NATIONAL
- Pilot test will evaluate MACRA’s ability to reduce costs
- Telehealth laws expanded, updated in nearly every state
- House budget chairman wants to get rid of EMTALA
- Over 1,300 Hospitals Urge CMS to Withdraw 340B Drug Payment Cuts
- Regenstrief to evaluate how health information exchange impacts EDs
- More metropolitan areas are dominated by single insurance companies
- Get ready for a DO boom: 26% of first-year medical students to become doctors of osteopathic medicine
- ACEP condemns Rep. Diane Black’s suggestion to scrap EMTALA
- 4 Ways Senior Living Leaders See the Industry Evolving
- Hospital, Physician Group M&As Slowed in 3Q
- Ascension Rebrands Six Health System Markets
- Large providers, including Kaiser Permanente and Bon Secours, push the boundaries of telemedicine
- Hospital Impact—Why hospitals should rethink the accreditation process
- CVS Health proposes to buy Aetna for $66B: 4 things to know
- AHA: Healthcare providers spend $39B a year on tasks to maintain regulatory compliance
- Legislators introduce bill targeting drug pricing
- Trump to officially declare opioid crisis public health emergency: 7 things to know
- AMA launches online platform to connect physicians, health tech companies
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- UConn doctors using 3-D models to practice delicate surgery
- Recent arrivals highlight potential of Connecticut biotech industry
- Middlesex Hospital opens cancer center on shoreline
MAINE
- St. Mary’s in Maine receives record-breaking $10M gift with one ask from donor: Use it for people, not buildings
- Maine State Nurses Association Announces Support of New Bill
- New CMMC president plans to ‘do better’
MASSACHUSETTS
- Steward Health Care rebrands 3 hospitals acquired from CHS
- Watertown-based athenahealth laying off about 500 employees
- CMS rejects Massachusetts’ waiver application
NEW YORK
- Catholic Health strikes settlement with Justice Department over billing practices
- Stony Brook University Hospital Selects New CEO, and Other Job Changes
- North country hospitals, clinics range from wary to worrying over series of federal funding cuts
- Massena Memorial Hospital continues focus on in-patient, Emergency Department satisfaction
- Westchester Medical Center facing $74 million budget shortfall tied to Medicaid cuts
- Nascentia Health CEO discusses new HQ, rebranding
- New York analytics firm boosts portfolio with acquisition of Tampa health tech company
- Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus hires 1st chief innovation officer
RHODE ISLAND
- Scott MacKay Commentary: What Memorial Closure Means For RI Health Care
- N. Providence doctor pleads guilty to health-care fraud, conspiracy involving fentanyl
- Care New England to close Memorial Hospital
- Kent Hospital, UNAP agree on equal terms for newly unionized workers, contract security
- Southcoast Health reports 189 employee buyouts, $29M loss
VERMONT
- Vermont hospital wants its contractual ED operator, Dartmouth Hitchcock, to pay damages in patient malpractice lawsuit
- Vermont Nursing Closing after Federal Payments Cut Off
- CHAC terminates ACO operations
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- A Drug Company’s Gift Might Change How Your Doctor Prescribes
- United Medical Center operator tells D.C. it will replace CEO
- Consulting firm managing United Medical Center ousts hospital CEO
- Meet the D.C. region’s highest-paid hospital execs
MARYLAND
- Maryland launches price tool for common procedures
- Hopkins and others look overseas to expand
- Why this Rockville biotech’s stock made a big jump this week
NEW JERSEY
- New Jersey Hospital Association Names New Leader, and Other Job Changes
- Officials Break Ground on Camden Health Care Center
- Will New Jersey’s crackdown on doctor kickbacks claim clinical trials as collateral damage?
- Life science firms complete purchases in Piscataway, Somerset
PENNSYLVANIA
- Steward Health Care rebrands 3 hospitals acquired from CHS
- Geisinger, Mount Sinai execs offer best piece of advice on succeeding with analytics
- AHN breaks ground on perioperative center at Forbes Hospital
- Allegheny General Hospital nurses continue talks to avoid strike
- Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center ‘disappointed’ by outcomes of PHC4 report
- Small number of job cuts at Jefferson amid consolidation
- Incyte enters into licensing deal valued at up to $900M
- Public paychecks: Here are the highest-paid employees at area health care systems
- Forbes Hospital to open $16M perioperative center
- Wolf mulls overhaul of professional licensing in Pa.
