NATIONAL
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- Supreme Court blocks Biden Covid vaccine mandate for businesses, allows health-care worker rule
- 19% of US hospitals critically understaffed, 21% anticipate shortages: Numbers by state
- 5 states facing the worst nursing home COVID-19 outbreaks
- CMS going public with facility turnover, weekend staffing data
- CMS proposed rule seeks to lower Medicare Part D prescription drug costs
- COVID-19 positive, asymptomatic healthcare workers return amid staffing shortages
- HHS secretary orders Medicare to ‘reassess’ premium increase driven by Alzheimer’s drug
- Much of Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate takes effect
- Nursing homes nationwide nearing COVID-19 infection records
- Proposed Most Favored Nation Oncology Drug Pricing Model Withdrawn, Garnering Praise From ASCO
- Short-staffed and COVID-battered, U.S. hospitals are hiring more foreign nurses
- Supreme Court appears open to CMS COVID-19 vaccination mandate
- Vaccine mandate challenge reveals deep divides in the Supreme Court
ALABAMA
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- Alabama nears 2,000 hospitalizations, now averaging 10,000 new COVID cases per day
- Alabama hospitals, ICUs starting to feel crush of omicron
- Vickers takes reins of UAB Health System
- Staffing shortages take toll on Alabama hospitals
- UAB Health System’s new CEO’s vision for Birmingham and Alabama
- Some Alabama hospitals are canceling or delaying elective surgeries amid COVID surge
- Acclinate, Prosper partner on new platform aimed at reducing health disparities
- Alabama physician, ASC founder dies
ALASKA
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- More Alaska health care workers are out sick or in quarantine
- Alaska’s hospital system remains intact during omicron surge
- Anchorage police chief to take position at Providence Alaska
- More top departures from Juneau’s hospital
- As COVID cases skyrocket, Alaska health officials closely watch hospitalizations, staffing
ARIZONA
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- Huge surge in Covid-19 cases stressing Arizona health care system
- Arizona asks federal government to send paramedics to help 5 Phoenix-area hospitals
- ‘There’s no more backup plans’: AZ health care workers call for COVID-19 mitigation policy
- Northern Arizona Healthcare outlines additional plans for new FMC campus
- Arizona health officials say ‘mild’ omicron still a risk
- Arizona’s senior COVID advisor hopes new pills, military can relieve hospitals
- Arizona surpasses 1.5M documented COVID-19 cases, nears 25,000 deaths
- ‘It’s going to crush the system:’ Hundreds of Arizona health care workers demand COVID-19 mitigation policy
- Number of COVID inpatients in Arizona hospitals up 21% since end of December
- Nursing homes need more COVID boosters, says AARP
- Arizona hospitals are losing nurses. But some of them return as travel nurses — for better pay
- Phoenix nurse fired from Mayo Clinic for being unvaccinated says process was unfair
- Arizona hospital CEO warns of staff shortages during ‘exponential increase’ in COVID-19 infections
- States With the Biggest Hospital Staffing Shortages
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas governor says large businesses in state should not comply with Biden administration’s ‘oppressive vaccine mandate’
- Arkansas health officials warn current COVID-19 surge could continue to skyrocket next week
- Arkansas Receives At-Home Testing Kits, Governor Hutchinson Requests Funds From ARPA
- Arkansas hospitals get $50M to prep for next COVID surge
- Arkansas doctors pushing for more COVID-19 vaccinations among children
- Arkansas faces monoclonal antibody shortage, hospitals in Little Rock run out
- ACHI: Some Arkansas families should shelter in place as omicron variant spreads
- Arkansas trauma communication center seeing record-high in patients
- New Arkansas Law Raises Medicaid Prescription Cap
- Arkansas emergency rooms seeing high volume of patients
- 4 top-rated hospitals for patient experience: Arkansas
- National Guard to deploy members around Arkansas next week to assist in COVID testing
- Arkansas Trauma Com traveling further to transport patients due to COVID cases
- Coronavirus in Arkansas: another record as over 10,000 new cases reported, 14 more deaths
CALIFORNIA
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- California allows healthcare workers back to work after COVID-19 exposure, positive test
- California governor asks for $2.7 billion to battle pandemic
- California hospital workers to begin striking Jan. 13
- California lawmakers debate universal health care proposal
- CMA issues statement on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget
- Hoag, Providence to split: 5 things to know
