KENNEWICK, Wash.– Kennewick General Hospital is one step closer to a future expansion.
The hospital got its certificate of need approved from the state. Now the hospital can apply for a loan from the Federal Housing Administration for more funding.
KGH leaders plan to build a new facility on the 40 acres of land known as the Southridge campus. The hospital’s CEO says having a new facility will also help our local job market.
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If you have ever gone to the emergency room in the middle of the night, had to see a doctor while in another city or state, or changed doctors in your life, you have no doubt been privy to the ominous clipboard with a stack of paper up to your chin and a pen almost out of ink in which to fill out the forms. As dreaded as that experience is, I know that a lot of the questions in the past have been left blank on my forms because I am not up to speed Read the rest of this entry »

He doesn’t just play a doctor on TV. Sanjay Gupta could soon be the nation’s chief doctor — on TV and off.
Gupta,
a practicing neurosurgeon, assistant professor of neurosurgery andchief medical analyst for CNN,is expected to
become the nation’s next surgeon general.
The position would make him the uniformed head of the 6,000-member Commissioned
Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service — a job that carries the rank of vice admiral Read the rest of this entry »

Ex-Beaumonter, pioneering doctor wants Obama to focus on stem cell research
January, 4, 2009
He was a 35-year-old medical researcher when he had a eureka moment – discovering a vaccine to treat cervical cancer and becoming the subject of a presidential debate.
It’s been 40 years since former Beaumont resident, Dr. Roland Pattillo, discovered the earliest stages of development from the stem cells extracted from the placenta walls.
For his works Read the rest of this entry »

The prognosis for the medical facility depicted on ABC’s “General Hospital” for the past 45 years isn’t good.
The daytime soap’s long-standing hospital set is flatlining as part of an explosive story line.
Following a fiery crisis, the show’s crew has ignited the clinical den of drama, and producers plan to construct a totally new interior.
“This story really became an opportunity to take a shot at revising the look of the hospital and refreshing Read the rest of this entry »

Excelyte(TM), an oxidizing solution recently approved by the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) as a hospital disinfectant, kills microorganisms
such as mold, mildew, bacteria, mycobacterium, spores, fungi and viruses
on contact. MRSA, E. coli, Salmonella, and M. Tuberculosis are
some of the more commonly known bacteria susceptible to Excelyte(TM). Excelyte(TM)
is also effective against Clostridium difficile Read the rest of this entry »

has approached its medical correspondent,
, to be the country’s next surgeon general.
The cable news network said yesterday that it has kept Gupta from reporting on government health-care policy since learning he was under consideration for the post.
The surgeon general typically isn’t much involved in shaping an administration’s policy, but it can be an effective bully pulpit. Past surgeons general have proved instrumental in battling tobacco Read the rest of this entry »

Conn. Attorney General Blumenthal Plans To Challenge HHS ‘Conscience’ Rule
, which he said could override a Connecticut law that requires hospitals to provide emergency contraception to women who have been raped, the
, 12/20). The rule, which will take effect on Jan. 18, 2009, allows employees of entities that receive federal grants to refuse to provide medical information and services they object to based on moral or religious beliefs. The more Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON – At 39, Sanjay Gupta is an assistant professor at Emory University Medical School and associate chief of neurosurgery at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital, a large full-service medical center that is also the city’s public hospital. Those are fine credentials for a young doctor, but not enough by themselves to make him a national leader in medicine, let alone leading the short list for surgeon general.
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Barack Obama hasn’t even taken office yet, and he’s already gotten so lazy that he’s just ordering administrators off the TV. We’re talking about CNN’s televised doctor, Sanjay Gupta, whom Obama is prepared to
…
President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.
Gupta has told administration officials Read the rest of this entry »