NATIONAL
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- AHA recommends congressional action to improve rural access to care
- AmSurg to buy Envision’s ASCs
- ASC operator Envision to file for bankruptcy
- Black communities endured wave of excess deaths in past 2 decades, studies find
- Congress urged to make certain Medicare telehealth access permanent
- FTC orders records from Zinc Health, Ascent Health as PBM probe widens
- GAO report finds ‘deficiencies’ in HHS’s handling of PHEs
- Hospitals create police forces to stem growing violence against staff
- Nursing home eviction review added to OIG work plan
- Racial and Ethnic Health Inequities Led to $421B in Excess Spending
- Senators look to protect rural hospitals from cyberattacks
- The Leapfrog grades of hospitals hit with immediate jeopardy warnings
- White House quietly assembles team to tackle drug shortages: Report
- Why Health Care Is Harder to Access in Rural America [GAO]
- Why this physician believes ‘private practice is under attack’
- Will the end of CMS’ vaccine mandate ease workforce shortages? 2 experts weigh in
ALABAMA
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- Bibb Medical Center Centreville to offer psychiatric-mental health care
- Birmingham hospitals picked by Newsweek as America’s Best Maternity Hospitals 2023
- Push for hospital reopening reignited after woman’s death in Carrollton
- UAB Medicine Inverness moving to new location
- Bill to add 98-cent fee to phone bills for mental health care stalls in Alabama House committee
- Patient’s death reignites calls to reopen Alabama hospital
- Alabama hospital taps COO from HCA
- Alabama needs more maternal mental health care, advocates say: ‘Treatment is not occurring’
- How the national cancer drug shortage impacts Alabama
ALASKA
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- Alaska Regional Hospital proposes $18M freestanding emergency department in South Anchorage
- Mental Health Trust Grants $1.5M to Partners
- The federal COVID-19 emergency is ending. Here’s what that means for Alaska
- Alaska’s youth mental health services at critical low
- Alaska’s chief medical officer points to unmet health care needs
- What the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency means for Alaskans
- Alaska Senate advances bill to establish subscription-based health care
ARIZONA
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- 15 Phoenix healthcare construction trends to watch
- Construction starts on cardiovascular center at HonorHealth Scottsdale
- Cypress West acquires medical office building in Mesa
- Hammes Breaks Ground on New Arizona Medical Office Building
- HonorHealth breaks ground on $60M project in Scottsdale
- Medical office building rent on the rise in Arizona
- $800M Arizona hospital project moves forward
- Men wanted as nurses amid ongoing nursing shortage
ARKANSAS
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- $1M Grant Funds Planning for Delta Health Initiative
- Conway Regional Completes $10M Capital Campaign
- Feds Hit Vendor With $350K Settlement in FTP Server Breach
- UAMS Awarded $5.5M Supplemental Grant for Rural Health Programs
- UAMS to Study Affordable Care Act’s Impact on Breast Cancer Treatment
- Arkansas Children’s Hospital Auxiliary Donates $1.4 Million to Hospital
- Karen Labonte named Chief Nursing Officer at Unity Health
- What the Arkansas Children’s expansion means for NWA
CALIFORNIA
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- Ambulance delays in dropping off patients at Riverside County hospitals hurt health care, report says
- California governor signs bill to allocate $150M to struggling, closed hospitals
- CBRE Arranges $29M Sale of Medical Office Building in Long Beach, California
- East Bay hospital barred from treating some children after violations uncovered
- Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital to consider Chapter 9 bankruptcy
- Health care workers at five California HCA Healthcare hospitals vote to strike
- Healthcare workers at 5 California hospitals vote to authorize strike beginning May 22
- Kaiser appoints senior vice president for Santa Rosa market
- Kaiser, Geisinger and Risant Health: The story so far
- New Risant Health details emerge: 5 notes
- Newsom Signs Emergency Bill Issuing Loans to Financially Distressed Hospitals
- Sutter Health credit rating upgraded ahead of $750 million bond issue
- Three San Jose medical offices may sprout near Good Sam hospital revamp
- Workers at 5 California HCA facilities authorize strike
- California surgeon general advocates screening patients for childhood trauma
- ER Doctors Vow to Pursue Case Against Envision Despite Bankruptcy
- Board member censured following alleged disrespect toward California hospital employees
- 5 things ASC leaders should know about Kaiser Permanente
COLORADO
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- After decades of closures, a new 40-bed psych unit in Aurora may represent a U-turn in mental health care
- Broncos partner with new health care provider, rename training facility
- Colorado launches CO-CARES, a comprehensive health care and public health support initiative Supporting Colorado’s health care and public health workers continues beyond the public health emergency
- Nurses embrace new technology after COVID impact, staffing shortages
- Parkview operating losses continue ahead of UCHealth merger
- Since increasing hiring bonus, state sees more nurse hires and interest at its two mental health hospitals
- Children’s Hospital Colorado doctor researches possible breakthrough in peanut allergies
- What Colorado Data Tells Us About the Wild West of Health Care Cost-Sharing Ministries
- Colorado’s doctors and nurses are still disproportionately white. These groups are trying to change that.
