NATIONAL
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- Amazon’s new healthcare service to offer COVID-19 treatment plans
- Appeals court rules against vaccine mandate in 3 states
- Data shows mental health, primary-care physician shortage
- For many rural hospitals, new payment model doesn’t add up
- FTC moves to ban non-competes: What it could mean for physicians
- Good Samaritan Society to exit 15 states, trim capacity by 30 percent
- Hospital obstetrics on chopping block as facilities pare costs
- Mass General Brigham, Northwell and Mayo: Where hospitals are spending their innovation dollars
- Nursing homes plead for financial help as closures, staffing shortages endanger care
- Physicians in ACOs More Likely to Use HIE to Share Patient Data
- Ransomware attacks persist in healthcare as impacts on patient safety rise
- Rural hospitals say they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place
- Why nurses say they are striking and quitting in droves
ALABAMA
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- Alabama Medical Billing Company Pays $153K to Resolve False Claims Allegations
- Alabama’s Encompass Health to build Rhode Island rehab hospital
- New COVID-19 variant moving fast throughout Alabama
- Health-Coaching Provider Plans Alabama Headquarters Expansion
- Alabama, already near the top in U.S. for obesity rate, is getting heavier
- Medical Properties Trust Sponsors Children’s of Alabama
- Primary care group makes major local acquisition, doubling footprint in state
ALASKA
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- Juneau’s hospital is losing more than $1M a month
- Alaska’s flu season appears to have peaked. Anchorage’s ‘snowmageddon’ may have helped.
- Alaska’s population is still younger than US but is aging at a dramatic rate
- Northwest Alaska report Tylenol shortages
- Telehealth offers boost to children with developmental needs
ARIZONA
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- Rural health care: Arizona bill proposes more independence for experienced physician assistants
- Arizona Senate Health & Human Services Committee passes two bills related to speech and hearing
- Healthgrades Names America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2023
- Going Into 2023, Leaders Look At Risk-Based Contracting and See Peril and Promise
- Cigna drops Fry’s pharmacies from in-network insurance coverage
- Senior adults not getting vaccinated, lead in COVID deaths in Arizona
ARKANSAS
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- Construction begins on the replacement facility for Wadley Regional Medical Center
- Arkansas health system goes live with Meditech Expanse EHR
- Arkansas health system names April Kranz chief nursing officer
- Nurse association asks Gov. Sanders to consider putting a nurse in state leadership
- Granddaughter says she’s upset with grandma’s living conditions at Searcy nursing home
- Future of Arkansas Medicaid program looms with health care, budget ramifications for legislators, new governor
- UAMS Health System names CEO, chief clinical officer
- Arkansas Children’s Northwest expands gastroenterology team
- Dr. Michelle Krause to Lead UAMS Health System & Hospital; Dr. Ahmed Abuabdou Named Chief Clinical Officer
CALIFORNIA
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- Amid insurance fight, some California hospital staff lose health coverage at their own facilities
- Calif. nursing home workers get $690,000 in denied overtime and break time pay in court order
- California sues major PBMs, drugmakers over insulin prices
- Coast Surgery Center sues major insurance providers over reimbursement disputes
- Former nurse wins $1.2M verdict after being forced to resign from LA area nursing home
- Pipeline Health to exit bankruptcy under new leadership team
- Prospect Medical, Signify Health partner on population health
- West Health, Sharp Memorial Hospital to create model of excellence for elderly care
- COVID in California: Hospitalizations for 3 viruses dropping
- State COVID testing sites begin to close
- ‘Patients are going to die’: Hospital access meltdown in Central California leaves officials in search of solutions
- 8 new health care leaders to watch this year
- Advanced Health Care, New Faze Development plan $19.5 million Roseville transitional care facility
- Third-party administrator hack leads to theft of patient data for over 251K
- Physicians at 4 Sutter Health campuses seek to unionize
COLORADO
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- Board considers health clinic at GJHS
- Colorado is leading the nation with this alternative health care model
- Colorado’s rural hospitals are particularly struggling financially
- Colorado’s rise in health care premiums is second-highest in U.S.