- ‘It’s dangerous’ | Healthcare workers push back on guidance for virus-positive employees
- Real estate: Medical office building in Los Gatos draws big-time buyer
- Soon-Shiong Pours Another $300M Into ImmunityBio
- Stanford Children’s CEO named chair of Children’s Hospital Association board
- Travel nurses to face tighter rules in California
- UC San Diego Health settles with feds in false claims case
- These interactive maps show how full California hospitals are as COVID surge intensifies
- California hospital has 700 employees in isolation because of Covid
- Strike averted at California hospital
COLORADO
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- Banner Health names Alan Qualls new Northern Colorado CEO
- Colorado reactivates crisis standards of care for emergency services for 1st time in nearly 2 years
- ‘It’s worse than we’ve seen’: Long-term care facilities see staffing challenges driven by omicron variant
- Medicaid, Medicare won’t pay Denver-area elder care provider for new clients after finding staffing issues, other problems
- Omicron continues to skyrocket in Colorado; state’s positivity rate soars over 28%, incidence rates surge
- 35% of Colorado hospital patients with COVID admitted for other reasons
- Colorado hospital closed from smoke damage to reopen Jan. 18
- Hospitals in Colorado, across the U.S. letting COVID-infected staff members stay on the job
- Marshall Fire closes hospital and displaces staff as Colorado battles omicron
CONNECTICUT
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- ‘Campaign of intimidation’ forced physicians into restrictive employment, lawsuit alleges
- FEMA reimbursing Community Health Center for mass vaccination sites
- Lamont’s new executive orders require COVID-19 booster shots for nursing home workers
- Mandate Requires CT Nursing Home Staff To Get COVID-19 Booster
- Saint Francis Hospital sues Hartford HealthCare, claims anti-competitive practices and ‘campaign of intimidation’
- AG, lawmakers review implications of hospital antitrust suit
- Hartford HealthCare hit with antitrust claims by rival
- St. Francis Sues Hartford HealthCare Over Monopoly Power Concerns
- Yale New Haven Health, MultiCare lean on internal experts to evaluate Aduhelm
- Unlocking capacity with technology: 5Qs with Lisa Stump, SVP and CIO, Yale New Haven Healthcare
- Connecticut asks nursing homes to accept hospital transfers with COVID-19
- Connecticut asks nursing homes to accept positive COVID-19 hospital transfers
- Governor Lamont Signs Orders Requiring All Long-Term Care Facility and State Hospital Employees To Receive COVID-19 Boosters
- Loved ones of nursing home residents concerned about new DPH guidance
- CT asks nursing homes to accept COVID-positive admissions from hospitals
- As CT nears record, hospitalizations less severe than 2020 peak, experts say
- CT legislative leaders: Mental health system in ‘deep crisis’ is priority in 2022 session
- More patients, fewer staff and a lack of beds strain Connecticut emergency departments hit by omicron surge
DC
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- DC Hospitals Ask for State of Emergency Declaration
- Gaetz bill would nullify COVID vaccine passport mandate in D.C.
- DC nurses plan rally over ‘unsafe’ staffing conditions at Howard University Hospital
- DC Mayor Declares Public Health Emergency
- How DC’s limited health emergency helps hospitals recuperate
- DMV hospitals say they’re stretched thin
- D.C. mayor declares two-week limited public health emergency due to COVID-19 resurgence
- COVID surge’s staffing crunch upends life in D.C. area
DELAWARE
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- ChristianaCare, other Delaware hospitals implement emergency rules to handle COVID-19 surge
- How Crisis Standards of Care will change how hospitals treat patients
- ‘We cannot afford to continue the pace’ | COVID issues in Delaware hospitals have never been seen before
- Beebe postpones non-emergent procedures as COVID-19 continues to strain hospitals
- Delaware’s COVID hospitalizations up 54% since New Year’s
- Delaware National Guard receives abbreviated medical training to assist during COVID surge
FLORIDA
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- Florida agency threatens to fine hospitals with strict COVID-19 vaccination mandates
- Florida hospitals face severe staffing shortage ‘crisis’
- Florida medical supply company to pay $600K in Medicare fraud settlement
- Florida ranks in bottom 5 for vaccinations, boosters in nursing homes
- Lee Health opening women’s cardiology ASC
- Lee Health to waive telehealth fee during COVID-19 influx
- State Representatives looking to increase transparency in Florida’s health care system
- Baptist Health wants to open its first hospital in Broward. But Broward Health and Memorial offer a dueling proposal.