- Three years into the pandemic, Colorado COVID-19 experts tell us what to expect next, from vaccines to mutations, hospital readiness and more
CONNECTICUT
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- CT hospitals see rise in unpaid medical bills, as new models emerge to erase debt
- CT hospital staffing measure shifts away from mandated ratios
- CT Children’s new $280M patient tower a linchpin in broader financial turnaround, expansion
- Health care in rural Connecticut faces key challenges, officials say
- HHC’s acquisition of 2 surgical centers approved, with a condition – it can’t charge ‘facility fees’
- Yale New Haven Health downgraded to ‘A1,’ outlook revised to stable
- Employees of CT group homes serving disabled clients to strike
- A Yale hospital program aims to pay $1,000 to victims of violent crimes to promote healing
- Connecticut union to strike at homes serving disabled clients
DC
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
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- Baptist Health names inaugural VP, quality officer
- Flagler Health+ and UF Health agree to merge, begin integrated services in summer
- Florida health systems push forward with merger
- HCA Florida JFK Hospital names CEO
- HCA Florida Capital Hospital opens medical imaging facility
- HCA Healthcare breaks ground on new $15.5M St. Cloud ER
- How Orlando is turning the corner on the statewide nursing shortage
- Inside Memorial Hospital’s operating room improvements
- PAM Health, Jupiter Medical Center partner for rehab hospital in Florida
- SalusCare set to reopen in Fort Myers after Hurricane Ian repairs
- How AI is being used in health care in Central Florida
- HCA Florida Kendall Hospital welcomes Joe Britner as the New Chief Operating Officer
- South Florida union members say HCA’s low staff levels put patients at risk
- Tampa General Hospital Announces Wendi Goodson-Celerin, DNP, APRN, NE-BC, as Senior Vice President and New Chief Nursing Officer
- Lee Health University Highlands Outpatient Center to Open on May 15
- How do Florida hospitals get organs for the sickest patients in need of transplants?
- The Florida Panhandle: A thriving region for healthcare professionals
- Florida Hospital Association calls for action to reduce maternal mortality
- Patient safety group awards 3 health systems for recall alert programs
- Tampa General Hospital Uses AI System to Assist Clinicians
GEORGIA
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- Anchor Health Acquires Medical Office Building in Metro Atlanta, Plans 40,000 SF Development
- Athens Orthopedic Clinic hosts groundbreaking of new Greensboro facility
- Georgia’s certificate of need reform conversation only heating up
- New CEO Dr. Joon Sup Lee: Equity is key to Emory Healthcare’s growth
- Staffing firm Jackson Healthcare to buy Omaha’s LRS Healthcare
- Rural Georgia health, population declines as Atlanta grows
- Recent increase in maternal and baby mortality during childbirth in Georgia and the U.S.
- Roughly four in 10 Georgia hospitals receive a ‘C’ grade
- The latest on contract dispute between Northeast Georgia Health System and UnitedHealthcare
- Dalton, Georgia’s Hamilton Medical Center planning ‘record-setting’ cardiovascular facility
- Trauma care in Georgia is strained, and a rural review points to systemic failures
- Charitable care providers want former AMC patients to know they are an option
- Wellstar starts $100M tech fund months after closing Atlanta hospitals
HAWAII
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- Donna Okinaka named executive director of Hale Anuenue Restorative Care Center
- Nursing Spotlight: Hookele Health Navigators prioritizes ‘the importance of retention strategies’
- Nursing Spotlight: HNA’s labor union perspective
- Nursing Spotlight: HAH takes action
- Molokai Medical Clinic Opens To Fill Dire Doctor Shortage
- New Air Ambulance Company Comes To Hawaii
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
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- A rural Illinois hospital closed its labor and delivery unit. A month later, a baby was born along I-55.
