News For: United Health Group 401(K)Sunrise-based Pediatrix Medical Group to change name in 2009 Pediatrix Medical Group has outgrown its niche. Health Highlights: Sept. 17, 2008 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: UAE firm plans to launch insurance scheme By Arvind Nair A UAE-BASED group plans to launch a new medical insurance scheme in Doha by next month. Tenet Completes Sale of Tarzana Hospital to Providence Health & Services - California Tenet Healthcare Corporation NYSE: THC today announced that a Tenet subsidiary purchased the 245-bed Tarzana campus of Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center from HCP NYSE: HCP, and simultaneously sold it to Providence Health & Services - California. These events complete the previously disclosed transaction announced on July 1, 2008. The related sale of the Encino campus closed on June 2, ... UPDATE: Wright Medical Group, Inc. to Participate in the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference Wright Medical Group, Inc. NASDAQ: WMGI, a global orthopaedic medical device company, announced today that it will be participating in the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference on Monday, September 22, 2008 at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. John K. Bakewell, Wright's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The Company's previous ... Tenet Completes Sale of Tarzana Hospital to Providence Health & Services - California DALLAS----Tenet Healthcare Corporation today announced that a Tenet subsidiary purchased the 245-bed Tarzana campus of Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center from HCP , and simultaneously sold it to Providence Health & Services - California. Action Is Sought to Ensure Timely Financing for V.A. As the veterans health system strains to handle a growing caseload, a move is under way in Congress to avoid yearly delays in financing that can hamper the medical care of the nations veterans. Medical equipment donated to Nikaweratiya Base Hospital The Seva Vanitha Unit of the Foreign Ministry presented medical equipment to the new Intensive Care Unit ICU of the Nikaweratiya Base Hospital following a request from the Ministry of Health. Action Is Sought to Ensure Timely Financing for V.A. As the veterans? health system strains to handle a growing caseload, a move is under way in Congress to avoid yearly delays in financing that can hamper the medical care of the nation?s veterans. Jones named new CEO at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center Stephen K. Jones, Jr., is the new Chief Executive Officer at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center CLRMC, the largest hospital in the Bay Area. Jones comes to CLRMC from Rio Grande Regional Hospital in McAllen, Texas, where he was CEO for three years. Prior, he was CEO at Southwest Medical Center in Lafayette, Louisiana. |




