Member News

The Tribune-Democrat reports that four attorneys met behind closed doors with a local judge in an attempt to settle a dispute about whether Memorial Medical Center should be paying property taxes.

The Erie Times-News reports (in print and video) that Millcreek Community Hospital recently added a fifth floor to its main building as part of a $15 million construction project.

The Morning Call reports that officials have been meeting weekly about the details since Lehigh Valley Hospital agreed to help the financially strapped Sacred Heart Hospital continue to serve the sick and needy in downtown Allentown.

The Republican Herald reports about Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic’s new telestroke program, an interactive video and audio connection doctors can use to treat stroke patients miles away.

KYW reports that the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has received another national honor, this one for its end of life care for dying children.

The Sentinel reports that Holy Spirit Health System’s new Dillsburg Center will complement health care services already being offered in the area.

The York Dispatch reports about WellSpan Health’s Summer Health Career Camp, now in its second year helping high school students “get a feel for numerous career options in health care.”

The Express reports that “As the public toured the new, state-of-the-art addition to Jersey Shore Hospital, there were lots of oohs and aahs.”

The Evening Sun reports that, in the first few hours of Hanover Hospital’s open house, more than 300 people toured the completed part of the hospital’s $30 million makeover.

State News

Erie Times-News reports that mistakes at a local blood bank have made a severe blood shortage even worse.

Central Penn Business Journal reports that many mid-state nonprofit organizations are expressing their gratitude for past donations by supporting Highmark as it tries to win state approval to merge with Independence Blue Cross.

National News

The Associated Press reports about Health Advocate , one of a growing number of U.S. companies offering advocacy services to medical consumers.

The Los Angeles Times reports that thousands of medical providers who care for low-income Californians are scrambling to find funds after lawmakers failed to pass a state budget, forcing a halt of payments to providers.

Medicare & Medicaid

The Los Angeles Times reports that a House committee reported taxpayers are paying up to 30 percent more for prescription drugs under Medicare’s privatized Part D program for seniors and the disabled than under the government’s Medicaid program for the poor.

Insurance & Managed Care

The New York Times prints several letters to the editor commenting on Sen. Obama’s proposed changes to national health care.

A U.S. News & World Report columnist advises that private long-term care policies “aren’t necessarily a good buy.”

Workforce

MarketWatch highlights Press Ganey Associates’ 2008 Hospital Check-Up Report: Physician Perspectives on American Hospitals (pdf).

Miscellaneous

The New York Times reports that Bill Gates and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced they will spend $500 million to stop people around the world from smoking.

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