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Years: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |

02.21.12 - Munroe Regional Medical Center Among Top 5% in Nation for Emergency Medicine

A report released today by HealthGrades, the leading provider of information to help consumers make an informed decision about a physician or hospital, named Munroe Regional Medical Center among the Top 5% in the nation for Emergency Medicine, and a recipient of the HealthGrades Emergency Medicine Excellence Award for the 3rd consecutive year 2010-2012.

02.20.12 - Munroe worries about Medicaid cuts

Munroe Regional Medical Center is again facing likely Medicaid cuts as both the Florida House and Senate consider across-the-board reductions that would cost the hospital about $3 million a year under either plan.

02.19.12 - Due diligence

Trustees got their first glimpse of seven proposals submitted through their consultant, Ponder & Co., Wednesday night. All were from for-profit companies. All would involve nine-figure transactions.

02.16.12 - Munroe workgroup mulls offers

Munroe Regional Medical Center's hope of a financial lifeline came closer to reality this week as seven healthcare companies submitted initial proposals to create a partnership with the hospital, lease the facility or buy the medical facility outright.

01.30.12 - Munroe officials say Scott's Medicaid cuts would be disastrous for hospital

Steve Purves, the not-for-profit hospital's president and chief executive officer, said Scott's proposed $18 million cut would leave the hospital unable to provide services similar to what it now offers patients.

01.24.12 - Munroe Regional Medical Center is Among Top 5% in Nation for Clinical Excellence

Munroe Regional Medical Center announced on January 24, 2012 that HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings organization has named the medical center a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence™. This prestigious distinction places Munroe Regional among the top 5% of hospitals nationwide for clinical performance.

01.21.12 - New clinic lifts hope and anger

Steve Purves, president and CEO of Munroe Regional Medical Center, said the community's safety-net hospital appreciates any effort to reduce its burden — especially to its emergency room, a frequent destination for people who are uninsured or otherwise cannot afford care.

01.21.12 - Legislature May Not Pass Scott's Medicaid Budget

Gov. Rick Scott's controversial plan to cut $1.9 billion in Medicaid payments to Florida hospitals may not win backing in the Legislature this year.

01.20.12 - Editorial: One size does not fit all

The seven-member Commission on Review of Taxpayer Funded Hospital Districts issued its report earlier this month without fully answering that question, but it gave Scott and other critics of public hospital districts plenty of fodder to work with.

01.20.12 - Letters to the Editor for Jan 20, 2012

I wanted to give our county commissioners a pat on the back. There have been a lot of negative articles about them lately.

01.16.12 - Midwives celebrate 30 years

“There were not enough obstetricians to take care of these low-risk patients who couldn't afford care and, at the time, those patients left Marion County and went to Shands for their care and to deliver. By allowing midwives to keep the low-risk patients here, they have offered a tremendous opportunity to moms and it has been fun to watch the program grow,” she said.

01.15.12 - Accident injuries show need for hospital

The undeniable need for a hospital to care for the sick and injured was being discussed by Ocala's leaders once again in 1895, when Benjamin Rheinauer and others witnessed a serious accident on East Broadway in front of the Rheinauer brothers' store.

01.08.12 - Governor's commission on public hospitals calls for major changes

The commission's purpose, per the governor's executive order, was to "make recommendations on the role of hospital districts, whether it is in the public's best interest to have government entities operating hospitals, and what is the most effective model for enhancing health care access for the poor."

01.08.12 - Letters to the Editor for Jan 8, 2011

Since when does the uninsured and underinsured go to for-profit hospitals, and since when does ORMC and West Marion facilities accept with open arms this group? They will shuffle them across First Avenue to MRMC because it is not profitable for them to treat these patients. Delivering babies is not profitable, thus MRMC must take that responsibility.

01.07.12 - How to lose — and keep off — all the holiday weight

Every year losing weight and getting fit are at the top of New Year's resolution lists. Keeping up with shedding pounds and staying in shape are also among the first and most commonly broken resolutions, according to a Time Specials report.

01.01.12 - Duvalier Kendrick is Marion County's 1st baby of 2012

Just 13 hours before, at exactly 12:08 a.m., Duvalier became Marion County's first baby born in 2012, though he shouldn't have been. That's because he was not supposed to arrive until Jan. 25.