NATIONAL
- Lawsuit sheds light on Amazon’s pharmacy strategy
- CMS’ first health informatics chief out after 4 months on the job
- Deals by UnitedHealth, other health giants draw antitrust scrutiny in D.C.
- Supreme Court to hear insurers’ bid for $12 billion in Obamacare money
- FDA must guard against bias in AI, focus on patient outcomes
- FCC considers $100 million for rural telehealth program
- Creative solutions to patient care from top US healthcare leaders
- Trump signs order that aims to reveal real health care costs
- Nonprofit hospitals more likely to garnish patient wages to pay medical bills
- Why physicians are pursuing MBAs after their MD
- CMS issues FAQs on BPCI Advanced model
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Inbox Health raises $4.4M seed round to modernize healthcare billing
- Connecticut Valley Hospital, Whiting Forensic workers denounce unsafe staffing
- Flaks to succeed Joseph at Hartford HealthCare
- Healthcare workers describe staffing crisis at Whiting
- Middletown doctor admits to Medicaid fraud
MAINE
- By the numbers: Maine ranks third best in hospital safety analysis
- Pen Bay to break ground Wednesday for new medical complex
- Maine Medicaid expansion not moving as quickly as expected
- Pen Bay Medical Center to begin construction of new health center at hospital campus
- Northern Maine Medical Center breaks ground on historic expansion
MASSACHUSETTS
- Partners creates new role for adding outpatient sites
- Partners HealthCare appoints first-ever female CEO
- Mass. diagnostics firms sign M&A deals worth $500M
- Mass. company acquires Colorado-based pharmaceutical business, renames it Azurity
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- New Hampshire lawmakers find agreement on healthcare bills
- By the numbers: New Hampshire ranks 32nd in hospital safety analysis
- Tenet’s Conifer Health enters RCM agreement with New Hampshire hospital
- New Hampshire lawmakers find agreement on healthcare bills
NEW YORK
- On-site 3D printing facility breaks ground at Hospital for Special Surgery
- Northwell Health taps social determinants to improve patient care
- Syracuse hospital fights its top doctors for $1.3 million windfall
- Northwell Health partners with NowPow to address social determinants among Medicaid patients
- N.J. could make it harder for patients to transfer to hospitals in New York and Philadelphia
- New York Medicaid Change Could Cut Nursing Home Payments by Millions
- St. Peter’s Health Partners offers voluntary buyouts
- Mount Sinai partners with LabCorp on AI
RHODE ISLAND
- Tufts Health Plan to reward members for choosing lower-cost providers
- Southcoast Health awards $150K in grants to local nonprofits
VERMONT
- Southwestern Vermont Medical Center announce child cardiology and urology care
- Task Force On Struggling Rural Healthcare System Begins Work
- House approves Welch bill combating elder abuse in state Medicaid programs
- Springfield hospital, health centers, file for bankruptcy
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Maryland hospital announces intent to join Christiana Care Health System
- This Christiana Care OR will allow doctors to perform surgery, stent procedures at once
- Bill to lift barriers to medicated-assisted treatment for opioid abuse
- Beebe Healthcare kicks off national search for CEO
- Christiana Care enters talks to acquire Union Hospital in Cecil County
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Johns Hopkins CTO Dwight Raum: Why patient data privacy should drive vendor, hospital relationships
- Ambulance company that won big Baltimore contract to pay $1.25 million to settle Medicaid fraud case
- Maryland Ambulance Company To Pay $1.25M After Being Accused Of Filing False Medicare Claims
- Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital moving to Epic EHR
- Maryland hospital announces intent to join Christiana Care Health System
- EMR provider alerts 2 Maryland medical groups of data breach that may have affected 3,000 patients
- Maryland health system launches LGBTQ health task force
- Ambulance company settles billing fraud allegations for $1.25M
- Novavax selling manufacturing business amid good news for flu vaccine
- Cecil County’s Union Hospital signs letter of intent to explore merger with Delaware health system
NEW JERSEY
- Shore Medical Center nurses picket for new contract
- NJ considers giving patients more choices when being transferred to other facilities
- Nurse who exposed problems at state’s only public hospital will be N.J.’s next top health official, sources say
- N.J. could make it harder for patients to transfer to hospitals in New York and Philadelphia
- NJ hospitals receive $5.4M to prep for emergencies, outbreaks & natural disasters