- Report: Florida facing shortage of nearly 18,000 doctors
- 213K Florida Digestive Health patients informed of 2020 data compromise
- Florida health officials release new COVID-19 testing guidelines
- Florida hospitals, nursing homes turn to education system to combat nursing shortage
- Elected officials claim Florida COVID hospitalization numbers are inaccurate
- Kindred Rehabilitation Services and South Florida Health Announce Plans for Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital
GEORGIA
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- Strained Georgia hospitals see rise in patients from COVID
- Gene found in Georgia sewer water could be ‘global public health threat,’ scientists say
- Physician: COVID-19 pandemic lessons should spur Georgia General Assembly to action
- Georgia flu activity ‘very high,’ state health officials say
- Georgia hospital agrees to measures to help deaf patients
- Counties with highest COVID-19 infection rates in Georgia
- Kaiser Permanente gets a new Georgia president
- Georgia sets one-day record for COVID-19 cases
- Georgia nurses are driving hours to fill staffing gaps due to Omicron
HAWAII
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- 2 Hawaii hospitals cut quarantine time for some frontline staff, other facilities poised to follow suit
- Hawaii hospital capacity in question with shortage of workers, new COVID anti-viral pills
- Virus hospitalizations rise in Hawaii as omicron spreads
- Staffing shortage triggers internal emergency declaration at Queen’s Medical Center
- As more workers test positive, Hawaii Island hospital enters crisis staffing plan
- 20% of those in Hawaii hospitals with COVID were actually admitted for other reasons, experts say
- With more patients than beds, Queen’s Medical Center-West Oahu declares emergency
- Hospitals report ‘critical’ shortage of staffed beds with hundreds of frontline workers out
IDAHO
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- Idaho health system scraps plan for orthopedic hospital, will build ASC
- Intermountain physician group email breach exposes patient protected health information
- Primary Health temporarily closing some clinics while juggling increased COVID-19 testing…
- ‘Tremendous amount of stress’: COVID surge engulfs Idaho health care systems once more
- Omicron infections now 88% of new Idaho COVID-19 cases
- Idaho health system scraps plan for orthopedic hospital, will build ASC
ILLINOIS
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- 11-building portfolio with ASCs sold to Chicago investment firm
- Amid surge in Illinois, who counts as a hospitalized COVID-19 patient may surprise you
- Chicago hospitals are strained, and the city hasn’t reached the peak of the omicron wave yet
- Contract health care workers, FEMA being deployed throughout Illinois
- Cyberattackers Hit Data of 80K Fertility Patients
- Hospitals in Texas, Illinois face Medicare termination
- Illinois hospital closes, terminates staff
- Pritzker: 2,048 healthcare workers being sent to overwhelmed Illinois hospitals
- COVID by the Numbers: Metrics From Each of Illinois’ 11 Health Care Regions
- Hundreds of Health Care Workers Being Deployed to Illinois Hospitals This Month
- How another COVID surge is affecting health care workers
- Pritzker mulls state’s response to omicron wave amid record-high hospitalizations
INDIANA
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- Indiana lawmakers considering bill to help healthcare workers amid staffing shortage
- Apria to be Acquired in $1.6B Deal
- Franciscan Health introduces nursing home alternative to Indiana through PACE Center
- IU Health, Ivy Tech Responding to Nursing Shortage
- Public health emergency bill moves forward in Indiana Senate
- Indiana Hospital Assoc. President predicts new COVID hospitalization record this week
- Indianapolis chaplain shares grim reality of COVID crisis inside hospital ICU
IOWA
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- Amid wrongful-death claims and unpaid fines, Iowa nursing home chain files for bankruptcy
- Iowa nursing home chain files for bankruptcy protection
- UIHC plans 400-bed expansion over next 10 years
- UIHC to move forward with projects that could increase capacity by 50% over next decade
- As COVID-19 cases surge, hospitals continue postponing non-emergency surgeries
- Staff shortages continue at nursing homes, assisted living centers
- Governor Reynolds Announces Iowa Health Careers Registered Apprenticeship Grant
- Nursing Home Group QHC Cites ‘Crippling’ Staffing Issues in Chap. 11 Filing
- Iowa’s COVID infection rate hits all-time high
- Iowa clinic’s $19.2M ASC application goes forward without hospital backing
KANSAS
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- COVID lawsuits still allowed after court ruling
- Kansas Governor Moves to Help Facilities Hit by COVID Surge
- Kansas hospital runs out of ventilators as virus cases soar
- Cases, clusters surge as Omicron takes hold
- Kansas governor signs a new COVID-19 disaster declaration after hospitals beg for help
- COVID disaster spurs Gov. Laura Kelly to declare emergency as Kansas hospitals struggle
- Kansas hospital out of ventilators, sparks local emergency declaration
- One Kansas City area hospital sees highest number of COVID patients since pandemic began
- COVID-19 surge and nursing shortage hitting Kansas hospitals hard
- Kansas governor signs COVID-19 disaster declaration, executive orders for staff shortages
- Kansas doctors warn of more closures without return to mask wearing
- As staff isolate with Covid, KC hospital asks retired nurses to return to work
- Stressed Kansas and Missouri hospitals hunt for ventilators
KENTUCKY