- Chicago system names COO
- CommonSpirit’s operating losses swell, sparking job cuts
- Illinois hospital agrees to pay $12.5 million to settle allegations of billing error
- More than 1,200 beds from McCormick Place COVID-19 temporary hospital go unused amid immigrant housing crisis
- Illinois hospital at risk of closing in June, CEO says
- Illinois Department of Public Health questioned over pandemic-era performance audit
- Illinois group wants to expand Medicaid-like coverage in the state
- Pritzker establishes May 11 as honorary day for Illinois health care professionals
- Illinois county partnership relieves medical debt for 73,000 residents
- Measure allowing pregnancy centers to be targeted for ‘deceptive practices’ passes Illinois Legislature
- SCA Health’s rebrand 1 year later
INDIANA
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- Indiana health commissioner who led response to COVID-19 to retire
- Community Health opens rehab hospital in Brownsburg
- Cook Medical to cut 500 jobs globally under plan to refocus efforts
- Indiana lawmakers pledged to force hospitals to lower prices. The results are mixed.
- Logansport Memorial recognized for wound care
- ProMedica taps Ascension St. Vincent COO as CFO
- Indiana leads the way in tackling health-care costs.
- Holcomb hails mental health bills as “sea change” for Indiana
- Trinity affiliate Saint Joseph Health leaves offices at Indiana facility
- Layoffs loom for Indiana system
- Franciscan Health Indianapolis unveils pandemic monument to honor health care workers
- Indiana health system adds e-check-in tool to Epic
- New Indiana laws aim to lower health care costs
- Patient safety group awards 3 health systems for recall alert programs
- Court of Appeals to weigh Indiana near-total abortion ban case in September
IOWA
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- Physicians at OB-GYN Associates to become Mercy Iowa City employees
- St. Anthony Regional Hospital Pursues Critical Access Hospital Designation To Strengthen Long-Term Viability
- UI Health Care ranks second in most trusted healthcare brands
- University of Iowa eyes consultant to assess value of other health care entities
- U.S. suing former Sioux City surgeon for false Medicare claims
- US sues surgeon over alleged 1,000+ fraudulent claims
- U of Iowa Health eyes consultant to assist with possible M&A
- Iowa hospital to seek critical access designation
- University of Iowa eyes consultant to assess value of other health care entities
- Medical-spa owner sues Iowa nurse over access to bank account
- State: Nursing home resident tried to suffocate roommate with a pillow
- UnityPoint Health’s marketing successes: Personalization, retail-inspired approach — and a 7-year-old kid
KANSAS
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- KVC Health Systems gets a lift from Kansas for plans to build new Olathe mental health facility
- Partnership between Wichita St., Ascension Via Christi aims to boost qualified health pros in region
- Wesley Healthcare, Wesley Medical Center rebrand women’s services
- Why Ascension is giving office space to Wichita State University
- Wichita’s Dole VA Medical Center hires next leader from Boston
- WSU, Ascension Via Christi partner to grow region’s health care workforce
- Kansas faces OB-GYN shortage. Providers warn new laws could further strain maternity care
- Classrooms at a Wichita hospital aim to give WSU students real-world examples, connections
- Kansas state officials announce grants for mental health hospital beds
- $65 million granted to Kansas healthcare facilities to expand services, reach
- These 4 in Wichita will receive $50M in state health-care grants
- One of Wichita’s largest hospitals rebrands women’s care
- Sedgwick County gets $25M for mental health hospital
KENTUCKY
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- End of public-health emergency means less reporting
- Baptist Health Louisville research study helps ease GI issues for chemotherapy patients
- Behind the ambitious growth strategy at BrightSpring Health Services
- Hosparus Health breaks ground on The Harshaw Family Grief Counseling Center
- Kentucky hospital CEO to take over at HCA Florida Memorial Hospital
- Kentucky cancer deaths remain among highest in nation according to latest CDC report
- Seven Counties Services CEO announces retirement
- St. Elizabeth Healthcare provided scholarships to 30 first physician graduates of UK-NKU medical school
- The Behavioral Health Unit at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital Unveils New Name
- The doctor is in: Heyday Health expands in-home, telemedicine services to Kentucky
- How Kentucky will monitor COVID-19 after public health emergency ends
- Former Baptist Health doctor awarded $3.7M in damages through lawsuit
- Kentucky school districts receive millions for student mental health services
- New UK medical-school graduate plans to pay it forward with a career in rural Kentucky
