NATIONAL
- 8 Questions About Proposed Changes to Rural Floor Wage Index
- AHA, other hospital groups oppose site-neutral legislation before markup
- AHA urges OCR to finalize HIPAA privacy proposal, suspend online tracking guidance
- CMS rule would mandate greater transparency on drug prices
- CVS, Amazon shutting down their health businesses
- Envision to layoff 329 employees
- Expert says top nonprofit hospitals pocketed billions from COVID relief funds
- FTC Proposes Changes to Modernize the Health Breach Notification Rule
- How focusing on process improvement can reduce unplanned hospital readmissions
- How value-based care is squeezing its way into every corner of healthcare
- Inside CVS’ physician acquisition strategy
- Nursing home oversight ‘a system in crisis,’ Senate committee finds
- Physician lawmakers propose bill that would tie reimbursement to inflation
- Report: Hospitals struggle to collect payments from commercial insurers
- Rural healthcare in 2030: What 4 experts say it may look like
- Rural hospitals struggle with staffing shortage, and not just doctors
- Subcommittee hearing reveals plenty of targets, but little consensus, for lawmakers’ healthcare consolidation reforms
- This tech nonprofit helps erase medical debt
ALABAMA
- Alabama ranks low on mental health care. Experts say why it matters.
- Encompass Health to open new hospital in Northeast
- Encompass Health announces plans to build a 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Concordville, Pennsylvania
- Former contract worker at UAB Hospital raises safety concerns in TikTok
- Urology Centers of Alabama names new executives, management team
- Alabama Regional Medical Services hires new CFO who is ready to serve Birmingham
- Tenet Hospital in Alabama Faces Disability Discrimination Suit
ALASKA
- Alaskans die from traumatic brain injury at twice the national average
- Heart Successfully Traveled Record 2,506 Nautical Miles From Alaska to Boston for Transplant
- For Alaskans in behavioral health emergencies, Mobile Crisis Teams are an effective new approach
ARIZONA
- Former HonorHealth anesthesia tech charged with poisoning coffee during surgery
- Kaiser, Cleveland Clinic and more: 6 nonprofit systems back in the black
- UK startup eyes Phoenix for new HQ as it expands dementia app
- What to know about Arizona’s Medicaid fraud investigation
- Phoenix Children’s is developing with discipline, CEO says
- Why Phoenix-area psychiatric beds are closed
- Banner Health reports $174M positive swing in operating income
- Contract dispute jeopardizes in-network medical care for thousands of Arizona kids
- Arizona-based company may acquire Mad River hospital
- Top 10 orthopedic practices in Arizona for 2023
- Prosecutors charge former Scottsdale hospital employee with poisoning
- Top 10 spine practices in Arizona for 2023
ARKANSAS
- CARTI Prepares for New Surgery Center to Open Next Month
- Lawmakers OK emergency rule to help Arkansas’ rural hospitals access new federal funding
- UAMS, Baptist Health Open Cancer Clinic in Little Rock
- Arkansas hospital names CEO
- Northwest Health promotes Chris Blair to CEO of Bentonville hospital
- Fire on roof damages Jefferson Regional specialty hospital construction
- Expanding Access to Mental Health Services
CALIFORNIA
- 10x Genomics opens new R&D, operations center in Pleasanton
- California hospital to file for bankruptcy
- County approves $4.1 million to convert Sacramento motel into residential substance abuse treatment center
- Fresno hospital fined after patient dies when object was left inside her during surgery
- Hospital’s $43M Lawsuit Over Typo Moves Toward Settlement
- Kaiser, Cleveland Clinic and more: 6 nonprofit systems back in the black
- Kaiser Permanente disclosure details planned investments in Geisinger after Risant deal
- Life sciences incubator in Vacaville looks to attract, retain hub’s biotechs
- Medical Office Building Sells For Almost $5M
- Sonja Spowart, CFO of California Primary Care Association, works to promote health care availability
- How California can address disparities in maternal health
- 5-day strike averted at HCA facilities in California
- Sutter Health CEO ‘Disturbed’ by Discrimination Claims in NBC Bay Area Report, Orders Reforms
- Doctors Hospital of Manteca Appoints New CFO
- Medical Board of California Faces Reform During ‘Sunset Review’ by Legislature
- Heading for an Acute Crisis?
