The Chicago Plan Commission has favored a plan from Children's Memorial Hospital's plan to build a 22-story hospital crowned with a heliport. Plans for the $1 billion hospital, which would replace Children's aging Lincoln Park location, still must clear the City Council's zoning panel as well as the full city council.
A state panel has approved a range of changes for next year for the rapidly growing subsidized health insurance program in Massachusetts. The changes will probably cut payments to doctors and hospitals, reduce choices for patients, and possibly increase how much patients have to pay.
Maryland's largest insurer of doctors will return to the state $84 million it has collected through a taxpayer-financed subsidy program to help pay malpractice premiums, according to state regulators. the three-year-old subsidy program is being curtailed because a spike in malpractice awards has flattened out, said Gov. Martin O'Malley.
Thousands of breast cancer patients could be spared chemotherapy or get gentler versions of it without harming their odds of beating the disease, according to new research.
David Hoidal will resign as chief executive officer of University of Alabama-Birmingham Health System effective Jan. 4. The University of Alabama at Birmingham has not yet named replacement to head the system, which includes 908-bed UAB Hospital, the Kirklin Clinic, Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital, Viva Health, UAB Highlands, Health Services Foundation, Medical West in Bessemer and Montgomery Baptist hospitals.
The American Hospital Association says that a letter recently sent to presidential candidates about specialty hospitals is "all fiction, no facts." In response, the AHA and the Iowa Hospital Association sent their own letter to the candidates that says limited-service facilities drive up the nation's healthcare costs and threaten to dismantle vital community resources for patients.