NATIONAL
- How Haven’s hires hint at the healthcare organization’s larger ambitions
- Medicaid work requirements could cost hospitals $3.7B
- Outpatient joint replacements at ASCs cost 40% less than hospital-based surgery: 3 study details
- Apple’s groundbreaking heart study signals a new era of medicine, and doctors are debating the results
- What’s to keep Amazon from competing in brick-and-mortar healthcare? Not Much
- State-by-state breakdown of 102 rural hospital closures
- Hospital revenue cycle trends to watch in 2019 — 8 thoughts
- Why healthcare is facing a great hiring challenge
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Amid hospital-tax debate, frustrated CEO defends his and other healthcare executives’ pay
- CEO of Connecticut hospital defends $1M salary: ‘People don’t understand what it actually takes to get into this role’
- Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford named among best in country
- Hartford HealthCare to add Norwich hospice provider to homecare business
- Women’s Health President Bernstein helps doctors keep focus on patients
MAINE
- Dover-Foxcroft hospital officials say Northern Light merger is crucial for survival
- Medical students unseal fate, look to answer Maine’s doctor shortage
- Mercy Hospital launches new program to address opioid crisis
- Northern Light Health To Pursue Hospital Merger
MASSACHUSETTS
- Heywood Hospital and Massachusetts Nurses Association reach agreement
- Health spending slows, but pharmaceuticals drive new costs, health policy chief says
- Fresenius Medical Care Announces Creation of Global Medical Office
- Covenant Health CEO to retire; Interim CFO to succeed
- Dana-Farber’s quarterly revenue climbs to $487M
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Gauging critical access hospital protections
- Q&A Benevera Health CEO Corbin Petro
- Managed care companies emphasize commitment to New Hampshire
- York Hospital president: Rehab facility can move forward
- New Hampshire residents sue over Medicaid work requirements
- New Hampshire gets nearly $12M to fight opioid epidemic
NEW YORK
- New York City workers from 3 health systems to strike April 2
- New York hospital settles with Cerner over billing problems
- Strike Affecting 10,000 Nurses Looms in New York City
- What is ailing New York’s hospitals? They’re taking in lots of money but operating in the red
- How New York’s ‘baseball-style’ arbitration process reduced surprise bills: 7 notes
- Montefiore Medical Center’s annual operating margin slightly declines
- NYU Langone Health CFO Daniel Widawsky on navigating challenges Sinatra-style
RHODE ISLAND
- Rhode Island hospital allegedly stored patient’s embryo for 13 years without her consent
- Butler Hospital receives 5-year $12M COBRE grant for neuropsychiatric brain research
- Rhode Island Medical Imaging targeted in whistleblower lawsuit
VERMONT
- Springfield Hospital considers closing childbirth center
- 8 Vermont hospitals report negative operating margins in FY 2018, review shows
- RRMC CEO remains positive
- Porter Medical Center names Choudhury president
- Springfield Hospital gives raises amid staff shortages, recruitment challenges
- Richard Davis: Are Vermont hospitals too small to succeed?
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Christiana Care Health System appoints first chief wellness officer
- Christiana Care Health System appoints chief learning officer
- Delaware Healthcare Association launches pilot to improve patient transfers
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- D.C. pregnancy app lands investment, partnership with Inova
- Ward 7 Is Getting Its First-Ever Urgent Care Center
MARYLAND
- Maryland hospital system under fire for ‘self dealing’
- University of Maryland Medical System pays members of volunteer board hundreds of thousands in business deals
- Baltimore Mayor Pugh didn’t disclose seat on Maryland medical system board, as required on city ethics forms
- Md. Senate Gives Go-Ahead For Johns Hopkins Private Police Force
- Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh quits UMD hospital board over ethics controversy
- Telemedicine reduces ICU mortality rate at Valley Health
- CMS approves Maryland’s Medicaid waiver
- More resignations from Maryland hospital system’s board
- Maryland governor and state Senate leader meet with hospital-system officials
- UM Capital Region Health updates Laurel City Council on hospital
- UMMS board member defends engineering contract with health system
NEW JERSEY
- New Jersey seeks to ban PBMs, insurers from charging higher copays than actual price of drug
- Seven NJ residents accused in $50M health care fraud scheme
- NJ law would ban hidden cheaper prices for prescription drugs
- Jefferson Health to launch pilot of post-operative remote monitoring tech
PENNSYLVANIA
- Former Aetna president launches company selling a virtual assistant with health care smarts
- CHOP ranked best pediatrics department in the U.S.
