A former retail building in Whitefish Bay's business district would be converted into a medical clinic under a new proposal by Aurora Health Care. Aurora wants to renovate the building to house a clinic clinic, with five to six doctors that would mainly serve patients who live in Whitefish Bay. Aurora Advanced Health Care has a larger facility about 4 miles away from the clinic's proposed site.
The Detroit Medical Center plans to reduce payments to the Wayne State University School of Medicine by $12 million a year in a dispute over whether the medical center pays doctors too much to treat poor patients. Under a contract, DMC agreed to give WSU $19,167,435 a year for 3 1/2 years for care of indigent patients. The money is primarily used to help pay salaries of WSU doctors who treat indigent DMC patients.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said the city will make more than $18 million in midyear cuts as it faces a $233 million budget deficit for the fiscal year starting July 1. As a result of the cutbacks, some surgeries at San Francisco General Hospital could be delayed.
Nashville-based hospital chain HCA Inc. has reported a nearly 128 percent increase in its fourth-quarter net income as gains from sales of facilities and on investments helped to offset higher interest costs. HCA representatives said the chain gained $139 million from sales of facilities and $2 million on investments. The company also got 6.6 percent more in revenue per patient, although admissions at hospitals opened at least a year fell by a percent.
University Hospitals has announced a 10-year expansion plan that includes a new children's hospital and major renovations at the main hospital in Iowa City. The plan would cost $700 million to $850 million, and funding would come from hospital revenues and private donations. The aging hospital's facilities need to be updated, especially as patient admissions increase and patient needs become more complex, University officials said.
Frustrated that leaders in Prince George County, MD, have no solution for their hospital system's financial troubles, the county's legislative delegation have introduced a bill that would transfer ownership of the system to a state authority. The takeover is designed to help stabilize the hospital system, which is includes of Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly, Laurel Regional Hospital, and the Bowie Health Campus. The system has been losing money for years, in part because many of the 180,000 patients it treats each year are uninsured.