NATIONAL
- Readmissions penalty doing little to slow the spinning of hospitals’ revolving doors
- Joint replacement penalties for rehospitalizations may have hit their limit
- 3 things to know about physician salary
- The Impact of a Hospital Post-Acute Care Program on Value-Based Care
- 10 health systems with strong finances
- What Telemedicine’s Growth Rate Means for the Industry
- Trump issues executive order on kidney care
- CMS penalties not lowering hospital-acquired condition rates, study finds
- FCC approves $100M rural telehealth program
- CMS proposes radiation oncology payment model
- 20% of hospice programs have serious care deficiencies, says HHS
- CMS pushes off-campus provider-based OPPS claim edits implementation to October
- CMS proposing bundled payment model for radiation oncology
- Federal Judge Blocks Rule Requiring Drug Prices to Be Revealed in TV Ads
- Compensation gap between men & women physicians: 3 key points
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Stamford Health CEO: Business booming, but general health care landscape concerning
- Moody’s ups Hartford HealthCare’s debt rating outlook
- Cigna builds out CT management team
- Cigna leads $23M investment in health-data firm
- CVS expands telehealth offering to CT
- Mental health parity bill signed into law
- Connecticut psych hospital is ‘beyond the point of no return,’ says state task force
MAINE
- Maine health grants seek to boost vulnerable communities
- Maine Med’s move to end training with live animals follows national trend
- Central Maine Healthcare hires Dr. Jason Krupp as chief physician executive
- Penobscot County Health Care receiving grant for nurse residency program
- Help for nursing homes runs into federal funding rules
MASSACHUSETTS
- Massachusetts seniors launch historic push for affordable healthcare
- Mass. nurses back bills for new mental health units
- Fujifilm Opens Medical Device, IT Groups HQ In Massachusetts
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts Nurses Association Approve New Contract
- By mid-year, Mass. life science M&A tops $22.5B
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- N.H. Is Studying Ways To Address Rural Health Care Access
- Portsmouth doctor reprimanded for treatment of chronic pain patient
- New Hampshire Pumps Brakes On Medicaid Work Requirements After 17,000 Found To Be Non-Compliant In First Month
NEW YORK
- 15 Northwell Health hospitals recognized for outstanding stroke care
- NY Rural Hospitals to Lose Under Hospital Wage Index Changes
- New York doctor to pay for allegedly engaging in illegal Oklahoma kickback scheme
- Mosaic Health expansion good for Medicaid, low-income patients
- New York anesthesiologist indicted for alleged role in $7M telemedicine fraud scheme
RHODE ISLAND
- Southcoast’s new app allows virtual doctor visits
- Patient numbers growing at CODAC in Pawtucket
- Neighborhood Health Plan of RI names Buyse new CMO
VERMONT
- Timetable for hospital bankruptcy hard to predict
- UVM Medical Center named among ‘Greenest’ hospitals in US
- GMCB announces Vermont Health Connect rate hearings for Blue Cross, MVP
- SVMC celebrates renovation of cardiac rehab department
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Beebe, Bayhealth vie to expand emergency services
- Georgetown seeks more emergency care in southern Delaware
- Christiana Care opens pain center that offers non-opioid treatment
- Bayhealth 1st in state to offer robotic spine surgery with ExcelsiusGPS
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Providence Hospital Reopens as Ward 5’s First Urgent Care Center
- Medical Device Cyber Attacks: TV Plot or Dangerous Reality?
