Hospitals After formal approval by state and federal regulators, Allegheny Health Network (AHN) and Heritage Valley Health System have finalized an affiliation agreement that will add two Heritage Valley hospitals, dozens of clinical locations, and hundreds of physicians to AHN’s western Pennsylvania-based network. The organizations are now focused on integration of “operations and clinical programmatic…
Baptist Health held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday to welcome South Arkansas Regional Hospital in El Dorado, Ark., into its system after officially assuming the hospital’s operations the day before. The 151-bed hospital has been renamed Baptist Health Medical Center-El Dorado, becoming the 13th hospital in the Baptist Health system. “The…
Novant Health Scotts Hill Medical Center is scheduled to fully open to patients on June 16 in Wilmington, N.C. The 250,000-square-foot, $294 million facility is described as New Hanover County’s first hospital opening in nearly 60 years. The hospital will feature eight ORs, a 29-bed pre-op/post-op unit, and a 12-bed…
Amid the consistent migration of surgical cases from inpatient hospitals to outpatient settings, one North Carolina medical center is, at least temporarily, reversing the tide. Local media outlet CityView reports that Cape Fear Valley Health is seeking permission from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Health Service…
Ascension Saint Thomas will break ground June 16 on a new full-service hospital and 96-acre integrated health campus in Clarksville, Tenn. The $148.5 million hospital, which will “anchor” the campus, will open with 44 inpatient beds and, according to Ascension Saint Thomas, “provide emergency care, inpatient surgery, cardiology, women’s health,…
UNC Health on Monday announced it is planning to build a new community hospital on a 62-acre site in the city of Wilmington, New Hanover County, pending regulatory approvals. “This proposed hospital will strengthen UNC Health’s statewide reach – connecting North Carolina communities from the mountains to the coast,” stated the…
New Jersey’s RWJBarnabas Health Medical Group has relocated several “key practices” into a “newly designed, state-of-the-art medical suite” on the second floor of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Rahway. The practices are cardiology, general surgery and specialized pulmonary care, with primary care on the way. It says the move…
Arkansas news organization Talk Business & Politics (TB&P) reports that a group of state legislators, seeking to “better understand and address constituent concerns” about the future of Baptist Health’s Fort Smith hospital, met with Baptist Health leadership last week for a “listening session” to discuss the situation. State Rep. Ryan…
A fire at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska, delayed elective surgeries at the facility for several days. According to the hospital, the fire occurred last Thursday inside a utility closet within its surgical services unit due to a worker accidentally cutting into electrical heat tape. “A Code Red alert…
Canyon Vista Medical Center (CVMC) reports that it has been “steadily bringing four previously offline operating rooms back into service.” Two of its ORs are now “fully operational, with additional capacity coming online in the months ahead,” states the 100-bed acute care hospital in Sierra Vista, Ariz. “This phased expansion…
