NATIONAL
- Health Care Overhaul Collapses as Two Republican Senators Defect
- ONC to eliminate Office of the Chief Privacy Officer in FY18
- As academic hospitals lower mortality rates, should insurers reconsider excluding them?
- CMS Issues Proposed 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
- 8 must-reads for healthcare leaders this week
- Nonprofit hospitals record greater revenue, less charity care spending under ACA: 7 findings
- 4 health systems on the brink of dropping payers
- Lawmakers prod CMS to collect Meaningful Use overpayments
- Data Errors Cause Delay In U.S. News Hospital Rankings Release
- President Trump: Health Care Bill Will ‘Get Even Better at Lunchtime’
- 10 hospital, health system CIO moves so far in 2017
- 45 hospital and healthcare executives outline the hospital of the future
- 91% of Medicare ACOs will not share physician incentive information
- Grassley seeks recovery of CMS overpayments for electronic health records
- 5 proposed changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule in 2018
- Medicare ACOs don’t disclose how they pay their doctors
- MGMA: Increased staffing results in more profitable medical groups
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Sharon Hospital hopes to open doors to New York residents, attract doctors to Litchfield County
- CT Children’s combining 400 jobs to downtown Hartford
- Connecticut AG files lawsuit against family practitioner for alleged Medicaid scam
- ECHN’s interim CEO Collins tagged permanent
- Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth Urgent Care now open in Glastonbury
- Hospital for Special Care gets $1.2M grant for Parkinson’s center
- McGraw family pledges $3M to Norwalk Hospital
- Two Maine cancer centers to merge under Dempsey name
- Franklin Community Health Network mulls shift to unified MaineHealth system
- Health center gets USDA loan to expand Fort Kent facility
- St. Louis health care IT firm plans Portland office
- Harvard Pilgrim grant supports EMMC initiative to curb unnecessary admissions
- Tufts Medical Center claims replacement nurses were attacked
- Takeda shrinks its Deerfield workforce, as it adds in Boston
- Proposed Beth Israel-Lahey Merger Includes 13 Hospitals
- Baystate Health, Greenfield nurses head back to the bargaining table next week
- Former athenahealth CFO joins Arcadia Healthcare Solutions
- Health care company to pay restitution for underpaid workers
- State Budget Contains $3 Million For Bay State Health
- 6 things to know about Dr. Michael Wagner, CEO of Tufts
- Martha’s Vineyard Hospital Differs on PR Approach
- Merger reshapes health-care landscape
- Medica invests $34 million in Massachusetts IT firm
- Harrington Hospital seeks to close obstetrics unit, lay off 39
- Anika pays former medical chief $350K to thwart possible lawsuit
- When Tufts nurses return to work Monday, they still won’t have a contract
- Arcadia Healthcare Solutions names Karl Stubelis CFO: 4 things to know
- New London Hospital appoints Lisa Cohen CFO: 3 things to know
- Catholic Medical Center debuts TeleStroke Ambulance Program
- New York Presbyterian Hospital Signs 500,000-SF Office Deal at Park Avenue Atrium
- River Hospital, Samaritan to receive combined $19.3 million from state
- Sharon Hospital hopes to open doors to New York residents, attract doctors to Litchfield County
- Ten busted in $125M Medicare, Medicaid scheme in Brooklyn, Queens
- NYU Langone Medical Center to rebrand
- Glens Falls Hospital awarded nearly $20 million for ‘medical village’
- Brooks Hospital down to two locations
- Northern Duchess Hospital Appoints New Medical Director
- NY hospitals centralize supply chain management, saving $137M
- UR Medicine partners receive $21.8M in state grants
- CEO TALK: A CHAT WITH SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER’S CARMAN
- CROUSE HEALTH TURNS FOCUS TO FINAL PHASE OF $38 MILLION EMERGENCY-DEPARTMENT PROJECT
- Saratoga Hospital seeking approval for $5.6 million expansion
- Physician group names new chief executive
- NewYork-Presbyterian promotes Michael Breslin to CFO
- NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn receives $25M gift from Bezos Family Foundation
- Lifespan CEO: Care New England merger still makes sense
- Six RI healthcare workers involved in nationwide opioid bust
- Miriam appoints Roye senior VP of medical affairs, chief medical officer
- Judy Tartaglia: The Best Decision I Made as a Hospital CEO
- State approves Vermont’s 1st for-profit surgery center
- Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Launches ExpressCare Service at Northshire Campus
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Dept. of Insurance launches public comment page on Highmark rate increase
- Middletown Emergency Dept. earns Pediatric Ready designation
- DC’s right-to-die law takes effect
- Bethesda Hospital Executive Steals Over $390K From Medical Association
- Anne Arundel Medical Center threatens to end contract with CareFirst
- Baltimore health care security startup adds $3M to Series A round
- University of Maryland Medical Center to affiliate with Dimensions Health
- Bon Secours operating income dips 28%, but investment gains offset decline
- Why hospital mergers are the new normal in New Jersey
- Bergen hospital gets new operator; changes could be in store
- Medical director of newly opened Wound Care Center named
- CarePoint getting closer to in-network agreement with Horizon
- GE Healthcare ’embeds’ 100 data, cost, tech experts at Jefferson hospitals
- Jefferson, GE Healthcare form nation’s largest partnership to save $1 billion in efficiencies
- PinnacleHealth absorbs more medical practices
- Deeds reveal buyer paid at least $66M for 2 Lancaster County hospitals
- Effort will analyze missed diagnostic opportunities by leveraging Geisinger’s data warehouse
- AllBetterCare Urgent Care Center to affiliate with PinnacleHealth
- Hershey medical center describes response to faulty tests
- Former Hershey medical center worker pleads guilty to lying about cancer testing procedure
- HealthSouth/Heritage Valley form joint venture to build new rehab hospital
- Hampton Roads health systems paid more for uninsured patients in 2016
- Kaiser Permanente plans $200M medical hub in N. Va.
