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Dallas lab, owners and investors set to pay $24 million to resolve allegations of COVID-19 testing fraud
DALLAS — A Dallas lab and its owners are getting ready to pay $24 million to U.S. officials to resolve allegations that they billed Medicare for medically unnecessary respiratory pathogen panel testing performed on seniors receiving COVID-19 tests. Information on the payment was detailed in a U.S. Department of Justice press release.
advocatemag.com
Edgemere senior living community opens La Piazza memory care space
Edgemere senior living community just launched the La Piazza memory care space in conjunction with Certus Living at The Plaza at Edgemere. Including activity areas and rooms that cater directly to the needs of each resident, La Piazza rejects the idea that memory care can be solved using a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach.
fox4news.com
Dallas lab to pay millions over unnecessary respiratory tests for seniors
Dallas-based Magnolia Diagnostics and its owners will pay $19.2 million to resolve allegations of billing Medicare for unnecessary respiratory tests. Investors will pay another $4.8 million over claims they improperly benefited from the laboratory’s conduct. Federal investigators said the company bundled the tests with COVID-19 screenings at senior living...
hoodline.com
Justin Tower Shoots Up In Fort Worth With Big Bet On Moms And Newborns
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth is gearing up for a major vertical expansion of its Justin Tower that will shift and enlarge Women’s Services, add dozens of high-acuity patient rooms and boost the hospital’s neonatal capacity. The plan calls for four new floors to be added atop the existing tower, the build-out of previously shelled floors for inpatient care, and a new surgical trauma progressive care unit that officials say is slated to open this year. Hospital leaders are also planning a separate NICU enlargement that will add private beds and keep neonatal care tied to Cook Children’s via the existing skybridge.
Blue Ribbon News
Sparks Clinic celebrates 80 years of caring for Rockwall families
ROCKWALL, TX (July 15, 2026) — Eighty years ago, when Rockwall was still a small farming community with fewer than 1,500 residents, one physician opened a practice built on a simple promise: care for people like family. On July 10, friends, longtime patients, community leaders and generations of Rockwall...
hoodline.com
Developer Plots 111-Acre Retail And Hospital Hub By Tarleton Fort Worth
A Fort Worth developer is looking to pull roughly 111 acres into the city limits at the northwest corner of Farm-to-Market Road 1187 and Chisholm Trail Parkway, pitching a mixed-use campus that could bring a grocery store, big-box retail and a hospital to a fast-growing stretch of southwest Fort Worth near Tarleton State’s Fort Worth campus.
beckersspine.com
Neurosurgery society elects new president
Bradley Weprin, MD, has been named president of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons for the 2026-2027 term. Dr. Weprin is director of the division of pediatric neurosurgery at Dallas-based Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center. He also serves as vice chair of quality in UT Southwestern’s department of neurological surgery, according to a July 13 news release.
fortworthinc.com
Texas Health Fort Worth To Expand Justin Tower With New Women’s Center, 71 Patient Rooms
As North Texas' population continues to surge, Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth is investing to keep pace, announcing a major expansion of the John and Jane Justin Tower that will add four floors, relocate Women's Services into a new center, expand neonatal care, and increase patient capacity. The...
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KAI-designed Fort Worth clinic integrates primary care, imaging, lab, counseling services
July 10, 2026 — National design and build firm KAI served as the Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection (MEP/FP) Engineer for the new JPS Health Network Medical Home Southwest Tarrant clinic serving the Fort Worth Wedgewood neighborhood, a rapidly growing area of southwest Fort Worth experiencing increased demand for accessible healthcare services.
whitesboronewsrecord.com
Texoma Medical Center welcomes new Chief Executive Officer
Texoma Medical Center (TMC) is proud to announce that Andrew Wilson has been appointed its Chief Executive Officer. A native of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Wilson comes to the Texoma region after serving as CEO of Doctors Hospital of Laredo (DHL) since January of 2024 where he led the development of a 24/7 neurosurgery program, achieved approval for a neuro interventional suite, and led numerous recruitment clinician efforts in urology, trauma surgery and other areas.
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dallasinnovates.com
UT Southwestern Named World’s Top-Ranked Health Institution for Healthcare Research in 2026
UT Southwestern Medical Center just ranked No. 1 among health care institutions worldwide in the most recent Nature Index rankings for publishing high-quality research across all subjects for the 12-month period that ended Feb. 28, 2026. UTSW also ranked No. 1 among health care institutions globally for research in the natural sciences and biological sciences.
lemonspublications.com
Sanger Family Medical Clinic to open
A new medical clinic in Sanger is opening next week. It’s located right next to Miguelito’s Mexican Restaurant on I-35. They will officially open its doors on Monday, July 13th. They are now accepting appointments and can’t wait to welcome you and your family. Sanger Family Medical...
Dallas Observer
Beloved senior center off the chopping block as Dallas weighs budget dilemma
Last month, as Dallas officials juggled disappointing downtown news, questions about City Hall’s future, convention center drama, the start of a brutal budgeting season and a World Cup match or two, we began to question whether the city’s residents were truly being heard. At City Hall, public speakers...
KXII.com
Texoma Medical Center names new CEO
DENISON, Texas (KXII) - Texoma Medical Center has named a new CEO. The hospital announced Monday that north Texas native and University of Texas at Arlington graduate Andrew Wilson is their new CEO. Wilson previously served several leadership roles with Universal Health Services, most recently serving as CEO of Doctors...