LifePoint Louisiana hospitals to merge
Posted on October 26, 2009 at 9:21 amTwo Louisiana hospitals owned by LifePoint (Ticker: LPNT) plan to merge and become a single health system, the Daily World reports. The two hospitals, which have a combined 147 beds, are located 18 miles apart in Eunice and Ville Platte.
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Noranda cranks it up
Posted on September 3, 2009 at 6:57 am
Having acquired full ownership of a Jamaica bauxite mine and a Louisiana alumina refinery, Franklin-based Noranda Aluminum says it will increase production to feed its 44-acre Missouri plant, an aerial view of which is at left.
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Franchise milestone for local restaurant firm
Posted on June 4, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Santa Fe Holding, the roadhouse chain run by Nashville entrepreneur Danny York, will next week open its first franchise location. The Hammond, La., eatery will be the first of three scheduled to open in the Pelican State in the next year.
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Bohan wins national ad awards
Posted on May 26, 2009 at 3:42 pm
From a release:
Work produced in multiple media by BOHAN Advertising | Marketing for Ochsner Health System in Louisiana has won four national Healthcare Advertising Awards.
The agency won three gold awards and one award of merit for Ochsner, which has seven hospitals and 35 health centers in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and throughout Southeast Louisiana.
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LifePoint unloads in Louisiana
Posted on May 4, 2009 at 11:07 pmIn its quarterly report to the SEC, the hospital chain says it completed the sale of a 171-bed facility in Opelousas for $14 million. It’s still working on shedding a smaller Indiana hospital.
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nTelagent signs Carolina contract
Posted on January 27, 2009 at 2:14 pmnTelagent has contracted to provide its payment management system to a 300-bed hospital in South Carolina, where it earned the stamp of approval from the state hospital association last year. The company also says other group endorsement deals are in the works.
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CHS in Medicaid border war
Posted on November 28, 2008 at 11:30 amCiting reimbursement issues, a Community Health (Ticker: CYH) hospital in Mississippi has stopped providing Medicaid care to residents of nearby Louisiana.
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