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- How two familiar faces in Louisville business will lead a growing venture
- Humana announces plan to buy back $1B in stock
- ICU beds maxed out in Northern Kentucky amid omicron surge
- Kentucky emergency room doctors make an urgent plea to the public as hospitalizations rise
- Kentucky National Guard returning to Baptist Health Corbin in support role
LOUISIANA
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- La. Supreme Court rules hospital can fire workers for not complying with vaccine mandate
- Louisiana Supreme Court upholds hospital vaccine mandate for employees
- Louisiana Supreme Court rules Ochsner Health can mandate COVID-19 vaccine for employees
- La. Supreme Court: Ochsner can fire hospital employees who don’t meet COVID vaccine mandate
- Omicron is changing the way COVID patients are cared for in some Baton Rouge hospitals
- Ochsner LSU Health opens women’s health center on St. Mary Medical Center campus
- La. doesn’t track ‘incidental COVID’ hospitalizations, but acknowledges some virus patients are seeking care for something else
- Louisiana reports highest number of daily COVID cases for 4th time in 2 weeks
- Rest of Louisiana not following New Orleans on masks
- COVID outbreaks at Louisiana nursing homes infect nearly 1,200 staff members
- Omicron variant surges into record-breaking COVID-19 case wave across Louisiana
MAINE
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- Bill calls for Maine to ban COVID-19 vaccination mandates for 5 years
- Gov. Mills to send 169 more National Guard members to help Maine’s hospitals
- Maine sets new record for number of people in hospital with COVID-19
- More than 1,000 Maine hospital staffers missed work Wednesday due to COVID
- Bill to end COVID-19 vaccine mandates debated in Maine Legislature
- Lewiston’s St. Mary’s Hospital allowing COVID-19 positive staff report to work
- Governor Mills Announces Additional Maine National Guard Deployment to Support Hospitals In Responding to COVID-19 Surge
- Maine hospitals report surge in workers out with COVID-19 or in quarantine
- 3 things to know from Maine’s COVID briefing: omicron infections affecting schools, hospitals & testing
- State easing CNA requirements
- MaineHealth reports surge in COVID among employees
- Top health expert says Maine may be a month or more out from omicron peak
- ‘We’re all hurting’: Hospital workers plead for vaccination and help amid omicron surge
MARYLAND
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- In medical first, surgeons transplant pig heart into man
- Maryland secures mental health hospitalization waiver
- Maryland officials confirm ransomware attack shut down Department of Health
- TidalHealth moves into crisis status as Maryland COVID-19 hospital numbers climb
- Staffs of Maryland hospitals, stressed and sickened with COVID-19, know ‘cavalry’ isn’t coming
- Maryland Department of Health receives $1.1 million CDC grant to address maternal mortality
- Covid Latest: Hogan Says ‘We Are Starting To Level Off’ But Concern Remains For Hospitals
- Mandates, whistleblowers, and culture change: Maryland grapples over Omicron response
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Massachusetts hospitals to distinguish between primary, incidental COVID-19 admissions in reporting
- State issues COVID-19 booster mandate for nursing home workers
- Brigham nurses, hospital officials at odds over visitor policy, other COVID-19-related issues
- Baker activates 500 more National Guard members to support hospitals
- With COVID surging, Gov. Charlie Baker activates 500 more Massachusetts National Guard members
- More National Guard members activated to help state’s hospitals
- COVID Surge Expected to Peak in Massachusetts Later This Month
- Visitor policy changes at Baystate Health as COVID cases in Massachusetts rise
- ‘More COVID Than Ever Before’: Boston Doctors Stunned by Surge
- Massachusetts close to end of omicron coronavirus surge, according to projections
- State COVID-19 hospital data changing to reflect primary and incidental cases
- Boston area hospitals again limit visitors because of rising COVID cases
- Kaiser, Mass General invest in Providence digital health spinoff
- The strike is over, but tensions could persist as Saint Vincent nurses return to work with nurses hired to replace them
MICHIGAN
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- ‘Breaking point’: Beaumont hospitals have 750 COVID patients, 430 workers out with virus
- Mercy Health Muskegon sets up outdoor waiting room tent as intensive care unit hits 140% occupancy
- More than 200 Sparrow caregivers out sick with COVID-19, cases rising daily
- Michigan health officials address record number of COVID cases, hospitalizations
- Michigan Medicine CEO: ‘Health care is truly in a crisis’ amid COVID surge, staffing shortage
- Mercy Health says COVID continues to be ‘unprecedented’ in West Michigan
- Feds sending staffing assistance to fifth Michigan hospital during latest case surge
- State health officials dispute 30 percent Covid nursing home death count discrepancy by auditor
- University of Michigan Health: More than 500 staff members currently out with COVID
- Michigan sees record number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals already at breaking point
- ‘We are really at a breaking point,’ Beaumont Health doctor says of COVID-19 surge
MINNESOTA
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- Minneapolis nursing home to close due to ‘significant structural deficiencies,’ MDH says
- Overrun Minnesota hospitals to receive $40 million in federal aid to boost staffing levels
- Walz Seeks $40M for Hospital Staffing Amid COVID-19 Surge
- Minnesota seeks $40M to support hospital staffing
- Minnesota Gov. Walz wants $40M in Covid-19 aid to help hospital staffing