- RWJBarnabas Health names Moore to lead system wide pediatric service line
- Cooper University Health Care to launch program to treat pulmonary issues
- NJDOH hospital maternity care report card provides interactive facility data
- Rafael Pharmaceuticals enters out-licensing agreement with Ono Pharma
PENNSYLVANIA
- Allegheny Health Network to implement ICU telehealth model
- Hospital CEO: Commonwealth Health hospitals not being sold to UPMC
- Washington Health System’s CEO retiring
- Greater Philadelphia’s life sciences are having a moment | Opinion
- Geisinger’s new CEO maintains a fundamental focus
- By the numbers: Pennsylvania ranks 18th in hospital safety analysis
- Study: Ellwood hospital one of highest in state on revenue gap, Medicare use
- Wolf, Shapiro announce 10 year contract for Highmark-UPMC
- Drexel sues to block threatened closure of Hahnemann University Hospital
- Hospital administrator Don Owrey leaving for new UPMC position
- N.J. could make it harder for patients to transfer to hospitals in New York and Philadelphia
- Philadelphia hospital to close
- Penn State Health names CFO for Hershey Medical Center, Medical Group
VIRGINIA
- Ballad ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Lee hospital reopening in 2020
- Fredericksburg area schools and hospitals work to cure nurse shortage
- New grants kickstart planning for new medical school
- George Mason University to study the feasibility of a medical school
- Nonprofits hospitals in Virginia garnish more wages than for-profit counterparts, study says
WEST VIRGINIA
- New management agreement, CEO for West Virginia hospital
- WVU Medicine to manage Wheeling Hospital
- Wheeling Hospital names Douglass E. Harrison CEO
- Weirton Medical Center Suing Compliance Consultant
- Wheeling Hospital lawsuit transferred to West Virginia federal court
- West Virginia Hospital Association getting ready for 2020 legislative session
- West Virginia hospital now live on Meditech HER
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Ex-Iowa hospital CEO charged with theft after auditor’s investigation
- $4 million expansion of Des Moines assisted living center announced
- University of Iowa Children’s Hospital makes gains in national rankings
- Healthiest State launches 5-2-1-0 program for workplaces
KANSAS
- Atchison hospital leader passes torch
- HRMC launches One-Call Access Center
- KC pharmacist is sentenced for health care fraud
- Mission Health Sets New Path for Once Struggling Kansas SNFs
- The End of an Era for Southeast Kansas Healthcare
MINNESOTA
- 2 Minnesota hospitals end merger talks
- Mayo Clinic putting $233 million into proton beam therapy for Florida cancer center
- BCBS of Minnesota buys joint ownership of hospital’s 20 clinics
- Minnesota Cup winner MicroOptx raises $13.8 million
- UnitedHealth buys PatientsLikeMe, the startup forced by Trump administration to find a buyer
MISSOURI
- Mercy Health to lay off workers amid reimbursement decline
- Mercy hospital system announces restructuring, job cuts
- SSM Health launches virtual visits in 4 states
- New St. Mary’s Hospital president has broad view of health care
- Missouri legislators target ‘never events’ at hospitals
- MU Health grows pipeline of new employees
- A rural Missouri hospital has a plan to stay alive, but the federal government is objecting
- KC pharmacist is sentenced for health care fraud
NEBRASKA
- Omaha-area health systems make progress in reducing opioid prescribing
- Norfolk hospital cuts inpatient opioid use by 30% by changing pain assessment strategy
- Nebraska slowly rolls out voter-approved Medicaid expansion
- Ex-pharmacy director sentenced to 4 years for embezzling $4M from Nebraska children’s hospital
NORTH DAKOTA
- North Dakota becoming last state to create unit tackling Medicaid fraud
- Online petition seeks removal of top North Dakota State Hospital administrators
- Eleven assaults reported this year at North Dakota State Hospital
- New North Dakota hospital takes shape with ideas from the community and staff
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Six months after Good Sam merger, Sanford brings together employees
- Corner Office: Sanford Health’s CMO Dr. Allison Suttle on the importance of storytelling
- Cigna to close South Dakota site
- Native American Health Board to Operate Most of Hospital
- UnityPoint Health may merge with Sanford, a larger hospital system based in South Dakota
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Patients of Illinois eyecare, ASC business notified of malware attack
- Obstetrics unit closing at South Side hospital
- 40,000-square-foot medical building planned for Chicago suburb
- SSM Health launches virtual visits in 4 states
- Inspector general challenges Illinois health system’s budget practices
