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As healthcare providers grapple with the challenge of attracting and retaining patients, one thing has become increasingly clear: It's about location, location, location.

Twelve Iowa cities and towns are applying to be the second group of demonstration sites for the Blue Zones project, an experiment in trying to improve health and well-being by Healthways and with funding assistance from health insurer Wellmark.

Nonprofit health provider and insurance organization HealthPartners and Park Nicollet Health Care announced in late August they would combine operations in a move that would create the second largest healthcare system in Minnesota and one that also operates a 1.5 million-member strong health plan.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and nonprofit health system Banner Health have announced an equal partnership designed to provide a coordinated Medicare Advantage plan to be known as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Advantage.

With an increasing demand for home care services, home care businesses have been springing up in communities across the country. And with the rapid expansion of these largely unregulated businesses questions about the industry's hiring practices have begun to surface.

With an increasing demand for home care services, home care businesses have been springing up in communities across the country. And with the rapid expansion of these largely unregulated businesses questions about the industry's hiring practices have begun to surface.

The term "robotic telepresence" in home healthcare might give pause to even the most up-to-date technology junkie. Rest easy. It doesn't refer to a Skype meeting with Rosie from "The Jetsons." Though it is something akin to what we're seeing from NASA's Martian rover.

While short on tangible insights about either candidate's vision for healthcare, Wednesday night's presidential debate was filled with barbs and twisted facts about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The Medical Group Management Association is holding its annual conference October 21 to 24 and this year it's in the big state of Texas. Here is our top 10 list (in no particular order) for making your conference a memorable one.

According to a new Johns Hopkins Children's Center study, hospitals can prevent one in five central-line infections by following a list of precautions and measures, encouraging families to speak up when they observe noncompliance and doing an analysis of the causes behind every infection that does occur.