- Minnesota removes race as factor in rationing COVID-19 antibodies
- Under capacity pressures, Minnesota hospitals discourage seeking COVID-19 testing at EDs
- Nursing homes waiting for more help as staffing challenges persist
- State plans to close Minneapolis nursing home
- Nursing home worker shortage ripples through communities
- Building New Proven Better Than Renovating For One ‘Very Dated’ Minnesota Nursing Home
- Omicron surge causing dire staff shortages at Mayo Clinic, other health care facilities
- COVID-19 in MN: Active cases hit new high; Mpls., St. Paul tighten eatery regs
- Murder trial date set for man charged in mass shooting at Buffalo, Minn. medical clinic
- Minnesota hospital reduces postpartum hemorrhages 40% after retooling EHR
- Mayo, Kaiser among companies investing $110M into ‘hospital-at-home’ venture
- Minnesota hospitals ‘literally full’; officials tell non-emergency cases to stay away from ERs
- Minnesota sets another grim stat: Record-setting COVID infection
- MN nursing homes suffering staff shortage; local education opportunities to get certified
MISSISSIPPI
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- Mississippi hospitals return to COVID-19 health plan as hospitalizations heighten
- Omicron pushes understaffed hospitals into crisis mode
- Mississippi Hospital System Goes From Not Enough Beds to Not Enough Staff Amid COVID Spike
- Licensed Mississippi hospitals required to participate in state COVID System of Care Plan
- Mississippi Senate Committee Approves Medical Marijuana
MISSOURI
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- Kansas City eye center joins EyeCare Partners
- Missouri cancer surgery delayed over COVID strain at hospitals
- Realty Trust Group Announces New Client Relationship with Saint Francis Healthcare
- U.S. Supreme Court allows health care worker vaccine mandate, ruling against Missouri
- Future Mercy CEO announces senior leadership team: 6 things to know
- Kansas City-area urgent care clinics dealing with influx of patients amid COVID-19 surge
- Kansas City hospitals seeing shortage of ventilators
- Missouri hospital restores some systems after cyberattack, says patient data exposed
- Missouri among 19 states with fewer than 15% of ICU beds left amid health care staffing shortages
- Stressed Kansas and Missouri hospitals hunt for ventilators
- Missouri hits a new monthly record for COVID cases as state neglects to address deadly surge
- Surging COVID numbers set new hospital records in St. Louis area
- Missouri COVID hospitalizations have jumped 53% in one month
- Missouri hospitals report more than 3,100 COVID patients for 3rd straight day
- ‘It’s exhausting’: St. Louis hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients
- Patients wait in ERs for days as COVID-19 patients overwhelm St. Louis-area hospitals
MONTANA
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- Montana clinic plans $7M ASC expansion
- Health leaders concerned about omicron spike’s effect on Montana hospitals
- Montana Psych Hospital Failed to Properly Investigate Death
- Omicron wave threatens Montana hospital capacity
- Health care systems report ‘significant strain’ as COVID-19 surges in Montana
- Montana hospital accused of underpaying nurses
- Hospitals recruit international nurses to fill pandemic shortages
NEBRASKA
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- Pharmaceutical research company in Omaha helped with COVID pill trials
- Nebraska hospitals worry about omicron peak: ‘We’re just starting to feel the wave’
- Bill would let Nebraska doctors deny care because of personal beliefs
- Gov. Ricketts: DHHS Planned Rate Increases of $61 Million Will Assist Health Service Providers
- Nebraska hospitals stretched thin as virus surge continues
- Nebraska Medicine moves to ‘crisis standards of care’ status
- State AG May Sue to Block Planned Mask Mandate in Omaha
- Douglas Co. Health Director to institute mask mandate
- Nebraska omicron update: Delta trends make hospitals wary as cases continue to surge
- ‘The vaccine is still working’: Boosted people 46 times less likely to be hospitalized in Nebraska
- Bryan Health acquires Nebraska hospital
- Record COVID-19 cases across the country are reducing hospital ICU bed availability
NEVADA
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- Las Vegas hospitals running short on health care workers
- Southern Nevada hospitals face ‘staffing crisis’ as COVID-19 surges
- Staffing crisis at Clark County hospitals extends into second week
- VA hospital in North Las Vegas to open COVID evaluation tent amid case surge
- Vegas-area hospital firm cuts staff COVID-19 quarantine time
- Report: Staffing crisis persists, ICU patients increase for Southern Nevada hospitals
- ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ’s Parents Sue Nevada Hospital After His Death
- Las Vegas nurses frustrated with updated CDC work guidelines
- Nevada hospitals request state aid as virus strains staffing
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- New Hampshire reaches $21.1 million settlement with Centene
- New Hampshire 6th state to settle with Centene over pharmacy benefit services
- Omicron now dominant COVID-19 variant in New Hampshire
- With omicron spike, N.H. health officials make tough decisions about COVID treatment due to limited availability
- ‘Didn’t have to be this way’: Wentworth-Douglass COVID-19 care nurses pushed to the limit
- NH reports COVID death at Jaffrey nursing home, closes outbreak there
- Many COVID-19 patients need serious therapy long after they leave the hospital
- Few NH health care workers claim unemployment over vaccine mandates
- N.H. adopts new CDC guidelines on COVID quarantine and isolation. What does that look like?
