NATIONAL
- Surviving in limbo: 3 takeaways from physician execs on the transition to value-based care
- Bipartisan bill looks to change physician anti-kickback law
- CMS holds value-based purchasing adjustment steady for 2018
- Healthcare reacts to 2018 final rule for MACRA’s Quality Payment Program
- CVS to offer nationwide next-day delivery in preemptive shot at Amazon
- Study: 4 factors of the $933.5B US healthcare spending boom
- Trump administration will support work requirements for Medicaid
- CMS plan to slash 340B payments under fire by hospitals
- 43 states receive ‘F’ for healthcare price transparency: Altarum
- Revised House tax bill leaves individual mandate untouched
- Healthcare salaries continue to grow: 5 averages by occupation
- Joint Commission recognizes 15 hospitals, health systems for contributions to quality data reporting
- Seema Verma’s vision to ‘turn the page’ in Medicaid: 3 things to know
- Joint Commission releases 2017 quality, safety report: 3 takeaways
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Danbury and New Milford hospitals reach agreement with union
- CT-backed med-tech investor faces fraud allegations
- New Database Reveals Patient Death, Violations in CT Hospitals
- HHC’s Bone & Joint Institute partners with Bloomfield health analytics firm
- Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth Urgent Care opens In Southington
MAINE
- Hospitals at center stage of Medicaid expansion debate
- Maine becomes first state to approve Medicaid expansion by popular vote
- After Maine Voters Approve Medicaid Expansion, Governor Raises Objections
MASSACHUSETTS
- Insurer CEOs seek price caps for top Massachusetts hospitals: 5 things to know
- Mass. Senate bill aims to rein in health costs, study single-payer
- Haemonetics announces plans to cut 350 jobs
- CVS plans to launch same-day delivery in Boston
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW YORK
- New 8-office pediatric ‘supergroup’ looks to build on WNY health care
- New day dawns for SJMH
- Why a New York women and children’s hospital is dropping ‘women’ from its name
- Bassett CEO: Quitting post was part of restructuring
- Hornell breaks ground on St. James Mercy Hospital
- Staten Island doctor gets prison in N.J. lab bribe scheme
- Saratoga Hospital Plans for Spring Project at ROC
- Athenex expects to break ground on large pharma factory in Dunkirk in the first quarter of 2018
- Brooks Memorial to close dialysis unit, transition patients to new DaVita clinic
- Northwell Health’s new CFO talks financial goals, challenges
RHODE ISLAND
VERMONT
- Regulators hear arguments for new medical records system
- Regulators ensure OneCare Vermont avoids antitrust problems
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Update: Hospitals weigh in on Delaware’s low ranking in Leapfrog safety survey
- Sinnott named CEO of Saint Francis Hospital
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Report: D.C. area hospitals are failing the public
- D.C. lawmakers cut short contract for operator of District’s only public hospital
- Former Providence Hospital executive gets jail sentence for stealing $390K from medical association
- United Medical Center to cut ties with hospital operator Veritas
- D.C. lawmakers, health officials weigh path forward at UMC with new operator
MARYLAND
- UMMC breaks ground on $116M hospital for chronic illness
- Maryland hospital quotes Shakespeare in defense of physician who used fake identity
- A new urgent care facility is opening at the Rotunda
NEW JERSEY
PENNSYLVANIA
- Tower Health paid $418 million for five community hospitals in S.E. Pennsylvania
- Report: Regional rehab, long-term and psych facilities running low margins
- UPMC will invest $2B to build 3 specialty hospitals
- Chester County Hospital moves to dismiss EMTALA claims
- Pa. delays major long-term care shift in Philadelphia area
- Genesis Healthcare takes $532 million write-down, warns of possible bankruptcy
- Lourdes Health System’s loss widened in fiscal 2017
- Jeanes Hospital Nurses Approve Three-year Deal
- MedRespond expanding to Cleveland
VIRGINIA
- Appalachian health systems get states OK on merger plan
- Bowling Green medical practice joins Mary Washington Healthcare
- MSHA, Wellmont health systems outline transition to merger
WEST VIRGINIA
- West Virginia cities sue Joint Commission over pain management recommendations
- West Virginia municipalities file suit against Joint Commission for its part in opioid crisis
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Iowa hospitals’ community benefit tops $855 million in 2016
- Broadlawns opens new 14-unit inpatient mental health unit
KANSAS
- Kansas Health, Ardent Finalize Purchase of St. Francis Health
- Sridevi Donepudi, M.D., MMM, FAAFP, Joins Stormont Vail Health as Chief Medical Quality Officer
- Health care tops state’s highest-paying occupations
- New name, additional provider for local clinic
MINNESOTA
- Mayo Clinic names new CFO
- Minnesota hospital won’t take patients committed by a court
- Nurses’ union hits Duluth health care system over requiring flu shots
- Mayo Clinic starts to roll out second phase of Epic implementation
- Glencoe Regional Health Services CEO to retire next year: 4 points
MISSOURI
- SSM Health adds first female orthopedic surgeon
- St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Makes the Move to O’Fallon
- Saint Luke’s combines philanthropy, strategy with new exec
- Tiger Institute joins Sequoia Project, linking EHRs with SSM Health
- SSM Health trims workforce by 1 percent
- Micro-Hospital Proposed for Vacant Lot in Downtown West St. Louis
- Missouri is the only state with no prescription monitoring program. What’s the holdup?