- More funding, support and innovation coming for behavioral health in Colorado
- Polis takes potentially confrontational stances on housing, health care in State of State address
- Southwest Memorial Hospital upgrades on hold
- Colorado Hospital Association pushes back on governor’s finance claims
- Colorado is leading the nation with this alternative health care model
- Colorado hospital margins 49% below pre-pandemic levels
- More Colorado primary care doctors are opting out of insurance as direct-pay model grows
- Housing to health care, Legislators introduce flurry of bills
- ‘A solution in search of a problem’: Children’s Hospital Colorado analytics officer on AI and big data
- Colorado health department to begin texting parents whose children need COVID vaccine
- Boulder medical billing company to refund Colorado patients nearly $13,000
- Colorado Joint Health Committee hears SMART briefings from state agencies to inform 2023 budget requests
- Colorado doctor convicted of fraudulent use of $250K in federal COVID funds
- Top-growing Denver health tech company makes chatbot acquisition
CONNECTICUT
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- Cheshire doctor, partner pay $1.1M for part of Waterbury medical office complex
- Greenwich Hospital names new cancer-care director
- Signify Health, soon to be acquired by CVS, partners with Prospect Medical Holdings in Connecticut
- Hartford HealthCare launches digestive institute
- Lawsuits, fines, complaints put pressure on Athena nursing homes
- CT issues finding of ‘immediate jeopardy’ at Newtown nursing home
- Hartford HealthCare signs agreement to acquire Norwich ambulance company
- Athena Health Care paying back staffing agencies, resolving employee insurance claims
- Middlesex Hospital reports positive income even in tough operating conditions
- CDC says seven of CT’s eight counties in the red for COVID-19
- Connecticut Bucks the Medicaid Managed Care Trend
DC
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- Greater Washington’s hospitals stretched thin by respiratory viruses, lingering Covid challenges
- Mental health, gun violence among concerns discussed at 3rd annual DC Youth Summit
- Health care premiums increasing: how much more DMV residents will pay
- DC Health Care Co. To Pay $1.5M For Shorting Pandemic Staff
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
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- 3 Specialty Practices Report Healthcare Data Breaches
- AvMed health plan acquired by Sentara Healthcare system
- Construction starts on the new FSU Health – Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Medical Campus
- DeSantis wants to permanently ban COVID health protocols in Florida
- Florida behavioral health system rebrands
- Sunrise medical office building takes discount on $38M sale
- Work begins on Panama City Beach medical campus
- 19 FL Hospitals Among 250 Best In America: Healthgrades
- Fawcett Hospital back to capacity following Hurricane Ian repairs
- Baptist Health Foundation Celebrates $3M Gift
- HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital cuts ribbon on inpatient rehabilitation center
- HCA names Florida South Shore Hospital CEO
- Business newsmakers: Bowden named president at Rockledge Regional Medical Center
- Florida commission urges sweeping mental health reforms
- Tampa General experts share innovations in health care at Senate Committee hearing
GEORGIA
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- AdventHealth regional CEO steps down
- Georgia ophthalmologist to pay $1.85M in fraudulent billing settlement
- What the AU Health – Wellstar merger means for Augusta
- Georgia lawmakers take on health care spending: What to know
- Uptick in respiratory illnesses still causing problems throughout south Georgia
- 9 GA Hospitals Among 250 Best In America: Healthgrades
- State proposes $105 million to update Medical College of Georgia’s electronic records
- Awaiting court action on 6-week ban, Georgia abortion clinics turn patients away
- DPH leader: Georgia maternal mortality rates worsened during pandemic
- Nearly every Georgia county faces a shortage of primary care providers
- Elbert Memorial Hospital to get new CEO
HAWAII
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- Department of Health no longer wants 2 Oahu hospitals
