NATIONAL
- Physician burnout costs the US health care system approximately $4.6 billion a year
- AMGA finds physician groups increase reliance on risk-based revenues; obstacles persist in move to value
- 6 latest healthcare industry lawsuits
- Highest-paid CEOs in 2018: Who made the list from healthcare
- State-by-state breakdown of rural health clinics
- Senate health committee takes on surprise bills, price transparency in legislative package
- Report: 40% of healthcare organizations hit by WannaCry in past 6 months
- 14 new ASC developments where investors expect to spend $13M-$51.5M
- Tennessee, 15 other states settle for $900,000 after HIPAA data breach
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Greenwich Hospital to add patient rooms, move outpatient clinic
- Region’s hospice leader retiring after 32 years
- Connecticut Hospital Association, Gov. Lamont look to reach compromise on hospital tax
- Health care executives ask Lamont to halt legislation proposing public option for health insurance
- Governor, hospitals reach tentative agreement in dispute
- Connecticut hospitals, state to settle lawsuit on billion-dollar provider tax
MAINE
- Fort Kent hospital cites employees as key factor to numerous awards
- Maine hospital to boost parent services for at-risk mothers
- Maine hospital implements telemedicine system for rheumatology patients
- Vermont lowered prescription drug costs. Maine can too
MASSACHUSETTS
- Massachusetts pharma company files for bankruptcy
- Exeter, Dover hospitals agree to merge with Mass. General
- One on One: Carolyn Jackson, CEO of St. Vincent Hospital & Tenet Massachusetts Market
- Baystate Health plans ICU closures at Noble in Westfield, Wing in Palmer, as Massachusetts lawmakers mull making such shutdowns harder
- Final 3 Massachusetts nursing homes placed in receivership close for good
- Seacoast Hospitals Look to Join Forces with Mass General
- Atrius Health posts $38.7M operating surplus for 2018, credits value-based care success
- Boston Children’s Hospital, DCF team up to recruit foster parents
- Boston Children’s physicians’ organization implements EHR tools to identify at-risk asthma patients
- All 5 Skyline nursing homes in southeastern Massachusetts closed
- Kennedy health center names new CEO
- Baystate Health to close underutilized ICUs in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts hospital to close in 2020
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Exeter, Dover hospitals agree to merge with Mass. General
- Study measures NH’s health emergency readiness
- Seacoast Hospitals Look to Join Forces with Mass General
NEW YORK
- See latest safety grades for Central New York hospitals
- White Plains Hospital unveils new family and behavioral health center
- New York-Presbyterian Moves Ahead with Washington Heights MXU
- Roswell Park Care Network expands with Long Island health partnership
- Clarence assisted living site to see $7.5 million expansion
- Eastern Niagara details losses from maternity, dialysis
- At Northwell, innovators awarded $1M
- NYU Winthrop CEO to step down
RHODE ISLAND
- Rhode Island Foundation awards $2.6M from new Behavioral Health Fund
- Southcoast Health to establish Level II trauma center at St. Luke’s Hospital
VERMONT
- Barre’s only downtown primary care center set to close
- Vermont lowered prescription drug costs. Maine can too
- Rutland Regional Medical Center receives high hospital safety rating grade
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Delaware suing generic drug companies, executives
- Report ranks Delaware 6th in overall health care quality
- Christiana Care’s new pain center will offer non-opioid treatments
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Inside the Fight Over the Last Hospital in D.C.’s Poorest Neighborhood
- D.C. Council votes to give UMC more money
- Inside the new MedStar Georgetown proton therapy center in D.C.
- Pikesville startup looks to increase fundraising, expand footprint throughout D.C.
MARYLAND
- On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, local hospital is downsized — and residents are outraged at UMMS
- Acting medical system chief pledges changes to senior staff
- CEO of U of Maryland Capital Region Health resigns
- Anne Arundel to control Doctors Community under proposed merger
- Capital Region Health chief executive resigns
- Pikesville startup looks to increase fundraising, expand footprint throughout D.C.
