Dr. Daniel Jurak has been appointed to the board of directors at Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers. A family medicine physician who practices full time in Coal City, Jurak joined the medical staff at Morris Hospital in 1994. There, he has served in a number of leadership roles over the past 18 years, including vice president, president, and chief of family practice.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — In a study that is the first of its kind, a team of researchers is studying ways to make childbirth procedures more sustainable by examining the environmental impacts of childbirth.
With funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh have teamed up to improve sustainable childbirth procedures through vaginal delivery and birth by cesarean section.
CLEVELAND, Texas — Fees for medical services at Cleveland Regional Medical Center were recently lowered by 15 percent in an effort to save millions of dollars.
New Directions Health Systems LLC, the Louisville, Ky.-based company that owns and operates the facility, lowered the costs of all services in the following medical divisions: cardiopulmonary, labor and delivery, dietary, obstetrical, emergency and trauma, operating room and post anesthesia, intensive care, respiratory and medical and surgical.
HOUSTON, Texas — Hoar Construction recently became the first construction company to be endorsed by the Texas Hospital Association (THA).
The association was formed to help hospitals across Texas provide safe, quality and affordable health care through its HealthSHARE program, which extensively screens and endorses companies serving Texas hospitals.
