NATIONAL
- 21% of Physicians Furloughed, Had Pay Cut During COVID-19 Crisis
- 1 in 5 physicians hit with pay cut or furlough due to COVID-19, survey says
- 11 women making moves in healthcare leadership
- CMS suspends advance payments to providers, is reevaluating accelerated payments for hospitals
- CMS to use staffing data to assess PPE needs; freezes star ratings
- Many Health Providers on Brink of Insolvency
- Nearly a third of Americans have put off healthcare during COVID-19
- Nearly half of physicians using telehealth, up from just 18% in 2018
- New HHS rule calls for FHIR use cases to aid data exchange
- Nursing Home COVID-19 Reporting Rules To Be Strengthened
- Outside hot spots, hospitals prepped for coronavirus, but face financial wounds
- Some hospitals are using virtual reality simulations to help treat coronavirus
- Thousands of health care workers demand investigation of hospitals’ coronavirus response
- What the CARES Act means for physicians & medical students
- What will never be the same again in healthcare?
- Will Covid-19 kill HIPAA? No, but…
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
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- CT delegation calls for federal intervention on coronavirus-related nursing home crisis
- CT nursing homes and assisted living facilities that fail to report cases could be fined
- National Guard and CDC will assist Connecticut with inspection and monitoring of nursing homes as deaths spike during coronavirus pandemic
- Nearly half of CT’s coronavirus-related deaths linked to nursing homes
- Over 40 percent of Connecticut’s coronavirus deaths have occurred in nursing homes
- State announces nearly 600 deaths associated with COVID-19 at nursing homes
- Inside Connecticut’s ‘Ground War’ Against Coronavirus at Nursing Homes
- Connecticut Hospitals Went Into Overdrive To Prepare For COVID-19
- Health official: Model suggests Connecticut at COVID-19 peak
- Coronavirus hospitalizations continue to decline in Connecticut
- Connecticut to launch widespread contact tracing by May
- Connecticut residents avoid hospital ERs during pandemic, even for serious problems
- Lamont says new COVID cases in state’s dense neighborhoods
MAINE
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- 2 bankrupt Maine hospitals warn they could close in June, sue to receive stimulus funds
- Federal aid increased for Maine hospitals, health care providers
- Maine hospital system has more critical care beds and ventilators free now than before pandemic
- Maine hospitals and the state prepared for a much more intense COVID-19 pandemic
- Numbers of virus patients in Maine hospitals continue to flatten and decline
- Maine hospitals losing $250 million per month during coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic
- Bankrupt Maine hospital to cut 10% of workforce
- A staffing firm that employs doctors at 2 bankrupt Maine hospitals may seek bankruptcy itself
- Rural Maine hospitals face closure as pandemic stretches on
- Maine health care providers receive $42M from feds for COVID-19 battle
- Central Maine Healthcare offers screening help so businesses can safely reopen
- Maine health care tech startup to expand access to local telehealth options
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Mass. nursing homes to get financial help
- Massachusetts suspends nursing home tests
- Peninsula surgeon to pay $1.75M to ‘resolve allegations he accepted kickbacks’ from a Massachusetts company
- MIT faculty and students develop pandemic-related data tools and programs
- BCBS MA Deploys Employees for Contact Tracing, Staffing Support
- Hospitals needed to rapidly find more beds due to COVID-19. Tufts Medical Center looked to patients’ homes
- Councilors probe state’s COVID response
- Steward Health Care must pay $10.2M to scientist who lost her lab
- Massachusetts Hospitals Test Experimental Drug’s Effectiveness Against COVID-19
- Mass. General Hospital released a coronavirus simulator. Here’s what it shows for Massachusetts.