- Washington University receives $10 million gift for personalized medicine research
- How one Missouri hospital treats patients with 0 beds
NEBRASKA
- Children’s Hospital buys adjoining land in Omaha
- State Sen. Morfeld plans to introduce ballot measure that would let Nebraska voters decide on Medicaid expansion
NORTH DAKOTA
- Trinity Health secures final financing for new hospital in Minot
- Altru Health System announces $250M expansion
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Reservation hospital again on ‘immediate jeopardy’ status
- President of Spearfish Hospital dies
- Sanford Health invests in German hospital
- South Dakota hospital to lose Medicare contract: 4 things to know
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Joint venture expands urgent care operations for OSF HealthCare in Rockford area
- Drug Advertisers Suspend Deals With Outcome Health
- Outcome Health losing major advertisers following allegations of misleading clients
- Chicago hospital sues Leapfrog for defamation
- Loretto Hospital CEO is out after five years
- Investors sue Outcome Health, alleging investment fraud
- Outcome Health investors receive DOJ subpoenas as Chicago-area hospitals back away
- Oak Street Health CEO Mike Pykosz: Redesigning healthcare is ‘harder than rocket science’
INDIANA
- Holcomb: Repeal medical device excise tax
- McLaren Health Care to acquire Indiana insurer MDwise
- Winenger Named New COO For IU Health Southern Indiana Physicians
- Lutheran Health suing ex-CEO for defamation scheme
- Health care labor shortages continue to grow in state, Region
- Lot of cheers for Lutheran CEO pick
- Anthem becomes second-largest company with woman as CEO
- More than 2,300 Lilly workers volunteer for buyouts
- IU Health continues perfecting integrated service center
- Franciscan Health Acquires Vacant Hospital
- Matthew Burden named new president/CEO of Porter-Starke Services
- Is it an emergency? Anthem makes patients question ER visits
- Trump expected to name ex-Lilly exec to lead Health & Human Services
- Cook Medical wins first trial over blood-clot filters
KENTUCKY
- Why Kindred Healthcare will spend $10K on RN signing bonuses
- Kentucky health system to shut down insurance arm, lay off 34 employees
- KentuckyOne Health names new CEO
- Local hospitals working to retain and recruit nurses
- Kindred Healthcare Reports Third Quarter 2017 Results
- Murray-Calloway County Hospital Names New COO
- 2 Kentucky hospitals sign acquisition agreement
- Baptist Health begins process of acquiring Hardin Memorial Health
- Kindred Healthcare stock surges on better-than-expected earnings
- Feds Will Allow Medicaid Work Requirements. Here’s What It Means For Kentucky
- Humana cutting 2,700 jobs amid uncertainty in health care
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals prices $150 million IPO
- ResCare taps former Kindred exec as its new CFO
- Humana to sell long-term care insurance business
- Kindred stocks up 40% as net loss shrinks to $95.8M
MICHIGAN
- Huron Valley-Sinai nurses sue hospital executives amid concerns of patient safety
- McLaren Health Care to acquire Indiana insurer MDwise
- Michigan nurses union sues Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital over alleged staffing, patient safety issues
- Why CMS should get in on payer, hospital quality partnerships to cut costs
- Another doctor accused in $130-million-plus Medicare fraud scheme
- Michigan’s Kettering University suing Kettering Health University
- Michigan nurses, nonprofit team up to clear $1 million medical debt for 500 families
OHIO
- Southwest General Health Center CEO shares hospital stats, future healthcare outlook
- MetroHealth, Clinic score in ACO payouts
- Cardinal Health Reports First-quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2018
- More cancer care is coming to Greater Cincinnati. Here’s how and why.
