NATIONAL
- MedPAC finalizes recommendation to repeal MIPS
- WSJ: Ascension, Providence St. Joseph in merger talks
- Dignity Health announces merger with Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives
- Optum’s MedExpress and Walgreens team up on urgent care
- Improve communication, save time in practice with these methods
- 5 most interesting health IT partnerships this week
- Politics don’t change our mission: How to lead a healthcare organization amid uncertainty in DC
- FDA Seeks More Effective Clinical Research Oversight
- 75 ASCs, outpatient centers opened and announced in 2017
- Why hospitals will face greater cost containment efforts in 2018
- Hospitals Are Merging to Face Off With Insurers
- ACP: End Unfair Physician Pay Disparities
- HHS’ OIG says undisclosed Medicare Advantage pilot passes regulatory muster
- Outpatient spine surgery growth in hospitals outpaces ASCs & more
- Healthcare freelance jobs grew 47% since 2012
- More than 4 in 5 physicians have experienced a cyberattack: 10 survey insights
- Merritt Hawkins: 6 insights about the emerging physician shortage
- OIG approves medication management pilot, offering hints at how it will regulate data-sharing partnerships
- 5 takeaways from the White House hearing on interoperability
- FDA to add alternative approval pathway for medical devices: 4 things to know
- E4H’s 2018 predictions for healthcare facility design
- 3 ways the net neutrality repeal could affect healthcare
- How will the tax bill impact health care? 5 experts weigh in
- CMS may bring on contractor to examine Medicare Part D plans
- AMA to physicians: There is still time to avoid a 2017 penalty under MACRA
- Hospitals see growing 340B profits on cancer drugs: 4 findings
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Horizon Tech stakes $15M in nasal-device maker
- St. Francis receives 7-figure donation toward cancer center expansion
- Holland’s ‘Dashboard’ system improves patient’s care quality, safety
- Community Health Center’s cutting-edge care model reaches beyond CT
MAINE
- York Hospital Considers Land Deal With Town
- Maine Lawmakers To Discuss Cost Of Expanding Medicaid
- Federal government providing more than $700k for health care in Maine
- Plan to unify MaineHealth by early 2019 advances
- Franklin Memorial goes from worst to best on hospital list
MASSACHUSETTS
- Fenway Health CEO Resigns Amid Harassment Controversy
- Partners HealthCare turns around worst financial loss to a profit in FY 2017
- Second health center leader steps down for mishandling of sexual harassment, bullying complaints
- Massachusetts diagnostic lab cannot escape whistleblower case
- State to review impacts of proposed Beth Israel-Lahey merger
- State Launches Review of Proposed Massive Hospital Merger
- Two Cambridge cancer drug startups score big funding rounds
- Medtronic pays $2.4M to Mass. to settle false marketing allegations
- Head of state’s largest health care union suspended after ‘inappropriate conduct’ allegations
- UMass Memorial’s operating income down 74% in fiscal year 2017
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW YORK
- New York hospital’s sole neurosurgeon resigns
- Former employee sues New York hospital for firing, claiming apnea made her fall asleep on job: 9 things to know
- Crouse teams up with three Northern New York hospitals
- Walgreens, New York hospital giant partner on in-store telemedicine kiosks
- HealthlinkNY’s Galanis to Step Down as CEO
- Auburn hospital teams up with bigger hospitals in Syracuse, Rochester
- Transactions: Grand Healthcare Buys Ninth N.Y. SNF
- Roswell Park spin-off raises $6 million in private financing
- Kenmore Mercy Hospital taps Walter Ludwig to serve as CEO
RHODE ISLAND
- Lifespan to form alliance with GE Healthcare
- Nurses’ Union Sues to Block Proposed Hospital Closure
- UNAP lawsuit seeks to halt Memorial closure, appoint special master
VERMONT
- UVM Health Network acquires Yankee Medical for $1 million
- Southwestern Vermont Health Care prepares for Centennial in 2018
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Report: Parent of D.C. hospital in talks for a potential acquisition
- D.C.’s public hospital needs $17 million taxpayer subsidy, officials say
- United Medical Center will permanently close obstetrics unit
MARYLAND
- Annapolis OB-GYN merges with Anne Arundel Medical Group
- Prince George’s health care is finally on the mend
- Duke University Hospital president leaving for Johns Hopkins Health System
- University of Maryland Baltimore-based startup Harpoon Medical acquired for $100 million
- Fixing the Prince George’s Hospital Center should just be the start