- Keynote: ‘The future of healthcare in Hawaii’ with Gov. Josh Green
- Straub Medical Center nurses ratify new 3-year contract
- Hawaii COVID-19 positivity rate at 6.8%
- Ob-gyn can keep $205,000 in Medicaid pay that state tried to recoup
- A Sweeping Plan To Reinvent Kauai’s Oldest Hospital Is ‘Getting Close To The Vision’
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
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- Advocate Health Care Plans Outpatient Center in Lincoln Park
- Arlington Heights doctor sued over claims of sexual battery, intoxication
- Chicago physician, health system hit with 7 misconduct suits
- Chicago positivity rate of 9.3 percent highest in five months
- Illinois bill requiring sick leave for all workers passes both chambers
- RUSH opening new outpatient facility designed to help patients through their toughest days
- Woodside Health Enters JV with Heitman on Medical Office Properties
- Best hospitals in Chicago, according to Healthgrades
- Illinois Coronavirus Updates: Undercount of Counties at ‘High’ COVID Alert, XBB.1.5 Grows
- Small rural hospitals in Illinois struggling to stay viable in 2023
- Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein Named Orthopedic Surgery Chair at Lutheran General
INDIANA
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- Indiana Supreme Court set to hear arguments in lawsuit challenging near-total abortion ban
- Indiana to consider ban on physician non-competes as national debate over agreements heats up
- Ribbon Cutting Held For New Physician’s Office In North Webster
- Union Health, neurosurgical services provider form new partnership
- Indiana House Republicans say education, health care costs are top-of-list in 2023 session
- Global-health group aims to launch new med school
- AG: Marion doctor ‘danger to public’; took photos of patients’ privates without consent
- Lauer introduces bill prohibiting Indiana physicians from providing gender-affirming health care to transgender youth
- Second Indiana hospital agrees to rein in costs
- DCH recognized for excellence in infant and maternal health
- 7th Circ. Upholds Indiana Hospital’s Win In Race Bias Suit
- New accelerated nursing degree program launched
IOWA
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- UI Health Care wants primary care facility in southeast Iowa City
- University of Iowa nurses seek 14% pay raise; regents offer 1.5%
- University of Iowa primary care expansion to address ‘access gap’ in SE Iowa City
- Iowa Supreme Court weighs transgender issue and civil rights protection
- Police: Man assaulted Iowa hospital patients before he died
- Evansdale nurse sentenced for stealing pain meds from Waterloo nursing home
- Conservative group backs midwives in challenging Iowa’s certificate-of-need law
- Bill creates framework for ‘Rural Emergency Hospitals’ in Iowa
- Healthgrades Names America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2023
- Urgent care or emergency room? Tangled health care sticks sick, injured with tough choices
- Iowa Hospitals Receiving Additional Medical Residency Positions Following Grassley Law
KANSAS
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- AdventHealth Shawnee Mission hits halfway point in $30M renovation on Merriam campus
- Kansas is a rare state without a long-COVID clinic, leaving some patients far from specialists
- Kansas system taps Dr. Kirk Sloan as chief medical officer
- CEO steps down after Kansas systems combine
- Independence, Kan. leaders develop new model after hospital closes
- Healthgrades Names America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2023
- 6-building medical office portfolio in Kansas, Missouri acquired
- Olathe Health CEO steps down following combination with KU Health System
KENTUCKY
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- 16 Kentucky counties at high COVID-19 community level as state tallies 5,100 new cases
- $2.3M to support school safety, mental health in Kentucky
- Community’s beam becomes part of framework for new UofL Health hospital in Bullitt County
- High demand for diabetes drug helps treat other illnesses, leads to shortage
- How Are Doctors Navigating Kentucky’s Vague Medical Marijuana Executive Order?
