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LLR Partners and WellPoint Invest in Physicians Immediate Care LLC; Stanley B. Blaylock Appointed as CEO

ROCKFORD, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LLR Partners, a middle market private equity firm with more than $1.4 billion under management, and WellPoint today announced a growth capital investment in Physicians Immediate Care LLC. Physicians Immediate Care LLC provides management services to 20 independently-owned medical clinics in Illinois, Nebraska, and Oklahoma operated under the trade name “Physicians Immediate Care.” [...]

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Watertown Regional Medical Center Adopts iTriage App to Connect with Patients

Watertown, WI / Denver, CO (PRWEB) June 27, 2012 UW Health Partners Watertown Regional Medical Center (WRMC) is reaching out to the growing number of smartphone users through iTriage®, a consumer healthcare mobile app that allows patients to quickly and easily find nearby facilities and check in for an emergency or urgent care visit at [...]

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WellPoint, Inc. : WellPoint Joins Hero Health Hire to Promote Employment of America’s Wounded Warriors and Veterans

05/24/2012 | 09:05am WellPoint, inc. (NYSE: WLP) announced today that it has joined Hero Health Hire, a coalition of companies and other entities in the health care industry that are united with the goal of employing wounded warriors and veterans. Launched in Washington, D.C., at a 2011 industry summit that included the U.S. Secretary of [...]

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Invest in midwifery: UNFPA Official Urges Gov’t

Dr. Philderald Pratt said midwives have a crucial role to play in the attainment of Millennium Development Goals four and five, which call for reducing child mortality and improving maternal health respectively. Serving as guest speaker on Saturday at this year’s celebration of the International Day of the Midwife, organized by the Liberia Midwifery Association, [...]

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Broadway neighbors hold memorial for Shannon Collins

SANTA CRUZ – in a step toward neighborhood unity, residents gathered near Broadway and Clay Street on Friday evening to place flowers and candles where Shannon Collins lost her life Monday. Resident Paul Garcia said he helped organize the memorial so neighbors could begin to process the attack. a few dozen residents and some of [...]

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Sizing Up Americans In ‘The Weight Of The Nation’

Copyright © 2012 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. You’re listening to SCIENCE FRIDAY. I’m Ira Flatow. you heard the statistics before: Americans are getting fatter and fatter with each passing year, and the trend isn’t about to end. according to a new [...]

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The Development of Grassroots Activism in Yerevan and the Role of Political Parties

22:03, March 29, 2012 By Maro Matosian In 2009, while doing postgraduate work in Canada, Gayane Melkom-Melkomian began a civic initiative called “The City Belongs to Us” (Menk enk mer kaghaki dere). interestingly, the initiative was based not in Canada, but in Armenia. Gayane is the daughter of Diasporan Armenians who moved to Armenia in1991, [...]

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Hospitals Warn Smartphones Could Distract Doctors

Copyright © 2012 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. see Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I’m David Greene. Good morning to you. INTERVIEWER: Today in Your Health, what your Facebook posts say about your self-esteem. But first, smartphones and tablets in the [...]

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UPDATED: Long Beach Memorial gets $2.8 million grant to create 363 new jobs

LONG BEACH — Hundreds more health care jobs will be injected into the Long Beach economy in the next four years, thanks to a new $2.816 million federal grant announced today. Leaders from Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, the city of Long Beach and Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network announced the awarding of a U.S. [...]

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