A Madison, GA, hospital plans to build a $35 million facility, countering the recession trends that have stalled similar medical projects. Morgan Memorial Hospital said that it will file for state permission to replace its current structure, built in 1959. The new hospital would feature all private patient rooms and expand outpatient services. It will have 25 beds and connect to a 21-bed rehabilitation unit that was built in 1998.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is on the client list of Los Angeles public relations guru Mike Sitrick, whose mission is to help the 20-hospital UPMC market itself worldwide. Sitrick's representatives last week toured the soon-to-open campus of the $625 million Children's Hospital in Lawrenceville. The new Children's is the latest project that warrants promotion by a national PR firm like Sitrick's, UPMC spokesman Paul Wood said.
The only CEO Smyrna, TN-based StoneCrest Medical Center has ever had is stepping down, according to a hospital board member. Neil Heatherly, who started as CEO in 2001 when the hospital was still in the planning stages, announced his resignation at a board meeting. Joe Bowman, who is currently CFO, will act as CEO until a replacement is found.
Denis Cortese is stepping down later this year from his job as Mayo Clinic CEO. Cortese has had the job since 2002, and he's become more involved in national health policy in the past few years. Here Cortese discusses with the Wall Street Journal Health Blog about what he'll be doing next.
The Obama administration's move to rescind broad new job protections for health workers who refuse to provide care they find objectionable triggered an immediate political storm. The administration's plans unleashed a flood of heated reaction, with supporters praising the proposal as a crucial victory for women's health and reproductive rights, and opponents condemning it as a devastating setback for freedom of religion.
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has never lost an election, something analysts attribute to cool competence, a lifelong education in politics, and a knack for reaching across the political divide. But Sebelius has been mostly frustrated in her attempts to expand healthcare coverage in Kansas. President Obama is scheduled to formally introduce her at a White House ceremony as his nominee for secretary of health and human services, putting Sebelius in the midst of the growing debate over revamping the nation's healthcare system.