NATIONAL
- Biden administration extends COVID public health emergency
- Bain: 25% of clinicians want out of healthcare
- Bill would use CMS’s Five-Star system to punish consistently 1-star nursing homes
- How hospital CIOs, IT leaders prepared for the new information-blocking rule
- Moving the Needle on SDOH Data
- Physician shortages: Key stats to know
- Telemedicine regulation more aggressive now than before the pandemic?
ALABAMA
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- USDA awards health care grants to rural hospitals in Mississippi, Alabama
- East Alabama Health Joins Apprentice Partnership
- Virtis Health Unveils Infusion Centers in Birmingham and Mobile, Alabama
- UAB doctors working to prevent high infant and maternal mortality numbers
- ‘We’re going to change lives’: Opelika unveils new Neighborhood Mobile Wellness Clinic
- Encompass Health, Piedmont plan to build rehab hospital in Georgia
ALASKA
ARIZONA
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- Community Health sues local physician group, seeks to recoup $10mil in payments
- Arizona voters will decide on proposition to reduce interest rates on medical debt
- Arizona law protects confidential peer-support group for physicians
- Banner Health, Atlas Healthcare Partners acquire 2 Arizona ASCs
- 5 things to know about OrthoArizona
- OrthoArizona adds 2 surgeons, begins foot and ankle fellowship program
- Tyler-based health care firm acquires Arizona-based service provider
- Ensign Closes SNF Deals in 3 States; White Oak Executes $275M in Financings For 6 Transactions
- Arizona law gives doctors an option for confidential peer support
- Northern Arizona Healthcare hosts third neighborhood meeting on new Flagstaff Medical Center campus
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas Children’s Hospital Hires New Senior VP and Chief Nursing Officer
- Unity Health appoints new CEO
- Arkansas ASC expands surgical team
- Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences opening urology ASC
- New at-home kit could detect breast cancer
- Amedisys, Contessa Team Up With University Of Arkansas To Offer In-Home Care Services
- Arkansas Children’s Hospital Raises Over $45000
- Arkansas-based Walmart launches healthcare research division
CALIFORNIA
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- California physicians authorize strike
- Loma Linda University Medical Center digitizes trauma screenings through Epic EHR
- Medical office building owner says no plans for apartment conversion
- MemorialCare to Seek Council Approval for Mixed-Used Project After Planning Commission Denial
- NorthBay Health CFO stepping down amid cost-cutting initiatives
- UCSF physicians avert strike
- Inside America’s groundbreaking solar-powered health facility
- Babylon to sell its California independent physician association business
- Medical workers union sues Kern Medical Center over funding transparency
- COVID in California: More than 40% of Americans lied about infection
- Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian and Medline partner to enhance supply chain strategy
- California medical group to pilot Google’s clinical software for outpatient care
- California law requires physicians to notify patients of Open Payments database
- Providers raise concerns over California’s value-based Medicaid reforms
COLORADO
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- Aspen Valley Hospital rolls out system of electronic health records
- Denver opens $46.5M facility for homeless people seeking medical care
- Hospital looks toward more accessible care with ambulatory care center groundbreaking
- UCHealth intends to invest millions into Southern Colorado healthcare system
- Valley hospital receives seven-figure boost to post-partum care
- COVID variant concerns grow among Colorado health officials
- Bright Health pulls out of Colorado insurance market
- Parkview Health System, UCHealth agree to partnership
- Westminster health tech company rebrands to Sagility, aims to double revenue
- Aspen Valley Hospital gets going with Epic records system launch
- Health policy researcher says Colorado has opportunity to reduce unwarranted Medicare Advantage prior authorization denials
CONNECTICUT
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- Children’s Behavioral Health Workforce is Stretched Too Thin
- Yale New Haven Health acquires Waterbury, Manchester, Rockville hospitals in agreement
- Yale New Haven Health strikes deal to acquire Connecticut health systems from Prospect Medical Holdings
- Yale physician among 2022 McArthur Fellows
- Majority of physicians favor continuing telehealth for opioid use disorder, Yale study finds
- Windham Hospital Nurses, Healthcare Professionals Continue Contract Negotiations
- UConn Health to hire formerly incarcerated people
DC