- Garrett Regional Medical Center awarded four out of five stars
- Altimmune to acquire California company for up to $93M
- Rushern Baker appointed to UMMS board
- MedStar Southern Maryland receives achievement award
- City, Baltimore hospitals partner on plan to house and care for 200 homeless people
- Johns Hopkins, 9 more Baltimore hospitals launch pilot to end homelessness
NEW JERSEY
- New Jersey’s CarePoint Health planning layoffs despite owners’ sizable earnings
- Murphy to Nominate University Hospital’s Outgoing CEO for Health Commissioner
- St. Joseph’s Health to build unique, affordable housing in Paterson
- New Jersey, St. Joseph’s Health Launch Hospital Affordable Housing Partnership Program
- Palm Health expands into New Jersey
- Bayshore Medical Center named among the top hospitals in New Jersey
- Atlantic Health, Kindred Healthcare: New hospital in Madison nears completion
PENNSYLVANIA
- Hahnemann University Hospital closure upends career paths for 570 doctors-in-training
- Easton Hospital closes its neonatal intensive care unit
- Hahnemann closure: What’s it like to work at a hospital planning its final days? | Perspective
- Hahnemann’s closure will leave medical residents scrambling
- Geisinger’s medical school opening Atlantic City campus
- Geisinger developing AI solutions to detect, prevent high-burden diseases
- Judge orders Hahnemann to stay open, its maternity ward to close
VIRGINIA
- Virginia officials warn of state hospital bed shortage
- Doctors at UVA Health System Tackle Burnout, Stress in the Workplace
- Assessing the impact unpaid patient bills has on MWH operations
- Centra Bedford Memorial Hospital CEO Patti Jurkus retires
WEST VIRGINIA
- Repairing relationships tops list of goals for new Kanawha-Charleston health officer
- Manchin, Capito announce more than $8.4 million for healthcare across West Virginia
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Sanford Health seeks Iowa merger to create $11 billion health system
- Iowa Specialty Hospitals and Clinics Garner facility opens this weekend
- Iowa Medicaid director: Funding increase to private health care companies ‘not a raise’
- Opioid deaths in Iowa down in 2018
- MercyOne to cut billing jobs in Mason City
- Editorial: Hospitals in Nebraska and Iowa see progress against the opioid problem
KANSAS
- Kan. chiropractors pay $350,000 to settle false claim allegations
- KU Health will spend $39M-$45M on equipment for new cancer treatment
- Kansas patients can finally win big in doctor malpractice suits. But at what cost?
- Kansas nurses can now earn multistate license
- Nurses claim Kansas hospital owes them $5M in docked overtime pay
MINNESOTA
- Rural Minnesota nursing home closures hurt local economies
- Moorhead nursing home among 11 troubled Minnesota facilities, national report shows
- Mayo Clinic halts use of live animals in training doctors
- Nurses’ union expresses concerns about $800M Essentia project in Minnesota
- Lakeview Hospital expansion plans on hold until 2024 or later
- Top Minnesota DHS leaders resign abruptly
- Minnesota providers to receive first-ever opioid prescribing reports as part of quality improvement effort
- Minnesota hospital won’t add surgery center, 96-bed hospital for 5+ years
MISSOURI
- SSM Health Medical Minute: Becoming a baby-friendly hospital
- Missouri’s top health official has history of controversies
- Golden Valley Memorial Hospital in Clinton, Mo. treats potentially infectious patient
- Potentially infectious patient forces Missouri hospital to divert ambulances
- Two Mercy hospital executives set to retire
NEBRASKA
- BCH implements new mechanical procedure
- Nebraska Medicine, UNMC launch plan to shorten wait times for psychiatric services
- Future of Nebraska children’s health care fund in doubt
- UNO/UNMC leaders visit Northeast Nebraska to hear about area needs
- Editorial: Hospitals in Nebraska and Iowa see progress against the opioid problem
NORTH DAKOTA
- Essentia wins sports medicine contract with $2.5 million bid at West Fargo schools
- New Sanford WF clinic on track to open Aug. 26
- BCBS of North Dakota slapped with fine for claim denials
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Brain surgery patient sues Sanford doctor
- Sanford execs: Fraud claims against neurosurgeon Asfora are ‘bogus’
- Sanford execs back neurosurgeon accused of performing unnecessary surgeries
- Sanford Health seeks Iowa merger to create $11 billion health system
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Illinois to provide financial relief to independent pharmacies
- Chicago hospital opens $6.5M mental health unit
- Advocate Aurora, One Medical partner in Illinois
