BRIEFCASE.Byline: -- Staff and Wire Services Hospital project costs $40 million WEST HILLS -- West Hills Hospital and Medical Center is building a $40 million addition that includes a 24-bed emergency department, officials said Wednesday. The 47,000-square-foot, two- story project is expected to be finished sometime in 2008. The emergency department will feature advanced equipment and specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. treatment areas. It will also include a 7,000-square-foot outpatient services outpatient services Hospital-based services Managed care Medical and other services provided, to a nonadmitted Pt, by a hospital or other qualified facility–eg, mental health clinic, rural health clinic, mobile X-ray unit, free-standing dialysis unit Examples area with preparation facilities for patients entering the operating room operating room n. Abbr. OR A room equipped for performing surgical operations. . The project will also expand the intensive care unit and critical care units and double the number of beds there to 34. The hospital is at 7300 Medical Center Drive. Whirlpool whirlpool, revolving current in an ocean, river, or lake. It may be caused by the configuration of the shore, irregularities in the bottom of the body of water, the meeting of opposing currents or tides, or the action of the wind upon the water. to cut 4,500 plant jobs GRAND RAPIDS Grand Rapids, city (1990 pop. 189,126), seat of Kent co., SW central Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1850. The second largest city in the state, it is a distribution, wholesale, and industrial center for an area that yields fruit, dairy products, farm produce, , Mich. -- Whirlpool Corp. said Wednesday it will eliminate 4,500 jobs by closing three plants and consolidating corporate offices and other sites after its purchase of rival appliance maker Maytag Corp. The moves come less than six weeks after Whirlpool completed its acquisition of Maytag, extending its lead as the nation's biggest appliance maker with brands that include Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air and Amana, among others. Federal antitrust Antitrust The antitrust laws apply to virtually all industries and to every level of business, including manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and marketing. They prohibit a variety of practices that restrain trade. regulators raised no objection to the combination. The cuts represent about 5.6 percent of Whirlpool's current work force of about 80,000 employees. But Whirlpool said it will add about 1,500 jobs, many at two Ohio plants, reducing the net loss of jobs to 3,000 positions, or 3.8 percent of its work force. House OKs Bush tax-cut measure WASHINGTON -- The House on Wednesday passed a bill sought by President George W. Bush to deliver tax cuts worth $70 billion to investors and to keep 15 million taxpayers from being hit by the alternative minimum tax The House vote was 244-185. The Senate was expected to clear the bill today. The bill provides a two-year extension of the reduced 15 percent tax rate for capital gains and dividends, currently set to expire at the end of 2008. It also would extend, for this year, recent changes to the alternative minimum tax -- originally aimed at making sure the wealthy pay at least some taxes -- to prevent it from hitting more upper middle-income families. H&R Block lowers profit predictions NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- H&R Block Inc., the nation's top tax preparer, on Wednesday lowered its 2006 profit projections for the second time this year due to continued weakness in its mortgage operations. The Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo.-based company -- saddled with class-action lawsuits, financial restatements and a high-profile investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10 1959 ) is an American lawyer, politician and the current Governor of New York. Spitzer was elected governor in the November 2006 election. -- said it now expects full-year earnings to fall below $1.65 per share, the low end of its previous forecast. On Feb. 23, H&R Block said slower-than-expected business in its tax and mortgage arms would cut profit to between $1.65 and $1.85 per share. The company's mortgage business saw quarterly revenue decline 4 percent in the third quarter, as rising interest rates cut into margins. In December, the company had told Wall Street it expected earnings in the range of $1.90 to $2.15 per share for the year. Company shares fell 1.6 percent, or 37 cents, to $22.63Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. . |
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