NATIONAL
- Deloitte: Many states establishing Medicaid APMs, but few evaluated for effects on outcomes
- Doctors loathe their EHRs, right? Not these physicians
- Is Amazon about to take over the pharmacy industry?
- HHS proposes another 340B penalty rule delay
- For-profit hospital operators likely to experience weak patient admissions through 2018
- Governors Preparing Bipartisan Health Care Plan For Congress To Consider
- Moody’s: Nonprofit healthcare medians reversed trajectory in FY 2016
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Connecticut hospitals fret about delays in state payments
- Hospital of Central Connecticut’s Plan To Sell Remote Facilities Draws Fire
- CT places 3 on list of ‘100 most influential’ in health care
- John Ronan to serve as president of Blue Hill & Maine Coast hospitals
- Eastern Maine Healthcare calls negative financial outlook ‘not warranted’
- MMC closes on acquisition of Saint Joseph’s rehab facility
- MaineGeneral Medical Center’s billing fiasco an irritant for patients
- Pen Bay merger is matter of ‘trust’
- Telehealth Offers a Vital Resource to Maine’s Island Residents
- Augusta-based Telehealth Resource Center gets federal grant money
- UMass Memorial drops out of Medicaid ACO program
- 17 organizations sign 5-year contract to transition Massachusetts’ Medicaid program to ACOs
- Medical Memos: Fairlawn Rehab names new CEO
- 10-year, $1B life sciences plan bears fruit in Massachusetts
- Tufts Health Plan Launches Four Medicaid ACO Partnerships
- Partners HealthCare posts operating income of $50.4M
- Outer Cape Health Services completes Provincetown renovation
- IBM, Broad and MGH launch crowdsourced project to map human microbiome
- Martha’s Vineyard is roiled by ouster of CEO of island’s hospital
- Partners to examine Care New England acquisition amid financial issues
- New York hospital says telehealth helped slash ER wait times, enhance care
- Nurses at NYC dialysis centers reach new pay, pension deal
- Hospital that axed 120 workers spending millions on legal battles
- Inside the New York hospital hackers took down for 6 weeks
- Southampton Hospital’s merger with Stony Brook complete, officials celebrate ‘new era’ in East End health care
- Finger Lakes Community Health getting $174K
- TLC Health Network To Layoff 38 Employees In New York
- Taconic moving headquarters to Rensselaer County
- CEO Talk: A Chat with Franciscan Companies’ Frank Smith
- Northwell’s Michael Dowling among most influential in healthcare
- Northwell Health to shut down insurance arm
- RI Largest Health Insurer Posts Net Profit of $22 Million
- Pension fund for hospital nurses placed in receivership
- Five Questions With: Leah Luo
- Partners to examine Care New England acquisition amid financial issues
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
- DE Data Breach Notification Law Includes Medical Information
- Christiana Care named one of nation’s Most Wired Hospitals
- Agnes Healthcare settles Medicare overbilling allegation
- Maryland biotech expanding into new Gaithersburg headquarters
- Maryland surgery center plans $1.7 million expansion to meet demand
- Hackensack Meridian, NJII cut ribbon for first health care incubator in New Jersey
- Two plead guilty in $25M prescription drug kickback scheme
- Jersey City Medical Center’s satellite emergency room opens in Bayonne
- New Jersey offers ‘Care Cam’ to nursing home patients, families
- Bayada Home Health Care shifting to nonprofit compan
- UPMC bonds would fund major health care spending in midstate
- Penn Medicine CIO weighs in on precision medicine
- Pinnacle Health’s purchase of Carlisle Regional Medical Center is good news – here’s why | Opinion
- Highmark reports record financial gain
- Griswold Home Care is Back in the Franchise Game
- Home healthcare company with several central Pa. offices will transition into nonprofit
- $4.5 million settlement approved in Geisinger malpractice lawsuit
- Hershey Med cited for failing to monitor 6-year-old who died
- Five with local ties make ‘100 most influential in health care’ list
- AmerisourceBergen-owned specialty pharmacy to pay $13.4M to settle kickback allegations
- AHN nursing leader named to American Hospital Association board
- to get $8.3M in Mylan EpiPen settlement
- WellSpan debuts expanded Palmyra health center
- Geisinger shortens name, nixes all drinks with sugar
- Innovation Health CEO departs, company launches search for new leadership
- Twin County Regional Healthcare names Dale Alward CEO: 5 things to know
- Decrease in commercial payers leads to loss for CAMC, official says
- Meridian eyes Highland Hospital after Acadia deal falls through
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Hutchinson hospital signs with new wound care contractor
- RMH forms new partnership for cardiac care
- HCA Midwest poaches three orthopedic surgeons for new clini
- Conflict over Mayo’s consolidation plans draws Minnesota AG attention
- Medica to acquire Mayo Clinic’s health benefits administration division
- Minneapolis ophthalmic company to pay $12M to resolve kickback suit
- Dayton, Smith enter fray in fight over Albert Lea hospital
- Low-cost MRI provider Smart Choice adding two more Twin Cities locations
