Community Hospital no more

Community Hospital no more

Los Gatos facility closes, will re-open as El Camino extension in July. The Community Hospital of Los Gatos has seen her last day. El Camino Hospital’s $45 million acquisition of the struggling faci...

More than 400 H1N1 cases confirmed, probable in CA

More than 400 H1N1 cases confirmed, probable in CA

Revised treatment guidelines issued by Calif. Dept. of Public Health. While the number of confirmed and probable cases of swine flu in California crept past 400, Bay Area public health departments ar...

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More than 400 H1N1 cases confirmed, probable in CA

Revised treatment guidelines issued by Calif. Dept. of Public Health. While the...

Varian guiding new technological advances

Goal to improve patients’ lives, decrease side effects. Until recently, a patient...

Portola races to improve Plavix drug

Portola is vying for a significant portion of the Plavix market. Five-year-old Portola...

Robotic surgical prostatectomies on the rise in Northern California

da Vinci robotic surgery device gains momentum with physicians, hospital. Though...

Stanford's radical experiment pays off

Bio-X program a world leader in interdisciplinary research. "There's a heck of a...

Momentum builds for access law

UC Berkeley study advocates shift in HIV prevention efforts in Africa

AIDS drug Cytolin heads into Phase II trials

Parents aren't vaccinating kids against influenza

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Community Hospital no more

Los Gatos facility closes, will re-open as El Camino extension in July. The Community...

Sutter sputters

Hospital system postpones construction, IT projects, citing bad economy. Sutter...

Sutter’s venture stutters, three retail health clinics close

Popularity of retail clinics surging in other regions, yet mysteriously failing in...

Marin's Midas: Lee Domanico takes helm at Marin General

Amidst sliding profits, management changes, is a new day finally dawning for Marin...

Changing of the guard: Marin reclaims its hospital

Marin Healthcare District to assume management of Marin General Hospital from Sutter...

New services, new competition in Los Gatos healthcare scene

El Camino Hospital negotiates to purchase Community Hospital

San Francisco's St. Luke's Hospital saved from closure

Tenet Healthcare's strategy in California up in the air as they pull out of Los Gatos

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The concierge movement

Primary care physicians converting to new business model en masse Dr. Robert Taylor...

O’Connor Hospital makes changes to stop financial bleeding

The hospital is charting new territory to increase patient volume and increase revenue....

State takes unprecedented action against physician billing practices

Physicians, hospitals sue the Department of Managed Health Care to court over new...

New intermediary is costing...

New plan is costing physicians hundreds of millions of dollars. Millions of dollars...

How a biotech idea gets to market

Entrepreneur Rabinowitz takes lessons from tech sector, applies them to genetics...

AFSCME seeks to level playing field for physicians

California health system performance ranking in bottom quartile of nation

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Health IT stimulus could bring $3 billion to California

California physicians could get up to $3 billion from the federal stimulus package...

Federal stimulus package could prevent massive cuts to public health system

But economic relief from the federal government only delays cuts for one more year...

The coming era of health care reform in the Obama administration

Stimulus should pass but will good will extend to comprehensive health insurance...

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Senator introduces health care bill

Passage in both houses likely, but Schwarzenegger veto expected California State...

ER doctors turn back to courts to resolve balance-billing issues

Doctors claim that the system to enforce fair reimbursement rates from private and...

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Statewide center for telehealth established

Former department of health care services director to lead California Center for...

PAMF receives $2.5 million grant for Asian-American diabetes study

Study will inform physicians and policymakers on how to prevent and treat diabetes...

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New hospital buildings seeing the light

The latest trend in health care is perfecting patients’ experience through design....

The Emerald City of Medical Design

Northern California leads the way in sustainable design in health care. Forget the...

Greening Your practice without breaking the bank

There’s no need to hire an architect or to install a green roof to improve sustainability...

Physician volunteer program changes lives

Thesecondopinion needs physicians to volunteer for cancer panels. Over the last 35...

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