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- D.C.’s Rose Health acquired by West Coast behavioral health company
- Eye ASC opens in Washington, D.C., area
- New Ward 8 urgent care opens in effort to expand health care access
- Status update: Here’s where the D.C. region’s hospital construction projects stand
- DC Health to Merge Monkeypox and COVID Centers
- GW urgent care unit opens in Southeast
- The health care company at the center of D.C.’s Medicaid saga
- How new Ward 8 urgent care center could help ease burden on D.C.’s hospitals
- Whitman-Walker advancing Southeast D.C. health center with $2M boost from NIH
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
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- AdventHealth requests addition of 14,500-square-foot ASC to Florida development
- HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital reopens in Port Charlotte
- How hospitals in southwest Florida are coping with the surge in patients after Hurricane Ian
- How Memorial Healthcare System uses social determinants of health to ‘customize’ patient treatments
- Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare opens new primary care office in Panama City Beach
- Following expansion into Florida, Walmart Health launches Healthcare Research Institute
- Florida hospital purchases surgical robot from Momentis
- Broward Health opening overflow units after recent rise in pediatric ICU patients
- First look at Orlando health tech lab opened by Full Sail, AdventHealth University
- Newsweek Honors Tampa General Hospital As Top 10 Rehabilitation Center
- Florida nurse reflects on impact of Hurricane Ian, hospital recovery
- Judges reject a protective order for Florida’s health department in COVID data case
- Baptist Health South Florida appoints Lincoln Mendez the new north region executive
- Miami health care company wins state’s top startup company prize
- Niceville’s HCA Florida Twin Cities Hospital will double ER capacity with $8.5M project
GEORGIA
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- $20M proposal approved for Grady and Hillandale hospitals
- Children’s Healthcare experiences overcrowding, gives tips amid strain
- Top Georgia official for disabilities and mental health to retire
- COVID, monkeypox on decline in Georgia
- UGA program looks to increase CNAs in Georgia
- Health care looms in Georgia election even as voters move on to other issues
- Encompass Health, Piedmont plan to build rehab hospital in Georgia
- County approves $20M hospital relief plan as Atlanta ED closure looms
HAWAII
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- Staffing crisis forces hospital’s cancer center to turn away new patients
- New order protects women who fly to Hawaii for abortions from other states seeking penalties
- To combat fentanyl crisis, Hawaii Department of Health offering free naloxone
- Staffing shortage cited as latest delay in fully opening Hawaii’s new psychiatric hospital
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
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- Blessing eliminates about 150 positions
- Chicago hospitals working to address health disparities land state funding
- CommonSpirit Health confirms ransomware attack
- Hospital chain attack part of ongoing cybersecurity concerns
- Info expected to emerge slowly in hospital chain cyberattack
- Nursing home owner asks county to lift worker covenants so it can sell after only 3 years
- Tech execs left CommonSpirit before IT upheaval
- Southern Illinois Healthcare names new president, CEO
- Illinois is missing COVID-19 data, worrying experts
- Deaconess to purchase Southern Illinois hospitals in Marion, Anna, Mount Vernon, Red Bud
INDIANA
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- Chamber Celebrates Medartis’ New U.S. Headquarters In Warsaw
- Indiana hospitals face significant financial challenges, survey says
- Indiana Joint Replacement Institute to add $28M facility with ASC
- Indianapolis health care giant must face federal lawsuit alleging Medicare fraud
- Indiana hospitals report losing about $3B since the start of 2021
- Growing midwife program could help maternal health in Indiana
- Hospitals warn of costs ahead of 2023, critic dismisses them
- Indiana Supreme Court allows abortions to continue pending January hearing
- 1 in 4 Indiana counties are maternity care deserts
- Oversight of physician training program shifted
- Indiana Children’s Hospital Opens Free, In-House Salon For Parents
- Supreme Court to hear Indiana case on public nursing homes
IOWA
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- Iowa Ortho plans new foot surgery center in Grimes
- MercyOne sites open but online scheduling canceled after national cyberattack
- Storm Lake doctor accused of causing patient’s death appeals court decision
- Court OKs suit against Iowa physician accused of incompetency