- George Mason University signs research agreement with six schools
- Bath Community Hospital hires new CFO: 3 notes
WEST VIRGINIA
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota)
IOWA
- Cedar Rapids ophthalmologist tries again for outpatient surgery center
- Iowa hospital opening ASC to attract patients — 3 insights
- Mercy Medical Center announces $25M cancer center project
- Iowa hospital unknowingly posts 5,300 patients’ data online for nearly 2 years
- LMH completes deal to buy one of the largest doctor groups in Lawrence; talk of more health care shakeups continues
- New CEO coming to WPMC
- Netsmart’s Acquisition of DeVero to Help Kindred Initiatives
- Half of Olathe Medical Center’s cardiologists leave for HCA Midwest facilities
- Mayo Clinic launches new $1B electronic records system
- District One Hospital President Stephen Pribyl to retire in 2018: 4 notes
- U of M health-technology spinoff sold to big pharmacy chain
- MN cases part of nat’l health care fraud takedown
- A revenue record: UnitedHealth’s quarterly sales top $50B for first time
- VCs pump $14M into health care startup Gravie
- Medtronic’s computer crash will hit quarterly revenue, CFO says
- Albert Lea, a Minnesota town of 18k, digs in its heels against Mayo
- Missouri Care and SSM reach Medicaid deal
- Missouri’s new PDMP does not allow healthcare provider access – only law enforcement
- SSM Health continues consolidation trend with CSA purchase
- Former Mizzou Hospital surgeon pleads guilty to harassment
- Records show Fulton Medical Center losing millions of dollars
- St. Louis-based health system aims to take over Monroe Clinic
- Children’s Mercy wins $2 million arbitration for low-income pediatric care
- St. Elizabeth’s reduces workforce
- New location opened for inpatient rehabilitation hospital
- Missouri hospital hands operational IT reins to Cerner
- Netsmart expands reach in home health care space with acquisition
- Nebraska HIE Adds Services, Adjusts Pricing Model
- Lack of healthcare in rural Nebraska prompting a push to expand telehealth service
- State designates 13 Nebraska hospitals as stroke centers
- Nebraska Medicine is first health system in Omaha area to launch its own doctor rating system online
- Melham Memorial Medical Center CEO to retire: 3 takeaways
- Pharmaceutical group challenges two new ND laws
- Sanford Health to close ED, transition emergency care to new facility
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Takeda shrinks its Deerfield workforce, as it adds in Boston
- Chicago U.S. attorney’s office launches healthcare fraud unit
- Suburban Chicago Hospital Reopens as Illinois Floods Begin to Recede
- St. John’s Hospital opens new Sherman location
- Why Lurie is expanding when smaller hospitals are turning away from pediatrics
- Health care fraud: The hot new legal practice?