- Boston front-line hospital workers face warlike trauma as they battle coronavirus
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- Ramped up testing for COVID-19 in NH
- Hospitality, retail and healthcare slammed by COVID-19 shutdown
- PBMC earns top grade for safety from national rating group
- N.H. DHHS details new community-based COVID-19 testing program
- 50 new positive COVID-19 cases; six more New Hampshire deaths
- Seacoast hospitals take heavy financial hit in pandemic
- NH hospitals, health care providers receive additional $16M in federal COVID-19 relief funding
- Mass layoffs will test New Hampshire’s health insurance market
NEW YORK
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- Declining hospital visits stir worries people avoiding needed medical treatment
- How Staten Island nursing homes stepped up to face hospital coronavirus overflow
- Mobile charge capture leads to $800K increase in hospitalist revenue
- New York, Detroit, rural Wisconsin: 3 CEO views on COVID-19 impact
- New York hospital ship set to return to Virginia on Thursday
- Reporting of COVID-19 deaths by nursing homes inconsistent
- State to investigate nursing home compliance amid COVID-19; antibody testing progresses
- ‘You Are a Miracle’: Home Care Is New Front in Virus Fight
- New York hospital to split with Ascension after 18 years
- St. Mary’s Healthcare names next president and CEO
- Stress on health care workers is creating ‘second victims’ in the coronavirus pandemic
- N.Y.C. Deaths Reach 6 Times the Normal Level, Far More Than Coronavirus Count Suggests
- New York City to hire 1,000 health workers in May to trace coronavirus cases, Mayor de Blasio says
- New York hospitals are testing a common heartburn drug as a coronavirus treatment for hospitalized patients
- Hospital ship leaves New York City as virus cases decline
- NYU Langone virtual urgent care visits increased 683% during COVID-19 pandemic
RHODE ISLAND
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- 86 ‘discharged’ RI coronavirus patients died at the hospital
- ‘We have passed the surge,’ says head of R.I. Hospital ICU
- RI hospitals to submit plans on how to safely resume elective procedures, surgeries
- 24 exhausting hours inside one of R.I.’s COVID-19 ICUs
- Rhode Island health officials warn against personal antibody testing
- R.I. reports 6 deaths, 218 new cases of coronavirus; Raimondo tries to eliminate healthcare barriers
VERMONT
MID-ATLANTIC/EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
DC
MARYLAND
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- Anne Arundel Medical Center furloughs 1,000 employees amid the coronavirus pandemic, BWMC not furloughing employees
- Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital To Open Monday
- Changing course, Hogan says Maryland will post Covid data from nursing homes
- Data shows 51 percent of COVID-19 deaths in Maryland are linked to elderly care facilities
- Johns Hopkins letter calls for billion-dollar contact tracing plan
- Johns Hopkins nurse practitioner shares experience of working in coronavirus unit
- Maryland company is making mini-hospital rooms
- Maryland Hospitals Handling Bed Capacity, But Still Fight For Some Supplies
- Prince George’s health system names permanent chief
- Some supplies at Maryland hospitals getting dangerously low
- Stories from the front lines: How Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis turned bulk ingredients into a c-store for hospital workers
- ‘The Nurses Are Overwhelmed’: Baltimore Nurse Heads To New York City To Treat Patients Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
- Upper Chesapeake plans to have new hospital facilities open by early 2023
- Want to know how many COVID-19 cases are in a MD nursing home? That data likely won’t be released
NEW JERSEY
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- Here’s how N.J.’s top health official defines Central Jersey during the coronavirus pandemic
- Murphy mulls reopening, as NJ hospitalizations go down for days
- New Jersey to allow physicians with foreign licenses to practice during pandemic
- New Jersey’s hospital discharges begin to exceed admittances during pandemic
- Robert Garrett: Coronavirus – 6 lessons from a New Jersey hospital system on the front lines
PENNSYLVANIA
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- ‘Disturbing’ events at Beaver County nursing home as COVID-19 deaths rise to 52
- Easton Hospital to stay open through at least June 30, state says
- How Temple University Hospital is meeting COVID-19 care demands
- How This Penn Physician Cares for Her Health While Treating COVID-19 Patients
- ManorCare homes in Berks treating 200+ COVID-19 patients
- New data: Nursing home residents are 7 to 15 times more likely to get coronavirus than others in the Lehigh Valley
- New report: PA hospitals could lose $10 billion
- One Month Inside a Philly Hospital on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Penn Medicine’s new $1.5 billion tower is ready to accept patients
- Pennsylvania hospital to cease inpatient care
- Pennsylvania receives another $459 million in health funding as hospitals face steep losses
- Pennsylvania to receive $458 million in new hospital funding
- Philadelphia biotech firm battling Covid-19 gets $1M from federal health agency
- Philadelphia Hospital Official Says ‘We’re Not There’ In Testing Capacity
- New shortage of PPE as testing capacity improves in PA
- Nursing home where ceiling collapsed has troubling history of violations
VIRGINIA
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- HHS awards more than $1.8 million for Rural Virginia hospitals
- Hospital system, physician group reach settlement for financial relationship violations
- Newport News spinal surgeon to pay $1.75 million to settle kickback allegations
- Peninsula surgeon to pay $1.75M to ‘resolve allegations he accepted kickbacks’ from a Massachusetts company
- There’s no treatment for COVID-19, but Virginia researchers are ramping up clinical trials to try to find one
- Va. ambulance company settles false billing lawsuit
- Virginia extends ban on non-emergency surgeries by one week
- Virginia health system, physician group pay $9M to settle false billing claims
- Virginia Hospitals Have Capacity to Spare. Time to Rethink Elective-Surgery Restrictions.