- Attack on hospital chain serving Nebraska, western Iowa raises cybersecurity concerns
- Despite court monitoring, three residents sustain broken bones at Iowa care facility
- Feds object to sale of nursing home chain, citing $1 million owed to taxpayers
- Eastern Iowa nursing home accused of locking resident out for 11 hours
KANSAS
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- Ascension nurses in Kansas could unionize
- Kansas group acquires Lafayette dental clinic
- Aria Care Partners announces three acquisitions as it expands service to skilled nursing facilities
- After Black infant mortality surged in Kansas, birth workers jumped into action
- With Olathe Health deal, KU Health System faces competitive Southern Johnson County market
KENTUCKY
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- Kentucky receives more than $4.4 million in grants to improve rural health care
- ‘Students need them’: Mental health days now available to Kentucky students
- COVID-19 cases falling in southeastern Kentucky
- NKU’s Institute for Health Innovation receives grant to support new community health worker program
- Humana Foundation investing $13M in health equity efforts, including in Kentucky
LOUISIANA
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- HCA Healthcare agrees to sell three New Orleans hospitals
- A major hospital merger in New Orleans means big change
- Louisiana medical assistant pleads guilty to using EHR to obtain controlled substances
- LCMC Health to acquire 3 HCA hospitals in partnership with Tulane University
- LCMC to buy Tulane hospitals in $150M deal, narrowing New Orleans’ pool of health care players
- Louisiana Rural Healthcare Organizations Get $4M in Funding
- New Orleans hospitals under threat from even low-level hurricanes; ‘God help us if Ian had hit us’
MAINE
MARYLAND
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- State employee labor union asks Maryland spending board to oppose ‘urgent’ health care contracts
- Union pushes to block contracts for Western Maryland Hospital Center
- Western Maryland Hospital Center vote delayed
- UMMS approves next step in plans for new hospital
- Maryland surpasses 500,000 COVID shots administered
- Prince George’s County among the highest breast cancer mortality rate in Maryland
- Maryland health officials back off expedited move to outsource services at a public hospital
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Holyoke Medical Center emergency docs sue Health New England over $2.5 million in unpaid claims
- New England Patriots owner donates $50M to Mass General
- Mass General Brigham’s Dr. Anne Klibanski on building the academic health system of the future
- Woman indicted in connection with alleged fake bomb threat against Boston Children’s
- Brigham and Women’s CFO Daniel Morash weighs in on finance trends, best practices for CFOs
- Massachusetts to cut down on nursing staff for sexual assault exams
- BCBS Massachusetts’ AI returned orthopedic prior authorization in under a day
- Mass. General Hospital Develops New Hydrogel To Help Treat Burn Patients
- Massachusetts hospital offers to freeze prostate cancer with fewer side effects
- Following Hurricane Ian, Mass. medical team brings ED to hospital parking lot
MICHIGAN
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- Beaumont, Spectrum Merged Hospital System Rebrands to Corewell Health
- Detroit nursing home patients deal with no heat during freezing temperatures
- Grand Rapids med device startup attracts $1M bridge investment led by Mayo Clinic
- Meet the leaders of the newly rebranded Beaumont, Spectrum system
- Physician assistant sues Michigan health system for firing her over LGBT religious exemption
- About 80% of Michigan teens do not get adequate sleep, and it’s hurting their health
- Michigan Hospitals Seek More Help to Address Workforce Shortages
- State of mental health care in Michigan
- With insulin costs rising, Michigan plots early steps to produce its own
- University of Michigan Health-West performs first open-heart procedure, boosting competition for cardiac surgery
- University Hospital to expand pneumatic tube system, construct new Pavilion hospital
- Cardiovascular care leaps forward in West Michigan
MINNESOTA
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- Essentia Health, Marshfield Clinic discuss merger
- Fairview Health Services names new CFO
- Grand Rapids med device startup attracts $1M bridge investment led by Mayo Clinic
- Mayo Clinic receives $100M gift
- Hearing set Oct. 13 on relocation of Avera Granite Falls labor, delivery services to Marshall, Minnesota
- Nurses vote to stay in union at Mayo Health Clinic in Lake City
MISSISSIPPI
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- Will Merit Health Central’s plans to downsize violate its lease with Hinds County?