- NH hospitals struggle with COVID-19, sick staff members, low blood supplies
NEW JERSEY
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- N.J. nursing home under scrutiny after bodies were found in makeshift morgue hard hit again in new COVID outbreak
- N.J. nursing homes would face more scrutiny and tougher penalties under bill headed to governor
- New Jersey reinstates public health emergency as omicron surge overwhelms hospitals
- New Jersey hospital gets new name after acquisition
- As COVID hospitalizations continue to rise in New Jersey, ventilator use is up 71%
- New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy reinstates public health emergency to maintain COVID powers
- NY, NJ Hospitals Getting Military Surge Teams as COVID Burden Starts to Ease
- ‘Crisis situation’: Mental health services in NJ stretched thin as pandemic boosts demand
- Surgery Centers and Medical Offices in New Jersey Settle Allegations of Federal Health Care Fraud
- New Jersey ASCs, physician-owner to pay $7.4M to settle fraud allegations
NEW MEXICO
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- Albuquerque’s proposed vaccine mandate sparks debate
- New Mexico hospitals warn of wait times for the less sick
- States With the Biggest Hospital Staffing Shortages
- State lawmaker proposes bill to fund nursing education
- Hospitals ask for public’s help not to overwhelm emergency rooms
- Biden to send more military medics to U.S. hospitals in COVID-19 hotspots
- New Mexico Extends COVID-19 Public Health Orders
- New Mexico Hospital Officials Tell Those With Mild Illnesses to Seek Treatment Elsewhere
- Travel nurses are an expensive stopgap in New Mexico
- New Mexico COVID-19 update: 6,919 new cases, totaling 388,215
NEW YORK
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- FEMA sending money to NYC hospitals, but Schumer says they need more as omicron surges
- Gov. Hochul announces booster mandate for healthcare workers
- Hochul proposes spending $10 billion to retain, attract health care workers
- New York requires some hospital-owned ASCs to halt nonurgent surgeries amid COVID-19 surge
- Struggle over N.Y. nursing home staffing reform continues
- What Northwell’s new chief quality officer refuses to look away from
- Memorial Sloan Kettering names chief digital officer
- New York now requiring COVID-19 boosters for healthcare workers
- Military doctors, nurses set to arrive next week in New York, New Jersey to help with omicron surge
- 5 states facing the worst nursing home COVID-19 outbreaks
- MSK Cancer Center launches innovation fund after $100M gift
- Northwell, Intermountain & Rush invest in digital health platform for self-insured
- New York’s COVID-19 nursing home deaths are rising
- What Northwell’s new chief quality officer refuses to look away from
- Omicron may be plateauing in New York City and East Coast
- Meditech to launch online training program for Expanse users
- New York to require COVID-19 boosters for healthcare staff
- NYC Health + Hospitals taps new Harlem CEO
- COVID-19 cases are surging in NY nursing homes, reopening scars of pandemic’s darkest days
- Northwell announces new chief quality officer
- Mortality rates dropped 33% at NYC hospital after NYU Langone merger, study finds
- New York hospital closes ASC as staffing shortage reaches all-time high
- Hospitals near breaking point with influx of COVID patients
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Local, national firms press ahead on $40M medical building near UNC Rex in Raleigh
- Mission Health CMO to leave HCA for new role
- N. Carolina physician indicted for altering medical devices
- North Carolina physician faces charges over $46M in Medicare billings
- State OKs $500,000 grant for hospital building
- Triad’s biggest hospitals combine voices to say they’re stretched thin
- North Carolina approves $165M refinance plan for Atrium Health
- North Carolina has limited doses of monoclonal antibodies for COVID patients
- ‘It starts to wear on you’: Military doctor in Winston-Salem shares pandemic experience
- North Carolina isn’t tracking at-home COVID tests
- As COVID cases rise in NC, medicine to keep people out of the hospital in short supply
- UNC Lenoir Health Care receives special stroke care accreditation
- Triangle health systems pause use of 2 major monoclonal antibody treatments proven ineffective against omicron
- CVS Caremark secures $3.4B North Carolina pharmacy benefit management contract
- 3 North Carolina hospital CEOs hold 1st joint press conference as COVID-19 surges
- AdventHealth Hendersonville nurse named one of the Great 100 Nurses of North Carolina 2021
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- 2nd Acquittal in Charges in 2017 Ohio Nursing Home Death
- Ohio home health care provider agrees to pay $500K as part of False Claims Act settlement
- Unvaccinated Akron Children’s Hospital employees being placed on leave
- Unvaccinated health care workers put on unpaid leave plan legal action against Akron Children’s Hospital
- COVID-19 hospitalizations: Ohio hospital leaders say situation is worsening outside northern Ohio
- With focus on COVID, Ohio’s other vaccinations lag
- Biden administration to send medical teams to help overwhelmed hospitals in 6 states, including Ohio
- Ohio National Guard assists Dayton Children’s, hospital says help is much needed
- Federal, Ohio laws against surprise medical billing go into effect
- MetroHealth becomes majority holder of VNA of Ohio
- Ohio ranks in the top 10 states with the highest COVID-19 hospitalizations
- Ohio’s Hospitals Are Using ‘Visiting Nurses’ To Alleviate The Shortage During The Pandemic
OKLAHOMA
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- Nursing homes must deliver back pay to 129 workers for overtime, meetings
- Oklahoma hospital CEO steps down, eyes move into politics
- Shawnee hospital in ‘dire’ situation due to COVID-19 variant Omicron surge
