WESTCHESTER, Ill., April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Baptist Health of Northeast Florida will be the first health system in North America to offer intra-operative imaging during pediatric and adult brain surgery and non-surgical radiosurgical procedures with the Brainlab Brainsuite® iMRI (intra-operative magnetic resonance imaging), featuring the GE Healthcare 1.5T Optima(TM) MR450w wide-bore scanner, and Brainsuite® iCT (intra-operative computed tomography), featuring the Siemens SOMATOM® Sensation Open CT scanner.

By MAGGIE FITZROY When Susan Hitch of Ponte Vedra Beach learned she had breast cancer, her doctor sent her to get a magnetic resonance imaging exam to see if the disease had spread. While awaiting the results at home, she panicked. Sobbing, she imagined the worst.

By Richard Craver, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Jun. 25--Lexington Memorial Hospital said today that it is negotiating with Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center to form a partnership that eventually would bring new jobs and health-care services to the community.

By KANDACE LANKFORD When the doors open at Baptist Medical Center Nassau's $24 million inpatient facility in 2009, visitors will find a healing haven designed to provide patients and their families the utmost in care and comfort, as well as enhanced patient safety and staff efficiency.

By Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Sep. 20--Forsyth County's two major health-care systems may enter one of their biggest battles as both plan to build hospitals in the area of Advance and Clemmons. The state, which has the final say in the matter, may well allow just one hospital.