- Virginia hospitals, medical providers can begin routine operations soon
- Virginia will not use Inova’s Merrifield campus as a coronavirus field hospital
WEST VIRGINIA
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- Are hospitals ready to resume all operations across West Virginia?
- Hospitals in West Virginia are seizing bank accounts, garnishing wages over unpaid debt during ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
- Manchin: West Virginia hospitals still need more emergency response funding
- President, CEO of W.Va. Hospital Association announces plans to retire
- West Virginia University Health System receives Certificate of Need, signs long-term lease for Wetzel County Hospital
- Wheeling Hospital Approved to Resume Elective Surgeries
- Williamson Hospital Closing Tuesday, With Plans To Be Purchased Soon
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
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- N’West Iowa clinics offer virtual visits
- UnityPoint Health’s president and CEO to step down; Thompson named interim
- Why are Iowa’s long-term care providers hurting? Let’s start with the facts.
- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics “prepared” to resume elective surgeries
- Coronavirus is hitting Iowa harder than many of its bordering states
- Reynolds says keeping state shut down ‘not sustainable,’ as Iowa reports most COVID-19 deaths in a day
- Iowa reports 467 new COVID-19 cases, 35% of confirmed cases have recovered
- Iowa Guard soldiers deployed for coronavirus contact tracing
- University of Iowa and UCLA to collaborate on study to reduce risk of COVID-19
KANSAS
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- Virus cases top 100 among residents of Kansas nursing home
- New laws may not protect uninsured coronavirus patients as hoped
- Stormont plans to restart elective surgeries, appointments Monday
- Kansas has 3,491 cases of COVID-19, 124 deaths
- As Kansas looks to reopen, COVID-19 testing lags. But Kelly says help is on the way
- ‘Don’t forget about us’: Kansas long-term health care associations plead for help
- CARES Act funding helps NRH amid revenue decline
MINNESOTA
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- Compared to ND, Minnesota testing in long-term care facilities is lagging
- State Senate’s two doctors divided on virus plan
- Latest on COVID-19 in MN: 343 dead; Walz to tweak, extend stay-home order
- How does PPE get to Minnesota health workers who need it?
- University of Minnesota and M Health Fairview roll out protective device for healthcare professionals during COVID-19
- Minnesota signs lease for alternative care site in Roseville to address hospital capacity concerns
- Minnesota nurses furloughed while out of state nurses imported during COVID-19 crisis
- Live updates: Minnesota’s hospital capacity ‘looking really good’
- Mayo Clinic mistakenly sends hundreds of furlough notifications to employees
MISSOURI
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- Doctors at SSM Health worry patients needing emergency care not receiving it
- Mercy planning for ‘graduated return to normal operations’
- MU Health Care nurses: Hospital decisions “have put staff members’ health at risk”
- Reason to Celebrate: 100th Coronavirus Patient Discharged from SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital
- SSM Health to close 2 retail pharmacies
- St. Mary’s Hospital — Audrain appoints new board members
- UW Health, UnityPoint Health cut costs, salaries from COVID-19; SSM Health eyeing cuts
- Drop in ER visits concerns St. Louis-area doctors
- The ‘science and math’ of decreasing the virus’ spread in St. Louis
- Parson outlines ‘Show Me Strong Recovery Plan’ to reopen Missouri
- Kansas City’s Children’s Mercy Hospital Furloughs 575 Employees, Cuts Executive Pay
- Hospitals taking a phased in approach to resuming elective surgeries
- Missouri hits 7,400 COVID-19 cases Wednesday; Illinois passes 50,000 infections
- BJC Healthcare tweaks N95 disinfection, allows return of masks to original users
- St. Louis doctors encouraged by COVID-19 trends in the community, but offer caution
NEBRASKA
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- Bryan officials: Lincoln may be starting to see COVID-19 surge