LOUISIANA
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- Inflation contributed to Ochsner layoffs, Louisiana Hospital Association CEO says
- Louisiana Hospital Association CEO: Inflation caused layoffs at Ochsner, more hospital systems could do the same
- Ochsner gets blowback for nurse layoffs
- Louisiana hospital names CEO
- Ochsner Health, other Louisiana hospitals are in dire need of nurses; here’s why
- Sen. Tarver expresses concerns after Ochsner announces layoffs for nearly 800 people
- Lakeview Hospital names new CEO
- LCMC Health Hospitals Receive Birth Ready Designation
- Maternal Fetal Medicine clinic opens at New Orleans East Hospital
MAINE
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- MaineHealth names inaugural chief medical transformation officer
- MaineHealth names Colorado physician leader to role of chief medical & transformation officer
- PharMerica Notifies 5.8M Individuals of Healthcare Data Breach
- Physicians criticize Maine hospital’s closure of obstetrics unit
- CEO: Fort Kent hospital could have closed by 2023 but averted it by making major changes
- Boosting Implementation of Maine’s Children’s Behavioral Health Plan
- Jeff Sanders steps down as head of MaineHealth southern region
- Alternative treatment for opioid-exposed infants being used in Maine hospitals
- Bangor hospitals see benefit from $18M bequest
MARYLAND
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- All Maryland hospitals must soon test for fentanyl, report results to state
- Baltimore Medical System, which offers care regardless of ability to pay, opens new Southeast Baltimore health center
- Carroll Hospital emergency department evacuated after person displayed weapon
- Ellie Mental Health expanding in Maryland amid heightened demand for therapy
- Johns Hopkins Hospital moving forward with $516M renovation, addition
- Laurel’s aging former hospital gets a gleaming replacement June 4
- During US Senate hearing, Maryland Choptank Community Health System CEO says more workforce support, expansion of school-based care are key to improving rural healthcare access
- Maryland hospital trims wait times for ED patients, aims to find post-COVID normal
- Maryland will soon cover pregnant, noncitizen resident healthcare
- New UM Laurel Medical Center to open June 4; emergency, surgical care but no inpatient beds
- U of Maryland Medical System posts 9-month $8.9M operating loss
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Baystate readies $72 million, 150-bed behavioral health hospital at old Holyoke Geriatric Authority
- Biden taps former Boston surgeon to run National Institutes of Health
- Boston healthcare VC raises $200M to fund companies that provide flexible care
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital Lands $100 Million for New Immunology and Inflammation Center
- Harvard Pilgrim says a fix may still be weeks away a month after cyberattack
- Mass Gen opens ‘discharge lounge’ to address capacity challenges
- Massachusetts Medical Society elects new president
- New bill would make assaulting health care workers a felony in Massachusetts
- UMass Memorial Medical Center president to step down
- Mass General Brigham to bring app-based care, hospital at home to United Arab Emirates
- Mass General Brigham criticized over masking policy
- UMass Memorial Medical Center settles data breach suit for $1.2M
- Mass. survey takes temperature of healthcare workers
- Boston-area residents critical of mask-optional change in health care rules
- BCBS of Massachusetts adds 3 primary care practices to its network
- Rates of patients self-harming, abusing hospital staff climbed in Massachusetts in 2022
MICHIGAN
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- BAMF Health partnership brings financial, emotional support services to cancer patients
- Bills would set nurse staffing ratios in Michigan hospitals
- Grand Rapids doctors create new national group to preserve independent practices
- Hillsdale Hospital launches new community outreach campaign as rural hospitals struggle
- Nurse kidnapped outside of Detroit hospital found dead
- Women and children’s health clinic in Saginaw boosts region’s resources
- How one Michigan hospital cut its patient suicide rate by 70%
- Registered Nurse Charged with Falsifying Medical Records
- Employee sues Michigan psych hospital over role in active shooter drill
- Sparrow Health sees credit rating improve after U of Michigan merger
- ProMedica Hickman Hospital President/CEO Addresses E.R. Wait Times on WLEN’s View Point
MINNESOTA
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- CentraCare, University of Minnesota to generate rural physicians in St. Cloud
- Fairview would refuse renewal of current U of Minnesota agreement under current terms, CEO says
- How Mayo Clinic crashed the party, sharpening the dispute between hospitals and nurses
- Judge affirms $490M verdict against ophthalmology distributor
