Hospital group gets nearer to CEO pick
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Lynn B. Nicholas , the former head of the American Diabetes Association, is the leading outside candidate in the search for a chief executive of the Massachusetts Hospital Association, according to senior healthcare executives who have been informed about the search process.
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The health secretary is expected to announce a reversal of decisions to centralise hospital services.
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Starting next month, intensive-care patients at Inova Alexandria Hospital will be monitored round the clock by more than doctors and nurses at their bedsides.
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Select Medical Corp. SEM.N, which  operates acute care hospitals, said on Monday it struck a deal  to be taken private in a $2.3 billion buyout led by a private  equity group, sending shares soaring 23 percent.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Major health care providers are competing for the chance to build a hospital in Maple Grove, the fast-growing northwestern suburb.
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A consultant's report commissioned by the Archdiocese of Boston says the church should consider transferring control of its six hospitals to a national Catholic healthcare chain with more money and expertise, according to sources who were briefed on the report's contents.
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Medical-care ratio concerns trip up shareholders.
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Health officials in Glasgow are to meet to approve plans to centralise heart and lung surgery in the region.
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Triad Hospitals, under pressure from its biggest stockholder to raise its share price, agreed yesterday to be acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors and a Goldman Sachs unit for $4.7 billion.
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Deal moves closer to completion, but is still subject to shareholder approval.
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The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is getting out of the hospital business. Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley and a tight circle of archdiocese leaders have made a tentative deal to transfer ownership of the six hospitals in the Caritas Christi Health Care system, including Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton, to the nation's largest Catholic hospital chain.
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The new CEO may want to shed non-strategic parts of the business.
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The tides are turning in the health  care industry, with managed care executives becoming bullish  about growth in 2005, while pharmaceutical executives are  rattled, a new survey shows.
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HCA Inc. , the No. 1 U.S.  hospital chain, on Monday agreed to be acquired by an investor  group for about $21 billion in the second largest leveraged  buyout deal ever excluding HCA's debt.
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Carl Icahn attempts a board shakeup at Biogen.
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Latest licensing deal signals a move into the health-care arena.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other tech companies are increasingly betting that the health care industry will help them grow as their traditional markets mature. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is to kick off a health care tech conference in New Orleans today. The health care Information and Management Systems Society show is expected to draw 900 exhibitors and 25,000 doctors, hospital staffers and others.