- Chicago Area Doctors Charged With Millions Worth Of False Claims In Massive Medicare Fraud Enforcement Action
- Illinois hospital lays off 21 employees
- Cook County Health and Hospitals CEO: Cutting 700 unfilled hospital positions is not ‘realistic solution’ to budget crisis
- Brookville Health Center Acquired As Part Of $15M Deal
- Why Indiana is outpacing the nation in health-care spending
- NWI Great News Show: Porter Health Care System CEO, Steve Lunn On Healthcare Innovation and Dedication to Community Service
- Indiana chiropractor among those charged in fraud case
- ITT trustee blasts firm’s former directors, seeks $50M
- Lilly Endowment giving IU medical school $25M to fund life sciences initiatives
- Dermatology practice planning $7.2M Castleton headquarters
- Eskenazi Medical Group Names CEO
- Deaconess Hits Milestone in Expansion
- Methodist Completes $12M Gary Renovations
- Surack Quits Lutheran Boards
- Michigan City Franciscan hospital plants last structural beam, one step closer to taking patients
- Leadership exodus at Lutheran: 2 board members leave over rift with CHS, making for 7 resignations in 6 days
- 7 from Jefferson County charged in ‘largest health care fraud takedown’ in U.S. history
- Humana hiring hundreds in Louisville for Medicare Advantage enrollments
- Health care: McConnell takes a new tack
- Local medical professionals among hundreds charged in health care fraud takedown
- Owensboro Health Joins Markey Research Network
- This area hospital has upgraded its women’s center
- U of L names new pediatrics building after David Novak
- NKY board of health names chair
- McLaren Flint names new chief medical officer
- Munson nurses will vote on unionization
- Detroit Medical Center blames data breach on outside agency
- 6 Michigan doctors charged in health care fraud conspiracy after Fisher Building raid
- Lakeland Leader Named Chair Of State Hospital Association
- Women make big moves in Detroit Medical Center C-Suite positions
- Dozens in Michigan charged in nationwide health care fraud, opioid scam
- DMC’s for-profit owner keeps $850M promise, including redone children’s hospital
- Report: DMC charged interest for not paying $80 million escrow on capital requirement
- Beaumont opens proton beam therapy center in Royal Oak
- Jean Meyer to serve as inaugural COO of Ascension Michigan
- Detroit Medical Center eliminates 22 positions
- Children’s Hospital of Michigan appoints Dr. Monique Butler COO: 3 notes
- Detroit Medical Center selects COO, CFO & CMO for 3-hospital exec team
- Dayton Children’s Hospital opens patient tower, moves kids into new rooms
- In the Pipeline: New SNF Construction in Ohio, Tenn.
- Three Ohio heath-care companies pay $19.5 million to settle whistleblower cases
- 2 Ohio health care companies among hundreds indicted for health care fraud
- Ed Marx Named as Next Cleveland Clinic CIO
- LinkedIn teams up with Cleveland organizations to recruit, retain health IT employees
- Cleveland Clinic performs its first full face transplant
- Medica seeks expansion in Wisconsin
- Mayo Clinic launches nationwide Epic EHR implementation at 1st Wisconsin sites
- SSM Health will acquire Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes’ Wisconsin hospitals
- Medical College of Wisconsin to launch pharmacy school this fall
- Clayton emerges as potential site for regional hospital
- Froedtert transplant program placed on probation
- Fortis Management Group files for receivership
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- EAMC cancer center on track to open in summer 2019
- American Family Care’s $1 billion deal to fund 300-location expansion
- Alabama pharmacy included in national health care fraud takedown
- Final beam placed at new hospital
- UAB eye hospital to open clinic in growing community
- Florida-based Memorial Hospital names Bradley Talbert CEO
- Florida Hospital marketing campaign centers on ‘someday’
- Orlando doctors, pharmacists among 412 charged in national health fraud schemes
- Lee Health threatens to sever ties with major Medicaid provider in 2019
- Judge dismisses most of lawsuit over death of woman forcibly removed from Florida hospital
- Dianne Goldenberg: Spills, thrills educate Gardens hospital CEO
- Florida Hospital looks at moving into northeast Lakeland
- New director at the helm of Broward’s treatment center
- Bayfront market president and CEO ends post on a high note
- Assisted-living facility may be built in existing medical office
- Baby, Bye Bye Bye: Miami Could Face OB/GYN Shortage, Study Finds
- Venice Regional Bayfront Health names new CFO
- Atlanta’s Grady Hospital proposing $165 million expansion
- Public hearing on ORMC sale draws testimony
- Health advocate running for Georgia insurance commissioner
- Atlanta clinic discovers 15-month breach while investigating separate ransomware attack
- Priority Ambulance, Baptist form partnerships
- Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi leads the way in health care
- Mississippi Affiliated Health Network, Aetna align
- UNC silent about CEO pay
- Groundbreaking celebrates Vidant Beaufort Hospital expansion
- Beaufort hospital expansion groundbreaking for emergency care, officials said
- NC hospital opens cardiology practice
- Rural NC hospital remains open after bankruptcy filing
- Local healthcare group’s buying spree returns to N.C.
