritized as tri-state area braces for winter months

New York Blood Center (NYBC) serving New York City, Long Island, Hudson Valley and New Jersey calls upon the community to please donate blood today. Blood drive cancellations from the weekend storm of December 19, 2009, coupled with unusually high demand from regional hospitals, have impacted Rh-negative blood supplies, especially type O-negative.

31 Dec 2009

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan includes U-M Health System in Medicare Advantage PPO plan

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has added the University of Michigan Health System to its growing network of Medicare Plus Blue(SM) PPO providers. The move gives seniors who purchase the competitively priced plan access to all of the U-M hospitals and approximately 2,200 providers.

31 Dec 2009

HTA acquires Smyth Professional Building in Maryland

Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. ("HTA"), a self-managed, non-traded, real estate investment trust, announced the completed acquisition of a medical office building, known as the Smyth Professional Building, located in Baltimore, Maryland for approximately $11,250,000.

31 Dec 2009

St.Vincent Indianapolis Hospital renews campus-wide contract for Masimo SET pulse oximetry technology

Masimo, the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry(TM) and Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, announced today that St.Vincent Indianapolis Hospital has renewed its campus-wide contract for Masimo SET pulse oximetry technology.

31 Dec 2009

Maple Grove Hospital opened on schedule

Officials at Maple Grove Hospital are pleased to announce that doctors, nurses and staff began seeing patients on Dec. 30, marking the opening of the first new hospital in the Twin Cities in a decade.

31 Dec 2009

Music stars join hands to show how young people can help build a world without cancer

Some of the nation's rising music stars have joined the nation's first cancer center in an effort to show young people that they can help build a world without cancer. Roswell Park Cancer Institute created a new hip hop song and video called "How Big Is Your Heart." The MTV-like commercial features cancer patients and nurses dancing alongside professional dancers through the halls and lobby of the cancer hospital.

31 Dec 2009

FLDIC completes merger and acquisition of PPIC

Florida Doctors Insurance Company (FLDIC) announced today it has successfully completed a merger and acquisition of Physicians Preferred Insurance Company (PPIC), making FLDIC the fourth largest admitted writer of physicians and surgeons medical professional liability insurance in Florida.

31 Dec 2009

Researchers study the effectiveness of colonoscopy in preventing colorectal cancer

The prevalence of left-sided advanced colorectal neoplasms was lower in participants in a community setting, but not right-sided advanced neoplams, who had received a colonoscopy in the preceding 10 years, according to a new study published online December 30 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

31 Dec 2009

Memorial Blood Centers selected as blood supplier for New Maple Grove Hospital

Memorial Blood Centers is pleased to have been selected as the blood supplier for the new Maple Grove Hospital serving the northwest metro communities.

30 Dec 2009

Relieve stress: Exercise, meditate, delegate tasks, diet and be happy

It's impossible to know, unless you're Urban Meyer or one of his doctors, what exactly caused the two-time college football championship winner to see-saw decisions about his prestigious professional career and his family life.

30 Dec 2009

Hospital News and Research

The Ensign Group acquires Emmett Care & Rehabilitation Center and Parke View Rehabilitation & Care Center

Impending job cuts raises anxiety at Peterborough Regional Health Centre

Virtual Education and Simulation Training Center serves as virtual hospital

Study shows significant benefit of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to improve brain metabolism

HTA acquires Select Rehabilitation Hospital of Denton

Erectile dysfunction linked to RLS in older men

Acacia Research's subsidiary enters into license agreement with Stryker

Prince Albert of Monaco leads the delegation in support of Art of the Olympians Gallery & Museum

CMS and ONC issue regulations to implement widespread adoption of EHR incentive programs

Majority of physicians think EMRs can compromise patients' safety

Rh-negative blood supply prioritized as tri-state area braces for winter months

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan includes U-M Health System in Medicare Advantage PPO plan

HTA acquires Smyth Professional Building in Maryland

St.Vincent Indianapolis Hospital renews campus-wide contract for Masimo SET pulse oximetry technology

Maple Grove Hospital opened on schedule

Music stars join hands to show how young people can help build a world without cancer

FLDIC completes merger and acquisition of PPIC

Researchers study the effectiveness of colonoscopy in preventing colorectal cancer

Memorial Blood Centers selected as blood supplier for New Maple Grove Hospital

Relieve stress: Exercise, meditate, delegate tasks, diet and be happy

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