- Select Medical, Dignity Health to combine urgent-care operations
- Expanding hospice provider plans move to bigger York office
VIRGINIA
- Part owner of proposed Chesapeake eye-surgery center faces allegations in kickback scheme, feds say
- Ground broken for $3.2M health center in Tazewell
- Virginia home healthcare company files for bankruptcy
- Chesapeake Regional Healthcare taps new CFO: 4 notes
- With new surgical program, Bon Secours reduces opioid use by 80 percent
- Project seeks to reveal effective treatments that reduce unnecessary spending
WEST VIRGINIA
- Martinsburg medical center plans to expand its NICU
- Admissions up but CAMC continues to lose money
- Short on staff: Nursing crisis strains U.S. hospitals
- West Virginia health system lays off 10 employees following IT consolidation
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
KANSAS
- Kansas Health Providers, Insurers Clash On Telemedicine
- ‘Difficult decisions’: 60 St. Francis employees let go
- New leadership to guide St. Francis after sale is completed
- KU Health, Ardent will rebuild St. Francis leadership team
- Report: Wichita executive accused of embezzlement
- Eight-figure donation gets KU Hospital closer to completing tower
- McPherson Hospital names Terri Gehring permanent CEO: 3 notes
- St. Francis Health to gain new leadership team post-sale: 6 notes
MINNESOTA
- Minnesota hospital opens surgery center after 38% increase in procedures in 5-year span
- Union sues Essentia Health over required flu vaccines
- Benedictine Health System Names Jerry Carley as President/CEO
- University of Minnesota to design ‘super ambulances’ to hasten treatment of cardiac arrest
- Mayo, Albert Lea take a smart step toward ending dispute over hospital
- Smith & Nephew to buy Rotation Medical in $210M deal
MISSOURI
- Trial over kickback allegations against Cape doctor begins Wednesday
- Ascension Rebrands Six Health System Markets
- Summit Eye Center begins construction in Lee’s Summit
- Long-term care cuts in Missouri affecting fewer on Medicaid than previously thought
- Express Scripts confident in its PBM business against Amazon
NEBRASKA
- New hospital a step forward
- Hike to NU’s health insurance premiums lower than expected, provides some savings
NORTH DAKOTA
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Accolade Healthcare takes over Pontiac Rehab
- Chicago-area hospitals have merger fever. Is it good for patients?
- Southern Illinois works to combat physician shortage
- HSHS St. Francis Hospital names Kevin Seely CEO: 3 notes
INDIANA
- Indiana Faces Largest Cuts For Federal Healthcare Navigators
- Medical-legal partnership launched in northwest Indiana
- IU Health faces Bloomington antitrust suit over ambulance service
- IU Health planning 3 Fort Wayne facilities, maybe more later
- How does Northwest Indiana attract more doctors? Local hospitals, clinics say they have the remedy.