- Inside CNAOnline.com’s journey to surpass the $1M revenue mark
- Louisville-based Lacuna Health changes name to Access Point
LOUISIANA
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- Louisiana nursing home owner faces new lawsuit in Hurricane Ida evacuation
- ‘Most children’s hospitals are struggling,’ says John Nickens, president and CEO of Children’s Hospital New Orleans
- Children’s Hospital of New Orleans Builds Resilient Central Utility Plant
- Xavier, Ochsner Health to create new medical school
- Ochsner Health’s telemedicine leader joins digital medicine advisory group
- Oceans Healthcare Partners with Ochsner Lafayette General
- Feds: Nursing home owner pilfered $4M, skimped on Ida evacuation site
- New proposed psychiatric facility could house ‘dangerous’ mentally ill patients in North Baton Rouge
- Louisiana lawmaker who wrote abortion ban considers adding rape, incest exceptions
MAINE
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- Birthing center opens at Maine Coast Hospital
- Gov. Janet Mills and Maine legislative leaders propose expansion of abortion rights and access
- Maine nursing home staff lag in receiving the latest COVID booster
- There’s a shortage of nurses in rural Maine, but a new program in Wilton is designed to help
MARYLAND
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- 5 MD Hospitals Among 250 Best In America: Healthgrades
- Emergent BioSolutions initiates layoffs, leadership and structural changes to cut costs
- Gov.-elect Moore picks Laura Herrera Scott as next MD Secretary of Health
- Maryland lawmakers seek to remake the state’s health delivery system
- Mercy Medical Center ranked No. 1 in surgical care in Healthgrades report
- Four bills that could have big impact on health in Maryland
- Maryland Hospital Capacity Strained: High Demand, Staffing Challenges
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Advancing health equity in Massachusetts communities
- Definitive Healthcare lays off 6% of staff despite revenue growth
- Walk-in behavioral health care clinic in Westfield is part of new state network
- Mass General Hospital launches healthcare leadership program
- Beth Israel Lahey taps hospital COO
- Boston Medical Center names COO
- Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital workers stage walkout
- Faulkner Hospital protest moves healthcare wage battle beyond nurses
- Harvard Medical School pulls out of US News rankings
- Massachusetts hospital chief nursing officer set to leave after 9 months
- Mass General Brigham, Northwell and Mayo: Where hospitals are spending their innovation dollars
- MIT & Mass General Hospital Have Developed An AI System That Can Detect Lung Cancer
- Beth Israel Lahey taps hospital president
- Healthgrades Names America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2023
- Massachusetts registered nurse sentenced to prison for tampering with morphine of dementia patients
- 3 leadership changes from Mass General Brigham
MICHIGAN
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- $2.48 million WMed grant aims to enhance mental, behavioral health training
- Corewell Health plans outpatient heart surgical center in Grand Rapids
- Heart procedures move out of Michigan hospitals — for health systems that can eat the cost
- Owner of assisted living facility in Haslett ordered to pay more than $15,000 in back wages
- Trinity Health plans to institute virtual nurses across its 88 hospitals in 26 states
- West Michigan hospitals make top 1% in US
- Michigan sees spike in 988 mental health calls
- 4 MI Hospitals Among 250 Best In America: Healthgrades
- Holland Hospital ranked #1 in Michigan for surgery
- Beaumont security threatens patient with arrest in viral TikTok
- Pressure finally easing on overwhelmed children’s hospitals
- Henry Ford official: Latest COVID variant XBB.1.5 making its way to Michigan
- 1,000 nursing home workers in Michigan threaten strike over wages, benefits, staffing levels
MINNESOTA
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- CentraCare seeks partnership with U of M for rural medical school
- U of M reveals new hospital despite possibility of mega-merger
- North Memorial Health to Pay $180,000 to Resolve EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
- Mass General Brigham, Northwell and Mayo: Where hospitals are spending their innovation dollars
- Mayo Clinic settles over data breach
- Optum expects to treat 4M in fully accountable, value-based models this year
- Sanford, Fairview say U of Minnesota can repurchase flagship hospital, but U envisions ‘reacquisition’
- U of Minnesota unveils new vision for medical center
- University of Minnesota to seek control of campus hospitals as part of Fairview-Sanford merger
- Sanford/Fairview merger raises concerns about patient care
- Twin Cities Orthopedics opens bioengineering lab
- UMN to reacquire medical facilities, build campus hospital
- Healthgrades Names America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2023
- The primary care battle: Where Optum, CVS, Walgreens stand
MISSISSIPPI
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- Mississippi Senate leaders unveil health care proposals
- Hosemann announces plan to address hospital crisis
- Poll: 80% of Mississippi favors Medicaid expansion
- Mississippi nursing schools turn away students amid shortage
- Doctor: Health care access ‘scary’ in parts of Mississippi
- Nurse shortage hits Mississippi
