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The sudden, unexpected demise of Walmart Health marks the end of one phase of the retailer's drive to enhance access to care, improve patient outcomes and lower costs, and the [...]

The end of the line for Ascension St. Vincent's neighborhood hospital in Noblesville--the first in its system--came not with a bang but with the whine of a hoist lift. With [...]

Most push notifications that pop up on my tablet concern impending catastrophe. But last week, one newsflash made my day. Glory hallelujah, the NHS is closing the Tavistock. A clatter [...]

Byline: Claire Landsbaum On Thursday, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland (http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/05/18/planned-parenthood-close-four-iowa-clinics-after-legislative-defunding/330284001/) announced that it would close four clinics in Iowa after Governor Terry Branstad signed a (http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/20/iowa-legislature-gives-final-ok-bill-defunding-planned-parenthood-heads-branstad/100718452/) budget bill that [...]

On a chilly morning last April, about 100 people, among them expectant mothers and parents carrying bundled-up babies, rallied outside Chestnut Hill Hospital in northwest Philadelphia to show that they [...]

IT IS DIFFICULT FOR MANY towns and small cities to support one hospital; keeping two of them has proven impossible. The recent closings of Central Arkansas Hospital in Searcy and [...]

Comprehensive Pain Specialists, one of the largest regional pain management groups, is closing more than half its clinics, including one in Fishers, amid worsening financial troubles and federal criminal charges [...]

When a hospital is slated to shut, it's treated like a death in the family by employee unions, community members and local politicians. They enter the first two stages of [...]

HARTSELLE, Ala.--Hartselle Medical Center will close its doors Jan. 31, according to a statement from its parent company, Franklin, Tenn.-based Capella Healthcare. Capella cited a number of problems that have [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--The UC Davis Health System recently signed a telehealth research collaboration agreement with the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The memorandum of understanding commits the two to sharing ideas and [...]

Ochsner Health System only facilities that will remain open on emergency status during Hurricane Gustav, as of 3 p.m. Sunday, were its main campus on Jefferson Highway and its hospitals [...]

Byline: Mark Taylor One week before Jackson Healthcare Staffing was set to close on a deal to buy rival World Health Alternatives out of bankruptcy, a group of shareholders sued [...]

The Boots Group has announced its intention to close down its non- profitable healthcare services by the end of the year. Many of the 850 jobs affected involve specialist skills. [...]

Byline: gale scott Beth Israel Medical Center's board of trustees agreed to put its Herbert and Nell Singer Division on the market. The complex, also known as Beth Israel North, [...]

Tenet Healthcare Corp. said it may close the company's Santa Barbara, Calif., headquarters and consolidate operations at another corporate office. Tenet President and Chief Executive Officer Trevor Fetter sent a [...]

Byline: Vince Galloro One legacy of the mergers of three group purchasing organizations that became Premier in the mid-1990s was the merged organization having three large offices-in Charlotte, N.C.; Oak [...]

Ben Secours Hospital is considering closing down its inpatient hospital to save on expenses and sustain operations from the approximately $6 million that the health care institution will receive from the Maryland General Assembly for fiscal 2009. The proposal, which needs approval from the hospital board, is to be presented to the state legislature.

El Camino Hospital faces the possibility of losing doctors, nurses, and employees after Tenet Healthcare Corp. decided to leave the Community Hospital of Los Gatos before its lease expires on May 31, 2009. El Camino is set to buy the hospital from Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s landlord on June 1, 2009.

City officials in San Jose, California and downtown advocates are seeking to reintroduce health services in the area that were lost due to the closure of the San Jose Medical Center in 2004. A bond measure placed by Santa Clara County supervisors could be use to finance plans for new health services in the city. Plans for the property are presented.

Holistica Hawaii is to close down its health center at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort & Spa in Waikiki and is moving operation to San Francisco, California after the center failed to attract the number of customers it had expected. The center opened seven years ago as a model for medical tourism in the state to attract affluent vacationers for medical procedures and other diagnostic services.

Select Medical Corp. in a consolidating move is closing its redundant Birmingham bill collection centre and cutting 40 jobs from October 1, 2007. Its cash posting centre will be centralized at its corporate headquarter while its inpatient and outpatient healthcare operations in Birmingham will continue.