- Mayo Clinic doubles down against Minnesota healthcare bills
- Mayo Clinic Mankato staff petition to vote on whether to remove union
- Mayo Clinic wins full exemption from nurse staffing bill in agreement with state leaders
- Minnesota-based company will pay $487M to settle kickback, fraud case
- Minnesota Legislature searches for ‘compromise’ with Mayo Clinic on nursing bill
- Minnesota legislators add hospital carve-out to nurse staffing bill
- Minnesota hospital nurse staffing bill amended to exempt Mayo from requirements
- Minnesota Nurses Association: sit-in at Capitol will continue until safe staffing secured
- Rural Minnesota hospital leaders speak out against proposed healthcare legislation
- Mayo, Cleveland Clinic bet on augmented reality
- Minnesota nursing board considers removing executive director
- Lawmakers pulling together exemption for Mayo Clinic in Minnesota nurse staffing bill
- Mayo, CommonSpirit, HCA: 13 innovation projects from past month
- Too many physicians still make decisions without data, Mayo, Stanford leaders say
- UnitedHealth in the headlines: 21 updates in 60 days
MISSISSIPPI
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- Delta Health System sticks interim CEO to permanent post
- Podiatrist gets prison for health care fraud
- UMMC receives approval to start bond process for new R’Land facility
- Ochsner announces layoffs in Mississippi
- Former Blue Cross executive takes helm of UMMC finances
- Mississippi hospital partners with company to enhance telehealth for rural areas
- Forrest General Hospital exits Mississippi Hospital Association
- Long-term care facility being evicted from hospital in Vicksburg
- ‘Where’s the accountability?’ Merit Health to evict Vicksburg hospital
MISSOURI
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- Children’s Mercy launches NASA-inspired Patient Progression Hub to elevate care
- HCA hospital violated labor law in pulling union recognition, judge says
- It’s official: Centene shareholders reject maternal morbidity, exec pay proposals by wide margins
- Saint Luke’s Health System names former Cox exec as CEO of its North Region
- CEO named for St. Luke’s north region
- SoutheastHealth to build $20M Missouri ASC
- Kansas City declares itself a ‘safe haven’ for gender-affirming health care as Missouri restricts access
- Missouri terminates emergency rule to limit trans care for minors, some adults
MONTANA
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- Gov. vetoes new reporting requirements for the state hospital
- Owner of St. Vincent Healthcare nearing completion of Billings West End expansion
- ‘It takes time to turn the ship’: Billings Clinic CEO addresses budget shortfall progress
- Judge blocks enforcement of 15-week abortion restriction
- Montana is vying for federal funding for behavioral health services
- Rocky Boy Health Center to get new $11.3 million building
- Bitterroot Health to open new location in Stevensville
NEBRASKA
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- CHI Health announces partnership to boost cancer care in Lincoln
- Kearney to welcome new cancer center in 2025
- Koelbel & Co. Breaks Ground on $65M Healthcare Project at University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Robot helps Bryan Health staff keep things clean, moving
- Staffing firm Jackson Healthcare to buy Omaha’s LRS Healthcare
- Nebraska hospital goes live with Meditech
- Nebraska Legislature votes to fold abortion ban into bill banning trans health care for minors
- Fitch Affirms Nebraska Methodist Health System at ‘A’; Outlook Stable
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- NH must stop ‘ER boarding’ within one year, judge rules
- Cheshire Medical CEO readies for retirement, reflects on long career
- Staffing issues lead to dozens waiting for beds at New Hampshire Veterans Home
- Sununu signs bill allowing telehealth opioid prescriptions
- Northern New England health system CEOs to address rural healthcare crisis during live roundtable May 22
NEW JERSEY
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- 4 New Jersey ASCs sue SEIU, alleging underpayment for procedures
- New Jersey hospital, union clash over suspension of 9 nurses
- RWJBarnabas Health reports operating upswing of $47M as it looks to cut high expenses
- See how NJ hospitals fared on Leapfrog Group report card
- Virtua Health puts 110-acre ‘unicorn’ site in South Jersey up for sale
- Large racial disparities in health outcomes remain in NJ
- New Jersey is 10th-healthiest state, according to study
- 110-acre site owned by Virtua Health for sale in New Jersey
- NJ Nurses Demand Safe Staffing Law In Hospitals: Stop The Bleeding
- New Jersey hospital requiring massive overhaul reports over $300M losses in past 2 years
NEW MEXICO
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- This telehealth program is a lifeline for New Mexico’s pregnant moms. Will it end?