- Hopkins favored out-of-state patients over locals to increase revenue, lawsuit claims
- Patient safety expert Dr. Peter Pronovost to leave Johns Hopkins: 7 things to know
- Howard County General Hospital names Dr. Claro Pio Roda CFO: 5 notes
NEW JERSEY
- Report: Hospitals Contribute $23.4 Billion to N.J. Economy
- Clover Health Loses Co-Founder Ahead of Expansion Outside New Jersey
- NJHA: N.J. hospitals are $23.4B ‘bedrock of economy’
- New Jersey board recommends approval for The Valley Hospital move to Paramus
- N.J. Medical Society’s health information exchange goes live
- New Jersey health system lays off 50 employees, consolidates service
PENNSYLVANIA
- AHN announces first of 4 new regional hospitals
- The local doctors who got the most dollars from pharma & med device firms
- With AHN’s expansion, hospital competition heats up in Westmoreland County
- Tower Health, Acadia partnership includes plan to construct new hospital
- Mon Health Medical Center announces partnership with Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
- Reading Hospital to build 144-bed behavioral health facility in Berks County
- 4 hospitals’ nurses unite for contracts
- Suburban Woods and Elkins Crest nursing homes, facing big fines, will have new operators
- Teva to eliminate 14,000 jobs in major restructuring overhaul
- 2 local rehab centers scheduled to be closed end up saved
- Geneia partners with Salesforce
- Reading Hospital, Acadia partner to provide behavioral health services in Berks, region
VIRGINIA
- Evolent Health drops acquisition deal with Ohio company
- Fauquier Hospital earns record $22.7 million profit
- Premier Health, Virginia company terminate sale of insurance business
WEST VIRGINIA
- Nursing shortage in W.Va. is critical
- Large W.Va. health care providers helping drive economy forward despite challenges
- Wheeling Hospital announces new $34 million continuous care center
- Mon Health Medical Center announces partnership with Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Integrated health system lures new University of Iowa medical leader
- Mercy’s parent to merge with San Francisco-based health system
- Ottumwa Regional Health Center names Dennis Hunger COO: 5 notes
KANSAS
- Another KC hospital system makes a deal to join Centene’s ACA plans
- Local firms help fulfill Neal Patterson’s rural health care legacy
- Final big KC hospital lands ACA coverage option
- Corporation managing Kiowa County’s public hospital puts KORA under a microscope
- Massive Teva layoffs leave OP operation’s future unknown
- Ground breaks on $41M medical center honoring late Cerner CEO Neal Patterson
MINNESOTA
- Ely hospital names new CEO
- ‘They threw us to the wind’: Mayo hospital closures rankle small towns
- Entellus Medical to be sold to Stryker for $622M
- Minnesota residents concerned about Mayo Clinic closures
- Essentia’s expansion plan for Duluth? ‘Lots of cranes’
- Sanford Health expands to Twin Cities market (sort of)
- Mayo Clinic to allow physicians, nurses to show tattoos in 2018
MISSOURI
- WSJ: Ascension, Providence St. Joseph in merger talks
- Closed Missouri hospital plans to reopen as psychiatric facility after resolving issues with CMS
- Ascension’s operating income plunges 93% in FY18 Q1
- McKnight Place opens first phase of $32 million assisted living facility
NEBRASKA
- Catholic Health Initiatives forsees changes in health care delivery
- Fremont Health names possible partnership options
NORTH DAKOTA
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Outcome Health promotes ex-Twitter exec to COO
- Slip in hospital safety rating score spurs healthcare provider to sue Leapfrog Group
- Jagler: Co-CEOs will need to learn to coexist
- Chicago headquarters planned for new merged hospital system
- Mercyhealth presents preliminary hospital design to Crystal Lake officials
- SwipeSense snags $10.6M for its connected hospital platform
- Advocate Good Shepherd completes $247M renovation, expansion project
INDIANA
- Northwest Indiana hospital system joins network for Lake and Porter counties’ only Obamacare insurer
- Community Health Names Region President
- Merger of two huge health systems would have implications in Indiana
- Former Perry County hospital, adjoining lots sold for $80,000 to unidentified buyer
- Fishers medical manufacturer with 69 employees plans closure
- Ambulance service to close doors in Indianapolis, eliminate 82 jobs
- What One Hospital CEO Learned By Hitting The Road
- Reid Hospital Demo Bid Cuts Loan Need
- Eli Lilly forecasts $23B in revenue for 2018
KENTUCKY
- A new floor opens in UK’s $1 billion hospital. When will the building be finished?
