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The Clark County (Ind.) Council approved a $52 million bond agreement with Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Ind., this week that will allow the hospital to sell bonds for the value of the property and buy them back over time.
Overall hospital prices increased 0.1 percent in June, and were 2.8 percent higher than a year ago, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
President Barack Obama has nominated Regina M. Benjamin as the nation's new surgeon general.
Temple University Health System in Philadelphia has selected a new provider of supply chain management and procurement services to help manage approximately $150 million in annual spending.
Wishard Health Services has announced that as much as $703 million in low-interest public bonds is needed to build a new $754 million Wishard Hospital campus.
New business volume for equipment leasing in the health services sector grew from 8.9 percent in 2007 to 9.2 percent in 2008, according to the 2009 Survey of Equipment Finance Activity.
WellNet Healthcare is targeting the Web 2.0 movement with the release of Point to Point Healthcare, described as a "Facebook-like social networking platform" for healthcare consumers.
Howard County General Hospital in suburban Baltimore unveiled a $105 million, four-story patient wing last week.
About 45,000 office-based physicians may be eligible for up to $63,750 in ARRA funding over six years to improve and maintain their health information technology systems because of their participation in Medicaid, according to a n
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the Michigan Keystone ICU project is the first in a series of "success stories" that document innovative healthcare initiatives.