- Dignity Health, SSM Health share the secrets to their interview process to attract top candidates
- Mercy names new president of Creve Coeur hospital
- Rural hospitals’ financial health is under state auditor’s lens
- Ascension partners with Silicon Valley startup accelerator
- BJC Healthcare sells shuttered 127-bed hospital for $13
- SSM to break ground on new SLU Hospital
- FitzPatrick resigns as Mercy CEO, three years after taking reins at Sioux City hospital
- SD officials seek patience from struggling region ambulance services
- Rapid City Regional Hospital completes first phase of $200M expansion project
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Pana Community Hospital plans $20M upgrade
- Illinois medical group will get even bigger, stay independent with $1.45B investment
- Shawnee Health shows off new building
- Centegra’s Woodstock hospital to stop admitting most overnight patients
- Centegra Health hospital cuts medical-surgical, intensive care services amid financial struggles
- Coming soon to a strip mall near you: An MRI provider
- Hashed Health teams up with Illinois
- DeKalb Medical says several health systems open to a partnership
- Illinois Hospital Referrals Must Go To Licensed Agencies
- Ascension to become owner of Presence Health
- Study says Aurora tops in country for pediatric health care
- Why the feds block some hospital marriages—and bless others
- Rush files suit over $18M patient monitoring system
- IU Health chief wraps up statewide tour aimed at improving rapport with employees
- IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital Opens New Adult Surgical Unit
- Vincent outsources 85 medical transcription jobs to India
- PCH leads efforts in quality improvement of regional long-term care facilities
- Verbatim: Mike Poore named regional president and chief executive officer of Lutheran Health Network
- New Lutheran CEO looking to rebuild trust, not find new ownership
- Anthem expands discretionary ED coverage policy to Indiana
- Another Telehealth Clinic Opens in Rural School
- IU Health demands payment for inmate’s $1.8M medical bill
- Paducah hospital’s president resigns
- Baptist Health Paducah Interim President Named
- Elizabeth Healthcare CEO: CON loophole fueling health system opposition to Kentucky ASC
- Hospital consolidation continues with deals in Kentucky, Georgia
- Clark Regional Medical Center Joins UK Markey Affiliate Network
- HMH makes $1.2 million investment
- HealthSouth Northern Kentucky Rehabilitation Hospital breaks ground on expansion project
- Humana adds a new director to its board
- Carleton’s medical center grows in size, services
- Health system hires chief strategy officer
- Medical office to open near Metro Health Hospital
- Henry Ford Allegiance Health in Jackson joins Henry Ford Cancer Institute
- Metro Health announces expansion to gastroenterology services
- Beaumont offers sneak peek into $120.8 million new emergency center
- Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital to Renovate Emergency Room
- Jon Cotton appointed corporate president of Meridian
- Wayne State officials blast leadership of University Pediatricians group
- John Popovich to exit Ford Health System after 40 years
- Hospice of the Western Reserve gives Wayne Grant dual role
- 5 questions with new Cleveland Clinic CIO Edward Marx
- Cleveland Clinic linked to potential hospital in China
- Ohio State Wexner Medical Center widens profits on $3.4B revenue – ‘Our best year ever’
- Construction manager picked for new OhioHealth HQ building
- TriHealth and St. Elizabeth creating joint venture
- Cleveland Clinic emergency medicine residents stop training on live dogs
- MetroHealth turns to community for growth of health system, plans to open 2 suburban hospitals
- Patient-doctor emails increase, not reduce, office visits, UW-Madison study finds
- Wisconsin has best health care quality in the nation, federal agency says
- Columbia St. Mary’s stripped of trauma designation
- It’s not too late to save SV Health and Rehab Center
- $10 million project to add to Vesta facility in Franklin
- Ascension to consolidate Columbia St. Mary’s, Wheaton Franciscan clinics in Brown Deer
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- Alabama’s rural hospitals are dying
- Greene Co. Hospital CEO offers resignation amidst financial crisis
- Hoover assisted living facility shutting down, report claims
- UAB opens new outpatient clinics on the Southside
- Brookwood Baptist Medical Center launches new in-house OB/GYN program
- IllumiCare partners with Utah company
- Five things about 21st Century Oncology and Florida Cancer Specialists and their legal woes
- Major health care union establishes office in Miramar
- Investor calls for CEO ouster at owner of seven Tampa Bay hospitals
- Broward Health hires new chief HR officer, VP of physician services
- Macon CEO named to state hospital association board
- Northside Hospital to merge with Gwinnett Health System
- Hospital consolidation continues with deals in Kentucky, Georgia
- DeKalb Medical says it has received bids from several would-be partners
- Breaking new ground: Q&A with Piedmont Atlanta CEO Dr. Patrick Battey
- Forrest Health CEO Evan Dillard to retire
- Forrest Health Board of Trustees approves succession plan for CEO Dillard