- Staff shortages spur temporary pharmacy closures nationwide
- OU Health updates policy to require everyone wear medical-grade masks in facilities
- ICUs nearing capacity in at least 18 states, including Oklahoma
- Oklahoma doctors impacted by hospital strain, takes toll on patients
- Mercy Hospital runs out of monoclonal antibodies in Oklahoma City
- Oklahoma hospitals increase in pediatric patients amid omicron surge
- Oklahoma dialysis company scrambles for stock as COVID-19 surge affects supply chain
- Oklahoma hospital administrators discuss increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations
- While omicron symptoms are mild for some, COVID is again overwhelming OKC hospital staff, ERs
- Health leaders requesting additional COVID-19 treatments for Oklahoma amid surge
- Shawnee hospital in ‘dire’ situation due to COVID-19 variant Omicron surge
OREGON
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- Here’s what you need to know about Oregon’s new ‘crisis standards’ of care
- Omicron Is Changing a Lot—But Not the Way Oregon Collects Hospital Data
- Oregon Hospitals Should Disclose Their Crisis-Care Rationing, Lawmakers Say
- ‘We are increasing risk tolerance’: Oregon hospitals allow COVID-positive employees to return to work
- Oregon issues hospital crisis care standards as COVID surges
- Oregon health officials look at new solutions to COVID-19 testing shortage
- On Brink of Capacity, Oregon Hospitals Receive Guidance on Who Receives Lifesaving Care
- Rural Oregon hospitals buckle under strain of omicron
- Multiple complaints filed against pop-up COVID test sites; Oregon department of Justice investigating
- Up to 1,200 Oregon National Guard deployed for hospital relief, 41 due in C. Oregon
- Expenses rose more than revenue for Oregon hospitals in Q3
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Crozer Health temporarily suspends some services because of Covid-19 surge, staffing shortage
- Pennsylvania Seeks More Hospital Beds, Staff in COVID Surge
- Sale of Tower Health hospital, urgent care centers off
- Springfield Hospital temporarily closing emergency department due to staffing shortages
- Trinity Health won’t buy Tower Health hospital
- With one hospital closed and another set to close later this month, Chester County Hospital a major player in health care
- ‘Absolute miracle’: No serious injuries after medical helicopter crashes on way to pediatric hospital
- COVID-19 surge has overwhelmed some Pa. hospitals — and now their workers are getting sick, too
- Philadelphia-area hospitals are overwhelmed, but not only by COVID-19 patients
- Pa. sets monthly COVID case record in 12 days; 31,000 cases added
- Pennsylvania hospital to reopen maternity unit shuttered since 2019
RHODE ISLAND
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- New RI nursing home mandate requires visitors to be vaccinated or test negative for COVID
- Outbreak hits Rhode Island hospital after COVID-positive staff called in to work
- Rhode Island hospital reports COVID-19 outbreak
- Lifespan, Care New England merger would provide $3.3B in economic impact, report finds
- Biden sending medical teams to Rhode Island, 5 other states to help hospitals
- Eleanor Slater worker sues RI for ‘grossly negligent’ discrimination, retaliation
- Nearly a quarter of Eleanor Slater patients tested positive for COVID in last 10 days
- Omicron makes up 90% of cases in RI; National Guard deployed to Butler Hospital
- How often are Rhode Island health care facilities using COVID-positive workers?
- Rhode Island hospital reports COVID-19 outbreak
- States With the Biggest Hospital Staffing Shortages
- RI issues new rules for nursing home visitation as COVID-19 surge continues
- Rhode Island tightens up nursing home visitation rules
- Vax or test requirement now in effect for visitors to R.I. nursing homes
- Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott resigns as Rhode Island health director
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- SC sets new record for single-day COVID-19 cases in latest report
- South Carolina senators debate ending state control of hospital expansion and equipment
- Repealing the Certificate of Need Program is up for debate in South Carolina
- SC could make it easier for hospitals to build in a new location, opening access to patients
- Record-breaking number of children hospitalized with COVID in South Carolina
- SC’s largest hospital system to limit visitors as omicron cases surge
- McMaster names lawyer to chair South Carolina’s health board
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- Avera Health launches ‘Moving Health Forward’ branding campaign
- Report: T. Denny Sanford still under investigation in child porn case
- Pediatric hospitalizations of COVID-19 on the rise in South Dakota
- South Dakota’s first COVID death of a child, 336 hospitalized
- Sanford Health sells Profile by Sanford
- Sanford Health says too many non-emergency patients are coming to ER
- Unvaccinated hospitalization costs reach $13.8 billion, study says
- Omicron is spiking cases and hospitalizations in South Dakota
TENNESSEE
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- Kindred Rehabilitation Services and South Florida Health Announce Plans for Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital
- Nashville Health Care Council president stepping down
- Surgery Partners spent $185M on 3 end-of-year deals
- In Tennessee hospitals, omicron sparks the worst staffing crisis of the pandemic
- Tennessee behavioral health leaders make historic request amid provider shortage
- Tennessee has over 150,000 active COVID cases
- Tenn. Dept. of Health releases reconciled 2021 COVID-19 data
- TN hospitals face staffing shortages amid omicron surge
- Tennessee wants to incentivize colleges to graduate more STEM, health care students
