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Post Acute Medical purchases Northshore Specialty Hospital

Post Acute Medical today announced the purchase of Northshore Specialty Hospital, a 58-bed, Long Term Acute Care Hospital.

22 Mar 2010

Outcomes Health Information Solutions moves into new headquarters in Alpharetta, GA

Outcomes Health Information Solutions, LLC, a leading healthcare data auditing and analytics company, announced today its move into its new headquarters in Alpharetta, GA. Now occupying nearly 47,000 square feet, the expansion confirms the company’s sustained rapid growth in the healthcare market.

22 Mar 2010

NHI leases Suite Living Senior Specialty Services for $4.2M

National Health Investors, Inc. announced today new investments totaling $7.2 million. The transactions include a purchase/leaseback of a 24-unit assisted living and memory care facility in Minnesota with Suite Living Senior Specialty Services (formerly known as Comforts of Home) for $4.2 million and the origination of a $3.0 million second mortgage secured by interests in three skilled nursing facilities in Texas totaling 311 beds as part of a bridge to HUD financing for the borrower.

22 Mar 2010

Medical Facilities' service revenue increases from $199.4M in 2008 to $207.4M in 2009

Medical Facilities Corporation, today reported its financial results for the three and twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2009. All amounts are expressed in U.S. dollars unless indicated otherwise.

22 Mar 2010

AngioDynamics welcomes book on “Irreversible Electroporation”

AngioDynamics today welcomed the publication of the book “Irreversible Electroporation,” published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

22 Mar 2010

Simcere Pharmaceutical completes Phase IV clinical study of Endostar

Simcere Pharmaceutical Group, a leading manufacturer and supplier of branded generic pharmaceuticals and manufacturer of the patented anti-cancer biotech product Endostar (also known as Endu) in China, announced today the successful completion of Endostar Phase IV clinical study at a conference in Beijing dedicated to this study.

22 Mar 2010

Chao BRAIN Center receives $5M gift for study of progressive neurodegenerative diseases

Dr. Stephen Wong has received a $5 million gift from the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation to study progressive neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's Disease. The gift will support The Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Bioinformatics Research and Imaging for Neurosciences (BRAIN) at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute.

22 Mar 2010

iMDsoft's MetaVision suite of solutions to be distributed by Dominion in Spain

iMDsoft®, a global leader in hospital-wide clinical information systems, and Dominion, a leading provider of technology solutions in Spain and Latin America, have announced an agreement whereby Dominion will distribute iMDsoft's MetaVision® suite of solutions in Spain.

22 Mar 2010

ATS Medical receives Canadian approval for commercialization of Simulus Annuloplasty Product Line

ATS Medical, Inc., manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products and services today announced that Health Canada-Medical Device Bureau, Therapeutic Products Programme has approved commercialization of the ATS Simulus® Annuloplasty Product Line for valve repair.

22 Mar 2010

Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program releases new analysis of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

A new analysis of H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed on December 24, 2009 by the United States Senate, was released today by The GW School of Public Health and Health Services, Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program. This new analysis focuses on key legal changes in the Senate-passed legislation and highlights relevant provisions addressed in the President's health reform proposal (released by the White House on February 22, 2010).

22 Mar 2010

Shastha Foods, South Asian Heart Center form food partnership

Santa Clara-based Shastha Foods and the South Asian Heart Center at El Camino Hospital have announced they have collaborated to create newly formulated versions of the company’s popular fresh, stone ground “dosa” batter using the Center’s nutritional guidelines for healthy heart-savvy ingredients.

22 Mar 2010

Primary care physicians agree on responsibility in addressing obesity, but lack right weight management resources

Primary care physicians agree they have a role in addressing obesity, but say they do not have the right weight management resources. Obese or heavier adults take responsibility for weight loss, but adults who need to lose weight may lack information about effective weight loss methods and strategies. These findings and others come from new research commissioned and released today by the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance, a project operating out of the Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

22 Mar 2010

SHEA, IDSA release new clinical practice guidelines for CDI in adults

A joint panel of experts from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America today released online new clinical practice guidelines for Clostridium difficile infection in adults. The guidelines, to be published in the May issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, update recommendations regarding the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and infection control and environmental management of this disease.

