LifePoint Hospitals News

Failure to pass the health care overhaul may accelerate a push by Community Health Systems Inc., Health Management Associates Inc.

John Howard, chief executive officer of Crump Group, Inc. announces the appointment of Michael S. Kryza, Jr.

Business Week/Bloomberg : "Failure to pass the health-care overhaul may accelerate a push by Community Health Systems Inc., Health Management Associates Inc.

Members of the Bluefield Regional Medical Center Board of Directors met Tuesday in a special meeting to see where the hospital now stood and where it may go after talks about a possible merger with Princeton Community Hospital and ownership by a for-profit hospital stopped last week.

It was an evening that the local media and the public had been anticipating for a long time.

For lack of a second, a motion to enter into a memorandum of understanding to look at the possibility of merging two Mercer County hospitals with help from two other health care entities died Tuesday during a meeting of the Princeton Community Hospital Association Board of Directors.

A proposal to consolidate Bluefield Regional Medical Center and Princeton Community Hospital into a single, two-campus entity owned by LifePoint Hospitals Inc., and jointly managed by LifePoint and WVU Hospitals, was dead on arrival from day one due to the unacceptable secrecy surrounding the proposed negotiations.

The Cherry Street CafA© was a tad busier than it usually is on a Tuesday night, as a crowd of more than 130 people listened to a pair of pitches on a plan for the future of Bluefield Regional Medical Center.

Princeton Community Hospital physicians understand that the hospital must make a healthy profit in order to offer the best care possible, but they don't believe collaboration with LifePoint Hospitals is the cure for what ails PCH.

There's a wall of honor just inside Princeton Community Hospital's entrance. There, rows upon rows of shiny metal plaques express the thanks of a grateful community to the people who put their pride, hard work and paychecks into building the facility on Morrison Drive.

The past two years have been trying times for everyone in the U.S. The health care industry has faced some mighty hurdles during this time punctuated by a stagnant economy.

A group of concerned Princeton citizens are serving notice that they will fight the sale of Princeton Community Hospital to a for-profit entity.

Kevin Rogols has been selected as the new chief executive officer of Colorado Plains Medical Center, the hospital's governing board of trustees announced in a news release Thursday.

When LifePoint Hospitals Inc. was founded in 1999, it was in many respects typical of Nashville's established health care industry of the day.

The Danny Wills story may have been the Princeton Times' top story of 2009, but other important issues, ranging from the end of a long investigation of a child's murder to the potential status of Princeton Community Hospital also hit your Hometown Newspaper's pages this year.

LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. announced today that it will provide an online Web simulcast of its second quarter conference call on Friday, August 8, 2008.

A lengthy closed-door executive session and a visit from a West Virginia United Health Systems leader reignited concerns this week that Princeton Community Hospital's Board of Directors could be considering a sale.

Raleigh General Hospital held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday in celebration of its new medical office complex and cardiac angioplasty program.

King Pharmaceuticals Inc., LifePoint Hospitals Inc. and Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc.

Happy trails, Mr. Seraphine. On Wednesday, news began spreading that Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital CEO Jeff Seraphine will soon be heading south to take the reins of a multi-hospital position with LCRH owner LifePoint.