- US study launched in Nebraska finds drug works against coronavirus
- Health Restrictions To Be Loosened In 10 More Nebraska Counties
- University of Nebraska Medical Center team visited three Grand Island facilities Tuesday
- Groundbreaking HIV treatment could one day help in COVID-19 fight
NORTH DAKOTA
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- North Dakota HIE creates longitudinal health records for patients
- Health expert discusses COVID-19 medical trials underway in North Dakota
- Burgum’s restart of North Dakota’s economy is a calculated gamble
- More NDSU students being trained as COVID-19 contact tracers as businesses begin to re-open
- North Dakota looking to expand use of plasma for treating COVID-19
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- Where the coronavirus is hitting rural America hard
- U. of Washington study predicts South Dakota’s COVID-19 surge on May 13
- CPR devices on the way to South Dakota hospitals
- Two more coronavirus deaths reported as cases increase by 60 in South Dakota
- South Dakota Secretary of Health explains COVID-19 contact tracing
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Chicago area health care workers demonstrate outside hospitals, ask for PPE, tests, hazard pay
- Chicago hospital successfully treats struggling COVID-19 patient with plasma from virus survivor
- Chicago Lakeshore Hospital closes
- Cottage Hospital to change hands
- COVID-19 Has Killed 8 Illinois Healthcare Workers And Sickened 2,500
- Crews Tackle $20M Expansion of Northwest Illinois Hospital
- Illinois coronavirus: Stunning new numbers for COVID-19 cases in IL nursing homes
- Jacksonville nursing home among those getting ‘strike notice’
- Judge declines to reduce $29M medical negligence verdict for Illinois man
- Nursing Homes Have 35% of Illinois’ Coronavirus Deaths, Latest Data Show
- Nursing Home Workers In Illinois Move Toward Strike As Deadly Virus Spreads
- Nursing home workers threaten strike in midst of pandemic
- Quorum to sell Illinois hospital
- St. Bernard Hospital Suspends OB Unit To Treat Coronavirus Patients
- U Of C Hospital Workers Say They Deserve Hazard Pay Amid Coronavirus Crisis
- Union seeks hazard pay for University of Chicago hospital workers
- West Side hospital loses nurses to McCormick Place which is paying more
INDIANA
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- Bloomington Tapped for COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing
- COVID-19 outbreak at Clarksville nursing home drives spike in Clark County cases
- Front line health care workers die: COVID-19 takes two employees of the same nursing home
- Indiana hospitals slowly reopen operating rooms
- Indiana updates guidelines for nursing homes as COVID-19 cases increase across the state
- List of COVID-19 deaths at long-term care facilities in central Indiana
- Long term care facilities reach out to Indiana private labs for more testing
- Noblesville Company Lands Another FDA Clearance
- Protecting health or protecting corporations? State leaders still keeping nursing home data secret.
- Rural Health Association Receives Telehealth Funding
- State Secures More PPE for Healthcare Providers
- State to open large-scale COVID-19 testing sites
- Transfer of patients stopped, restraining order filed against Chosen Healthcare
KENTUCKY
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- Gov. Beshear details next phases in reopening of health care industry in Kentucky
- Kentucky begins phase one of reopening healthcare services Monday
- Kentucky opens healthcare facilities after six-week shutdown
- Kentucky to get $1.7 Billion from CARES act
- Kentucky’s plan for reopening health care businesses will roll out in 4 phases
- Kindred Healthcare cuts pay 10% for many employees amid pandemic
- Long-term-care facilities account for almost half of Kentucky’s COVID-19 deaths
- McConnell: 46 rural Kentucky hospitals get $3.8 million from CARES Act to fight COVID-19
- Nearly 300 beds ready for patients as fairgrounds turn into field hospital
- Norton Healthcare launching phased approach to safely resume services
- ‘Our patients are not showing up.’ UK Hospital says ER use halved during pandemic.