22 Mar 2010

HAIs in southeast U.S. community hospitals: Infection rates for CDI surpass MRSA's

Researchers studying epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections in community hospitals in the southeast U.S. found that rates of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) surpassed infection rates for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Scientists also discovered that healthcare-associated CDI, which is a bacterium that causes diarrhea and more serious intestinal conditions such as colitis, occurs more often (21 percent) than healthcare-associated infections due to MRSA.

22 Mar 2010

JDRF to begin diabetes research collaboration on drugs for replicating insulin-producing cells

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, a leader in setting the agenda for diabetes research worldwide, said today that it will begin a diabetes research collaboration with Pfizer, Hadassah Medical Organization, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on drugs to replicate and regenerate insulin-producing cells in people with type 1 diabetes.

22 Mar 2010

AHA announce support for passage of Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act

Today, the American Hospital Association announced support for the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act and the improvements that will be made through reconciliation, which together form the comprehensive health insurance reform legislation before Congress.

22 Mar 2010

Novel ways of killing TB causing bacteria discovered

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found two novel ways of killing the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB), a disease responsible for an estimated two million deaths each year. The findings, published in the March 21 online issue of Nature Chemical Biology, could lead to a potent TB therapy that would also prevent resistant TB strains from developing.

22 Mar 2010

Swine flu risk to pregnant women uncovered in landmark study

A study to be published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) today has found 11 percent of pregnant women admitted to intensive care units (ICU) with 2009 A/H1N1 (swine flu) died, with 12 percent of babies born to them dying from complications. None of the mothers had been immunised against seasonal flu.

22 Mar 2010

GAO's recommendations to be implemented for new Martin Army Community Hospital construction at Fort Benning

The United States Army Corps of Engineers announced today that it is fully implementing the Government Accountability Office's recommendations for the future construction of the new Martin Army Community Hospital at Fort Benning, Ga.

20 Mar 2010

Study: Older adults with chronic illness often struggle to manage several prescribed drugs at a time

People with chronic illness often struggle to manage several prescribed drugs at a time. It's overwhelming when the vials, bottles and inhalers bulge from your medicine cabinet and you're confused about which drug is which, or when to take what.

20 Mar 2010

Hospital News and Research

Post Acute Medical purchases Northshore Specialty Hospital

Outcomes Health Information Solutions moves into new headquarters in Alpharetta, GA

NHI leases Suite Living Senior Specialty Services for $4.2M

Medical Facilities' service revenue increases from $199.4M in 2008 to $207.4M in 2009

AngioDynamics welcomes book on “Irreversible Electroporation”

Simcere Pharmaceutical completes Phase IV clinical study of Endostar

Chao BRAIN Center receives $5M gift for study of progressive neurodegenerative diseases

iMDsoft's MetaVision suite of solutions to be distributed by Dominion in Spain

ATS Medical receives Canadian approval for commercialization of Simulus Annuloplasty Product Line

Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program releases new analysis of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Shastha Foods, South Asian Heart Center form food partnership

Primary care physicians agree on responsibility in addressing obesity, but lack right weight management resources

SHEA, IDSA release new clinical practice guidelines for CDI in adults

HAIs in southeast U.S. community hospitals: Infection rates for CDI surpass MRSA's

JDRF to begin diabetes research collaboration on drugs for replicating insulin-producing cells

AHA announce support for passage of Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act

Novel ways of killing TB causing bacteria discovered

Swine flu risk to pregnant women uncovered in landmark study

GAO's recommendations to be implemented for new Martin Army Community Hospital construction at Fort Benning

Study: Older adults with chronic illness often struggle to manage several prescribed drugs at a time

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