- Merit Health Central to become a primarily psychiatric facility
- Few Mississippians get updated COVID-19 booster shots
- Mississippi medical marijuana regulation ‘stuck in constipation mode’
- USDA awards health care grants to rural hospitals in Mississippi, Alabama
- Physician CEO uncovers the value of doctor-led health care teams
- MSDH reports 1,900 Mississippians die from lung cancer each year
MISSOURI
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- Missouri sees 50% bump in calls after the launch of 988 suicide prevention number
- New health facility announced in Warrenton
- St. Louis hospital’s former CEO sues over separation agreement
- Lawsuit: Former St. Louis hospital CEO owed damages in wake of resignation
- Children’s Mercy Kansas City unveils genomic sequencing system to identify rare diseases
- Rockhurst University uses simulation lab to attract more students into nursing
- $1 million grant to help Missouri nursing homes transition from faxing to texting
- Cost of new Missouri patient visitation law skyrockets in latest analysis
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
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- CEO of Methodist Health System stands by CommonSpirit amid ransomware attack
- Nebraska prison’s failure to set up EHR system contributed to inmate’s death, state report says
- Nebraska hospital transitioning to Meditech EHR
- Dr. Jeffrey MacMillan brings orthopedic surgery to Kimball Hospital
- Avera Health names interim hospital CEO
NEVADA
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- Groundbreaking of Helios Medical Campus Highlights Bright Future for North Las Vegas
- Pacific Group Breaks Ground on 135-Acre Helios Medical Campus in North Las Vegas
- Nevada to receive grant money for rural healthcare improvements
- Nevada’s COVID- 19 cases, hospitalizations plateau
- Nevada and Idaho jump out in report on rates of prenatal care for pregnant minors
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
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- Hackensack Meridian opens $6.5M long-term acute-care hospital
- Google Partnership to Pilot New Offering in Outpatient Care Setting
- Inside N.J.’s in-home nursing shortage. A crisis intensifies as families beg for lifelines.
- State knew of increased health care costs months before higher premiums were approved
- New Jersey health system buys 63K-square-foot medical office building
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- New York City hospitals to pay $165M in physician sex abuse case
- New York physician, 3 pharmacists charged in $24M oxycodone scheme
- Northwell Health breaks ground on $450M outpatient campus
- Nursing unions, advocates urge Hochul to sign bills changing mandatory overtime rules
- ‘Smells like science and progress’: Construction begins on Hatch Life Sciences in Long Island City
- Columbia University, NewYork-Presbyterian reach $165M sexual abuse settlement over former gynecologist
- How Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program is ‘humanizing’ the patient experience
- Polio detected in 2 more New York counties; state disaster emergency extended
- New York hospital to open breast cancer-focused ambulatory pavilion
- Dr. Jill Kalman 1 year into being Northwell Health’s 1st female chief medical officer
- WNY health care organizations improve security after cyber attacks
- Healthcare startup launcher Redesign Health lays off 67 employees
- Columbia Memorial Health taps COO to succeed retiring CEO
- NewYork-Presbyterian taps former Cleveland Clinic London CEO for executive role
- 3 Hospital for Special Surgery leaders to know
- Good Samaritan Hospital gets new name
- New hospital president ready to tackle challenges and opportunities
- How NYU Langone’s virtual oncology program is bridging the digital divide for medically underserved patients
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Artificial heart keeps N.C. infant alive until transplant
- ‘The American dream’ | Novant Health hiring international nurses to help offset the nursing shortage
- Triangle’s pediatric hospital bed shortage: What health officials, community can do
- Workforce shortages in DHHS creating wider problems
- North Carolina health agency struggles with long program waitlists and staff turnover
- North Carolina eye surgeon wants state’s highest court to take up certificate of need challenge
- As giant hospitals get bigger, an independent doctor in NC feels the squeeze
- COVID-19 in NC: New cases down 16%, hospital admissions fall by 10%
