Mount Sinai Medical Center, which owns the Miami Heart Institute campus, wants to sell the property for redevelopment as a healthcare facility of the same height and density as the current building. The Miami Beach City Commission is set to consider the plan.
Two national civil rights organizations are criticizing commissioners in a Texas county for prohibiting nonprofit clinics from treating illegal immigrants with county funds. Several clinics in the county have complained that new reporting requirements requires them to violate patient confidentiality laws and play the role of immigration officer.
Under a recently unveiled plan, Georgians would pay an extra $10 annually for each car they register to help fund a statewide trauma care network. The plan could provide millions of dollars to financially strapped Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
Atlanta's Emory University is considering moving its hospital, outpatient clinic and some research facilities to one of the its satellite campuses. Emory is also considering another plan to consolidate hospital, outpatient and research facilities and expand its Crawford Long medical campus.
Congressional watchdogs have opened an investigation into potential mismanagement of a U.S. medical training program in Afghanistan. The program began in 2003 to reduce death rates for Afghan newborns and mothers, but numerous obstetricians and other healthcare workers have warned the Department of Health and Human Services that the program was in trouble.
Two more men who say they were sexually molested by Dr. George Reardon have filed lawsuits Thursday against St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT. The lawsuits claim the hospital was negligent in its supervision of the doctor during the 30 years he practiced there.