- Gaithersburg’s Viela Bio strikes $220M deal with Chinese drug company
NEW JERSEY
- N.J. bill requiring new rules for out-of-state transfers puts patients’ health in jeopardy, 2 hospital CEOs say
- More than 3 out of 4 N.J. hospitals perform too many c-sections risking mom, baby’s health, report says
- Cooper cardiologist to head international society
- Hackensack Meridian Health’s Center for Discovery & Innovation launches at ON3
- Cooper University Health joins trial to improve traumatic brain injury outcomes
PENNSYLVANIA
- Pennsylvania not currently moving forward with plans to sell Allentown State Hospital property
- Online tool can help Pennsylvania cancer patients decide where to have surgery
- UPMC workers plan to strike after Tuesday’s public meeting
- Ex-Pennsylvania health system COO charged in $1.3M fraud scheme faces new accusations
- CEO says Ellwood City Medical Center almost self-sufficient
- Here’s how Pa. is spending a $56M grant to address opioid addiction
- How 2 health systems are moving the needle on costs & outcomes with an optimized supply chain
- Innovative EMS simulation lab opens in Delaware County
- Pharma company settles claims of kickbacks to dermatologists
- UHS invests in primary care company
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia To Open Pediatric Urgent Care Center in Bryn Mawr, PA
- New Bucks County hospital gets its name
- Local hospitals’ operating margins below state level, report says
- Former UPMC board member calls CEO Jeffrey Romoff ‘evil’
- Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court sends UPMC, state attorney general spat to lower court
- Practice management suite helps group practice grow 15 percent a year
VIRGINIA
- Novant Health UVA Health System names Dr. Douglas Markert chief clinical officer for 2 hospitals
- Two of three local hospitals drop a grade in safety report
- Centra’s New CEO and the Task at Hand
- Evolent Health shares sink after taking a stake in a Kentucky Medicaid managed care company
WEST VIRGINIA
- Wheeling Hospital CEO announces retirement, interim named
- Mon Health System and WVU Hospitals formalize partnership to establish emergency response ambulance service
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- MercyOne halts its kidney and pancreas transplant program
- Osceola-based health center to build mental health crisis access center
- GOP-led Legislature won’t override veto of Iowa’s expanded medical cannabis bill
KANSAS
- Kansas Health Science Center names president, board of trustees
- As nurse practitioners try to shake free of doctors, Kansas physicians resist
- KU Health providers, clinics will switch to Children’s Mercy as part of deeper partnership
- Wichita cardiologist to pay $5.8 million for false billings and unnecessary procedures
MINNESOTA
- Minnesota Supreme Court ruling on malpractice causes stir in medical community
- Nurses picket at Robbinsdale Hospital
- HealthPartners hits $7B in revenue
- Minnesota Supreme Court Malpractice Ruling Has Doctors Concerned
- Allina-Aetna says its enrollment hits 12,000
- Dr. Jon Pryor tapped as president of Essentia Health’s East Market
MISSOURI
- CMH CEO Donald J. Babb to retire
- Federal court dismisses pro se suit against Mercy Clinic East Communities
- Missouri hospital gets creative with financing to finish surgery center
- St. Luke’s to open ambulatory surgery center in Chesterfield by 2020
NEBRASKA
- Kearney Regional Medical Center celebrates 5 years
- Nebraska Critical Access Hospital Begins Cerner EHR Implementation
- Hebron hospital inaccessible from north due to flooding
NORTH DAKOTA
- Fargo hospital gets $100K to treat first episodes of psychosis in youth
- Anoka state hospital employees air safety concerns
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Helmsley grant aims to help with mental health issues West River
- VA Black Hills Health Care System is now tobacco free
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Horizon Health opens new rehab building
- Decatur Memorial Hospital to merge with parent of Memorial Medical Center
- Newly merged Dignity-CHI health system offers patients home recovery care services
- Illinois hospital to close senior behavioral health unit
- Illinois health system strikes deal to add 5th hospital
- Surgery center with pediatric clinic is 1st step in Anderson Healthcare’s $8.5M expansion
