Hospital news: Officials plan new building in Colo.; Mich. facility is shutting down

In hospital news: Denver hospital officials plan an expansion, a Michigan hospital says it's shutting down, and in Massachusetts, Steward Health Care plans to buy a hospital.

Denver Post: Sky Ridge Hospital Plans Expansion South Of Denver
Sky Ridge Medical Center will add to the boom in south suburban medical growth with a 90-bed, $107 million expansion of its Lone Tree hospital. The investment by Sky Ridge owner HealthONE, part of the Nashville for-profit hospital chain HCA, comes soon after HealthONE consolidated its control of metro Denver's largest hospital group. HealthONE already managed Sky Ridge, Rose, Swedish, Presbyterian/St. Luke's and other hospitals, and bought remaining control in October from the nonprofit Colorado Health Foundation (Booth, 4/3).

The Associated Press/Modern Healthcare: Mich. Hospital Says It's Closing Down
Cheboygan (Mich.) Memorial Hospital said it has been forced to shut down Tuesday after a proposed sale of the facility to McLaren Health Care Corp. was blocked, throwing hopes of preserving health services at the area's largest employer into doubt. ... The hospital's CEO Shari Schult said the facility's emergency room will be closed and that arrangements will be made to divert ambulances to other hospitals. She said in a statement that other services also will be shut down, including outpatient clinics, laboratories and rehabilitation (4/3).

Boston Globe: Steward To Acquire Stoughton's New England Sinai
In its latest expansion move, fast-growing Steward Health Care System has agreed to buy New England Sinai Hospital, a 212-bed "post-acute care" site in Stoughton that treats patients recovering from serious illnesses or accidents after they leave other hospitals. Steward, which already owns 10 community hospitals and doctors groups across Eastern Massachusetts, said it plans to use New England Sinai to strengthen its "continuum of care"' and lower costs by moving patients from more expensive hospitals and reducing readmissions (Weisman, 4/4).