- ‘Phase one’ of reopening Kentucky starts with hospitals, healthcare services next week
- Restart of some hospital, health care services to begin next week in Kentucky
- Slow reopening of Kentucky health care businesses begins
- Some nursing homes now battling COVID-19 previously cited for infection-control failures
- Statistical data informing hospitals’ COVID decisions
- U.S. attorney urges Kentucky hospitals to report price gouging, hoarding of medical supplies
MICHIGAN
- $54M in funding announced for behavioral health clinics across MI
- Beaumont CEO says he’s taking a 70% pay cut as layoffs sweep through administrative staff
- Beaumont ER Doctors Take Salary Cuts, Leaves Of Absence
- Beaumont Health to lay off 2,475 employees and eliminate 450 positions due to pandemic
- Beaumont Health to sell ambulance division
- Coronavirus in Kentucky: Pikeville Medical Center furloughs employees
- Detroit hospital vows quality care but won’t discuss coronavirus issues
- Dozens of hospital staff laid off from St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Brighton clinic
- Governor Whitmer announces temporary pay increase for direct care workers
- Gov. Whitmer extends executive order relaxing practice laws at Michigan hospitals
- Investigation into makeshift morgue at Beaumont Wayne reveals 50 bodies in vacant building
- Mercy Health says nurse was fired for violating privacy of multiple patients not for talking to the media
- Michigan coronavirus medical deaths at 16, more than some hospitals say
- Michigan doctor charged with fraud allegedly ordered nurses with coronavirus to treat patients
- Michigan health provider drops below 500 COVID-19 patients
- Michigan nurse was terminated for HIPAA violation, Mercy Health says
- MI publishes list of nursing homes with COVID-19
- Munson Healthcare working with patients to get them back in for surgeries
- New York, Detroit, rural Wisconsin: 3 CEO views on COVID-19 impact
- Nursing homes in Michigan protected from COVID-19 lawsuits
- Photo Gallery: Ascension Michigan Shining Moments
- State: 5 W MI nursing homes failed infection control check
- Why Michigan hospitals are laying off workers as they battle coronavirus
- Will new rules make a difference in Michigan’s long-term care facilities?
- With weeks to plan, Grand Rapids learns from Detroit’s coronavirus surge
OHIO
- After UH announced pay cuts, fears are mounting that more cuts could be on the way to relieve the financial strain on hospitals
- Akron Children’s Hospital to begin rescheduling surgeries, implementing visitor changes
- Cleveland Clinic’s COVID-19 strategy driven by data modeling
- Cleveland Clinic COVID-19 research effort to rely on EHRs, analytics
- Dayton health group forms partnership with an Ohio hospital association
- Elective Surgeries May Resume, Finances At Rural Hospitals Still Threatened By COVID-19
- Nursing home group to pay $10 million to settle false claims lawsuit
- Ohio health care providers can resume some elective procedures after previous order to delay due to COVID-19
- Ohio hospital names Wendy Elliott CEO
- Ohio hospital to use patches to track healthcare workers’ temperatures
- Ohio State nurses union files OSHA complaint; alleges medical center endangering medical staff
- Ohio State Wexner Medical Center to resume its medical procedures
- Revised COVID-19 data reveals dramatic increase in Ohio nursing homes
- Southeastern Med Introduces New President/CEO
- State report identifies COVID-19 hot spots at Ohio nursing homes
- Trinity Health System to ease back into outpatient surgeries on Friday
- University Hospitals closing ERs across Northeast Ohio due to sharp decline in patient visits
- University Hospitals to temporarily close several ERs in Northeast Ohio
- Wexner Medical Center first hospital to use remote surgical pacemaker technology
WISCONSIN
- DHS: Wisconsin healthcare workers account for 16 percent of COVID-19 cases
- Green Bay-area hospitals say they’re prepared as Wisconsin’s largest surge in coronavirus hits Brown County
- Health care systems grappling with disruptive changes; UW Health CEO points to rising tensions under stay-at-home order
- Madison hospitals ramp up procedures
- New York, Detroit, rural Wisconsin: 3 CEO views on COVID-19 impact
- Painful pay cuts, furloughs to hit Madison hospitals
- SSM Health announces furloughs amid COVID-19 pandemic, joining competitors
- UW Health Hospital: Not billing Covid patients without insurance
- ‘We are scared for our lives’: At least 17% of Wisconsin coronavirus cases are health care employees
- Wisconsin hospitals cutting workers’ hours while preparing for coronavirus surge
SOUTH/SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
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- Alabama hospital exec: CDC guidelines don’t require testing all workers before reopening
- Alabama hospitals being forced to reduce hours for employees, furlough others
- Healthcare leaders respond to Alabama’s new safer at home order
- North Alabama nurse shares experience of working in New York City hospital in pandemic
- Nursing homes major coronavirus hotbeds, but Alabama conceals which ones have outbreaks
- Why have hundreds of Alabama healthcare workers contracted COVID-19?