- New Edwin Shaw rehab hospital opens Tuesday in Bath
- After a divisive and expensive campaign, Issue 2 fails at the polls
- Ohio rejects drug price issue after costly fight
- Michigan’s Kettering University suing Kettering Health University
- Doctor launches cash-based practice to serve patients in central Ohio
- Cardinal Health departing CEO George Barrett: ‘I feel very good about the work that I’ve done here’
- Select Medical, Cleveland Clinic Edwin Shaw rehabilitation hospital opens doors to patients
- Circleville voters clear path for Berger Hospital to work with OhioHealth
- MedRespond expanding to Cleveland
- CareSource, Cleveland Clinic ink deal
- Dayton’s largest hospital network to sell insurance business
- Cardinal Health shareholders grill CEO George Barrett on opioids
- Circleville voters grant Berger Hospital freedom to start talks with OhioHealth
- Les Wexner continues as chairman of OSU Wexner Medical Center board
- Cleveland Clinic consolidating care in new $20-million children’s center
- DOJ abandons false claims case against nursing home chain
WISCONSIN
- Inside Wisconsin: Measuring quality: Why health care can attract business, workers
- UW Health and former employee sued over unauthorized medical record access
- Opening of Froedtert health clinic is latest piece of the Milwaukee Bucks development complex
- Report: Wisconsin has lost $11M for repealing False Claims Act
- Report: Milwaukee has most expensive hospitals among U.S. metros
- Froedtert & the Medical College preview downtown Milwaukee clinic: Slideshow
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- Quorum sells 72-bed Alabama hospital
- St. Vincent’s opens new in-house center
- Aurora Diagnostics acquires surgery center in Alabama
FLORIDA
- Health care giant plans 75-bed facility
- Nemours, Orlando Health aiming for pediatric heart transplant programs
- New UF hospitals focus on advanced medicine
- NEW: Jupiter Medical Center’s new CEO is Long Island native
- Adventist Health System appoints new administrators at 2 Florida hospitals: 5 notes
- Halifax Health moves forward with $105 million Deltona hospital
- Aurora Diagnostics acquires surgery center in Alabama
- Public health care company to layoff 182, close two South Florida offices
- Exclusive: See which Florida doctors received the most in non-research payments from drug and device companies
- New Port Richey pharmacy owner pleads guilty in massive fraud scheme
GEORGIA
- Court declares Northside Hospital’s operations can’t be kept secret
- Navicent Health Baldwin taps Darren Pearce as CEO: 3 notes
- McKenna to step down at St. Mary’s CEO, accepts job in Florida
- Memorial Health selects Shayne George as CEO: 5 things to know
- Grady Memorial Hospital files $3.6 million renovation plans
MISSISSIPPI
- Mississippi hospital’s new policy aims to reduce nonurgent ER visits
- Rural hospital in north Mississippi sold to new owner
- Baptist Memorial to hold ribbon cutting for new hospital on Wednesday
- 6 things to know about the vote to sell Oktibbeha County hospital
- Voters Reject Selling Hospital Owned by Oktibbeha County
NORTH CAROLINA
- Bank files objection to sale of bankrupt hospital’s assets
- Rock Hill’s Piedmont Medical Center has a new CEO
- Some argue that selling Morehead Memorial to the highest bidder may not be best
- CIO Of Rent-A-Center To Join Novant Health As Chief Digital Officer
- Morehead Hospital bankruptcy hearing delayed
- Morehead Hospital bankruptcy hearing to continue Monday
- N.C. attorney general files objection to Morehead Memorial sale
- Will these state hires ease North Carolina’s hospital ER bottleneck?