NORTH DAKOTA
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- Sanford Health making effort to cut down on assaults between workers, patients
- Number of ASCs in the top 25 states for surgeon pay
- Essentia Health, Marshfield Clinic in merger talks
- CHI St. Alexius Health affected by apparent cyberattack
- BCBS North Dakota partners with Altru Health System for tiered plan
OHIO
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- Cincinnati hospital system launches heart transplant program
- Cleveland Clinic gets $30M donation
- MetroHealth opens Behavioral Health Hospital in Cleveland Heights
- Nationwide Children’s withheld pay for meal break even when employees worked, lawsuit alleges
- Nationwide Children’s Denise Zabawski on the challenges — and advantages — of being a CIO at a children’s hospital
- University Hospitals lays off 117 administrative employees; eliminates 326 unfilled positions
- Northeast Ohio hospitals prepare for rough respiratory virus season
- Ohio hospital transitions orthopedic services to Crystal Clinic
- Fairlawn-based Crystal Clinic to take over St. Vincent orthopedic locations across Northern Ohio
- McLaren St. Luke’s reaches settlement with ProMedica’s health insurance division
- Ohio hospital ‘still in the black’ despite service cut, COO says
- 3 Ohio medical office buildings sell for $8.4M
- Summa Health to sell lab business to Quest Diagnostics
- University Hospitals to lay off 117 administrative employees
- Ohio surpasses 40,000 COVID-19 deaths
- Kettering Health Foundation surpasses $100M
- As swaths of U.S. increasingly become ‘maternity care deserts,’ local maternity ward closures a concern
- Central Ohio hospitals, ranked by FY21 financial performance in pandemic rebound
OKLAHOMA
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- As Hospitals Close Children’s Units, Where Does That Leave Lachlan?
- Nursing Home Worker Shortage Puts Aging Oklahomans at Risk
- Oklahoma State Hospital No Longer Allowed to Offer Trans-Related Care to Young People
- Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signs small wave of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) bills, vetoes three
- As Oklahoma faced COVID-19 spikes, state used $30 million to relocate lab
- National Partners in Healthcare expands in Elk City, Oklahoma with Western Oklahoma Anesthesia Consultants
OREGON
PENNSYLVANIA
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- CHOP’s new $85M logistics center in Delco will help support multibillion-dollar building boom
- Judge expected to rule next week on if parent company can close Delaware County Memorial Hospital
- Judge Temporarily Halts Closure of Delaware County Memorial Hospital
- Nemours Children’s Health Planning to Open Specialty Care Center in Malvern
- Nemours to invest in three new facilities in Pa.
- Penn State Health opens new 341,000-square-foot hospital
- Temple University Hospital nurses, health care workers to vote on strike
RHODE ISLAND
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- Care New England names Tufts exec as next CEO
- Two R.I. hospitals involved in global trial that found effective drug against early Alzheimer’s
- Security workers with RI firm rally for wages, ability to unionize
- As Overdoses Soar, Rhode Island Embraces Drug Consumption Sites
- Care New England appoints new CEO
- Humana Medicare plans available in Rhode Island starting 2023
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- HCA Healthcare agrees to sell three New Orleans hospitals
- Memphis hospital declines participation in city’s violence intervention program
- Vanderbilt hospital agrees to pause gender-affirming surgery on minors, officials say
- Nurse robbed at gunpoint at Tennessee hospital
- Tennessee gets $3 million grant to enhance substance abuse resources
- In open letter, 700 Tennessee healthcare providers call on Legislature to ‘reconsider’ abortion ban
- HCA funds $1.5 million in scholarships at Tennessee State University
- HCA faces over-admission allegations that have gotten other Nashville hospital systems in trouble
TEXAS
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- 19,664-square-foot ASC to open in Texas
- Christus Hospital-Orange one step closer to opening its doors
- Medical Office Real Estate Demand Is Outpacing Supply in DFW
- Texas City nursing home fires employees after video shows elderly resident being hit, kicked and dragged
- UT Austin taps Mayo Clinic leader as medical school dean
- UT Southwestern highlights racial bias factors in physician assistant training