- AI ‘digital workers’ are cutting tasks that used to take a month down to 10 minutes in New Mexico. Employees love it.
- AI Partnership to Reduce Hospital Nurses’ Documentation Burden
- New Mexico Program to Reduce Maternity Care Deserts in Rural Areas Fights for Survival
NEW YORK
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- Buffalo brain power brings innovative treatments, therapies and technology to health care
- Buffalo Center for Health Equity aims to change health care for underserved populations
- Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus expands health goals far beyond campus’ borders
- Catholic Health to launch temporary ED in Lockport until new hospital opens
- For Ryan Health, telehealth seeds planted during the pandemic have flourished
- Kaleida’s Q1 operating deficit lower than expected
- Longtime Roswell Park board chair resigns; interim chair named
- Mount Sinai ordered to pay $127K fine for understaffing NICU
- New York medical center turns to Amazon for bioinformatics
- Physicians set to strike at New York City hospital
- New York nursing students can complete one-third of training via simulations
- Behavioral health workforce plays catch-up from Covid-19 shortfall
- Northwell invests $1M, funding employee healthcare projects
- Tentative deal averts physicians strike at 2 New York City hospitals
- Drones deliver meds to New York hospital
- AI model predicts cardiac patients’ risk before surgery: Mount Sinai
- NYC Health + Hospitals provider placed on leave after viral Citi Bike confrontation
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Bioventus sells assets to LifeNet as Durham company looks to slash debt
- Certificate of need laws takings steps in the Carolinas
- How North Carolina’s largest hospital systems are managing competitive pressures, staffing shortages and rising inflation
- Investment firms to take Syneos private in $7B deal
- Mayo Clinic a leading investor in Davidson startup Lucem Health’s $7.7M funding round
- Mission Hospital wants to build $29 million emergency department in Buncombe County
- Mission Hospital reapplies for a second emergency department in Buncombe County
- NC Health System Launches Virtual Care Clinic in Apartment Building
- NC Senate budget bill places cost-saving onus on large hospitals
- Novant Health applies for certificates of need to obtain mobile MRI scanners
- Raleigh pharma developing EpiPen alternative raises $15M
- The Senate’s proposed $29.8 billion spending plan would revamp NC’s health care landscape
- Violence in hospitals causes bill to pass NC House that could require officers in ERs
- NC Senate proposes large hospitals cut costs to State Health Plan or risk being shut down
- NC budget could mean big hospital systems get even bigger
- Urban hospitals should cut state health plan costs or risk losing licenses: North Carolina Senate
- The Mental Health Crisis in North Carolina’s Emergency Rooms
- Report: Nonprofit hospitals raked in massive profits, billions in pandemic aid
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- Dayton Children’s Hospital Begins Construction On Behavioral Health Project
- Hamilton County funnels $5M to double in size UC Health’s Mobile Crisis Team
- Kettering Health physicist is revolutionizing cancer treatments
- Mayfield Brain & Spine plans to sprinkle clinics around the region to meet patients where they are
- Mercy Health-Cincinnati to debut new $2M Western Hills urgent care
- Mercy Health sees higher Springfield birth rate, places emphasis on women’s healthcare
- Ohio Gastroenterology Group buys office building for $1.5M
- ProMedica taps Ascension St. Vincent COO as CFO
- Sarepta gains over $2B in market cap on new hope for Children’s-invented gene therapy
- Is TAVR effective? Ohio hospitals investigate
- Ohio’s Health Disparities Weigh Down Progress, Annual Study Shows
- Ohio officials mark formal end of COVID-19 emergency
- Mercy Health outlines future plans for St. Luke’s assets
- Hamilton County leads Ohio for most 988 calls thus far, Talbert House reports
- With telehealth in limbo, Ohio patients worry about access to some controlled medications
- New study marks Ohio as one of the country’s least-healthy states; Find out where it ranked
- Babies delivered in cars: Rural Ohio’s lack of maternity care affects nearly 100,000 women
- Two patients die after controversial surgeries at Adena Hospital
- New MetroHealth CEO pushes for equitable healthcare for everyone
OKLAHOMA
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- Oklahoma physician, pharmacist charged with manslaughter in patient death
- Tulsa’s New Prenatal Clinic Aims To Lower Infant Mortality Rate
- OKC Veterans Affairs bringing healthcare resources to rural tribal areas across the state
- Oklahoma City-based company that provides medical services to inmates facing lawsuits
OREGON
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- As Oregon suspends Covid-19 vaccination rule, here’s what health care employers need to know