- Court fast tracks attorney general complaint against UPMC
- UPMC starts work on new vision and rehabilitation hospital in Uptown
- Phoenixville Hospital employees recognized for patient safety
- Geisinger CEO Makes House Call
- North Philly Health System’s ex-CEO doesn’t deserve $1.8 million in severance pay, lawsuit claims
- Pennsylvania hospital faces payroll issues for 14th time since August
- Lawsuit protests ex-Pennsylvania hospital CEO’s $1.8M severance package
- Jefferson Health to launch pilot of post-operative remote monitoring tech
- Tower Health Partners adds 26 area women’s health specialists
- St. Luke’s University integrates patient monitoring data into its Epic HER
- University of Pennsylvania Health System names insider as new CEO, succeeding Ralph Muller
VIRGINIA
- UVa hospital continues to be penalized for safety issues
- By the numbers: 14 Virginia hospitals ranked among top in U.S.
- Study looks to curb spending on wasteful medical services in Virginia
- Telemedicine reduces ICU mortality rate at Valley Health
WEST VIRGINIA
- Hospice bill sitting on W.Va. Governor’s desk
- Robotic surgery now common at West Virginia hospital
- West Virginia hospital countersues ex-employee whistleblower
- Telemedicine reduces ICU mortality rate at Valley Health
- Mountain Health Network names 6 executives, including CFO, CIO
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
KANSAS
- After 4 years, KU Hospital freed from Medicare penalty that was costing it millions
- Hillsboro Community Hospital declares bankruptcy
- 2 Kansas hospitals file for bankruptcy
- Three Small-Town Kansas Hospitals Declare Bankruptcy After Months Of Struggling
- 4 hospitals file for bankruptcy in Oklahoma, Kansas
- Nursing law change could increase health care access in Kansas
MINNESOTA
- Fairview CEO James Hereford talks medicine, merger with HealthEast
- Children’s Minnesota settles with Minnesota attorney general over marketing allegations
- Opinion: Essential health care program in danger
- BCBS of Minnesota’s analytics and information chief: AI ‘bedrock’ of personalized care
- Fairview Health CEO: Lower costs, research top priorities U of Minnesota partnership
- Allina Health’s investment losses bring 92% drop to annual net income
- Hudson Physicians Hires CEO for First Time in its History.
MISSOURI
- CoxHealth expands telemedicine services for Missouri schools
- “Under The Gun” reveals a look inside St. Louis Children’s Hospital
- SSM Health appoints new president for SLU Hospital
- Ascension CEO to step down at the end of 2019
- After colonoscopy death, KC-area hospital corrects problems, but hygiene issues cited
NEBRASKA
- Regional West celebrating 95 years of exceptional health care
- Faith Regional Health Services asking for help in routing patients
- Hamburg hospital in flood response mode
- Nebraska Medicine set to open downtown clinic on Monday
NORTH DAKOTA
- Jamestown Regional Medical Center celebrates top 100 designation
- Trinity Health wants to make Minot a Cardiac Ready Community
- Prescription costs an issue with many factors and a long history
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Nursing home funding hike a ‘huge boost,’ but not a fix to financial woes
- South Dakota, Wyoming hospitals cited by Medicare
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Union County Hospital Receives Four-Star Rating
- Illinois hospitals: Managed-care policies reducing Medicaid payments, affecting care
- Illinois Medicaid officials vow to improve services
- Patient sues Northwestern Medicine after medical records posted on social media
INDIANA
- St. Catherine Hospital CEO named Business Person of the Year
- Indiana to get 162 medical residents from state’s two med schools
- Memorial Hospital receives five-star quality rating
- ‘Furious’ Lutheran heart transplant patient speaks out
- Summit Healthcare REIT Pays $125M for Interest in Indiana Skilled Nursing Properties
- State to Cut Ribbon on Psychiatric Hospital
KENTUCKY
- PMC first hospital in Kentucky to deliver new technology to treat arrhythmia
- BHR awarded 4-star rating for overall hospital and patient experience
- Passport Health may learn Monday whether it can survive long-term
- Bill to certify midwives passes after years of effort
- Norton Healthcare’s revenue, earnings up
- Louisville nonprofit to kick off $2.5M capital campaign for West End project
- Hospital Administration Is Feverish Entrepreneurship
MICHIGAN
- Bronson plans to build $60M cancer center downtown Kalamazoo
- MMMC penalized again, Director says report is old
- Spectrum Health Lakeland announces data breach
- How Beaumont Health reduced its IT budget after a hospital merger: Q&A with CIO Subra Sripada
- Holland Hospital to renovate medical office building
- Munson Medical Center nurses reach tentative 3-year contract
- How data visualization helped Saint Joseph Mercy improve quality, patient safety
- University of Michigan using Apple Watches to build clinical data pool for health research
- Beaumont leads Henry Ford Health in race to build hospital in Oxford
- Beaumont, Henry Ford submit dueling plans for new hospital
- Experts: healthcare shortage in Michigan is putting your life at risk
- Wayne State payments to consultants scrutinized in stalled Henry Ford affiliation
- Trinity Health CFO Ben Carter talks markets, mission and sustaining momentum
OHIO
- Akron Children’s Hospital readies to open new facility
- City planning commission approves 10-story MetroHealth tower scheduled for 2022 completion
- Butler County hospital seeking new leader after longtime executive retires
- MetroHealth raises minimum wage to $15, plans to cover in-house healthcare for employees
- Mercy Health – Springfield named a top U.S. cardiac care provider
- By the numbers: 24 Ohio hospitals ranked among top in U.S.
