NATIONAL
- Malpractice fears are the No. 1 cause of overtreatment, physicians say
- Telehealth May Ease Docs into ACOs, MedPAC Suggests
- Survey: Few specialty practices prepared for MACRA
- Physician groups find both good and bad in the details of the proposed fee schedule
- AHA concerned with physician fee schedule for 2018
- Total Cost of Care: Key Considerations for Hospitals and Health Systems
- HHS CISO: 3 things hospitals should do right now to strengthen cybersecurity
- PCPs Spend Half Their Workday Using EHR, Study Finds
- Perrigo CEO: Amazon a “natural player” in OTC drug market
- ‘Whatever it takes’: Hospitals get creative in hiring nurses amid a national shortage
- Deal Struck to Extend Financing for Children’s Health Program
- 5 reactions to proposed 2018 Physician Fee Schedule
- Patient safety issues rarely spur Joint Commission to withdraw seal of approval
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- CT’s hospitals see huge risk in Malloy’s fix for budget impasse
- Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Yale New Haven Halt Talks To Combine
- Bridgeport Hospital burn center gets re-verified
- Report: CT Certificate-of-Need laws hurt healthcare cost, quality
- Former St. Francis exec named president of Springfield hospital
- UConn spin-off gets stem cell patent for autoimmune diseases
- For CT, strides and stumbles in quest to spur bioscience industry
- CT tells relocating Alexion to give back $26M in incentives
- CT Children’s looks ahead after rejecting Yale merger
- Trinity Health Of New England taps Mark Fulco as Mercy Medical Center president
- Yale New Haven, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center table partnership talks
- Hartford HealthCare announces 7 leadership changes
- Rockland forum set on hospital merger
- Nurses urge MCMH to address staffing
- Maine health network pitches unification as lifeline for local hospitals
- Outcry Downeast over Calais hospital’s plan to close OB unit
- Penobscot Community Health Care selects new leader
- Maine’s first ‘next gen’ surgical robot arrives at EMMC
- Non-profit hospital execs pull in big bucks in southeastern Mass.
- Berkshire Medical Center Files Charge Against Massachusetts Nurses Association
- Nurses press for limit on patient ratios
- Hallmark Health System President and CEO Alan G. Macdonald announces retirement
- Trinity Health shifts Mark Fulco back to Springfield to serve as president of Mercy Medical Center and local affiliates
- hospital lobbying group appoints new CEO
- Four months without contract, Tufts nurses still far from agreement
- Alexion to close Lexington facility as part of Boston HQ move
- Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association names CEO to succeed Lynn Nicholas
- Dana-Farber records $34.9M operating loss in first 9 months of FY 2017
- NYC hospital hit with $2.5M suit after carelessly faxing man’s HIV diagnosis to his workplace
- Joseph’s Health names Spinale to new chief medical officer position
- Centene To Buy New York Health Plan For $3.7 Billion
- OIG: New York State made $1.4B in improper Medicaid payments
- Health insurer climbs after buying Fidelis Care for $3.75 billion
- Queens hospital operator to pay $4M to settle allegations over ‘improper’ financial arrangements
- Teva sells Paragard in $1.1 billion deal; Buffalo facility included
- Huntington Hospital adds second robotic surgical device
- Good Sam taps one to lead new center
- Operator of 2 New York City hospitals pays $4M to settle false claims, Stark Law allegations
- Magellan Health to Bring 100 New Jobs to Rhode Island
- Three R.I. hospitals standardize addiction, overdose treatment
- Care New England President, CEO Dennis D. Keefe announces retirement
- Ticonderoga hospital to join UVM Health Network
- Rutland hospital seeks approval for $21.7M makeover
- GMCB sets FY 2018 hospital budgets below targeted increase
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
- Delaware works to reduce healthcare spending
- Carney signs legislation to limit growth in health care spending
- MedStar Health names Dr. Stuart Levine president, CMO of Harbor Hospital
- Merger followed ‘difficult but necessary’ decision on future of Laurel Regional [Commentary]
- Ocean Medical Center’s $18.5M wing built for comfort
- Physician-led Summit Medical Group announces partnerships in Arizona