- Illinois home health care workers get back pay this week
- Lurie Children’s Hospital is creating a new outpatient clinic and lounge
- Amita Health St. Joseph Hospital Chicago selects John Baird as CEO
INDIANA
- Northwest Indiana medical lab installs ‘transformational’ technology
- IU Health holds ceremonial groundbreaking for fourth local facility
- Specialty pharmacy is first of its kind in Northwest Indiana
- Lutheran network CEO aware of job ahead
- 2,200 patients’ data breached, Franciscan Health investigation finds
- Life Sciences Growth Key for New BioCrossroads CEO
- Franciscan Health Details Data Breach
- Good Samaritan Approves Purchase of Former Eye Center
KENTUCKY
- Milestone for new $130m St. Elizabeth Cancer Center; sign the special topping-out beam by June 24
- Meet Your Neighbor: Clark Regional CEO shares plans for hospital
- Forbes names Appalachian Regional Healthcare among top 10 employers in Kentucky
- Markey Cancer Center at Lexington Clinic Begins Providing Services
- Kentucky Health News: Rural hospitals continue to be at risk of closing; federal policy complicates pay
- Baptist Health Floyd Launches Multi-Million Dollar Epic EHR System
- Kentucky hospital to unveil $10M ASC
- Kindred Healthcare, Mercy Forth Smith Announce Plans For Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital
- Methodist Hospital in Henderson responds to ‘F’ safety rating
- Federal loan allows TJ foundation to build hospice facility in Glasgow
- Kentucky hospital faces class action after workers’ health plan canceled
- U of L, Norton Healthcare in talks to combine pediatric operations
- Surprise medical billing in Kentucky among lowest in nation
- Humana could get $600M+ if Supreme Court rules favorably on ACA suit
- Kentucky Hospital Incorporates Location Technology
MICHIGAN
- Michigan Medicine said it expects year-end 3.8% operating margin
- Henry Ford Allegiance Health picks next president, CEO
- Paula Autry named president, CEO of Henry Ford Allegiance Health
- Provider to pay nearly $1M to settle meal break, shift violation claims
- Michigan Medicine reports $178 million surplus for 2019
- Opioid prescriptions down 15 percent in Michigan
- Forward Focus: Healthcare shortage areas revealed in southwest Michigan
- Health systems form partnership
- The Latest: Health-care provider to appeal $3M verdict
- Aspirus UP hospitals, clinics receive 2019 Governor’s Award of Excellence for quality, patient safety
- Top Children’s Hospitals In Michigan: U.S. News & World Report
OHIO
- Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic join latest funding round for startup Xealth
- Nurses, physicians spar over Ohio deregulation bill
- Cleveland Clinic taps Dr. Teresa Dews as Euclid Hospital president
- Physicians Endoscopy converts Ohio GI hospital outpatient department into ASC
- Amid growth of assisted living, some renew calls for federal oversight
- Employees get notice, lose pay and save the day as nursing home abruptly closes
- Northeast Ohio health care workers benefiting from increasing minimum wage
- Ohio Health System Launches EMS-Based Accountable Care Network
- Health care price transparency a sticking point in Ohio budget negotiations
- Bon Secours Mercy Health to add 500 jobs in Bond Hill ‘hub’
- Piedmont Hospitals Dramatically Cut Patient Infection Rates
- Mercy Health adding 500 jobs to HQ
WISCONSIN
- Advocate Aurora Health’s Wisconsin expansion plan advances
- Beaver Dam Community Hospital exploring opportunities with acquisition
- Coalition seeks binding community benefits agreement with Ascension for St. Joseph hospital
- SSM Health launches virtual visits in 4 states
- St. Clare Hospital in Baraboo expands orthopedics services
- Marshfield Children’s Hospital NICU celebrates 50 years
- Updates on Marshfield Medical Center-Neillsville’s New Facility
- Ascension lays off employees in Wisconsin
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- Hospital groups argue CMS wage index proposal flawed
- On this day in Alabama history: Children’s Hospital was founded
- Alabama hospital lays off 8 employees
- 20 doctors beginning residencies in north Alabama
FLORIDA
- Morton Plant North Bay Hospital welcomes Brandon May as president
- By the numbers: Florida ranks 17th in hospital safety analysis
- Broward Health must pay six-figure fine to government
- Baptist Hospital announces new hospital at Brent Lane
- St. Pete nursing school and hospital team up to tackle nursing shortage
- ‘Con’ repeal, telehealth teed up for DeSantis
- Mayo Clinic putting $233 million into proton beam therapy for Florida cancer center
GEORGIA
- WellStar West Georgia breaks ground on cancer center renovation, expansion
- How Georgia’s Health Systems Rank In The U.S.
