Vegas hits a hot streak

Article Abstract:

Universal Health Services and Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp., taking note of Las Vegas, NV's rapidly growing population, have both decided to build new hospitals in the area. Both projects are on Clark County's northwest side, where a retirement development and a planned community are attracting new residents. Columbia/HCA's new 120-bed facility opened in Jan 1996, and Universal's facility is scheduled to become operational in late 1997.

Private Hospitals, Supply and demand, Demographic aspects, Buildings and facilities, Las Vegas, Nevada, Universal Health Services Inc., UHS, Clark County, Nevada

---

Mammograms at the mall

Article Abstract:

Nordstrom Inc. opened a mammogram center, in cooperation with Evanston and Glenbrook hospitals, in its Old Orchard Shopping Center department store in Skokie, IL. The center, which is part of a series of breast cancer services offered by the department store, provides low-dose mammograms in a comfortable setting. Patient results are reported within 24 to 38 hours at a cost of $135.

Medical laboratories, Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories, Medical Testing Facilities NEC, Innovations, Services, Department stores, Biomedical laboratories, Mammography, Nordstrom Inc., NOBE

---

Breaking up is hard to do

Article Abstract:

Baton Rouge, LA's Ochsner Clinic has switched its hospital affiliation to nonprofit General Health System from the Medical Center of Baton Rouge. Ochsner shares a belief in a patient-centered practice and improvement in quality with General Health. The Medical Center's parent Nashville, TN-based HealthTrust merged in Apr 1995 with for-profit Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.

Management, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Health facilities, Health facility affiliations, HealthTrust Incorporated-The Hospital Co., Ochsner Medical Institutions, HTI

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Establishing a substance abuse treatment program: considerations for the administrator. Patterns of psychological type among health care executives
• Abstracts: The military's assault on AIDS. Med school on the make. Anything but academic
• Abstracts: Clinical nurse specialists: creating new programs for neonatal home care. Developmentally supportive caregiving and technology in the NICU: isolation or merger of intervention strategies
• Abstracts: Business and strategy. MicroArrays: prefabricated cDNA expression microassays
• Abstracts: Aetna deals itself out. A stick in time. Stop violence now

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.