- Amita Health cuts services at three Chicago-area hospitals
- Illinois hospitals brace for influx of deliveries amid birthing unit closures
INDIANA
- Medical Informatics to Pay OCR $100K for Potential HIPAA Violations
- Wehrmeister named president of St. Vincent Central Region
- IU Health Distribution Center Already Paying Off
- Questions loom over proposed Carmel rehabilitation hospital
- IU Health hires another 13 neurosurgeons from Goodman Campbell
- Franciscan Health hospitals ‘growing and rocking and rolling’
- Johnson Memorial Health Names New CEO
KENTUCKY
- U of L To Participate In New Four-State Study On Rural Health Outcomes
- Owensboro Health designated as Energy Star facility; saves $1.7 million through energy efficiency
- Kentucky’s Children Getting a Lift at Norton Children’s Hospital
- Kentucky hospital implements $2M Epic EHR: 3 things to know
- CMS terminates Kentucky hospital’s Medicare contract
- Passport Health Plan expanding partnership with Evolent Health
- UK HealthCare’s secretive medical foundation must disclose its records, judge rules
- Evolent Health shares sink after taking a stake in a Kentucky Medicaid managed care company
- Passport Health Plan to be sold to for-profit company
MICHIGAN
- MidMichigan’s Maternity Center earns designation
- Detroit Medical Center begins layoffs
- She almost died. But Macomb County hospital had rare medical device that saved her life
- Mercy Health alerts 1,000 patients of data breach
- West Michigan’s clinical labs make $505M annual impact
- McLaren Central Michigan receives A grade for birthing safety
- Getting settled: New McLaren Northern Michigan CEO presents at business leader forum
OHIO
- “No deal”; Mercy Health, nurses union still at odds after three days of talks
- New hospital in Troy aims to focus on whole person care
- Monroe Care Center receives five-star rating
- Mercy Health strike to continue after talks end with no deal
- New tower prepares to open at ProMedica Toledo Hospital
- Mercy Health-St. Vincent Medical Center to cut 24 specialty healthcare jobs
- Dayton Children’s cancels elective surgeries after severe storm knocks out power
- Ohio Living Telehealth Program Achieves 7.5% Hospital Readmission Rate
WISCONSIN
- Here’s how a Marshfield Clinic, Gundersen Health merger might affect Wisconsin’s rural health care
- SurgCenter forms ASC joint venture with Wisconsin spine surgeons
- Children’s Hospital CEO Peggy Troy joining Rexnord board of directors
- Beloit health system plans for future at annual event
- Madison-area advocates guide patients through complex health care system
- Columbia Health System gives $3 million to support women’s health
- Ascension Wisconsin Identifies its Top Health Priorities in Milwaukee
- Rogers Behavioral Health nears completion on West Allis, Oconomowoc expansion projects
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- UAB Hospital prepares for when disaster strikes
- UAB Hospital lauded for seventh year in a row as one of America’s great hospitals
- Encompass Health names new C-suite exec
FLORIDA
- Florida building converted into gastroenterology surgery center, medical office
- Orlando Health’s new rehab center designed as hotel that offers medical care
- Cleveland Clinic gets unanimous nod to negotiate for VGTI building in Port St. Lucie
- Profit at Johns Hopkins hospitals tumbled. All Children’s was to blame.
- Orlando Health to rezone downtown campus for potential expansion
- Florida hospital faces blowback for executive search firm’s opacity in finding CEO
- Nurses picket at Tenet hospitals in Arizona, California and Florida
- Seven Rivers’ ownership applies for building permit for standalone E.R.
- Sarasota home health agency accused of paying kickbacks to doctors for patients
- Feds cite home care agency in kickback complaint
- Bayfront Health Seven Rivers releases plans for freestanding ER
GEORGIA
- Atlanta cancer hospital picks CEO successor
- Piedmont Healthcare generates $5.6 billion for local, state economy
- Georgia Allows Doctors to Offer Flat-rate Care Agreements
- In an Atlanta NICU, babies can be soothed by their mothers’ voices—whether mom is there or not
- 3 female doctors—all from Georgia—will take over top posts at national physician organizations
- How are Georgia hospitals addressing the nursing shortage?