- OHA: Oregonians are delaying health care because it’s too expensive
- Oregon health care costs grew pre-pandemic before declining slightly
- Oregon VA system to reset Cerner EHR
- Oregon health system now facing multiple lawsuits
PENNSYLVANIA
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- A new health center in Frankford aims to alleviate a ‘primary care desert’
- Bayer opens raw material hub to serve Pittsburgh-region operations
- Duke LifePoint hospital lays off workers
- Geisinger reports $36M operating loss in Q1
- Highmark reaches deal with Temple Health System, and why that’s important
- Kaiser, Geisinger and Risant Health: The story so far
- Local surgeon turns 38-acre Bucks County farm into ‘living, learning laboratory’ to help breast cancer patients
- Maternity wards disappearing from Pa. hospitals
- NexPoint Acquires Life Science Properties in Philadelphia
- New Risant Health details emerge: 5 notes
- Nurses say there’s a “nursing crisis” at Einstein Medical Center
- Patient safety group awards 3 health systems for recall alert programs
- St. Luke’s named top health system for giving
- Temple Health trims operating deficit to $54M, reduces dependency on agency nurses
- Two new healthcare facilities are coming to Northeast Philly
- WellSpan, Emerus partner to build 3 neighborhood hospitals
- ‘We’re burned out’: Philly nurses raise concerns over hospital jobs and workplace safety
RHODE ISLAND
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- Care New England shows improvement in the first three months of 2023
- Former owner of Rhode Island ophthalmology chain to pay $1.1 million in settlement of false claims inquiry by government
- Medicaid and leadership challenges, as state takes over nursing home
- Troubled Pawtucket nursing home goes into receivership after dozens of deficiencies; administrator allegedly forged patient documents
- Care New England hospital names chief nursing officer
- Care New England’s ‘BB-‘ rating affirmed
- Care New England reports $6.1M operating loss in Q2
- As RI legislators near session’s end, compromise on expensive proposals looks inevitable
- ‘It is wrong’: Charlesgate workers ask state to keep nursing home open. Here’s what is happening there.
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Grand Strand hospitals hope to see positive impact from Certificate of Need repeal
- McMaster signs South Carolina’s certificate of need repeal
- Newly-passed bill allows MUSC to move forward with delayed Nexton Hospital build
- Prisma Health records $31.7M operating loss as expenses rise almost 4%
- South Carolina opens its doors to new hospital investment
- South Carolina moves closer to abortion ban, a Southern trend that puts pressure on Virginia
- South Carolina hospital promotes nurse leader to CEO
- South Carolina woman faces multiple federal health care fraud charges, officials say
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- As Sanford construction continues, new orthopedic hospital to add hotel
- Fairview would refuse renewal of current U of Minnesota agreement under current terms, CEO says
- How a Rural Health System Is Looking at Virtual Care and Remote Patient Monitoring
- Sanford Health’s $3M Nursing Grant Will Help Rural Healthcare ‘For Generations to Come’
- Sanford, Inova Health join 29 other systems in data collective
- $78M awarded to nursing programs – South Dakota receives its share
- Sanford to share nursing vision, strategy at CNO Congress
TENNESSEE
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- Clarus plans to quadruple business by gaining ‘first-mover advantage’
- Data breach at Community Health Systems puts 1.2 Million patients at risk
- Envision bankruptcy could be 1st canary in the physician services coal mine, MD writer contends
- Hamilton Medical Center Expanding With 175,000-Square Foot Cardiovascular Pavilion
- HCA does away with contracts that stick nurses with training costs
- Nashville General gets $58M in new city budget
- Thousands of doctors needed as health care industry faces shortage of workers
- Tennessee Attorney General warns of scam targeting health professionals
- Tennessee Becomes the Latest State to Remove Barriers to Assistant Physicians
- Tennessee Leads the Way in Removing Barriers to Foreign Doctors
- HCA Healthcare to buy 41 Texas urgent care centers from FastMed
TEXAS
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- Cook Children’s, JPS team up to bring medical center to Fort Worth’s Las Vegas Trail neighborhood
- Dell Children’s Adolescent Medicine physicians ‘depart,’ but clinic remains open
- HCA Healthcare to buy 41 Texas urgent care centers from FastMed
- Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center breaks ground on 5th Medical Plaza and 4th Parking Garage
- OSHA investigation finds Texas Children’s failed to protect workers from patient assault