- Phoebe Health System recognized as part of Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative
- Piedmont Hospitals Dramatically Cut Patient Infection Rates
- By the numbers: Georgia ranks 15th in hospital safety analysis
- Sundance Hospitals Acquired by Georgia’s Perimeter Healthcare
- Georgia’s Rural Center to study health care simulation center for south Georgia
- Georgia, Cisco to expand statewide telemedicine clinics
MISSISSIPPI
- Baptist North Mississippi receives Chest Pain Center accreditation
- Mississippi fights lawsuit over reliance on mental hospitals
- Baptist North Mississippi receives Chest Pain Center accreditation
- Mississippi Hospital Association introduces new healthcare proposal
- Mississippi hospital patient lights fire in room, prompting evacuation
- University of Mississippi Medical Center officers suspended after releasing man who dies in traffic
NORTH CAROLINA
- Certificate-of-need language pledged to be pulled from Senate health care bill
- Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic join latest funding round for startup Xealth
- Mission Health’s new leaders look to spend millions and grow; system has 700 job openings
- Clock ticking on SHP contract deadline for providers, hospitals
- Atrium Health forming nonprofit group for nursing homes
- New General Assembly budget includes many health care features, but no Medicaid expansion
- UNC Health Care Launches Innovative Fully Integrated Epic Telehealth Solution
- Birthing center to open next month at Baptist
- Randolph Health CEO presents need to find partner ‘in the next few months’ while detailing rural hospital struggles
- State budget compromise includes $15M for autopsy center at Wake Forest Baptist
- Triad health system reveals state-of-the-art NICU
- Legislators offer lifeline to rural hospitals drowning in debt
- UNC Hospitals contributed to dark money group in ‘administrative oversight’
- North Carolina hospital reopens
SOUTH CAROLINA
- The executive in charge of operating MUSC’s hospitals is leaving for Emory University
- Five MUSC Children’s Hospital programs named as part of annual U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals
- Regional Medical Center in South Carolina names Nicole Hendricks COO
- MUSC is suing Medicare over money it lost to do training at its pharmacy school
TENNESSEE
- Staff of shuttered Tennessee hospital say they can’t collect unemployment because operator didn’t pay taxes
- Nashville General Recognized as Innovative Healthcare Provider
- VUMC launches new public health, informatics center
- Friction between Erlanger doctors and CEO comes to a head
- Medical monopoly in rural Appalachia: 6 things to know about the Ballad Health merger
- Saint Thomas proposes $48M rehab facility
- Xtend Healthcare to expand Tennessee headquarters
- New $45M rehab hospital serving Knoxville trauma patients approved
- Saint Thomas seeks approval for $48 million rehab facility
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Kindred Healthcare, Mercy Forth Smith Announce Plans For Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital
- Former Arkansas hospice owner ordered to pay $579,972 for scam
ARIZONA
- Arizona physicians taking new course on opioid prescription guidelines
- By the numbers: Arizona ranks 34th in hospital safety analysis
- Banner Health’s CEO among list of highest-paid hospital executives
- Carondelet Health Network raises 92,000 servings of break foods for “Healthy Over Hungry”
- Transwestern Expands Arizona Healthcare Team
- New Navajo Nation cancer center cuts patients’ travel time
LOUISIANA
- CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier Health System announces new CEO
- By the numbers: Louisiana ranks 11th in hospital safety analysis
- Ochsner Health System unveils the Innovation Hub
- Viemed Healthcare Expands Lafayette, Louisiana, Headquarters
NEW MEXICO
- Only nursing home serving southern NM community set to close
- Health-care field growing; hospital adding services, tech
- NMSU mental health clinic’s renovations should help it expand service
- Two NM heart foundations merging
- Hospital to install tracking system to monitor employees’ hand hygiene
- Scores of layoffs hit San Juan Regional Medical Center staff
OKLAHOMA
- Appointment scheduling system saves Oklahoma Heart $980,000 annually
- SSM Health launches virtual visits in 4 states
- Oklahoma judge OK’s $85 million settlement with Teva Pharma over opioids
- The Surgicalist Group Announces Partnership with Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City
- Stephenson Cancer Center physicians present research
TEXAS
- St. David’s HealthCare Names New Chief Financial Officer
- Texas Health Sports Medicine Breaks Ground in Collin County
- Twin Sister Doctors Combine Specialty Practices to Grow Health Care Options in Houston
- 3 Texas clinic leaders indicted in $16M healthcare fraud scheme
- Healthcare company’s first two acquisitions helped revenue surge to $122 million in 2018
- Nationwide doctor shortage can be felt in El Paso
- McKinney’s new federally qualified health center breaks ground on Virginia Street
- New rehabilitation hospital brings 145 jobs to Longview
- Texas Children’s Hospital again ranks among the best children’s hospitals nationally by U.S. News & World Report
- Texas ranks last in U.S. health care access study
- CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial merger, refinancing options pending
- Everest rehab hospital on track for completion
- Advocate aims to open micro-hospital on the Island
- Texas’ Impending Nurse Shortage Stems in Part From a Lack of Nursing Faculty
- Sundance Hospitals Acquired by Georgia’s Perimeter Healthcare
- Texas to face increasing nursing shortage
- Tenet, Aetna sign multiyear agreement
- HCA Houston Healthcare Names Elizabeth Ortega CEO of The Woman’s Hospital of Texas
- Is Certificate of Need the Answer to North Texas Healthcare Prices?
