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NewsHospital: We won't survive if we can't relocate
After arguing that its very survival was at stake, officials at Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., got the greenlight from the state to relocate operations to another hospital building. The Read more...
Hospitals oppose new ER facility
If you can't join them, beat them, seems to be the approach two hospitals in Tennessee are taking to plans for a new ER facility in their area. Or maybe they're just trying not to lose market share Read more...
Georgia Supreme Court OKs hospital, capping four-year fight
Northeast Georgia Medical Center got the go ahead on Wednesday from the Georgia Supreme Court to build a hospital in south Hall County. The decision came after four years of appeals that wended their Read more...
NC 'battle of the beds' continues
Despite the withering economic climate, hospitals continue to fight over the right to expand. One case of this is taking place in Holly Springs, NC, where Novant Health is fighting to get permission Read more...
U.S. DoJ slams CON laws
This week, officials from the U.S. Department of Justice are expected to tell Illinois officials what they've told officials in other states--that they think CON laws are best eliminated. Both the Read more...
Prosecutors fight to uphold Scrushy bribery conviction
Federal prosecutors are battling to uphold the convictions of HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy--and former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman--on bribery, conspiracy and mail fraud charges in appeals Read more...
Federal spending bill could limit physician hospital ownership
A group of Republican Congress members are raising objections to language in a war supplemental spending bill that they say would harm physician-owned hospitals. Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Tom Coburn Read more...
FL gov. signs law reforming CON rules
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) has signed a bill, strongly backed by the state's hospital association, which remakes the state's certificate-of-need process. The bill includes a "loser pays" rule Read more...
FL, IA legislatures pass CON reforms
Picking up on a trend that seems to be mounting nationwide, Florida and Iowa legislators have passed bills that will reform their respective certificate-of-need processes. Fulfilling one of his Read more...
IA bill exempts some hospitals from CON process
Iowa lawmakers have approved a bill that would strike down the state's certificate of need rules, at least as they apply to the state's 82 small, rural hospitals. The bill, which certainly makes the Read more...
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