- Ohio hospital reviews 48 nurses, pharmacists over dosages, deaths
- University Hospitals Parma Medical Center begins $27.5-million renovation
- Nurses shocked by Mount Carmel investigation and impact on community
- Ohio AG sues Optum to recover $16M in drug overcharges
- Proposed state law would ban mandatory overtime for Ohio nurses following 5 On Your Side investigation
- Monumental day as Trinity Health System breaks ground on $75 million project
- Trinity Health CEO says decisions made years ago allowed major expansion today
WISCONSIN
- DHS Secretary: Medicaid Expansion Key To Improving Health Care Reimbursement
- Lawsuit by female UW doctor claims unfair treatment of women
- DHS leader promotes Medicaid expansion in Eau Claire
- Bill would help Wisconsin doctors cross state lines
- Froedtert Health seeks to fill more than 500 open positions
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- Terri Sewell introduces legislation to tackle growing doctor shortages
- Rep. Sewell sponsors bill to increase number of doctors
FLORIDA
- Davenport doctor settles health care fraud lawsuit for $2.2M
- More patients, more staff: Hospice’s new owners tout growth since takeover
- Bay Medical to reopen 144 more beds, bolster services
- AdventHealth breaks ground on only hospital in Winter Garden
- ‘CON’ health care proposals continue rolling in
- Cleveland Clinic’s main focus in Indian River takeover? ED operations, officials say
- Here’s how the federal government ranks Tampa Bay area hospitals for patient safety
- Ascension buys Florida hospital, plans $47M investment
- Is “telehealth” – with big tax breaks – the answer for Florida’s doctor shortage?
- ‘Certificate of Need’ repeal stalls in Florida Senate
- Estero Urgent Care shutters after 2 big providers enter market: Healthcare options now ‘immense’
- Single-star rating at Villages hospital prompts packed meeting with questions for CEO
- Council declines seal, hears hospital update
- NCH Healthcare sees 45% jump in net income
- America’s longest-serving CFO to retire: How the role changed during his 32-year tenure
- Don McKenna no longer holds CEO post at Jupiter Medical Center
GEORGIA
- Shepherd Center promotes co-founder’s son to COO, appoints CSO
- Warm Springs hospital started by FDR settles federal dispute
- Georgia hospital created by Roosevelt, Medicare settle
- Kemp threatens ‘executive action’ if hospital deregulation push stalls
MISSISSIPPI
- Hospital crisis is huge
- Mississippi to build facility for medically fragile children
- Research on emergency medical internet set for Mississippi
- Mississippi Health System Expands Partnership with CPSI
- Mississippi hospital secures 3rd owner in 2 years
NORTH CAROLINA
- Construction to begin on UNC Rex’s Holly Springs hospital
- North Carolina agrees to increase reimbursement rates for rural hospitals
- Initiative to send $52 million more to rural NC hospitals
- Move over, Triangle: Health care startups growing in Charlotte
- Bills Suggest Bigger Role for NC Nurses in Health-Care Access
- Doctors breaking away from hospitals say they can provide medical care for less
- Syneos Health: 4Q Earnings Snapshot
- Cone Health Names Leader for Heart & Vascular, Imaging and Respiratory Care
- Here’s what NC gets from Walgreens’ 46-state, $60M settlement over Medicaid billing
- Triad health system names two nurses to hospital presidents roles
- Wake Forest Baptist Health selects 2 hospital presidents
- Atrium CEO gets biggest pay boost since taking role
SOUTH CAROLINA
- SC, Charleston health industry voices concerns over recent federal hospital rankings
- Vibra Hospital plans to close one of its Mount Pleasant units to focus on another
- Certified nurses honored at MUSC Health-Florence Medical Center
TENNESSEE
- CHS made false meaningful use claims, whistleblowers say
- Nashville-based health care company acquires Galen College of Nursing
- Local health care company hires more than 300 in nine months
- Nashville General Hospital selects 1st female CMO
- In whistleblower lawsuit, former CHS executives allege EHR had pervasive, dangerous flaws
- Ballad Health, Signature Healthcare open $13.5 million assisted living facility
- New East Tennessee Children’s Hospital Urgent Care clinic coming soon
- Two Franklin healthcare companies refute claims in whistleblowers lawsuit
- Change Healthcare files for $100M IPO
- Nashville health-tech giant prepares to go public
- Vanderbilt doctors operated on wrong kidney, claims $25.5M lawsuit
- TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center taps COO
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Premier Medical Plaza Construction Proceeds Despite Loan Hiccup
- State Senate Approves Bill for UAMS Cancer Center Funding
ARIZONA
- Northern Arizona Healthcare, Spectrum partner for behavioral health
- Terros Health helps open two health centers in high-needs areas
- Healthcare jobs help Arizona exceed national growth rate
- Arizona’s Life Science Market Heats up (But It’s a Dry Heat)
- Arizona Health Care Association launches website to grow long-term care workforce
LOUISIANA
- More LSU Health medical grads staying in state and going into primary care
- Tulane Lakeside Hospital name change reflects expanded adult services
- Ochsner and Pfizer constructing ‘digital superhighway’ for clinical trials
- More Louisiana medical grads staying home
- Ex-CEO of Louisiana hospital’s fundraising arm allegedly embezzled $810K
- 1 Tulane hospital changing name, expanding services
OKLAHOMA
- Oklahoma Health Department approves corrections plan for Memorial Hospital of Texas County
- Oklahoma House Advances Plan That Could Make Medicaid Expansion a Nearly County-By-County Decision
- Lawmaker argues why Oklahoma should pass bill expanding Medicaid
- Oklahoma health agency shakeups continue
- 4 hospitals file for bankruptcy in Oklahoma, Kansas
TEXAS
- There are more Texas medical schools than ever, but are there enough residencies to train them?
- Longview Regional earns 4 stars, Christus Good Shepherd gets 3 stars in federal ratings
- Texas Health Presbyterian Rockwall announces finalized expansion plans
- North Texas Hospital CEO Pleads Guilty to Millions in Fraud
- Property tax proposal piles one more worry on Texas’ rural hospital districts
- Will Physicians Soon be Allowed to Dispense Drugs in Texas?
- Ascension Seton Bastrop Hospital marks construction milestone
- McAllen Medical Center officially designated Level II trauma center
- New behavioral hospital to open in Waco, fill 90 staff positions
- HCA to cease inpatient care at Houston hospital
- University Medical Center of El Paso taps CIO
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Fairbanks hospitals brace for unknown budget cuts
- What’s at risk for Alaska health care under Dunleavy’s Medicaid budget proposal
- Dunleavy team unveils $95 million ‘Phase 1’ reduction to Alaska’s Medicaid programs
IDAHO
- St. Luke’s Wood River approved as Level IV Trauma Center
- Hospital nurses in Lewiston seek to unionize
- New Idaho Medicaid expansion ‘sideboard’ bill introduced
- Bill to regulate pharmacy benefit managers dies in House committee
MONTANA
- Missoula’s upstart PatientOne helps users navigate the health care system
- Opinion: Strong case for maintaining Medicaid expansion
OREGON
- Providence launches heart transplant program with $75 million from Phil Knight, as OHSU announces restart of its own
- Gov. Kate Brown signs Medicaid funding package into law
- Albany hospital CEO Dave Triebes to retire in June
- Legacy Health taps chief integration officer, COO
- Samaritan Albany General Hospital CEO to retire
WASHINGTON
- Providence St. Joseph sees operating revenue climb 5% in 2018
- CHI Franciscan, Washington state settle suit over alleged antitrust violations in physician group acquisition, partnership agreement
- CHI Franciscan settles antitrust case
- WhidbeyHealth CEO to retire
WYOMING
- Memorial Hospital One of Nine Wyoming Facilities to Receive Reduced Medicare Payments
- Wyoming State Hospital gets new administrator
- South Dakota, Wyoming hospitals cited by Medicare
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- California’s next life sciences powerhouse: Los Angeles
- Antitrust lawsuit against Sutter Health by California AG can proceed, judge rules
- Bankrupt hospital chain’s plan to offload 5 California clinics faces opposition
- Workers strike today at UC hospitals, campuses statewide for third time in 11 months
COLORADO
- SCL Health’s new CIO outlines first steps in new role
- Valley View Hospital emergency physicians express support for Glenwood Springs Airport
- Hospital cost bill heads to governor
- Aspen Valley Hospital builds on momentum
- County rankings give insight into Colorado health disparities
- Surgery, recovery center complete at Orthopaedic & Spine Center of the Rockies
HAWAII
- Big Island hospital receives grant for new emergency room
- Hawaii department of health pushing to review EMS systems
- Why Hawaii Is An Important Spot For Cancer Research
NEVADA
UTAH