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
IDAHO
- EIRMC ER ranked #1 among 185 hospitals
- Doctors Learn The Nuts And Bolts Of Robotic Surgery
- This old Nampa hospital sits vacant. Here’s what Saint Alphonsus plans to do with it
- St. Alphonsus launches new program to help veterans with health care
MONTANA
- Kalispell Regional Healthcare appoints CFO, HR chief
- CEO: Union could threaten hospital’s independence
- Montana Children’s Center to provide more care for Flathead families
OREGON
- Health care bills advance in Oregon Legislature
- Oregon bill will attempt to slow rising health care costs
- Legacy Health’s operating income rises 31.9% in FY 2019
- U.S. Supreme Court to hear Moda Health’s $249 million ACA appeal
- OHSU reports earnings at $56 million over budget
WASHINGTON
- PeaceHealth, Mercy team for new housing
- Lake Chelan Community Hospital CEO Steve Patonai to retire
- A rash of nursing home closures in Washington sends families scrambling, industry sounds alarm
- Healthcare tech company Accolade to double headcount in Seattle with new HQ office
- Jefferson Healthcare forming partnership with cancer clinic
- Washington nurses prepare for possible strike
- Why this former spine surgeon built an incubator for healthcare startups in Seattle
WYOMING
- U of Wyoming health volunteer program helps rural patients manage their chronic conditions
- Wyoming Medical Center in active discussions with variety of ‘incredibly well-known’ hospitals for affiliation, board member says
- CRMC responds to Wyoming’s low ranking in health
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Hollywood Presbyterian uses bundle management platform to succeed in value-based care
- California hospital fined after patient was injected with wrong drug
- Would you let a robot operate on your heart? It’s now an option at Modesto hospital
- California fines 8 hospitals $437K for patient safety issues
- California’s 3 top paid county workers all made $1 million last year – at 1 hospital
- California hospital’s future depends on ‘tower of shame’
- California hospital to keep labor and delivery service
- Hospital committee approves a very brief budget
COLORADO
- UnitedHealth’s acquisition of DaVita physician group gets FTC approval
- New Medical Office Building Breaks Ground in Frisco
- Two dead after shooting at Colorado Springs’ UC Health Memorial Hospital
- UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital opens
- Getting serious about mental health: Colorado Legislature passed nearly 30 bills in past two years
- Denver outpatient center tops out
- Colorado hospital to shutter crisis stabilization services
- AG strikes health care anti-trust pact
HAWAII
- Study: Hawaii has the best health system performance in the country
- Study: Hawaii ranks No. 3 for most expensive nursing homes
NEVADA
- Intermountain Healthcare Reaches Agreement to Acquire HealthCare Partners Nevada
- Study ranks Nevada health system in top 5 worst in the nation
- Nevada cardiology practice shells out $2.5M to settle Medicare kickback claims
- CEO sees new opportunities for North Las Vegas VA hospital
UTAH
- Intermountain Healthcare Reaches Agreement to Acquire HealthCare Partners Nevada
- Jet A fuel spilled at University of Utah hospital
- Utah’s Primary Children’s Hospital ranks among top in nation
- Mother and daughter sue Utah hospital, claiming leaders failed to thoroughly investigate physician charged with sexual assault