- Tenet Sells Remaining Philly Hospitals, Announces Divestitures
- Hospital expansion underway in Wayne County
- Pediatrics unit at PMMC closing, low admissions numbers cited
- Health care nonprofit drops lawsuit, board resigns amid management dispute
- Center City cardiology group switches hospital affiliation
- UPMC’s credit rating receives downgrade from Moody’s
- Lehigh Valley Health Network forms medical institutes
- Colorado medical-device maker merges into Pennsylvania company
- Harrisburg-area health system now part of UPMC
- Three Philadelphia-area health systems report fiscal 2017 losses
- Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre to revive ER
- Genesis HealthCare Opens 11th PowerBack Rehabilitation Location
- Hospital announces new CEO
- Penn Hershey Med open to partnering, but mum on possibilities
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries names a new CEO
- UPMC to spend $1.5B on Pinnacle improvements
- Blue Mountain hospitals join St. Luke’s University Health Network
- Oak Street Health Expanding to Philadelphia
- Einstein signs joint venture deal with Solis Mammography
- UPMC center wins $3.8M in funding
- Report: Pennsylvania nurse staffing at crisis levels
- Jefferson Health completes Kennedy Health merger
- Sharon Regional Health System appoints new president: 4 things to know
- Geisinger to open $15M maternity center in Scranton
- Virginia picked for health-care pilot program
- Physician’s resignation drives Virginia hospital to close
- WVU Medicine system aims to improve state’s health
- Families Needing Specialty Care May Have to Go Out of State
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri)
IOWA
- Iowa hospitals work to treat complex, low-income patients through population health management
- Mercy opening clinic in Norwalk
- KU Hospital hit with sex discrimination claim as two other employment-related suits pending
- KU Health puts finishing touches on Cambridge North [PHOTOS]
- Mayo Clinic doctor alleges hospital system committed antitrust violations
- Minnesota AG clears Mayo’s consolidation plan for hospitals in Albert Lea, Austin
- Swanson won’t intervene in Mayo consolidation of services
- Hutchinson Health to merge with HealthPartners
- Target teams up with Kaiser to open 31 more in-store clinics
- HealthPartners to merge with Hutchsinon health care provider
- UnitedHealth in talks to snap up Chilean health care company
- Essentia Health names new regional COO: 3 things to know
- Mercy Hospital Springfield fires 12 due to behavior in ‘highly tense situations’
- Mercy Hospital brings in interim ‘leadership team’
- Mercy hospital in Springfield receives warning from CMS
- Missouri hospital to close next week
- Des Peres Hospital parent exploring possible sale: Report
- CMS sends new guidance following Ozarks appeal
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Judge prevents some U. of I. Hospital nurses from striking
- Chicago’s $69.7 billion healthcare industry makes it a hub for innovation
- Quorum finalizes deal to sell Illinois hospital, marking second divestiture this week
- University of Illinois Hospital averts strike with tentative labor deal
- University of Chicago Medicine to rebrand, alter leadership structure
- DuPage Medical Group acquires Northwest Health Care Associates
- Kindred closing hospital for remodel
- Reid strikes physicians deal with CareSource on ACA plans
- Greenwood hospital to close, lay off 86 workers
- South Bend health center reports potential data breach
- Two Northwest Indiana nursing homes reach agreement to resolve overtime violations
- Physicians to CHS: Treat Lutheran Health Network as more than a ‘revenue generator’
- Tiny hospitals face new requirement: two inpatients a day and two midnights
- Rising health care costs fuel Springbuk’s growth
- Riley Children’s Health Growing Fort Wayne Presence
- UofL selected as a national research site to help solve health care challenges
- Kentucky nonprofit gets $150M in split from Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives subsidiary
- KentuckyOne parent company pays $150M to Jewish foundation to cut ties with hospitals
- KentuckyOne deal could be a step toward hospitals’ sale or a merger, analysts say
- Jewish Heritage Fund gets $150M in split from KentuckyOne