- Cigna exec picked as COO of growing Atlanta health IT company
MISSISSIPPI
- New emergency telemedicine regulations will expand rural health care
- Proposed change to Medicaid State Plan questioned by Mississippi Hospital Association
NORTH CAROLINA
- UNC trying to reduce tensions with Vidant as lawsuit proceeds
- Vidant Health can’t take away UNC’s right to name hospital board members, judge rules
- Vidant Medical Center facing possible budget cuts
- UNC REX Healthcare Names Raleigh OB-GYN Dr. Ann Collins as its Board Chair
- Judge temporarily blocks Vidant Health appointments
- Financial losses dip at hospital
- Caldwell to take job with Novant foundation, leave as president of Rowan Medical Center
- Triad health system names new hospital president
- How 2 health systems are moving the needle on costs & outcomes with an optimized supply chain
- Senate budget proposes change to Vidant reimbursements
- UNC System gets restraining order to prevent Vidant board upheaval
- UNC Children’s hospital responds to New York Times investigation criticizing heart surgery program
SOUTH CAROLINA
- MUSC Health, South Carolina hospital to expand primary, specialty telehealth services
- Nationwide psychiatrist shortage’s impact on South Carolina
- Updated S.C. law paves way for physician assistants to expand care
- Telehealth technology brings MUSC providers to CCSD nurses offices within minutes
- South Carolina health system opens remodeled women’s surgery center
TENNESSEE
- CHS continues hospital sell-off spree with deal in Texas
- Owner of rural East TN hospitals facing debts, lawsuits, lack of cash
- Lindy White set to take over as CEO in parts of Ballad coverage area
- Erlanger board approves bylaws change on former members’ employment with the hospital
- Newly merged Dignity-CHI health system offers patients home recovery care services
- Change Healthcare upscales IPO to $200m
- Struggling Jamestown hospital to get funding cut
- Tennessee, 15 other states settle for $900,000 after HIPAA data breach
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
ARKANSAS
- El Dorado to Soon Begin Construction on $3.5M Cancer Center
- South Arkansas To Get Comprehensive Cancer Treatment Center
ARIZONA
- Principals to hold outreach meeting on hospital plan
- Nurses picket at Tenet hospitals in Arizona, California and Florida
- Hospital grades decline in Arizona as state rankings improve
- Arizona health system selects Meditech HER
LOUISIANA
- Glenwood Regional Medical Center named 2 of Louisiana’s exceptional EMS providers
- Louisiana senators refuse tax review of Medicaid eligibility
- Lafayette General Health System partners with ThinkGenetic to provide new cutting-edge technology
- Louisiana drug distributor pays $22M to settle opioid charges
- Promise Hospitals in Baton Rouge sold to California company
NEW MEXICO
- New Mexico shores up Medicaid spending rates at hospitals
- Feds fund effort to address opioid epidemic in southern New Mexico
- New Mexico joint venture to open orthopedic ASC
- Presbyterian to open one of SW’s largest specialty surgical centers
- Gov. Lujan Grisham announces increased Medicaid hospital reimbursement rates
- New Mexico hospitals to get $169M Medicaid boost
OKLAHOMA
- Spotlight on Oklahoma for start of trial for opioid makers
- ‘Incredible efforts’ chipping away at Oklahoma’s opioid crisis
- Oklahoma Heart Hospital agrees to pay $2.8 million in whistleblower settlement
TEXAS
- College Station Medical Center to become part of CHI St. Joseph Health System
- CHS continues hospital sell-off spree with deal in Texas
- UMC among three hospitals in Texas with highest designation
- In Houston, tech and health are cures for the oil ‘curse’
- Study: Freestanding ERs Don’t Relieve Hospital Crowding In Texas’ Biggest Cities
- Parkland Health Expanding Dallas Hospital Campus
- Kenneth Rose to serve as president & CEO of Texas Health Hospital Mansfield
- Texas hospital cited for response to patient abuse allegations
- Houston health care data company grows with new medical device partnerships
- University Medical Center Receives Level IV Maternal Care Designation
- Christus Health’s Bob Karl on balancing physician compensation and the move to value
- Midland Memorial Hospital’s commitment to quality and safety go beyond rankings
- Nearly $200M for new San Antonio State Hospital is provided in state budget
- CEO Named for Future Texas Health Hospital Mansfield
- Struggling hospital in rural Tennessee to get funding cut
- Loneliness a predictor of Dallas County’s highest ED utilizers
- Houston-area hospitals with worst safety grades, according to study
- Texas Health Resources sees net income rise to $463.3M
- Expansion of Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery in North Texas
- Two Garland Physicians Suspended by the Texas Medical Board
- Northwest Texas Healthcare System planning to invest $50M over next five years
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Smith named new CEO of hospital
- Multiple bills aim to expand telehealth services in Alaska
- What the healthcare overhaul at VA means for Alaska vets
IDAHO
- Eye on Boise: Lawmakers gear up to dive into future Medicaid expansion funding, impacts
- Nearing the last hurdle: What challenges remain for Medicaid expansion in Idaho?