- Mississippi sees nearly 10,000 COVID-19 cases in two weeks
- Mississippi health care provider to pay $1.87M to settle false claims to Medicare and Medicaid
- These 7 MS Coast companies are licensed to grow medical marijuana
- Mississippi lieutenant governor details plan to help hospitals ‘not just next year, but for the next generation’
- Mississippi Health Department taps new medical marijuana program leadership
MISSOURI
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- Missouri hospital CEO is out
- Missouri Set To Launch Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
- Losses reported at Citizens Memorial, but expenses come in under budget
- North Kansas City Hospital names interim chief medical officer
- Ascension VC arm invests in hospitality tech company HotelRunner in $6.5M round
- SSM Health Medical Minute: St. Mary’s and DePaul hospitals launch pilot doula program
- Missouri nursing home workers strike over claims of unequal pay, bed bugs
- 6-building medical office portfolio in Kansas, Missouri acquired
- Study: St. Louis Children’s Hospital saw 52% increase in firearm injuries during pandemic
- Moms and babies in Missouri would get extended insurance coverage under Senate plan
MONTANA
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- Bozeman Health begins drafting land use plan for Highland Glen
- Bill would expand mental health screening for Montana students
- Montana now tops states with the highest flu cases in the nation
- Bill expanding authority of pharmacists gets 1st hearing
- Lawmaker, health care rep, call for transparency on $71M in DPHHS budget
- A bill to boost oversight of the State Hospital advances to the House
- Shodair hosts open houses to show off its new Helena hospital
NEBRASKA
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- Bryan Medical Center Board welcomes new members
- Children’s Hospital to open new facility in West Omaha
- Health Matters: Fewer COVID cases, but Nebraska hospitals are still ‘bursting at the seams’
- UNMC official predicts next two months will be ‘real ugly’ due to new ‘Super Kraken’ COVID-19 variant
- Avera hospital names Theresa Guenther permanent CEO
- Nebraska ophthalmology practice moves into new expanded space
- New proposed legislation could create breast milk bank in Nebraska
- Fewer COVID cases, but Nebraska hospitals are still ‘bursting at the seams’
- A $10 million request and a new coalition take aim at health care worker shortage
- Omaha’s Methodist Hospital halfway through $18.6 million renovation
- For many rural hospitals, new payment model doesn’t add up
- New health care collaborative in Nebraska to step up focus on building workforce
NEVADA
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- Nevada county’s health board to consider banning COVID, flu vaccines
- UMC to host career fair for Desert Springs Hospital employees affected by layoffs
- Union alleges critically low staffing levels at HCA Healthcare hospitals in Las Vegas
- Union blasts staffing levels at HCA hospitals in Nevada, nationwide
- COVID-19 cases down in Nevada — and that’s not the only good news
- Las Vegas college ramps up efforts as Nevada faces critical nursing shortage
- Healthcare labor shortage means laid off Desert Springs staff has options
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- New Hampshire hospital taps 3rd interim CEO from retirement
- Staff shortages, virus surges put DHMC over capacity
- NH hospitals sue to stop state from boarding psychiatric patients in their ERs
- Elliot Hospital and New England College Announce Partnership to Strengthen Nursing Workforce in New Hampshire
- Valley Regional Hospital hires new CEO
- Memorial Hospital to become a landlord?
- Health care professionals: Names to Know
NEW JERSEY
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- Cheyney University announces enhanced partnership with South Jersey health care system
- New Federally Qualified Health Center to open at Hudson Regional Hospital
- Children of undocumented immigrants can now get N.J. health coverage
- Healthgrades Ranks Three RWJBarnabas Health Facilities Among Top 5 in New Jersey Across Multiple Specialty Care Areas
- Atlantic Health System Achievements from Healthgrades Grow as Chilton Medical Center Added to America’s 250 Best Hospitals
- University Hospital Enhances Trauma Care via $200k+ Grant
NEW MEXICO
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- Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center shifts to for-profit staffing firm
- 5 recent opioid settlements ranging from $83M to $10.7B
- ‘This sobering center will literally save lives’: Rep. Stansbury recalls relative in visit to future medical facility
- Tripledemic puts pressure on urgent care centers and health clinics
NEW YORK
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- 3 Specialty Practices Report Healthcare Data Breaches
- AARP New York wants more funding for nursing homes, lower drug costs
- New York eyes nixed COVID-19 vaccine rule for health workers
- New York hospitals head for a rocky 2023 as labor, cost pressures mount, experts say
- NY vaccine mandate for healthcare workers ‘null, void’ following judge ruling
- Study: FastMRIs developed by NYU Langone Health, Meta can increase access, reduce wait times
- 13 hospitals join Northwell’s gun safety initiative
- Michael Dowling: The unthinkable priority now facing hospitals
- Mass General Brigham, Northwell and Mayo: Where hospitals are spending their innovation dollars