- ‘Peace of mind’: Wharton community on why a small hospital is better than none
- Physicians exit Ascension hospital amid transgender care probe
- Texas medical billing transparency legislation heads to governor’s desk
- These are the steps experts say need to be taken to revitalize the declining nursing workforce
- University of Houston College of Nursing receives $20M gift to improve state nurse shortage
- UT Health San Antonio pursuing billion-dollar plan to expand SA research
- With 53 years and counting in Dallas, here’s what’s new and what’s ahead for Cooper Clinic
- Texas health system PHI compromised following phishing attack
- MD Anderson Cancer Center gets $5.7M for leukemia research
- North Texas hospital introduces new helipad that can withstand certain weather conditions
- Major bills impacting nursing homes, resident rights inch toward passage
- Medical City’s parent company to add 41 urgent care centers in Texas to portfolio
- Medical City Healthcare Sweeps ‘Best Hospital to Have a Baby’ and Texas Health Is a Top 100 Place to Work
UTAH
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- How Intermountain cut antibiotic overprescribing
- Utah Health System Suffers Healthcare Data Breach, 103K Impacted
- Utah has the healthiest seniors in the nation
- Here’s how AI could help Utah healthcare workers
- Opinion: Should pharmacists and psychologists have the power to prescribe?
- Utah Among Three Lowest States for Mammograms, USU UWLP Reports
VERMONT
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- Vermont State University receiving $6.3M to expand nursing programs
- Rural hospital to add mental health beds as demand increases
- Partnership trains more respiratory therapists for UVM Health Network
- New mental health treatment facility opens, and others are in early stages
- Big Change Roundup raises $280,000 to support The UVM Children’s Hospital
VIRGINIA
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- Data breach may impact several Virginia hospitals and medical practices
- Falls Church hospice care provider Capital Caring Health to expand after closing affiliation deal
- Inova Health System prepares to open Mount Vernon behavioral health unit, critical illness recovery hospital
- Medical office buildings, commercial space included in HCA’s Hanover hospital plan
- Sanford, Inova Health join 29 other systems in data collective
- Sentara RMH Medical Center donates $30,000 to Mercy House
- South Carolina moves closer to abortion ban, a Southern trend that puts pressure on Virginia
- Staffing issues slow opening of hospital beds at CHKD’s Children’s Pavilion for kids in need of mental health care
- UVA Health looking at new treatments for long COVID
- Virginia May Be Getting More Mental Health Crisis Centers
- Virginia hospitals’ ranking falls from 2nd to 9th in national review
- Virginia hospital launches virtual nursing program
- Carilion Clinic promoted to President & COO of the health system
- Virginia hospital honors 1st Black professor in medicine with name change
- Virginia’s medical cannabis program has ‘improved’
WASHINGTON
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- Confluence Health cuts COO role
- Gov. Inslee signs SB 5532
- Hospital where nurse called 911 regains CMS compliance
- Kaiser Permanente settles racial harassment suit stemming from Tacoma Medical Center
- MultiCare Health reports almost $60M operating loss as contract labor costs remain challenge
- State of nursing post-pandemic: HealthLink
- WA hospitals close labor and delivery units, raising fears for new parents
- Phone COVID-19 exposure notifications in Washington state have ended
- Washington state sees most deadly flu season in 5 years, Department of Health says
- A look at the recently wrapped session: Washington legislators discuss new women’s, youth health laws
- Cancer-fighting biotech startup Indapta lands $30M with assist from FDA
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
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- Grant program could get more pharmacists to rural areas
- Froedtert, Aurora tap gig economy tech to fill nursing shifts
- Froedtert & Medical College starts work on facility for targeted cancer therapy
- Parent of Milwaukee’s Infinity HealthCare files for bankruptcy
- Financial gift for the new state-of-the-art hospital in La Crosse announced
- Wisconsin health system to drop Envision
- Wisconsin DHS releases new studies on birth outcomes, addresses disparities in infant deaths
- No emergency needed: Community paramedics in Wisconsin, elsewhere visit patients at home
WYOMING
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- Federal end of COVID-19’s emergency status felt locally
- Health Department offers new bilingual mental health resource
- Hospital board approves $350,000 for strategic plan
- Owner of St. Vincent Healthcare nearing completion of Billings West End expansion
- Cody Regional Health launches Wyoming’s first hospital-owned med flight program