- 56K patient records compromised during separate data breaches at specialty clinics in Kentucky and North Carolina
- Norton Healthcare expanding cancer services
- Sources: Hedge fund primary suitor for Jewish Hospital
- Norton Healthcare, Jewish Hospital delay, cancel surgeries due to water main break
MICHIGAN
- New McLaren hospital is part of a boom in local health care investment
- McLaren to become one of biggest health systems in state
- Osteopathic physicians start new physician organization managed by MedNet One
- Federal tax plan has hospitals, insurers worried in Michigan
- Entellus Medical to be sold to Stryker for $622M
- In Michigan, Lakeland Health’s Newfound Focus on Patient Monitoring and Safety
- Price of specialty drugs spikes in Michigan
- Munson absorbs Gaylord hospital
- Senior living nonprofit closing campus
OHIO
- Evolent Health drops acquisition deal with Ohio company
- Another Dayton-area independent living project planned
- Akron Children’s Hospital to build pediatric health care center in North Canton
- University Hospitals increases economic impact in Ohio by $3 billion
- What’s going up on Xavier’s campus: part gym, part health center, part academic facility
- Premier Health launches first phase of massive urgent care rollout
- Premier Health to construct $12M emergency center in Miamisburg
- Premier Health contributes $400K to new grocery store in Dayton
- Premier Health, Virginia company terminate sale of insurance business
- TriHealth breaks ground on $54 million Xavier University facility
- 6 thoughts on healthcare by outgoing Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove
- Cleveland Clinic Children’s to open $20M outpatient hospital in 2018
WISCONSIN
- Mercy CEO’s pay climbs to $8.38 million
- Possible merger would put Columbia St. Mary’s and Wheaton Franciscan in largest hospital company, Wall Street Journal reports
- Jagler: Co-CEOs will need to learn to coexist
- Wisconsin judge orders Agnesian HealthCare to settle dispute with Cerner through arbitration
- Judge orders Wisconsin health system to settle dispute with Cerner outside of court
- New bill allows nurses in Wisconsin to practice in other states
- Walker Signs Bill Extending Multistate Nurse Licensure
- Marshfield Clinic, Life Link III strike air ambulance deal
- BOA grants permit for Marshfield Clinic to build hospital in Minocqua
- Wheaton Franciscan-All Saints names new hospital president
SOUTH/SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- New $50M proton therapy center at UAB to begin work in 2018
- HealthSouth appoints new member to board of directors
- Alabama health system opens new $25M facility
FLORIDA
- David Guzick, Ed Jimenez and Michael Good: New hospitals a reflection of patient-centered care
- St. Pete City Council pushes Bayfront Health debate to the deadline
- Broward Health, ex-CEO battle in court over firing, violation of anti-kickback laws
- 5 Broward Health leaders indicted on criminal charges
- Broward Health indictments could disrupt CEO search
- UF Health Neuromedicine Hospital opens
- Lee B. Chaykin Appointed CEO at Aventura Hospital Medical Center
- Broward Health officials indicted on suspicion of violating state’s Sunshine Law
- Florida teaching hospitals seek to train more doctors
- 21st Century Oncology to pay OCR $2.3 million for 2015 breach
- 21st Century Oncology to Pay $26M for Fraud, Kickback Allegations
- Baptist Health South Florida ends fiscal year with $31M operating loss
- Aventura Hospital names new CEO
- Sussman donates $15M to kickoff expansion of Miami Jewish Health facilities
- Report points to physician shortages in Florida
- How Community Health Systems’ shrinking hospital portfolio played a role in a St. Pete City Council vote on Bayfront Health
- Here are the most profitable health systems in Tampa Bay
GEORGIA
- Emory Healthcare provided $73.5 million in charity care in FY 2016-2017
- Jury reaches $26 million verdict against St. Francis Hospital
- Crisp Regional Hospital will appeal approval of CON for Lee Co. Medical Center
- Children’s Healthcare, city of Brookhaven sign off on new $1 billion pediatric campus
MISSISSIPPI
- Mississippi physicians generate $8.2B in economic activity, support 51,305 jobs: Study
- 30% of Mississippi public rural hospitals in ‘poor’ financial health; half in Delta
- Auditor: 6 rural public hospitals struggling in Mississippi
- The 8 Mississippi rural hospitals in ‘excellent’ and ‘poor’ financial health
NORTH CAROLINA
- Catawba Valley Medical Center’s retiring CEO reflects on challenges, achievements
- 56K patient records compromised during separate data breaches at specialty clinics in Kentucky and North Carolina
- Duke University Hospital president leaving for Johns Hopkins Health System
- Cardinal Innovations update planned; may include efforts to recoup $3.8 million in severance payments
- Wake Forest Baptist opens $8M outpatient surgery center
- Cardinal payouts millions more than previously reported – including to a state senator
- Carolinas HealthCare: Talks with UNC Health to stretch into 2018
- Carolinas HealthCare’s 2018 budget includes $971M in projects
- Iredell Health System, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Partner to Provide Emergency Care
- How 2 hospitals use remote pharmacy services to execute their strategic initiatives
- Mission back in Blue Cross network effective Dec. 15
- Transitions LifeCare opens $6M, 10-room Hospice Home expansion in Cary
- New Cardinal Board Chosen, Will Include Several Former Members
SOUTH CAROLINA
- The opening of a new quick clinic in Goose Creek is a sign of the growth of retail medicine
- MUSC approves new 128-bed, $325 million hospital project to move forward
- Merck to shutter facility in South Carolina, lay off 50 employees
- Roper Hospital to establish ALS research center
- Health care company eyeing Little River for $23 million rehab facility that would create 134 jobs
- A 46-bed rehabilitation hospital could come to Horry County
TENNESSEE
- Jarrard adds VP in health system practice
- Nashville General Hospital has adapted before
- Draft Nashville General audit findings mixed amid a push to close in-patient services
- Top CHS investor buys some more
- New proton therapy cancer center to open across from Williamson Medical Center
- Nashville health care-IT company sold
- Hospital merger still expected to close before Jan. 31
- Ministers call for mayor, council to save inpatient care at Nashville General Hospital
- Erlanger gets approval to build hospital in Dunlap, Tenn.