- Anthem Announces Acquisition, Profit Increase
- Cook Pharmica Sale Complete
- McGoff Named Medical Association President
KENTUCKY
- Baptist Health Kentucky Names New CEO
- Kaiser Permanente NW hires new president from Kentucky health system
- Signature, Kindred CEOs Help Create Louisville Health Care Group
- These top Louisville CEOs are uniting with a goal of improving the ‘health economy’
- Louisville business leaders celebrate the opening of the Thrive Center
- Clinical research company opens Kentucky headquarters
MICHIGAN
- Michigan hospital to close 2 clinics, cut 13.9 FTEs
- Centria to open new HQ in Farmington Hills, add 1,200 employees
- Autism therapy provider gets $8M to stay, expand in Michigan
- Michigan HIE adds alert tools to show social determinants of health
- 26 Detroit Medical Center surgeons pen letter to Tenet seeking reinstatement of orthopedic chief
- Beaumont opens $4 million pediatric cancer center in Royal Oak
- Water main break forces 7 Michigan hospitals to close or cancel procedures: 6 things to know
OHIO
- Steward Health Care rebrands 3 hospitals acquired from CHS
- Cleveland Clinic’s Toby Cosgrove, Medicaid administrator talk about lowering the cost of healthcare at Medical Innovation Summit
- Cleveland Clinic Opens Rehabilitation Hospital In Beachwood
- Ohio hospital reopens after fire causes temporary evacuation, closure
- Alleged co-conspirator charged in $2.8 million Cleveland Clinic fraud
- Silicon Valley company plugs into Cleveland
- Cleveland Clinic partners with new digital health accelerator
- CMS chief meets with Cleveland hospital personnel
- The Cleveland Clinic Wants to Lure Tech Startups to NEO
- Cleveland Clinic CEO sees ‘total restructuring’ ahead for health care business
- TriHealth set to open East Side surgery center, add jobs
- Cleveland Clinic’s participation on Obamacare exchange in 2018 remains unclear
- Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove: Healthcare will undergo a ‘total restructuring’ to accommodate shift in payment models
WISCONSIN
- Wisconsin AG doubts state will joint health care lawsuit
- 9 titans in the Madison health care industry
- Aurora chief operating officer named CEO of Kentucky-based Baptist Health
- Mayo to close Wisconsin clinic Jan. 1
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
FLORIDA
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- Florida Hospital, Supermarket Chain Launch Telehealth Partnership
- Name change reflects unified nationwide network of care.
- Mary Virginia Graham: ER wait times can last for hours on end
- Memorial Hospital hires Cory Darling as COO
- Heart of Florida Health Center looking for new leadership
- Florida hospital to suspend all services as it seeks capital
- Steward Health Care’s Wuesthoff Health System Renames Hospitals In Rockledge and Melbourne
- Tampa General Hospital Completes ED At New Brandon Healthplex
- Florida nonprofit hospital eyes 12 health system partners to invest in new ASC: 5 key points
- Coming soon at two Tampa Bay area hospitals: a cancer treatment that could replace chemo
- Hospital certificate of need application includes plan to recruit, subsidize physicians
- Wuesthoff hospitals to be renamed by recent buyer
- Florida Hospital focuses community grants on out-of-hospital care
- $5 Million A Year Proposed For Health Care Generators
- Orlando approves Johnson & Johnson incentives for expansion
- New York analytics firm boosts portfolio with acquisition of Tampa health tech company
- Holy Cross Hospital taps Ronald Brandenburg as CFO
GEORGIA
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- Piedmont Healthcare and Kaiser Permanente sign new contract
- Memorial Hospital and Manor selects new CEO: 5 things to know
- Bainbridge Memorial Hospital hires new CEO
- Hospital, MCG partnership a great way to attract good doctors
- Levin: For Piedmont Newton Hospital CEO, the challenge is on
- Health Care 20/20: Atlanta’s health care leaders reveal what keeps them up at night (Photos)
- Health-care marketplace investing $39 million, creating 675 jobs in Floyd County
MISSISSIPPI
NORTH CAROLINA
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- New Clinipace CEO talks strategic focus in 2018
- Morehead Hospital attracts 7 bidders, including Cone
- Seven organizations are vying for Morehead Memorial Hospital assets
- Wake Forest Baptist to acquire High Point Regional Hospital
- Rural hospitals in financial distress
- Timing proves right for Wake Forest Baptist to expand into Guilford County
- Duke appoints leadership team to health data sciences center
SOUTH CAROLINA
TENNESSEE
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- Provider to pay $5 million to settle allegations of substandard care