- Mount Sinai South Nassau nurses vote to unionize
- NewYork-Presbyterian releases new ad in documentary-style campaign
- Even as New York nurses return to work, more strikes could follow
- NYC nurses end strike over wages after reaching deal
- New highly transmissible subvariant of COVID-19 now accounts for majority of New York City cases, health officials say
- Hochul’s $1B mental health plan aims to reverse longtime trend of declining psychiatric beds
- Healthgrades Names America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2023
- New York City public-sector nurses rally after strike at private hospitals
- NYC public nurses rally for new city Health + Hospitals contract on the heels of private hospital strike
NORTH CAROLINA
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- 8 out of 10 North Carolinian voters want Medicaid expansion, poll finds
- Blue Cross NC appeals loss of state worker contract to Aetna
- Certificate of need changes in the Carolinas: What ASCs need to know in 2023
- Cone Health leaders working to close life expectancy gap in Greensboro
- Construction kicks off on Charlotte’s first medical school
- Frye Regional Medical Center has new rooftop helipad
- Novo’s $6M gifts signals biopharma’s promise
- UNC Health plans for years-long office expansion in Chapel Hill
- Urgent care? ER? Many choices confuse patients
- New NC data shows youth mental health crisis
- Mission Asheville, HCA highlighted in NBC report on nursing
- ECU, Acadia Healthcare win approval to build Greenville treatment center
- North Carolina hospital to use cloud-based software for CT scans
- Lawmakers are back in Raleigh with health care policy wish lists for the coming year
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- CareSource donates $800K to Cincinnati Children’s to address disparities in health
- Cleveland Clinic reports operating loss of $200 million in 2022; CEO Dr. Tom Mihaljevic ‘optimistic’
- ‘Community health at its best’: Dr. Airica Steed’s bold goals as MetroHealth’s new CEO
- Nursing home giveaway costing ProMedica another $176.8 million
- OSU Wexner names CEO after 15-month search
- ProMedica set to lay off 262 workers after exiting nursing home business
- Summa Health opens $84 million behavioral health pavilion to support importance of mental health
- Woodside Health Enters JV with Heitman on Medical Office Properties
- Ohio health care organizations worried after demands for weight loss, diabetes medication Ozempic in short supply
- Mercy Health to open two new Valley hospitals
- University Hospitals Lake West Medical Center Designated Provisional Level 3 Trauma Center by the State of Ohio
- What we know about the Ohio measles outbreak
- Northeast Ohio teacher credits 100-plus pound weight loss to Cleveland Clinic program
- Ohio reports fewer than 11,000 COVID cases
- Ohio State University names next Wexner Medical Center CEO
- Mercy Health-Cincinnati taps Ken James as market chief operating officer
- Airica Steed, MetroHealth’s new CEO, comes from a family of nurses and entrepreneurs
- MetroHealth getting ready to open birthing center at new hospital
OKLAHOMA
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- Integris to cut 200 jobs
- Man arrested after alleged threat to ‘go postal’ on Oklahoma hospital
- Oklahoma PAs sue state over new administrative rules
- Oklahoma bills filed to protect professionals from losing jobs over tax issues
- Health care leaders address financial issues hospitals are facing, leading to job cuts
- Unfavorable market conditions lead to healthcare layoffs
- New mental health facility coming to Oklahoma County
- Oklahoma universities team up to commercialize virtual health innovations
OREGON
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- Nurses demand Kaiser Permanente hire more staff in Portland hospitals
- Oregon hospital association proposes legislative agenda, changes to nurse staffing
- Providence nurses to rally at Oregon headquarters over paid leave
- Oregon Legislature will consider hospital nurse staffing levels
- Oregon health care employers hamstrung by staffing shortage, as the state produces 3rd-fewest nurses per capita
- Oregon hospital leaders proposing package of bills for legislative session
- Oregon hospitals face Covid vaccine lawsuits
- Flu, RSV and COVID-19 rates dropping, but Oregon hospitals still struggling
- Select Specialty Hospital to open in Oregon
- RSV cases on the rise in southern Oregon
- Kaiser responds to picketing hospital workers as nurses association shows support
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Eastern PA Home Healthcare Company Owes $3.8M To Employees: Feds
- Kensington’s Esperanza Health Center eyes expansion, new wellness center
- Following rapid expansion, Jefferson Health launches reorganization and, reportedly, layoffs
- Jefferson Health’s new CEO outlines his plans for the region’s largest health system
- New Jefferson CEO makes first move to consolidate competing hospitals
- Pa.’s in-hospital mortality rates are up, new report shows
- UPMC to raise minimum wage to $18 an hour
- UPMC adds 4th hospital in Ireland
- Workers at Saunders Nursing and Rehabilitation Center avoid strike, reach 3-year deal
- 18 PA Hospitals Among Top 250 In New National Rankings
- Another rehabilitation hospital planned for Cumberland County
- Pennsylvania’s in-hospital mortality rates are up, new report shows
- Healthgrades ranks 3 Philadelphia-area hospitals among 50 best in U.S.