- Lakeland Health touts patient monitoring system for cutting cardiac, respiratory arrests in half
- How Spectrum Health Medical Group built a new physician compensation and performance model
- Trinity Health shifts Mark Fulco back to Springfield to serve as president of Mercy Medical Center and local affiliates
- Centria Healthcare of Novi announces new executive staff
- Health system CEO announces retirement
- Inside look: How a new emergency room opens
- ‘Microhospital’ proposed in Dublin but operator is a mystery
- Second ‘microhospital’ proposed near Mount Carmel East in Whitehall
- SummaCare, UH to co-brand Medicare managed-care plans
- Business news briefs, Sept. 13: Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital shows off upgrades
- Hospitals, doctors fight bill that would end flu vaccine requirements
- Medina Hospital unveils ‘state-of-the-art ICU’
- OSU nurses: Hospital cutting nurse/patient ratio amid record profits
- East Ohio Regional Hospital to reopen obstetrics unit after 2-year closure
- Middletown planners deny Kettering Health Network’s rezoning request
- Flu vaccine bill needs more work, Ohio House speaker says
- Hospital buys Dayton industrial property near main campus
- Former Cleveland Clinic Innovations executive charged in $2.7 million fraud against hospital system
- Cleveland State and the Cleveland Clinic collaborate to train nurses
- Cleveland Clinic’s 5-step strategy to address rising drug prices
- Rogers Memorial Hospital considering campus at Pabst Farms
- County Board of Adjustment asked to overturn permit denial
- Froedtert and MCW Imaging Centers designated as Centers of Excellence
- Analyst: Profitability of southeast Wisconsin hospitals remains strong
- Marshfield Clinic Cancer Center inside look
- Whole Health Clinical Group opens new $8 million West Allis clinic
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- A matter of life and death: Saving Alabama’s rural hospitals
- South Alabama city buying hospital from Tennessee company
- Brookwood Baptist Medical Center names new chief medical officer
- Pack Health launches blood pressure study, AHA partnership
- Blue Cross hit with $8M penalty by state
- Tampa physician group about to sell to private equity, report says
- Early December is target for opening of new Florida Hospital Apopka campus
- Hurricane Irma causes 36 Florida hospitals to close
- New Florida Hospital Apopka schedules December opening
- State Acts Against Nursing Home After 8 Deaths
- Orlando Health seeks OK to move forward with $90M Horizon West hospital
- Tampa General Hospital names new CFO
- Lee County officials tout management team for proposed hospital
- Becker’s Hospital Review names WellStar Health Network an ‘ACO to Know’
- Macon hospital partners with Emory for specialized surgeries
- Emory Healthcare buys six former Harken Health clinics
- MEA’s Grantham Named Mississippi State Medical president
- Legislators consider limits on new health care facilities
- Baptist to bring 250 jobs to downtown Jackson
- 11 health systems finalize partnership in North Carolina to address needs of Medicaid patients
- Mission Health and BCBSNC continue to battle over contract
- Carolinas HealthCare CEO: Proposed partnership with UNC Health Care met with excitement, questions
- Female physicians sue Carolinas HealthCare over discriminatory pay practices
- Coastal Horizons Welcomes New CFO, Physicians
- Meet Cone Health Medical Group’s new president and chief medical officer
- Triad university to launch program to increase number of nurses with bachelor’s degrees
- Carolinas HealthCare, UNC Health Care CEOs: Proposed partnership is not to ‘increase clout in negotiations with insurance companies’
- Owners of family practice medical centers in Midlands to pay govt $2 M
- Palmetto Health Richland celebrating 125th anniversary
- Vanderbilt Stallworth hospital names CEO
- CEO steps down from Brentwood health care company
- Bonick Joins PhyMed as Chief Executive Officer
- Quorum finalizes deal to sell Illinois hospital, marking second divestiture this week
- VUMC recruits North Highland exec
- Nashville health care company makes another CEO change
- PARIS TN: Hospital officials detail plans for proposed $9.2 million loan
- Brentwood-based AAC Holdings announces $85M buy
- Saint Francis hospital’s parent company may be for sale