- State’s new capital plan putting $200 million toward hospital, health care ‘transformations’
- Illinois hospital seeks permission to relocate surgery center in $21M project
- Central Illinois hospital to open retail pharmacy
- Rush leaders publish their own hospital rankings
INDIANA
- IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital to celebrate 90th anniversary
- Indiana Is Latest State To Roll Out Medicaid Work Requirement
- A new Jane Pauley Community Health Center opens in Indianapolis
- Report: Elanco, Bayer in Merger Talks
- Indianapolis hospital completes 21,000th bariatric surgery
KENTUCKY
- Louisville community concerned about Jewish Hospital
- Plan to change how some rural hospitals are paid would boost Kentucky hospitals
- Medicaid recipients fight Kentucky HEALTH appeals
- These are Louisville’s largest long-term care facilities
- Atlantic Health System, Kindred Healthcare Celebrate Completion of Brand-New, Two-Story Rehabilitation Hospital in Madison
- Kentucky Hospitals Collaborate to Boost ED Health Data Exchange
- Ellis & Badenhausen Orthopaedics names new top executive
- Waystar could sell for $3B by end of month: Report
- Eastern Kentucky trails rest of state in health outcomes
- Whistleblower reveals cover-up at Kentucky nursing home
MICHIGAN
- Doctor says nurse gave wrong medication to patient; Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital now refutes that
- Scott Pillion to step down as CEO of Helen Newberry Joy Hospital
- Next steps for University Physician Group after exiting bankruptcy
- MDHHS issues contract cancellation notice to Lakeshore Regional Entity, seeks to establish new pre-paid inpatient health plan
- McLaren rethinks prepayments of out-of-pocket costs for procedures
- Beaumont to expand to Ohio with Summa Health
OHIO
- Toledo nurses ratify new contract with hospital; labor dispute ends
- Mansfield hospital expands, updates infusion services area
- Cleveland Hospital Extends DTC Telehealth Services to College Students
- Bon Secours completes merger with Ireland’s largest private health system
- UC Health appoints first chief data and analytics officer
- Beaumont to expand to Ohio with Summa Health
- Hospital fires 23 workers in case of excessive doses, deaths
- Ohio State nurses ratify new three-year contract
- CEO to resign, employees fired at Ohio hospital where doctor accused of murder
- Ohio physician-owned surgical hospital marks 10 years, looks forward to expansion
WISCONSIN
- Providing critical care at a price: maintaining Wisconsin’s Critical Access Hospitals
- Tomah Memorial Hospital emergency services recognized
- Hospitals battle for western Waukesha County market share
- Aspirus to bring Portage-based health care provider into its network
- Aspirus deal to create 9-hospital rural health system
- UWM researcher-led team awarded $3.6 million grant for child obesity study
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- Skilled to work: UAH students get hands-on experience at Decatur-Morgan Hospital
- Cooper Green: What patients should know about healthcare partnership with UAB
- Medical Center Barbour CEO Justin Harris resigns
- Alabama doctor arrested by federal agents will remain in custody
FLORIDA
- Boca Raton Regional merges with Baptist Health
- Heart of Florida Physician Group Celebrates Ribbon Cutting
- End of contract between Boca Raton Regional Hospital and UnitedHealthcare raises concerns
- Florida regulators float new rules in hospital wars
- AdventHealth Building Stand-Alone ERs In Brandon, Westchase
- AdventHealth and Health First sign agreement to share resources
- State regulators float new rules in hospital wars
- Feds say patients no longer at risk of sex abuse at Mount Sinai. Hospital will keep Medicare
- At Tampa General Hospital, 3-D printers are removing guesswork for doctors and patients
- Lakeland Regional Health CEO Elaine Thompson to retire in 2020; COO to succeed her
- Outreach the first focus of new Northside Hospital CEO
- Longtime healthcare executive appointed to oversee quality at local hospitals
- Confusion arises as Baptist Health hospital — not physicians — exits UnitedHealthcare network
- Hospital deregulation likely to halt expansion fight in Lee County
- South Miami Hospital appoints Bill Duquette CEO
- Study: Tampa’s medical research lags behind other U.S. cities
GEORGIA
- Piedmont Healthcare fights off infection with data warehousing project
- Southcoast Health unveils mobile app for telehealth appointments
- Tanner Health begins Epic EHR rollout
- Georgia hospitals partner with Allscripts’ CarePort Health on care coordination tools
- Piedmont Columbus Regional now live on Epic EHR
MISSISSIPPI
- Will a Court Force Mississippi to Change on Mental Health?