- Idaho Healthcare Summit highlights an industry in flux
MONTANA
- SHC nurses undergo advanced medical training in Texas
- Central Montana Medical Center ambulance service receives award
- Hospital ordered to pay $400K in do-not-resuscitate lawsuit
- Daines talks tele-health in Montana with visiting FCC commissioner
OREGON
- Investor pays $14.5M in cash for Portland-area ASC property
- Measure to spur ‘health care of tomorrow’ passes Oregon Senate
- Zoom+ appoints new CEO 5 months after PeaceHealth acquisition
- PacificSource targets Portland market with new OHSU-Legacy products
WASHINGTON
- Judge in Astria bankruptcy case orders company to provide ICU nurses
- Seattle tech company joins forces to bolster opioid-abuse recovery
- Seattle-area health organizations donate $15M to fight homelessness
WYOMING
- Problems persist at Wyoming’s largest mental health facility
- Hertz named interim CEO at MHCC while search begins
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- California Assembly passes bill to restrict dialysis profits
- Newly merged Dignity-CHI health system offers patients home recovery care services
- Nurses picket at Tenet hospitals in Arizona, California and Florida
- UCSF Medical Center Backs Off Plan To Deepen Ties With Dignity Health
- Kaiser Permanente names regional chief nurse executive
- Barton Health nurses on strike; negotiations to resume in June
COLORADO
- Monopolies drive health care costs in Southwest Colorado
- Here Are The Safest Hospitals In Denver
- Newly merged Dignity-CHI health system offers patients home recovery care services
- Colorado hospital installs Mako robot
- Cramer to also lead new Broomfield hospital
- DaVita’s new CEO Rodriguez talks strategy, style and the future of kidney care
- Sisters of St. Francis partner with Penrose-St. Francis, Centura Health to transfer ministries from Mount St. Francis location to Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado in northeast Colorado Springs
- Colorado becomes first state in the US to cap price of insulin
- A look at Colorado’s 8 new laws related to mental health
- Lonnie Cramer to serve as president of 2 UCHealth hospitals
HAWAII
- The Queen’s Health Systems selects new CEO: Dr. Jill Hoggard Green
- Hawaii Man Sues Hospital Over Missing Whale Tooth Necklace
- LETTER: ‘Queen’s Health Systems Does Not Value Nurses Equally’
NEVADA
- VA links up with Nevada’s statewide HIE to help improve EHR sharing
- Prominence Health opens new Carson City Care Center
- Northern Nevada Medical Center unveils new private rooms
UTAH
- Burn survivor credits Utah hospital for saving him from opioid dependence
- St. George medical center utilizes regional anesthesia rather than opioids to treat post-surgical pain
- FOX 13 Investigation: Customers across the country complain about Utah companies selling health products
- Study shows a steep decline in Utah’s 2018 Medicaid and CHIP enrollment