- Texas children’s hospital opens infectious disease unit
- MultiCare taps Texas medical group COO for clinic president
- $158 million health care fraud trial starts in Dallas next week
- NTTC Surgery Center CEO speaks on cultivating a team prepared for change
- Former Tenet CEO Ronald Rittenmeyer dies at 75
- What USPI did in Q3
- HCA, Tenet and CHS hiring hospital CFOs
- Tyler-based health care firm acquires Arizona-based service provider
- 4 new ASCs in Texas
- Ensign Closes SNF Deals in 3 States; White Oak Executes $275M in Financings For 6 Transactions
- OsteoCentric Technologies receives 2 orthopedic device FDA clearances
- A new $1B spine company: Inside the Orthofix, SeaSpine merger
UTAH
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- Intermountain Healthcare taps Mandy Richards as chief nurse executive
- Intermountain receives $35M donation toward new children’s health system
- University of Utah police investigating series of hospital bomb threats
- Utah founder of Vivint donating $35M to Primary Children’s Hospital
- Utah adults have highest mental illness rate in country
- Utah doctors reporting early onset of child respiratory illnesses
- Utah public health officials concerned about reports of public deception over COVID-19 status
- Utah Medicaid prepares for end of PHE and transition to PRISM
- Utah ranks 4th for overall health in 2021 CDC survey
VERMONT
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- UVMHN joins national gun safety movement, guns are leading cause of death in kids
- Repeat ER visits due to opioid overdose grew during the pandemic, Vermont health department finds
- Vermont Covid levels remain ‘low,’ but hospitalizations have increased in recent weeks
- Teleemergency service at Dartmouth Health expands
- Hospital leaders make and donate health and hygiene kits for refugees
- Central Vermont Medical Center helps nursing students learn on the job
- SVMC joins national project to increase accessibility to free menstrual products
VIRGINIA
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- Senior living facility opens in Great Falls, filling major housing need
- Sentara Healthcare announces leadership promotions
- Doula services now covered under Virginia Medicaid expansion
- Virginia to build its own health insurance exchange
- The worrying trend this crisis text line worker is seeing for mental health in Virginia
WASHINGTON
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- 3,800 UW Medicine patients affected by 3rd-party data breach
- Bezos family gifts $710M to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
- Cyberattack on Virginia Mason Franciscan Health impacting patients
- Nurses at UW Medicine land big raises with new contract
- Nurses Rally Against Manager “Bullying”
- Seattle-area patients frustrated by days of system outages at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health facilities
- Seattle Children’s chief technology and security officer leaves for 3D-printed rocket company
- Seattle to end COVID-19 emergency proclamation
- Nurse calls 911 on ER crowding in Washington hospital
WEST VIRGINIA
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- $10M expansion under way at Weirton Medical Center
- Mon Health employees appointed to West Virginia leadership agencies
- Godwin named associate CMO for WVU Medicine Fairmont Medical Center
- Marion Co., West Virginia, Health Dept. sees uptick in COVID-19 vaccine administration
- STUDY: 1/4 of adults in West Virginia are living with mental illness
- Weirton Medical Center in midst of $10 million expansion
- West Virginia DHHR gets $1.7M to promote primary & behavioral health care
WISCONSIN
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- Essentia Health, Marshfield Clinic discuss merger
- $16 million in grants will support maternal and infant health initiatives across Wisconsin
- COVID-19 in Wisconsin: New cases down, double-digit deaths reported again
- UW Hospital, nurses’ union disagree on hospital’s status under state labor law
- Wisconsin Children’s names president of insurance business
- Fewer than 600 Wisconsinites per day received COVID-19 shots over the past week
- Wisconsin Medical Society leaders tell members it’s time to reach out to lawmakers about abortion access, dip into their pockets
- New UW Health programs strive to address healthcare worker shortages
- Children’s Wisconsin: Promotes Mark Rakowski to president of health plan
- Wisconsin health tech startups win $50K and funds to cover medical costs
WYOMING