- Mission identifies potential site for Angel Medical Center replacement
- Whistleblower lawsuit claims Epic caused hundreds of hospitals to double-bill anesthesia services
- Hospital CEO search narrows candidates
- Novant Health expands reach with air transport
- Mission tightlipped about negotiations with BCBS
- WakeMed seeking approval for $60M expansion in Cary
- Harris opens new emergency department
- New Franklin hospital could move out to U.S. 441
- Vidant Edgecombe Hospital breaks ground for new cancer center
- Your Health: Construction of new cancer center underway at CarolinaEast Medical Center
- UNC settles anti-trust lawsuit, Duke suit pending
SOUTH CAROLINA
- New hospital CEO hired; RMC board picks Texas executive
- South Carolina hospital lays off nearly 100 employees
- 3 Lowcountry hospitals earn top safety grade
- Regional Medical Center taps former Tenet VP to serve as CEO: 5 points
TENNESSEE
- Quorum sells 72-bed Alabama hospital
- Lutheran Health suing ex-CEO for defamation scheme
- Appalachian health systems get states OK on merger plan
- ER doctor-owned urgent care clinic to open in West Nashville
- Healthcare Industry Veteran Tapped as Corizon Health CEO
- CHS to sell additional hospitals worth $2B in revenue
- Quorum Health sees net loss widen to $29.2M, plans to sell more hospitals
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- State Still Awaiting Federal Approval on Medicaid Expansion Changes
- Sparks Health System, UnitedHealthcare Renew Network Relationship
ARIZONA
- Tucson woman wins $12 million jury verdict against Banner-UMC in malpractice case
- FastMed Urgent Care Appoints New CEO
LOUISIANA
- More proposals for Charity Hospital expected next week
- Lafayette General Southwest becoming orthopedic, long-term care facility
- Safety-net hospital deals done, except in north Louisiana
- New Orleans Children’s Hospital on track for $300M expansion, with new CEO at the helm
- Judges hear dispute over Louisiana charity hospital closure
- Attorney general, business leaders weigh in on N. La. hospital wars
- Work begins on $20M Ochsner cancer center expansion
- Baton Rouge occupational medicine provider expanding internationally
NEW MEXICO
- New Mexico hospital stops requiring uninsured to pay 50% up front for surgery
- Walgreens, DaVita drop Molina Healthcare
OKLAHOMA
- AG asks for investigative audit of Oklahoma Health Department
- Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City receives “A” grade for keeping patients safe
- Oklahoma health department requests emergency $30 million from state legislature
- Federal judge dismisses Tulsa man’s kickback lawsuit against EMSA
- Oklahoma Health Department salary payouts increased despite budget decline
TEXAS
- Lunch With D CEO: Dr. John Carlo
- Restructuring Tenet Healthcare Names 10 Group CEOs
- Tenet Healthcare reports a quarterly loss that’s 45 times higher than last year
- North Texas developer to build new $25M medical center in Garland
- Southwestern Medical Foundation leaders reflect on 75 years in Dallas
- Tenet’s net loss balloons to $367M as investor agitation builds
- New hospital CEO hired; RMC board picks Texas executive
- Baylor Scott & White Health Names Four To Senior Leadership Positions
- Federal judge dismisses Tulsa man’s kickback lawsuit against EMSA
- Texas Company Raises $10M to Expand On-Demand Healthcare Service
- Menninger Clinic names interim CEO after previous leader’s resignation
- Texas A&M wants in on next phase of Houston’s Texas Medical Center; Will UT follow suit?
- From ‘parking lot central’ to architectural oasis: Behind the design of Austin’s Dell Medical School
- Texas hospital closes following extensive hurricane damage
- Tenet selects 2 new independent directors: 6 notes
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
IDAHO
MONTANA
- Report grades 8 Montana hospitals with A’s to C’s
- Montana Lawmakers Block Medicaid Provider Rate Cuts
OREGON
- Report: Oregon hospitals make progress on curbing infections
- Knute Buehler calls for special counsel to investigate Medicaid overpayments
- Legacy Health reaches contract agreement with workers, averts strike
- Third of 3 Central City Concern health-targeted building breaks ground in Portland
- Kuni Foundation grants $7.5M to OHSU for lung and prostate cancer research
WASHINGTON
WYOMING
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Hospital’s new CEO says patient care is top priority
- San Diego’s next tourism craze: medicine
- Local Dignity Health executive will lead hospital group
- California hospital lays off employees in cost-cutting measure
- 93-year-old California hospital to close over inability to meet new seismic standards
- Former Molina Healthcare CEO wants control of clinics
- Marshall Medical invests $20 million in new electronic medical records system
COLORADO
- 5 things to know about Swedish Medical Center renovations
- DaVita looks at divesting managed-care businesses after another poor quarter
- CHI sees operating loss narrow to $77.9M, says merger with Dignity still in the works
HAWAII
NEVADA
- Reaching out: Renown CEO wants to break big-box mold for health-care delivery
- Braman is new hospital CEO
- In Las Vegas, 911 Callers Have a Choice: Ambulance or Lyft?
- Health fund barred from suit over Nevada drug price law
UTAH
