said it has completed the construction of a rehabilitation hospital in Texas.
The Birmingham-based general contractor recently completed the 64,000-square-foot Reliant Rehabilitation Hospital of North Houston, said a news release.
The three-story building includes 40 private rehabilitation rooms and 20 private skilled nursing rooms to serve patients in North Harris and Montgomery counties in Texas.
M.J. Harris said it encountered several obstacles Read the rest of this entry »

reports that Phillip Terrence Ragon will announce the gift to Massachusetts General Hospital on Wednesday.
The hospital will get $10 million a year for the next decade to bring together doctors, engineers and biologists from Massachusetts General as well as other research institutions, including Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The 59-year-old Ragon is the founder and sole owner of InterSystems Corp., a company Read the rest of this entry »

LONDON (AFP) — Ronnie Biggs, Britain’s notorious Great Train Robber, is in hospital with pneumonia, his son told AFP on Saturday.
The 79-year-old has been taken from prison to a nearby hospital in Norwich, eastern England, Michael Biggs said, adding that his father’s health was poor.
Biggs is among Britain’s most notorious criminals, with the Great Train Robbery of 1963 holding legendary status.
He was jailed for 30 years in 1964 but Read the rest of this entry »

Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — South Africa’s
, a
double amputee who made history by winning an appeal to allow him
to compete against able-bodied athletes, was admitted to a
Johannesburg hospital last night after he was injured in a
boating accident.
“At this point he’s in a critical but stable position in
intensive care,” Amelda Swartz, a spokeswoman for the Millpark
Hospital said today. It was too early to say whether he would
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recently completed a seven-year $16.5 million redevelopment project.
The project was funded by the state as well as community donations and construction was done in phases over the last five years.
During the first phase of construction, a new 11,200-square-foot inpatient services wing was added to the hospital that included expanded emergency and radiology departments and labor, delivery and patient rooms. The second phase included renovating Read the rest of this entry »

Information Center.
New reports on the site include a summary of the charges for the 25 most common reasons for hospitalizations in Wisconsin.
The “Top 25” report provides the median charge for maternity stays, appendectomies and knee or hip replacements.
A second report, also added Monday, shows hospital-specific charges for selected non-life-threatening diagnoses that are commonly treated in a hospital emergency department, but Read the rest of this entry »

New York (PTI): A hospital in the zone of fighting between the Government and rebel forces in north-eastern Sri Lanka, which has been the scene of heavy shelling and aerial bombardment for several days, is now empty, the United Nations has reported.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said bombings took place for several hours on Tuesday and the hospital was empty yesterday morning after intense military operations overnight.
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Doctors group rips U. of C. hospital
A national emergency doctors’ group on Thursday said the University of Chicago Medical Center is “dangerously close” to violating federal laws with its policy of steering some of its emergency room patients to other hospitals and clinics on the South Side.
In a statement, the American College of Emergency Physicians said it has “grave concerns that the University of Chicago’s policy toward emergency patients Read the rest of this entry »

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles police are investigating the death of a man who was dropped off in front of a hospital with bullet wounds.
Police say an unidentified driver parked in front of Mission Community Hospital in the San Fernando Valley early Monday, directed the medical staff to the wounded man in the car, and left on foot.
The victim, 47-year-old Mario Andrade, was rushed to the emergency room where he was pronounced dead.
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Staff from the Bundaberg Base Hospital will continue to give evidence on Friday to the Jayant Patel committal hearing in Brisbane.
On Thursday the hearing was told Patel was a difficult man who would lie to families about the success of operations even when his patients’ health was deteriorating.
Intensive care unit nurse Karen Stumer (Stumer) told the court on video link she overheard Patel telling the family of James Phillips that he was stable Read the rest of this entry »