RHODE ISLAND
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- Encompass Health announces plans to build a 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Johnston, Rhode Island
- Signify Health, soon to be acquired by CVS, partners with Prospect Medical Holdings in Connecticut
- Alleged Rape and Cocaine: Two RI Health Professionals Have Licenses Suspended
- Pharmacies could help make opioid treatment meds more accessible, study finds
- ‘Staff are burning out’: How a workforce crisis is affecting healthcare in Greater Newport
- State names CEO, CMO for new standalone psychiatric hospital
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Certificate of need changes in the Carolinas: What ASCs need to know in 2023
- Collaboration Adds Telehealth Center to Retail Pharmacy Location
- Indictment: Florence County doctor allegedly gave out prescription drugs for non-medical purposes
- Infant surrendered safely to Prisma Health Richland Hospital
- James Island ER expected to open in late summer
- MUSC to honor staff member for work toward diversity, inclusion
- Regional Medical Center expanding robotic surgery program
- S.C. midwives pushing for equal hospital access for mothers
- Aiken hospital offers $25,000 sign-on bonus for nurses
- South Carolina Hospital Blocked from Collecting Medicare Pay
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- Good Samaritan Society announces plan to downsize
- Sanford Health’s CIO talks virtual care, workforce challenges, modern data ecosystem
- Sanford, Fairview say U of Minnesota can repurchase flagship hospital, but U envisions ‘reacquisition’
- South Dakota lawmakers seek to outlaw gender-affirming care for youth
- Monument Health Spearfish receives honor
- House bill calls for $20 million in state funds to boost mental health field
- Not enough nurses to care for state’s veterans, VA says
TENNESSEE
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- ‘A mobile Intensive Care Unit.’ Le Bonheur gets federal funding for 2 high-tech ambulances
- A Nashville-based hospital chain experiments with virtual nursing to curb burnout and cover staffing gaps
- HCA names CEO of Nashville hospital after leader exits for urgent care chain
- Joey Jacobs, prolific health care entrepreneur and Nashville Predators minority owner, dies
- Nashville mayor urges expedited negotiations in Vanderbilt Health-Humana dispute
- TriStar Skyline Medical Center names Mark Miller CEO
- Tennessee counties with longest life expectancies
- Tennessee health system starts rebranding as part of $200M expansion
- KCHD announces new public health officer
- Beacon Center report looks at impact of certificate of need rules in Tennessee
TEXAS
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- 3 Specialty Practices Report Healthcare Data Breaches
- Ascension Seton expands in Georgetown with 12-acre site
- Cedar Health to rehab long-empty San Antonio hospital
- Third-party administrator hack leads to theft of patient data for over 251K
- TMC Helix Park campus begins to take shape as first phase nears completion
- HCA Healthcare Gulf Coast Division names new VP of marketing
- Steward hospital names chief nursing officer
- Pipeline Health takes another step toward exiting bankruptcy
- The 10 most profitable hospitals in North Texas
- How the nationwide nursing shortage is impacting Central Texas
- Texas nurse sues CVS after she was fired because she refused to prescribe birth control
- Texas Health gives $1.7 million to Taste Project, Eastside Ministries in Fort Worth
- New CEO named to lead veteran healthcare in north Texas
- Health coverage for thousands of Central Texans in jeopardy amid unresolved contract negotiations
- Behavioral health hospital audited by OIG
- Big Sky Medical acquires $190M in medical office buildings
- Healthgrades Names America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2023
- Texas hospital to add 6 orthopedic operating rooms
- Tenet expects to beat midpoint of latest 2022 outlook
- South Texas Health System celebrates huge milestone
- Tenet CFO to retire
- Texas health system unveils new branding
UTAH
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- Intermountain Healthcare breaks ground on Layton surgery center
- Utah surgeon allegedly destroyed vaccines, gave fake shots
- Utah Legislature commences 2023 General Session with introduction of health bills
- Behavioral health legislation slated for Utah’s 2023 legislative session to support access, youth, and workforce
- Worker Shortages are Utah’s New Normal. Is the Falling Utah Birth Rate to Blame?