- Saint Thomas Health announces new CFO of Regional Hospitals
- Proposed hospital mega-deals put pressure on CHS, Tenet and HCA
- Longtime Medical District nonprofit undergoing million-dollar expansion
- Appellate court revives $891M securities fraud lawsuit against CHS: 8 things to know
SOUTH-CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARIZONA
- New Institute for Congestive Heart Failure helps keep patients out of hospital
- Phoenix Children’s, UnitedHealthcare launch healthcare initiative
LOUISIANA
- Louisiana lawmakers to consider Medicaid contracts for 4th time
- The Latest: Lawmakers approve $15B in Medicaid contracts
NEW MEXICO
OKLAHOMA
- Oklahoma health-care leaders give prognosis
- Oklahoma health boss says $30 million will help fund layoffs
TEXAS
- Tenet Healthcare’s Fall From Grace
- Eric Evans Named Chief Executive Officer of Tomball Regional Medical Center
- Wadley Regional hospital under new ownership in Texarkana
- Proposed hospital mega-deals put pressure on CHS, Tenet and HCA
- Op-Ed: How freestanding Texas ERs are misunderstood
- Allergan to buy Woodlands-based drug company
- HCA names new CEO and COO of recently acquired Houston-area hospitals
- Baylor Scott & White to close Texas hospital, affecting 711 jobs
- Owner of home health company sentenced to 80 years in prison for Medicare fraud
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
IDAHO
- Physicians, Bingham Memorial Hospital collaborate on Idaho-based Cardio Renal Centers of America: 4 key notes
- Nampa St. Luke’s hospital waiting on results of accreditation survey
- Planned medical campus to provide more health care options in Pocatello, Chubbuck
- St. Luke’s hospital gets accreditation survey to bill Medicare, Medicaid — but results could be 30 days out
MONTANA
OREGON
- Report: Oregon hospital pay up most among highly skilled
- Check in with Oregon’s 25 least-infected hospitals
WASHINGTON
- Renton-based Providence in talks for massive hospital merger with Ascension
- Puyallup hospital fires 12 ICU nurses
- Caregivers file no confidence vote against Swedish hospital administrators
WYOMING
- Hospital shuffles board leadership
- Sheridan Hospital Costs Less
- Wyoming health department details deficit that will more than double by 2030
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Dignity Health announces merger with Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives
- U of California Health sees operating revenue increase 9.6% this year: 3 things to know
- Health IT Leader at Center of $800K Fraud Scandal in California
- Sutter Health faces $18K fine from state
- Dignity Health officials say merger with CHI will not impact Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
- How 2 hospitals use remote pharmacy services to execute their strategic initiatives
- California anesthesiologist charged with murder after physician dies while under his care
- Dr. J. Mario Molina resigns from Molina Healthcare’s board of directors: 3 things to know
- Lucile Packard Children’s opens $1.2B flagship facility
- Palo Alto County Health System selects Brent Antczak to serve as CEO: 3 things to know
- Sharp HealthCare’s operating income tumbles 49%
COLORADO
- Colorado Divide: In rural Colorado, doctors are retiring and dying — and no one is taking their place.
- Colorado losing a major headquarters as Catholic Health Initiatives merges with Dignity
- Dignity Health announces merger with Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives
- UCHealth takes stake in Colorado Springs, Broomfield hospitals, freestanding ERs it didn’t already own
- Memorial Hospital could be on the verge of gaining state’s highest trauma treatment rating
- DaVita settles whistle-blower allegations for $64 million
- Colorado biotech’s knee osteoarthritis drug gets good results, stock soars
- Colorado life sciences funding set record in 2017
HAWAII
- Lease dispute becomes lawsuit for cancer institute
- Lawsuit filed over Maui cancer institute’s land leases
- Kapiolani Medical Center to receive more than $500K for resident training
NEVADA
UTAH
