Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics plans to double the size of its downtown Kansas City campus. The $800 million expansion, is expected to take from 12 to 15 years to complete, and will add 216 inpatient beds. It also will add hundreds of thousands of square feet of new outpatient clinics, offices and clinical lab space.
Advisors for the Food and Drug Administration say that Genentech's Avastin cancer drug should not be approved for expanded use in breast-cancer patients.
Cancer patients in the United States, Canada and other countries have had medical tests postponed because of a problem with a Canadian nuclear reactor that produces medical isotopes used to diagnose and treat such cases. More than 20 million patients in Canada and the United States undergo nuclear medicine procedures every year.
Aetna has announced that it has reached agreement with Capital Regional Medical Center. The contract adds the 198-bed hospital to Aetna's Tallahassee network, and allows members of Aetna network-based plans to receive covered in-patient and out-patient services, at in-network rates, from Capital Regional.
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.