Scottsdale Healthcare plans to open a new outpatient center in north Scottsdale to help keep up with the Valley’s growing demand for surgical facilities.

Are you a healthcare professional who's feeling anything but merry about working yet another holiday shift? Healthcare veterans offer tips on how to banish your inner grinch and make the most of another holiday on the job.

Most nurses and allied health workers will continue to earn solid middleclass salaries in 2008. But even though chronic shortages in many healthcare occupations will continue, the heady days of substantial real increases in pay may be over.

“I still don’t know what they said to each other,” a Texas nurse told Nurse-Week magazine in 1999 after enlisting a hospital house cleaner to interpret for a patient who could not speak English.

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Scottsdale Healthcare will be honored as one of the nation’s Best Employers for Workers Over 50 by AARP for the third year in a row.

Agnes Oblas, ANP-C, nurse practitioner, and UnitedHealthcare have signed a provider contract. As a Primary Care Provider (PCP), Oblas and her practice, New Paths to Healthcare, LLC, is now a credentialed PCP for patients covered by any of the UnitedHealthcare health plans.

More than a year after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health care experts who gathered in Glendale Friday said the law continues to evolve. “This is a very fluid piece of legislation,” said Ruthann Laswick of Black, Gould & Associates. “HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) is constantly making clarifications. What you’re told one day could be completely different a few days later because their interpretation has changed.”

More than a year after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health care experts who gathered in Glendale Friday said the law continues to evolve. “This is a very fluid piece of legislation,” said Ruthann Laswick of Black, Gould & Associates. “HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) is constantly making clarifications. What you’re told one day could be completely different a few days later because their interpretation has changed.”

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State lawmakers took the first steps Wednesday to reversing their decision to cut state-provided health care for about 350,000 adults and children.

Nearly 300 people were evacuated from Banner Healthcare’s administration offices and two were taken to Banner Desert Medical Center for evaluation on Thursday after complaining of the smell of fumes from roofing adhesive coming into the building’s ventilation system.

Annette Mattern knows how fragile life can be. The 57-year-old grandmother was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer 20 years ago.

One of the state’s largest medical providers says the state has shortchanged it hundreds of thousands of dollars in workers’ compensation payments, a figure that is going up every day.