FLORIDA
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- 37 long-term care facilities in Central Florida have positive COVID-19 tests
- CHS to cease inpatient care at 2 Florida hospitals, sell them to HCA
- Florida hospitals ready to handle elective surgeries, procedures post-coronavirus
- Florida nursing homes, many out of compliance with generator law, push for protections from liability
- Florida releases names of long-term care facilities, nursing homes with COVID-19 cases
- HCA’s North Florida Division joins plasma study on recovered COVID-19 patients
- Health care providers seek legal protections from lawsuits stemming from delivery of care during pandemic
- Healthcare groups ask Florida governor for legal immunity during COVID-19 pandemic
- Hospitals finally seeing uptick in non-COVID patients
- Hospitals Get Seats At Table On Reopening
- Lee Health CEO says system glitch resolved after COVID-19 data failed to go to FDOH
- Lee Health hospitals earn ‘A’ grades during pandemic
- Nursing home protections linked to generator issue
- Nursing homes push for protections from liability during coronavirus. Industry may have to comply with generator rules first.
- Orlando hospitals prepare to allow visitors, resume elective procedures. 5 things you can expect
- Pinellas hospitals plan for uptick of COVID-19 patients from elder-care centers
- Reopening Florida: Hospitals want to perform elective surgeries — soon
- Tampa General, AdventHealth and other Florida hospitals come together to share coronavirus data
GEORGIA
MISSISSIPPI
NORTH CAROLINA
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- As hospitalizations remain low, Mission will restart elective surgeries
- Asheville lab to pay up to $43 million to resolve unnecessary test claims
- Atrium and Novant set dates for expansion of services
- Bill would give N.C. hospitals, doctors, nursing homes legal immunity during pandemic
- CON fight continues with a new court challenge
- Fewer people are going to Triangle emergency rooms, and that could be a bad thing
- Firm that manages CRHS proposes long-term lease of New Hanover Regional
- Health officials deflecting criticism for outbreak at Rowan County nursing home
- House lawmakers move forward COVID-19 response bills
- Mission, area hospitals see alarming drop in patients as COVID-19 fears keep people home
- Mission, nurses’ union jockey over who votes
- N.C. data release shows 4 nursing homes with 10-plus deaths
- NC health officials want testing of all residents, staff of nursing homes with COVID-19
- Rating agency says federal COVID-relief funds for hospitals are not enough
- Report: NC health care provider sends 122 wrong COVID-19 test results to officials
- Scotland Health Care System furloughs nearly 70 employees
- State records show frequent complaints under nursing home’s previous ownership
- Virus-related health funding bill moving, but NC hospitals say they’re down $1B a month
- Wake Forest Baptist to institute furloughs, pay reductions
- Washington Regional Medical Center under new ownership
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- 1.5 million masks coming to healthcare professionals in South Carolina
- Behind the scenes: Life and death from coronavirus inside Roper Hospital
- Bon Secours Hospital first to win highest nursing honor 3 years in a row in SC
- Businesses across South Carolina produce protective gear for health care workers
- MUSC, Clemson, UofSC collaborate on antibody tests
- MUSC update: Hospitals may have already experienced surge
- Roper St. Francis Hospital completes its first COVID-19 plasma transfusion
- SC health officials announce 123 new cases of COVID-19, and 15 additional deaths
TENNESSEE
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- Chattanooga’s three health care providers reveal new plan to resume elective surgeries
- Hospital Association: COVID-19 crisis costing TN medical centers $1BN a month
- How much protective gear does Tennessee have from the national COVID-19 stockpile?