- Bordeaux nursing home fined, suspended from admitting new patients
- Erlanger Health System to Walker County: Pay up
- Tennessee suspends admissions, imposes fine at Nashville nursing home for patient rights violations
- Acadia slammed on Q3 miss
- HCA 3Q results show impact of recent hurricanes
- State approves St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital expansion
- Shareholders push for changes at Tenet and CHS: 6 things to know
- Franklin-based health care company names new CEO
- CHS division president to retire in December: 4 things to know
- Wellmont Health System more than doubles net income in FY 2017
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
ARIZONA
- Cancer center sees major expansion at Phoenix Children’s Hospital
- Arizona hospital gains approval for $45M expansion with MOB, ASC: 5 key notes
- Tenet to close Abrazo Maryvale Campus in Phoenix
- See which Phoenix hospital employees make the most
LOUISIANA
- Louisiana negotiating hospital management with new company
- Louisiana Medicaid contracts proposed for 2-year extension
- No decision on Louisiana Medicaid managed-care contracts
OKLAHOMA
- Without a deal, 10,000 people could be forced into nursing homes
- Oklahoma Supreme Court says malpractice law unconstitutional
- Foundation HealthCare emerges from bankruptcy
- Oklahoma doctors plan for Medicaid cuts, staff layoffs after budget remains stalled
TEXAS
- Expired medical supplies found on ground outside Dallas hospital
- Texas Will Run Out Of CHIP Money Sooner Than Expected Because Of Hurricane Harvey
- One of Austin’s largest employers changes name; Meet Ascension Seton
- Trevor Fetter Leaves Tenet Healthcare As CEO
- Dallas free-standing ERs want Google to identify the people behind 22 negative online reviews
- Healthcare Transparency Company Rates Dallas-Fort Worth Hospitals
- These are Houston’s most and least expensive hospitals
- Shareholders push for changes at Tenet and CHS: 6 things to know
- Tenet reports $366M net loss, plans to cut 1,300 jobs
- Tenet ditches sale plans after CEO’s departure
- Moody’s: Shareholder pressure may lead Tenet to make drastic changes
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Ketchikan hospital’s new CAO happy to be back in a small town
- UAA nursing school steps up to shortage
IDAHO
- Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center CEO to retire at year-end
- Advocates file Idaho Medicaid expansion ballot initiative
- Report: Idaho hospital did not meet staffing requirements
MONTANA
- New CEO joins Southwest Montana Community Health Center
- ‘All or nothing’ mental health care is filling the Montana state hospital, critics say
OREGON
- Kaiser Permanente NW hires new president from Kentucky health system
- Oregon Supreme Court ruling a partial win for both sides of Measure 101
- Public Paychecks: The region’s 50 highest-paid health system and hospital employees
WASHINGTON
- UW Medicine names Lisa Brandenburg chief health system officer
- Comprehensive Healthcare has new CEO
- EvergreenHealth CEO Bob Malte will chair WSHA Board
- Atlanta-based Aveanna buys Pediatric Home Care
WYOMING
- Skillings named Niobrara Community Hospital C.E.O.
- Memorial Hospital of Carbon County board discusses assessment
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Los Angeles hospital to close, lay off 638 employees
- Universal health care debate returns to California Capitol
- Hospitals to close under strain of California seismic requirements (updated)
- Riverside’s Parkview Community Hospital could soon be sold
- Bankrupt California hospital lines up potential management partners to terminate current lease early
- UCSF unveils $5 billion campaign to boost health and science initiatives
- Dignity, Select Medical ink deal to merge urgent care businesses
- Athenahealth lays off hundreds of workers, will close San Francisco office
- Marin Community Clinics names Popat CEO
- Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital names CFO: 3 things to know
COLORADO
- St. Mary’s president named health care “up and comer”
- Hospital board approves sale of property to Northwest Colorado Health
- DaVita CEO Thiry to chair Colorado effort to reform redistricting
- Colorado hospital to close obstetrics unit, NICU — affecting 35 jobs
HAWAII
NEVADA
- Freeman Health System to take on management of Nevada hospital
- Construction to start on emergency room in North Las Vegas
- Mountain View Hospital to build new facility in Aliante area
- Nevada Regional Medical Center under new management
- Select Medical, Dignity Health to merge urgent care centers
- TeamHealth to waive medical bills for Las Vegas shooting victims treated by affiliated clinicians
UTAH