- Privacy in wired hospitals in Mississippi
- Medicaid managed care contracts pending review by state board
- Here’s what to expect when Cone Health’s new Women’s Hospital is completed
- Southeastern Health to manage cardiology clinic; Duke providers to remain
- Mission Health calls BCBS’ removal of providers from online directory ‘overt and senseless action’
- Clara F. Gunn Center to reopen under Cone Health
- Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital’s Powe named to 100 ‘CIOs to Know’ list
- Vidant Health budget safe from political battles — for now
- OIG: North Carolina did not meet federal standards for Medicaid claims processing
- Triad groups team up to create hub for regional health data
- UNC Health Care CEO William Roper Named to Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare
- Cone Health excess revenue continues to grow in fiscal 2016-17
- CEO answers concerns about Mission/BCBS contract
- Two Charlotte health-care execs among 100 ‘most influential’
- LabCorp lures BCBSNC chief medical officer
- LabCorp purchases analytical testing services business in $8.5 million deal
- Tennessee quietly leading in healthcare innovation
- Community Health Systems investor tells board to oust CEO Wayne Smith
- HCA exec: Getting patient experience right will need time
- Joseph Pino to serve as COO of Saint Thomas Midtown, West hospitals: 4 things to know
- State denies Baptist’s Arlington ER application
- Work begins on Le Bonheur ‘home away from home’ addition
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Arkansas hospital loses battle with assessor over clinic tax
- CARTI Names Adam Head as President, CEO
- Spectrum unveils renovated facility
- Bayless CEO Justin Bayless Named as One of Valley’s Health Care Heroes
- University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center seeks architect for $250M hospital
- New Mexico health care provider settles in fraud case
- OIG: New Mexico did not adequately secure Medicaid data, systems
- Lovelace reaches settlement with New Mexico AG over alleged $300M Medicaid fraud scheme
- OB-GYN practitioner shortage affects rural Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Hospital Goes Step Further for Cancer Patients
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s contract with Sallisaw hospital expires
- Medical Center Health System CEO William Webster to retire in 2018
- Empty Craig Ranch Hospital Site To Become Methodist Surgery Center
- Tenet Board Members Resign, Cite ‘Irreconcilable Differences’
- CHRISTUS expands to Leon Valley
- Texas hospital reopens after 3-year closure
- The Texas telemedicine breakthrough
- Texas Health Resources sees operating income dip 23% in first half of 2017
- Methodist McKinney Hospital to open multispecialty ASC: 4 things to know
- Cleveland hospital celebrates grand opening
- Former ArthroCare CEO convicted of $750M in securities fraud — again
- UT regents could name M.D. Anderson president finalists soon
- Wells Fargo creates health care-focused business banking group in Houston
- Adeptus asks to borrow $17M as it exits bankruptcy
- Connally Memorial Medical Center taps Jeremy Riney as CEO: 3 notes
- Dallas-area physicians sue out-of-network billing company for allegedly overstating reimbursements
- MD Anderson operating in the black for first time in more than a year
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- South Peninsula Hospital CEO plans retirement
- No brainer: Hospitals make Certificate of Need pitches to expand behavioral health units
- Charting the growth of Seattle’s Swedish Hospital
- BetterDoctor partners with Washington state to bring tech solutions to health insurance exchange
- PeaceHealth to outsource some medical coding work, lay off 30
- Burien hospital to pay $45,000 over care of deaf patient
- Providence Health & Services lays off 210 employees
WYOMING
- Ivinson Memorial Hospital recognized for outstanding extended care
- Cheyenne hospital has Medicare, Medicaid status restored
- Cheyenne Regional regains deemed status
WEST
(California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Dignity Health, SSM Health share the secrets to their interview process to attract top candidates
- Trial probes whether Kaiser can fire outspoken nurse for looking at medical records
- Petaluma Health Center mines health records to improve patient health
- Joseph Hoag Health CEO to leave in December
- $1.8M raised to rebuild Russian River Health Center in west Sonoma County
- Petaluma Valley Hospital’s operations transfer delayed
- Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital expands on west side of Sonoma County city
- Meritage Medical Network announces its chief medical officer
- MemorialCare Health System, Anthem Blue Cross split
- Longmont United Hospital president resigns as part of Centura Health transition
- HealthOne is boosting residents as part of national push
- Children’s Hospital Colorado preparing 25 new cancer trials after “breakthrough” law signed
- Ned Carlson Appointed CEO of Trumpet Behavioral Health
- Company drives mobile urgent care to patients’ doorsteps
- Denver ‘direct primary care’ company to expand with $5.5M in new funding
- Saint Joseph Hospital to redevelop dormitory into senior housing