- Nashville bucks trend of cities using antibody testing
- Nashville health board chair: Metro not yet where it needs to be to set reopening date
- Report: Another massive Nashville health care company considers bankruptcy
- Tennessee bucks trend, sees a rural hospital reopen in Clay County
- Tennessee hospital completes first virtual Cerner EHR go-live
- Tennessee hospital temporarily closes surgery center to cut costs
- Tennessee hospitals losing $1 billion per month amid COVID-19, analysis says
- West Tennessee Healthcare discusses revenue decline
- West Tennessee Healthcare furloughs 1,100
SOUTH-CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST
( Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARIZONA
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- Tucson nursing homes a hotbed of coronavirus-related deaths
- Health officials ramp up COVID-19 testing with the ‘Arizona Testing Blitz’
- Hospitals hard hit by revenue losses in pandemic
- Governor’s Good Samaritan order makes it harder for families to sue nursing homes over COVID-19, experts say
- Arizona reports surge of 446 coronavirus cases with 16 new deaths
- Arizona well prepared for second wave of coronavirus, health official says
- Breakthrough treatment at Arizona hospital treats man with COVID-19
ARKANSAS
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- Izard County Medical Center may be looking for new owner
- Ohio-based company decontaminating N95 masks in Arkansas
- Governor, ADH Secretary discuss state’s response
- $3 million effort to help NWA healthcare organizations
- Arkansas hospitals are receiving more coronavirus screening calls during surge
- Central Arkansas company provides PPE to AR Children’s Hospital
- Arkansas Dept. of Health looking to employ more contact tracers
- U.S. funds a welcome shot in arm at Arkansas hospitals
LOUISIANA
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- Doctors to begin non-emergency medical and surgical procedures
- We Don’t Know How Many Louisiana Health Care Workers Are Dying From COVID-19
- As elective procedures return to Louisiana hospitals, here’s what patients can expect
- Concern over ‘dramatic’ decline in heart attack patients going to Louisiana hospital
- In rural Louisiana, ‘a serial killer we cannot see’
- Fewer patients and decreased revenue might affect hospital staffing
NEW MEXICO
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- Designated Albuquerque nursing home for cases has history of safety violations
- Some NM hospitals threw out expired, near-expired PPE before coronavirus pandemic, staffers say
- Some hospitals outside of hot spots prepared for coronavirus war, face financial wounds instead
- Court forces New Mexico COVID-19 patients to self-isolate
- New Mexico coronavirus numbers: State now has 2,660 cases, 93 deaths and 623 recoveries
- Socorro General Hospital staying prepared through COVID outbreak
- New Mexico testing technology to help with COVID-19 ‘contact tracing’
- New Mexico Health Department offering free COVID-19 tests to essential workers
OKLAHOMA
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- Oklahoma 1st to seek waiver to block grant Medicaid, despite pandemic
- Oklahoma guardsmen help long-term care facilities fight coronavirus
- Oklahoma to test all nursing home residents, staffers for coronavirus
- Shawnee emergency room to remove COVID-19 tents
- Tulsa doctor invents device to protect health care workers
- Coronavirus in Oklahoma: Health Department to be audited
- Rose State College uses 3D printer to create PPE for Oklahoma hospital
- ‘Eye-Opening Experience’ For Oklahoma Health Care Workers Fighting Pandemic In New Jersey
- This Oklahoma hospital has only 8 nurses left. They double as the janitors.