- Mississippi suspends OB-GYN physician amid accusations
NORTH CAROLINA
- UNC Health Care battles treasurer
- Robeson Health Care gets $200K for opioid fight
- Randolph Health gets some good news, still seeks partner
- Center shares problems, solutions for health care access in NC
- Atrium Health integrates app for virtual pregnancy care
- Lawmakers strong-arm over budget, Medicaid expansion, but come up empty-handed
- North Carolina Lawmakers Take Early Step To Expand Medicaid
- Cone Hospital assistant director of finance sends scathing letter to lawmakers over state health plan
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Medical University of South Carolina named best hospital in South Carolina
- When hospitals fill up, SC patients are boarded in the ER. It’s a problem across the US
- Berkeley woman to have Trident Medical’s final scheduled birth
- Summerville hospital is now done with $53 million update as chain shifts its strategy
TENNESSEE
- Tennessee hospital system suspends unpaid bill lawsuits
- Merger of rural hospitals kept them viable for Northeast Tennessee | Opinion
- Sumner Regional Medical Center begins 60th anniversary celebrations
- Erlanger to open two medical facilities in Cleveland
- HIPAA-related data breach settlement reached with TN
- Nashville companies partner on home health
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Little Rock clinic’s building sells for $34.8M
- Cabot to get own hospital late August
- CVS expands $59 telehealth video visits to Arkansas
- Rutledge obtains settlement over failure to protect sensitive data of millions of consumers
- Arkansas Heart Hospital Garden helping out patients
- St. Bernards Adds Hospital, $102M Tower
ARIZONA
- Carondelet St. Joseph’s Hospital recognized for stroke care
- University of Arizona Cancer Center appoints interim director
- Northwest Medical Center becomes first in Arizona to use world’s smallest heart pump
- Arizona Releases Medicaid Statistical Snapshot
LOUISIANA
- Ochsner Health System CEO named Entrepreneur of The Year
- Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital leader is Tulane’s new vice president for research
- St. Martin Hospital site of bill signing
- Touro hospital selects Manuel Linares as CEO
NEW MEXICO
- From TV to GRMC: County’s hospital adds internationally renowned surgeon
- Presbyterian Hospital Plans Albuquerque Campus Expansion
- UNM Hospital seeing higher than average amount patients
- Presbyterian plans new 11-story tower for patients
OKLAHOMA
- New York doctor to pay for allegedly engaging in illegal Oklahoma kickback scheme
- Closing arguments set in Oklahoma’s case against drugmakers
- Changes Coming Next Month For Medical Marijuana In Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Governor Signs Health Care Payment Bill
- University of Oklahoma Gets $3.75M Grant to Enhance Dementia Care
TEXAS
- Air ambulance service agreement nixed by Texas Governor
- Telehealth services launch in Robertson County
- Methodist Healthcare taps Greg Seiler as CEO of 2nd facility
- Pain management investment firm acquires Texas ASC
- Mobile health clinic to go into medically underserved areas in East Texas
- Envision Healthcare Sued in Texas Over Surprise Medical Bills
- Texas Delays STAR+PLUS Implementation
- Texas v. Azar Will Tackle 3 Subjects on Affordable Care Act
- Texas Health Resources’ Local Impact in 2018
- Ranking: Texas’ Has High Hospital Capacity and Lowest Insurance Rates
- How Texas Tech aims to meet the health needs in rural communities from peaky pets to tingly toothaches
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Gov. Dunleavy’s vetoes to health care funding
- New AAFP Initiative Addresses Rural Health Care Crisis
IDAHO
- New medical residency program opens in Nampa
- A health insurance provider owes Idaho more than a quarter-million dollars. Here’s why.