- Roane Medical Center appoints permanent chief administrative officer: 3 things to know
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- CHI St. Vincent teams with universities to address nursing shortage
- Pack Health launches blood pressure study, AHA partnership
- Physician-led Summit Medical Group announces partnerships in Arizona
- Mercy Opens Clinic in Pea Ridge
- Cooper Clinic, Mercy Clinic In Merger Talks
- Banner Health secures $550 million bond issue for new Phoenix, Tucson teaching hospitals
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital unveils $40 million emergency-department expansion
- Banner Health seeks to fill more than 1k positions
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital promising quicker care with new emergency department
- Arizona Supreme Court to consider legality of Medicaid expansion
- Williams Hospital District breaks ground on new health clinic
- New OLOL Children’s Hospital taking shape; part of a growing trend for specialized hospitals for the young
- Audit: $4.2M in improper La. Medicaid spending for lab work
- Edwards: Charity hospital operator violating contract
- Tammany Parish Hospital to open offsite ER in Mandeville
- Louisiana governor puts private operator of LSU hospitals on watch for alleged breach of contract
- UNM nets $11 million for new biomedical research center
- Molina Healthcare in NM preparing to hire hundreds
- Presbyterian Health Plan files court response to AG’s suit
- Hospital announces staff shakeup
- Chris Hammes is Integris Grove Hospital’s interim president: 4 takeaways
- Tenet Sells Remaining Philly Hospitals, Announces Divestitures
- Why didn’t Tenet’s CEO quit sooner? Dallas employees now can brace for Wall Street fight
- ETMC mum on reports of pending sale
- Nocona General Hospital Undergoing $3.5 Million Renovation
- Tenet’s largest shareholder sees significant losses amid ACA uncertainty: 4 things to know
- New England health firm relocates HQ to Irving
- Children’s Health and Toyota Collaboration Complete Gastroenterology Initiative
- Tenet Planning To Divest 17 Entities in U.S. and U.K.
- Tenet Healthcare stock rises on news of possible sale
- Hospitals of Providence names Monica Vargas-Mahar market COO: 4 notes
- Tenet explores strategic options, including sale: 9 things to know
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Idaho hospital lays off 62 employees after new ownership
- Luke’s considers an orthopedic facility on Boise’s West End
- Primary Health Medical Group breaks ground on Meridian clinic
- Legislative committee hears concerns over Medicaid cuts
- Seattle Children’s Pediatric Cardiology of Montana opens in Great Falls
- Virginia Mason Memorial hospital workers protest new health care plan
- Trios may partner with 2 larger health systems
- Trios Health seeks help from hospitals amid financial troubles
- Report: Washington hospitals stingy with charity care, with language barrier an issue
- Washington State Medical Association CEO: Why healthcare needs physician leaders
- Washington physician group sues CHS for underpayment
- Consultants: 34,000-square foot hospital possible at cost of $16 million
- Cheyenne Hospital Official: Agreement Will Help Specialized Care
WEST
(California, Colorado)
CALIFORNIA
- Erik Wexler to lead Providence St. Joseph Health’s Southern California region: 4 notes
- Luke’s Hospital Reverses Course On Treating Patients In Its Subacute Unit
- Drug pricing bill clears last hurdle in California Legislature
- Marin County to privatize health, dental clinics
- Vallejo’s Sutter Solano Medical Center revamps its image
- Nurse strike costs California county $1.5M
- Kaiser Permanente, Target to open 31 retail clinics in southern California
- Data hack at Children’s Hospital may affect 3,400 patient families
- Mercy CEO aims to maintain hospital legacy amid uncertainty
- Colorado medical-device maker merges into Pennsylvania company
- Mary’s to open heart center
- Cardiac clinic another option for GJ patients
- Anthony continues to grow with new options
- Multi-million dollar West Springs hospital breaks ground
- Hannah out as CEO
- Colorado biotech plans $200 million stock offering
- Kentucky nonprofit gets $150M in split from Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives subsidiary
- CHI taps Troy Hammett as SE Division CFO: 3 notes