VERMONT
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- A new president takes over Vermont’s largest health network amid financial challenges
- Brattleboro pilot program to provide transport from ERs to mental health treatment
- A new president takes over Vermont’s largest health network amid financial challenges
- Need for youth psych beds prompts unusual budget request for Southwestern Vermont Medical Center
- VAHHS: Violence persists in the health care system
- University of Vermont Health Network reports $90M deficit in 2022
- Leffler: UVMMC starting 2023 with creativity and commitment amid challenges
- Covid levels remain ‘low’ in Vermont as national surge moves south
- Newport nursing home closure to displace 30 residents
VIRGINIA
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- A bill to set Virginia nursing home staffing standards is moving
- AvMed health plan acquired by Sentara Healthcare system
- Bon Secours’ president defends health system’s use of government discounts
- Fredericksburg medical building sells for $6.85M
- HCA Healthcare proposes $233.6 million hospital in Virginia
- Inova Health System is making changes to meet long-term demand for care
- One GI expands in Northern Virginia through new partnership
- The Top 25 Healthcare Technology Leaders of Virginia for 2023
- Virginia hospitals have ‘positive economic impact’ but rural facilities are suffering
- 12 Virginia Hospitals Among 250 Best In America: Healthgrades
- Healthcare generates billions in economic activity in Virginia while many hospitals struggle
WASHINGTON
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- MultiCare completes acquisition of Yakima hospital
- Northwest Kidney Centers breaks ground on flagship hub in Yesler Terrace
- Nurse-to-patient ratio bill gets first hearing
- Seattle Children’s offering virtual urgent care services
- Senators hear from healthcare workers on hospital staffing crisis
- Washington nurses push for staffing standards at hospitals
- Washington hospital rebrands, gets new EHR system
WEST VIRGINIA
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- WVU Medicine takes over struggling hospital in rural West Virginia
- CAMC, Vandalia Health adding hospitals to health system
- Parent company of CAMC to acquire PMC
- Vandalia Health System reaches agreement to acquire Southern West Virginia hospital
- West Virginia’s health insurance agency faces a $376 million budget cliff. Lawmakers moved a short-term fix but haven’t talked permanent funding
- West Virginia House of Delegates considers bill to reorganize Department of Health and Human Resources
- West Virginia hospital receiving backlash after reinstating mask requirement
- Agreement inked for Plateau Medical Center acquisition
WISCONSIN
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- Ascension postpones some elective surgeries at Milwaukee hospital
- Fitch Downgrades Marshfield Clinic Health System (WI) Ratings to ‘BBB+’; Outlook Negative
- ‘Very Alarming’ Nursing Home Admin Turnover, Operator Struggles Put Spotlight on Wisconsin
- Wisconsin orthopedic surgeon sanctioned in patient’s death
- Wisconsin offers tool to help kids with mental health issues
- South Central Wisconsin ICUs reporting high capacity
- Vascular surgeon from Wisconsin saving lives in Palestine
- 988: 3-digit suicide lifeline receiving thousands of more calls/texts than expected in Wisconsin
- Health tech accelerator powered by gener8tor looks nationwide for next cohort
WYOMING
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- Medicaid Expansion Gains Momentum In Wyoming
- Wyoming senators introduce constitutional amendments for healthcare access, privacy
- Wyoming Telehealth Network receives grant to expand state’s health care access
- Compact bills addressing mental health services pass through Senate
- Wyoming hospital board member to step down mid-term