- Wake Forest Baptist agrees to 30-year lease for North Carolina medical center
- N.C.’s Health Information Exchange adds state’s largest health care systems
- Contractor chosen for Triad rehab hospital
- Construction complete on $49M expansion of Triad medical center
- Washington’s emergency room expansion is underway
- Duke, Novant Health, Carolinas HealthCare System sign on with NC HealthConnex
- Harris expands cardiac services
- Pardee UNC HEealth Care to build new urgent care center in Mills River
- Report: Raleigh among U.S. cities that could be hit by OB/GYN shortage
- Former venture capitalist preps for life sciences co-working space launch in downtown Durham
- South Carolina’s Health Chief Quits to Return to Biz Sector
- Two hospital systems, one goal
- Palmetto Health opens neuroscience intensive care unit
- Vanderbilt To Take Over Clinics At 14 Walgreens Stores
- Lawsuits: TN Hospitals Engage in Illegal Billing Practices
- In the Pipeline: New SNF Construction in Ohio, Tenn.
- Memorial sells Chattanooga Heart Institute building
- Nashville-based health-tech company buys Texas firm
- Kingsport breaks ground for new behavioral health hospital
- Saint Thomas Health seeks approval for $71M in projects
- Tenn. Dept. of Health holds last public hearing for MSHA, Wellmont merger
- Global firm joins local accelerator
- Nashville-area firm inks $1B health care deal
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- 24 Health Care Fraud Arrests in Arkansas
- UAMS Names Tim Hill COO
- Baptist Health Opens $15M Office Building in Conway
- Diana McDaniel Named Vice President of Operations at Arkansas Children’s Northwest
- Arizona eye centers join forces, envision rapid expansion
- Arizona health care firm moves headquarters to Nashville
- Banner Desert Medical Center adds Cristal Mackay as COO, creating all-female exec team
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital names CFO: 4 things to know
- Louisiana again negotiating safety-net hospital deal terms
- Christus Repurposes Louisiana Campus for LSU Health
- Louisiana health department audit finds $3.8 million in improper spending
- Ochsner buys land near Mall of Louisiana for major Baton Rouge expansion
- New Orleans hospital closing surgical center — 3 key notes
- North Oaks Medical Center’s trauma center welcomes new medical director
- Champion Medical Center to close Howell Place surgical center in north Baton Rouge
- Baton Rouge doctor, his pain clinic caught up in sweeping federal health care fraud probe
- New Mexico revises guidelines to recruit more nurses
- Hospital approves still contested UNM contract
- Is now the best time to build a new hospital?
- ABQ doctor lands national honor from federal agency
- Oklahomans fear they could lose their doctors if Integris, BCBSOK deal ends
- Mercy plans to build new hospital in OKC
- Hospital district expects no change in lease
- $1.3 billion healthcare fraud sweep nets four men tied to North Texas
- Jim Hinton on Why Baylor Scott & White is Separating its CEO, President Roles
- Christus Repurposes Louisiana Campus for LSU Health
- Largest Texas Medicaid assisted-living group to shutter
- Nashville-based health-tech company buys Texas firm
- Prism Health North Texas Names First-Ever CMO
- Providence Health Center’s parent company chooses new leader
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center—Plano opens expanded critical care unit
- Medical City Dallas Names New CNO
- Memorial Hermann exec leaving to lead health care organization in Austin
- Moody’s bumps Texas Children’s outlook to negative
- Medical City Dallas’ $125M luxury women’s hospital reaches project milestone
- Medical City Healthcare taps Laura Irvine as chief administrative officer
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Idaho hospital to cease inpatient services
- 5 Idaho hospitals with top nurse-patient communication scores
- Layoffs could ‘impact people’ at St. Patrick Hospital, western Montana clinics
- St. Pete’s new CEO addresses contract gridlock as nurses file labor complaint
- New chief plans MCMC future
- Tuality Healthcare CEO Manuel Berman to retire in 2018: 4 points
- Boyles give $2M to a Portland heart care group
- The U.S. is at risk of an OB-GYN shortage, Portland less so
- Tacoma breaks ground for the first free standing rehab
- Quincy Valley Hospital officials hopeful of progress
- BloomAPI locks down $2.4M to fix medical record releases
- Nonprofit has given $25M to Wyoming health care
- Wyoming patients may be affected in hospital security breach
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Adventist Health debuts built-in AI tech from Bright.md
- Court: California Med Board Justified in Prescription Probe
- Valley Presbyterian Hospital names new CFO
- Huntington Hospital taps Dr. Lori Morgan to lead as CEO
- Why Sacramento’s Western Health Advantage is further expanding Bay Area coverage
- Children’s Hospital of Orange appoints John Henderson CIO
- Marin General Hospital receives 2 record-setting gifts in 2 weeks
- Blueprint Arranges $5.4M Sale of 120-Bed Skilled Nursing Facility in Aurora
- DispatchHealth is rolling ER that visits patients’ homes
- Children’s Hospital Colorado names Dana Moore CIO: 3 things to know
- Colorado Medicaid system data breach potentially exposed private information of 822 people
- Colorado biotech makes deal with industry giant
- Colorado health insurance rates will rise significantly in 2018
