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• Long Island Hospital System Throws Dice on Health IT

  BNET - 2009-09-28

  North Shore-LIJ system goes all the way with EHR subsidies for physicians. by Ken Terry

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• Commentary: For a once-aging Long Island hospital, a chance to be

  - 2009-03-26

  Challenge: Raise $50 million to create new, state-of-the-art emergency and operating rooms at a hospital in the struggling town of Riverhead. And just to make it interesting, do it in the rubble of a global economic collapse. Sound like fun? Let's ask Andrew Mitchell, chief...

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• Long Island hospital leases space in Lake Success

  - 2009-01-15

  St. Mary's Hospital for Children re-signed a long-term lease for 25,580 square feet of space at 5 Dakota Drive in Lake Success, according to Cushman & Wakefield, which brokered the deal. The space in Lake Success will continue to house St. Mary's executive and administrative offices for the...

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• D-Link(R) Business Network Switches Help Washington Hospital Overcome Growing Pains

  - 2008-10-22

  A recent expansion at Island Hospital, on Puget Sound northwest of Seattle, doubled the size of the facility but left its computer network inadequate to facilitate wireless communication devices, additional critical medical diagnostic and imaging equipment and stronger network security. With the implementation of more than 50 switches from...

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• Island Hospital Eases Cleaning Processes, Saves Money and Improves Mobility with Motion Computing's C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant

  - 2008-06-11

  The C5, Enabled with the MEDITECH Health Care Information System, Improves Nursing Documentation and Identification, Medication Scanning and Order Entry

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• Skanska tops out new additions to Staten Island hospital

  - 2008-04-30

  Skanska USA Building Inc. announced it has raised the last steel beam into place on a new trauma and emergency room building abutting Staten Island University Hospital. The new facility, located in the Ocean Breeze section of Staten Island, will double the island's emergency room capacity. The new $40-million...

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• Long Island hospital officials debate Medicare's reimbursement rules

  - 2007-10-19

  Island hospitals are understandably cautious about new rules limiting Medicare payments for hospital-acquired infections and medical errors. Beginning next fall, it will cost them money. The new Medicare rules are being introduced in phases. Since Oct. 1, hospitals have been required to note on Medicare payment claims...

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• Long Island hospital units expand off their campuses

  - 2007-07-06

  When Dr. Xenophon Damianos opened his family medical practice in Stony Brook in the 1960s, he worked out of offices in a private home. He wasn't alone. Even if physicians wanted to have space of their own, there were few medical buildings on Long Island to choose from....

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• Long Island hospital CEOs earning very healthy paychecks

  - 2006-12-15

  Doctors who perform pricey, life-saving procedures have a reputation for earning big paychecks, but hospital officials who don't wield scalpels also reap large rewards. A financial checkup shows that several Long Island hospital chiefs bring home compensation of $1 million or more per year. Chief executives at Good...

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• Population growth spurs Long Island hospital expansion

  - 2006-06-23

  Responding to Long Island's eastward population boom, Peconic Bay Medical Center is preparing to launch one of Suffolk's largest hospital expansions in a decade. The hospital expects to break ground July 18 on a $50 million project that will expand its emergency center and add beds and...

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