- Oklahoma State Department of Health gives updates on drive-thru testing
- Oklahoma coronavirus cases surpass 3,500 mark
TEXAS
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- Bellville Medical Center opens Tri-County ER
- CARES Act awards over $1.2 billion to Texas healthcare providers
- DFW Hospitals Are Opening Their Own Grocery Stores
- 47 COVID-19 Cases Linked to Paris Nursing Home
- SA hospital system owner providing more than $1M to area nonprofits
- Hendrick Health Systems agrees to buy Brownwood, Abilene Regional Medical Centers
- Central Texas hospitals see decrease in ER visits due to COVID 19 concerns
- Why you still might have trouble scheduling your surgery despite relaxed coronavirus rules
- Teamsters call Tenet Healthcare’s executive pay ‘lavish’ amid pandemic
- Steward Health Care must pay $10.2M to scientist who lost her lab
- Dallas County Reports 4th Highest Day Of Positive Coronavirus Tests With 112, Plus 5 More Deaths
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
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- Alaska nurses share concern over PPE while local hospitals fear financial vulnerability
- Alaska Regional and Providence CEOs discuss Anchorage’s hospital capabilities during COVID-19
- From her home office yurt, Alaska’s chief medical officer navigates ‘uncharted territory’
- Juneau’s hospital has zero COVID-19 cases currently and no one awaiting test results
- Juneau’s hospital to restart some services next week
- Mat-Su Regional feels the love as community produces protective gear for healthcare workers
- Ravn’s bankruptcy leaves medical transport vacuum in rural Alaska
IDAHO
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- 16 Idaho nursing homes hit by COVID-19, state mum on details
- Helping The Helpers: Getting Idaho Doctors Access To Mental Health Services
- How Idaho’s private COVID-19 testing efforts came about — and the possible path forward
- Saint Alphonsus planning, preparing for future healthcare needs in Idaho
- Saint Alphonsus tries new plasma therapy for COVID-19 patient
- St. Luke’s hopes to increase coronavirus testing capacity
- St. Luke’s reassigns staff to help fight coronavirus
MONTANA
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- Bozeman nurse shares experience combating coronavirus as health worker
- Bozeman Health to restore typical procedures, surgeries
- Clark Fork Valley Hospital CEO urges continued diligence
- Hospitals Reporting Steep Revenue Losses Due to COVID-19
- Montana Hospital Association, Bozeman company donate isolation gowns to rural hospitals
- Montana Hospitals Outline Plans To Resume Elective Surgeries
- Montana rural hospitals get $4 million for virus fight
- SCL Health hospitals receive $99,000 to fund life-saving technology
- SCL Health Montana hospitals to resume elective procedures
OREGON
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- FEMA contract sending mask-disinfecting system to Oregon
- Gov. Brown calls for carefully lifting elective medical procedures ban on May 1
- Nursing home workers called for help before surge in coronavirus cases, records show
- On the front lines of Oregon’s coronavirus epidemic: health care workers balance reward and risk
- Oregon governor to lift ban on non-urgent medical procedures
- Oregon hospitals receive $103 million in second distribution of CARES Act relief
- Oregon nursing home taking recovering coronavirus patients has one of worst grades in state
- Oregon’s rural hospitals financially hurting during coronavirus pandemic
- Oregon’s senior care coronavirus deaths continue to rise, now at 57 – more than half of the state’s toll
WASHINGTON
WYOMING
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
COLORADO
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- Colorado Hospital Hit by Ransomware as COVID-19 Continues
- Colorado hospital workers complain about a lack of safety equipment
- Colorado hospitals prepare to resume non-emergency surgeries next week as coronavirus rules relax
- Colorado hospitals projected to lose $3B in 2020, small hospitals could close
- Colorado hospitals report decrease in ER visits, remind public to seek immediate care for emergencies
- Colorado pediatricians get creative to provide regular care for kids during coronavirus pandemic
- Colorado’s Coronavirus Pandemic Transformed Once Busy ERs Into Hurry Up And Wait Rooms
- Denver council delays receipt of $38.6 million from FEMA
- Denver Health CEO On Timing Of Bonuses: ‘I Am Deeply Sorry’
- Donor gives $10K to hospital to offset COVID-19 costs
- FEMA Grant Money Vote Delayed After Denver Health Executives Get Bonuses
- Rural Colorado Hospitals At Risk During Coronavirus Pandemic
- Southern Colorado hospital target of ‘cyber-incident’ causing IT outages
HAWAII
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- Hawaii hospitals, providers to receive additional $33M in federal funds
- Hawaii hospitals to receive $33 million in new funding
- Health care worker who saw patients at Maui Memorial tests positive for COVID-19
- Hilo Medical Center resumes elective surgeries
- Kona Community Hospital reports first inpatient case of COVID-19
- Waimea hosptial reopens outpatient services
NEVADA
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- Hospital ERs underwhelmed as coronavirus fears keep patients away
- Las Vegas doctors, nurses deal with extreme levels of stress during coronavirus
- Nevada health care workers demand on-site OSHA hospital inspections
- Sierra Medical Center, region’s first hospital in 100 years, remains on schedule
- Southern Nevada hospitals to resume elective surgeries next week
UTAH
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- Intermountain Healthcare nurses describe ‘modern war’ against COVID-19 in New York
- MountainStar Healthcare joins national study to see if plasma can cure COVID-19
- Surgeries in Utah are back on despite the coronavirus, but some patients will still have to wait
- Utah nursing home deaths keep rising as AARP advocate calls for more disclosure