- As COVID cases rise, ER space becomes nonexistent
TEXAS
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- Baylor Scott & White CEO retires, joins private equity firm
- Hospitals in Texas, Illinois face Medicare termination
- Houston hospitals mandating COVID boosters for employees, amid omicron surge
- How some long-term care facilities are handling a spike in COVID-19 cases
- The unapologetic leadership of Dr. Marc Boom
- Staff shortages spur temporary pharmacy closures nationwide
- UMMC loses Medicare contract after regulators report ‘substandard’ care
- Tenet CEO: Why USPI is its ‘gem for the future’
- Texas hospital offering nurses $20K sign-on bonus
- Texas’s dangerous spike in omicron hospitalizations
- Texas could double its COVID-19 hospitalization record, models say
- ‘They’re very tired’: Rural healthcare workers feel strain, as Omicron cases surge in Texas
- ‘Extraordinary pressure’ DSHS deploying extra help to Texas hospitals
- Texans find bare shelves in the cold medicine aisle amid omicron surge
- 5 states facing the worst nursing home COVID-19 outbreaks
- CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System to Build New Hospital, Expand Services in Region
- UT researchers warn COVID hospitalizations will surge beyond previous high
- As COVID-19 cases surge again, nurses in Texas say they are ‘bracing’ for what happens next
- Medical City announces new CEO, CNO appointments: 5 things to know
- Texas ASC now accepts Bitcoin, Ethereum
- How one Texas ASC is reassuring wary patients as COVID-19 surges
- USPI plans to have more than 600 ASCs by 2025
UTAH
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- Intermountain names chief supply chain officer
- Huntsman Cancer Institute, U of Utah Health name new head of radiation oncology
- How Utah hospital patients are prioritized for treatment, with ICU bed shortage and huge COVID case spike
- Utah hospital staff are ‘afraid,’ monoclonal antibodies are running out and COVID-19 test sites are flooded
- State opens self-serve COVID-19 test site as Utah’s cases exceed 10,000
- COVID-19: Utah bill seeks to protect nurses from threats of violence
VERMONT
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- $3M independent ASC proposal to be reviewed by Vermont board
- UVM Medical Center imposes emergency staffing as Covid sidelines more than 400 employees
- Nurses’ union says Scott-Sanders workforce plan ignores current needs
- Two years into the pandemic, the state of Vermont’s nursing workforce
- University of Vermont Medical Center deploys emergency staffing plan
- What’s Causing Vermont’s Dearth of Nurses?
- Brattleboro nursing home administrator on state’s changing approach to COVID as cases rise
- Omicron forecast to cause major Vt. disruptions in coming weeks
- UVM Medical Center re-opens inpatient rehabilitation at Fanny Allen Campus
- Springfield Hospital nurses vote to join health care workers union
- States With the Biggest Hospital Staffing Shortages
VIRGINIA
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- Virginia governor issues 30-day state of emergency
- Virginia hospitals in state of emergency, says Northam
- Virginia hospitalizations at an all-time high, health leaders say
- What to know about Glenn Youngkin’s newest COVID-19 adviser
- A parking garage field hospital in Fredericksburg and more Va headlines
- Even with ‘milder’ disease, Virginia’s latest COVID-19 surge is straining hospitals
- Virginia governor-elect taps hospital CEOs for medical advisory team
WASHINGTON
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- COVID hospitalizations surge in Seattle area, push hospitals toward ‘crisis situation’
- Hoag, Providence to split: 5 things to know
- WA Legislature considers limits on Gov. Inslee’s emergency powers
- Washington State’s Celebrated Long Term Care Program Is Headed Towards Trouble
- Fact check: No discussion of forced quarantine, vaccines from Washington health board
- Protesters descend on WA Board of Health after misinformation about vaccine plans goes viral
- Washington hospitals ‘closer to a crisis situation’ than ever before amid omicron surge
WEST VIRGINIA
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- West Virginia National Guard to relieve stressed hospital system
- West Virginia seeks permission to offer 4th vaccine dose
- WVU awarded funding for COVID research & response for rural West Virginia
- West Virginia Gov. Justice details plan for WVU Medicine, Owens & Minor health care distribution center
- West Virginia Hospital Association has awarded Davis Medical Center and Broaddus Hospital
WISCONSIN
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- Advocate Aurora, WWBIC deploy loans to support two Milwaukee businesses’ growth
- Health care real estate investor buys new Ascension Mequon clinic property for $16.2 million
- Nursing home health care shortages, a ‘crisis’
- Wisconsin reaches record COVID hospitalizations, association says
- Children’s Wisconsin mental health clinic to open, serve growing need
- Wisconsin ‘Healthcare Heroes Act’ introduced as COVID continues
- Family speaks as COVID-19 hospitalizations lead to canceled surgeries
- Wisconsin woman waits for critical brain surgery amid lack of hospital beds
- Wisconsin raises reimbursement rates for home and community health services
- Wisconsin hears ideas on how to spend $420 million in opioid settlement funds
- Marshfield Clinic boosts patient-provider satisfaction and provider efficiency with telehealth
WYOMING
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- Jackson Hole leads nation in per capita COVID cases
- Casper-Natrona County Health rationing rapid COVID-19 tests amid supply shortage; PCR tests still ‘amply available’
- Wyomingites overwhelmingly want physicians to supervise nurse anesthetists and respond to anesthesia emergencies
- Wyoming Department of Health Utilizing Innovative Technology for Medicaid Program