- Idaho among states to settle in legal action against healthcare insurance company
MONTANA
- State to seek outside review of Montana State Hospital’s Spratt Unit
- Montana to audit end-of-life care at state mental hospital
- Billings Clinic seeks feedback for Bozeman campus
- Montana hospital opens, collaborates on pediatric orthopedic initiate
- Montana Health Clinic Receives Federal Grant To Expand Telemedicine Addiction Treatment
- Montana community health centers receive $520K for health IT operations
- Kalispell Regional opens pediatric hospital in Montana
OREGON
- Oregon To Lead Nation In Setting Minimum Amount For Hospital Charity Care
- Oregon State Hospital staff injuries spike as facility strains to admit new patients
- Oregon chooses 15 companies to provide low-income health care
- Oregon Health Authority awards new contract for Coordinated Care in Lincoln County
- State chooses Trillium and PacificSource to serve county’s Oregon Health Plan members
- Oregon Health Plan Dumps Josephine County Care Provider, Questions Financial Stability
WASHINGTON
- Families with scheduled surgeries speak out after Seattle Children’s operating room closures
- San Juan Assisted Living facility to remain open, but Medicaid issues remain
- Despite millions spent, ‘crucial’ DSHS electronic records system is years behind schedule
- Providence St. Joseph Health to build ‘high-tech hospital’ with Microsoft
- Rising minimum wage a factor in 4-star nursing home’s closure
- $21M Cerner EHR Implementation at WA Hospital Meets Yearly Delays
WYOMING
- Jackson hospital to raise rates by 8 percent
- Wyoming PACE to open in new location July 16
- Former security guard sues Mountain View Regional, alleges gender discrimination
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- California Effort To Stop Surprise Hospital Bills Stalls
- Phishing attack exposes nearly 15,000 LA County health patients’ information
- With Rural Health Care Stretched Thin, More Patients Turn To Telehealth
- California hospital reopens after 2 earthquakes force closures, evacuation
- 4,000 California mental health workers reject Kaiser contract offer
- California extends health coverage to undocumented immigrants
- AHMC Healthcare acquires Southern California hospital
COLORADO
- Jillyan McKinney named Littleton Adventist Hospital CEO
- DaVita Statement on Advancing American Kidney Health
- Pueblo hospital to ask patients to provide gender identity
- Rocky Mountain Vibes partnering with Children’s Hospital Colorado to create a Fun Zone
- 6 hospitals investing in retail, specialty or in-house pharmacy
- Brand New UCHealth Greeley Hospital Welcomes Brand New Baby
HAWAII
- Maui Health System Names Jim Diegel as Chief Strategy Officer
- Three questions with Maui Health System’s new chief strategy officer, Jim Diegel
- Hawaii Pacific Health to open new clinic in Ward Village
- Queen’s offers new program to improve care for Medicare patients
NEVADA
- Nevada company opening new physical therapy clinic
- USDA grants Nevada $226K for telemedicine equipment
- Resort corridor hospital targeted by new Nevada law seeks to dispel misconceptions
- Nevada Health Study Using Genetics To Fight Disease Statewide
UTAH
- Idaho’s first medical respite homeless shelter to open in Boise
- Utah health care panel objects to state’s partial Medicaid expansion plan
- Health disparity trends by legislative district
- Utah legislative districts show variable health outcomes
- Utah leaders react to the uncertain fate of the Affordable Care Act
- Utah gets a federal grant to form a ‘rapid response team’ of agencies that can react to an outbreak of foodborne illness
