Article: Community rallies to buy hospital from Columbia. (Columbia/HCA Corp. sells back Ville Platte Medical Center to Ville Platte, Louisiana residents)(includes related articles on attraction of rural healthcare providers to private hospital chains and negotiations with Columbia/HCA Corp.)

Article: NovaRad Inks PACS Contract with Ville Platte Medical Center.
Health & Medicine Week;  December 29, 2008 ;     317 words ...Ville Platte Medical Center in Ville Platte, La., of LifePoint Hospitals...The contract with Ville Platte Medical Center brings NovaRad's total number...forward to working closely with Ville Platte and to helping its radiology...

Article: Squirrel Town, U.S.A. The biggest day of the year in Ville Platte, Louisiana, is the ecureuil (translation: squirrel) opener. Businesses shutter their windows, schools close, football games get rescheduled, and the entire town heads for the woods.
Field & Stream (West ed.);  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......patriarch of the McCauley clan of the Ville Platte, Louisiana, Cajuns. No ecureuil. He...big woods, ricefields, and sugarcane, Ville Platte (pop. 9,000) lies about 30 miles northwest...alligator heads to cookbooks. But in Ville Platte, Cajun culture has yet to be caricatured...

Article: Alameda Count Medical Center faces serious financial problems
Oakland Tribune;  July 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ......plaguing the Alameda County Medical Center -- which includes High land...who presented the audit to the medical center's finance board Tuesday night. "I think that is required." The medical center -- which includes Highland and...

Article: EXPANSION PROJECT MEDICAL CENTER MOVES TOWARD CONSTRUCTION COUNCIL OK'S ZONING CHANGE FOR $143M DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK FACILITY PROPOSED MEDICAL CENTER CLEARS ZONING HURDLE
The Boston Globe;  July 12, 1987 ;     700+ words ......proposed $143 million Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, which would move the Dartmouth Medical...undeveloped 225-acre site. The new medical center, scheduled for completion in January...a step closer to construction, and medical center representatives say it is a good sign...

Article: Alameda County Medical Center warns of 160 layoffs
Oakland Tribune;  April 2, 2003 ;     439 words ......160 employees of the Alameda County Medical Center could be laid off this year as officials...The grim news was presented to the medical center board Monday night by Chief Executive...announcement two months ago that the medical center expects to lose $7 million in federal...

Article: Medical center is cited for two violations Inspectors say hospital inadequate in operating procedures, records
Oakland Tribune;  August 28, 2004 ;     555 words ......accreditation group at the Alameda County Medical Center last month has resulted in two deficiencies...JCAHO, paid an unannounced visit to the medical center, including Highland Hospital in Oakland...inspection was prompted by a complaint about medical center leadership issues to ...

Article: Medical center plan by month's end, S&P says.
Westchester County Business Journal;  February 23, 2004 ;     699 words ......County expects cash-strapped Westchester Medical Center to present to the county and state...neither Westchester County nor the medical center would confirm that at deadline. Susan...that the county was working with the medical center, state and even federal representatives...

Article: Black Employees Charge Racism At Pitt Medical Center
New Pittsburgh Courier;  August 31, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Black Employees Charge Racism At Pitt Medical Center. A group of African-American employees...department at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are blaming the highest levels of management...destroyed" their department. In a letter to Medical Center President Jeffrey A. Romoff, ...

Article: As bailout talks resume, med center says it's improving.(Westchester Medical Center)
Westchester County Business Journal;  July 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ...As Westchester Medical Center remained just over halfway toward...Legislature was in session. The medical center says it can hold out through the...Richard A. Berman, chairman of the medical center's board of directors. I don't...

Article: Medical center braces for new round of layoffs.(Westchester Medical Center, New York)
Westchester County Business Journal;  December 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......second time in nine months, Westchester Medical Center is preparing to cut costs by laying...how many jobs will go this time, the medical center will not say, though it's not dampening...Marilyn Slaatten said. Slaatten said the medical center would save $16.5 million from the ...

Article: State warms to bailout of med center.(Westchester Medical Center)
Westchester County Business Journal;  June 20, 2005 ;     554 words ......Westchester County in bailing out Westchester Medical Center this year, the state's second-highest...participate in some solution for Westchester Medical Center. How that is structured, I think, is...commissioner. Clearly, Westchester Medical Center is a key component of the ...

Article: Hevesi sets a second medical center audit.(Alan Hevesi)
Westchester County Business Journal;  September 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ......carry out a second audit of Westchester Medical Center over the next year to assess its financial...study in which Hevesi criticized the medical center for fiscal mismanagement between 2001...offering some public praise for the medical center's current turnaround team overseen...

Article: Trustees fire CEO of health center Alameda County Medical Center has had eight chiefs in 10 years
Oakland Tribune;  September 19, 2003 ;     679 words ......CEO of the troubled Alameda County Medical Center, was fired Wednesday night by the medical center's Board of Trustees. The trustees for...let's move forward," Steele said. The medical center has had eight CEOs in the past 10 years...

Article: MENINO BACKS BIOSAFETY LAB PLAN SAYS BU MEDICAL CENTER NEEDS TO GET AREA'S SUPPORT
The Boston Globe;  January 18, 2003 ;     697 words ......endorsed a proposal by Boston University Medical Center to build a high- security biodefense...support in surrounding neighborhoods. The medical center appears all but certain to pursue up...an interview. "If [Boston University Medical Center] could go out there and tell people...