- California Hospitals Seek a Broad Bailout, but They Don’t All Need It
- CEO of California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies discusses CARE Court initiative
- Rady Children’s lands $2.5 million donation to advance neuro-oncology research
COLORADO
- 5 health system leaders named to advisory board of virtual nursing company
- HCA affiliate named a top employer in Denver
- Colorado doctor discusses health care biases, alarming maternal mortality rate in Black women: “It’s acknowledging that they exist”
- New state department tasked with fixing mental health care in Colorado mired in turmoil
- Colorado hospital secures housing for 20 patients
- Data shows more people are getting abortions in Colorado – the most since 1985
- A Colorado panel of medical and pharmacy experts will decide whose medicine to make affordable this summer
- Actuarial reviews of health benefit reforms in Colorado saw slow start during first year
CONNECTICUT
- CT health centers warn of cuts to services if funding is scaled back
- How Connecticut changed during COVID-19
- Nearly 2,000 long-term caregivers in CT set to strike over wages
- Shuttered Connecticut nursing program faces lawsuit from 8 former students
- Nurse training program to receive $2.9 million in federal funding to address shortage
- A federal grant will help train 200 nurses in Connecticut
- Connecticut Naturopath and Practice Pay $400K to Settle False Claims, Improper Billing Allegations
- House Takes Step To Tighten Protections For Abortion Providers
- These 2 CT Facilities Ranked Among Americas Best Maternity Hospitals
- Waterbury health business pays $400K false claims settlement
- A CT woman flatlined and died. Her family claims hospital staff failed to notice her loss of heart rate.
- Hartford HealthCare Launches Stroke Support Group in Eastern CT
- CT House passes bill that expands access to contraception, Narcan
DC
- ‘An opportunity to enhance our model’: Geisinger CEO Dr. Jaewon Ryu on Risant Health
- New York’s Cityblock Health laying off 60 D.C. employees, reducing local operations
- A health facility promising a ‘Caribbean-like experience’ could be coming to D.C.
- Children’s National Hospital hosts prom for patients battling illnesses
- Unfair labor complaints filed against George Washington University Hospital as nurses try to unionize
DELAWARE
- ChristianaCare spin-out named ‘Most Promising New Company’ at Delaware Bio pitch event
- Delaware among states that struggle to provide nursing home oversight. What we know
- Lawmakers consider proposal to extend health care assistance to undocumented children
- Public feedback sought in shaping Delaware’s paid family and medical leave program
FLORIDA
- Baptist Hospital and Lakeview Center will operate centralized Baker Act facilities
- Borland Groover breaks ground on surgery center in St. Johns County
- Companies propose a half-dozen new nursing home projects in metro Orlando
- New law aims to protect hospital workers
- New medical office building proposed as 1st phase of new Horizon West complex
- Proxy battle between billionaire and CEO looms for Cano Health
- Tampa General Hospital Teams Up with Navina to Bring Its Transformative AI to Primary Care Physicians
- San Francisco-based cannabis company Cookies to open its first Orlando medical marijuana dispensary
- The Sanders Trust Breaks Ground on $48 Million Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital
- Village Home Care, CEO, and Two Doctors Pay $490,000 to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations for Paying and Receiving Kickbacks
- Limits on gender-affirming care force some Florida health centers to pause treatment for adults
- Best Buy founder donates $20M to Florida health system
- HCA Florida Blake Hospital selects chief medical officer
- How AI is being used in health care in Central Florida
- Partnership to Improve Care Access for Florida Medicaid Beneficiaries
- Florida health systems working to address Black maternal health, food insecurities
- Nurse burnout and how Central Florida hospitals are dealing with it
- New $48M rehabilitation hospital breaks ground on Jacksonville’s westside
- 2 physicians, CEO to pay $490K to resolve kickback allegations
- Dawn Javersack of Nicklaus Children’s Chosen as a ‘CFO of the Year’
- DeSantis signs bill to increase penalties for attacks on health care workers
GEORGIA
- Atlanta-based “Health Care Sharing Ministry” plans to sue its former CEO for millions
- Atlanta medical device company Artelon to move into new office after capital infusion
- Berry aims to boost health care workforce with physician associate program
- Cheryl Gardner named executive director of new Georgia health insurance exchange
- Emory Healthcare names Jen Schuck as CEO of three hospitals
- New behavioral health crisis center coming to Augusta
- Savannah to get new medical school campus
- Georgia DPH announces new District Health Director
- Savannah surgeon shares how local medical college can help our health industry
- 3 GA Facilities Ranked Among Americas Best Maternity Hospitals
- Children’s Hospital of Georgia uses genetic work to care for patients
- Coweta County approved for medical marijuana dispensary
HAWAII
- Bill gives West Maui Hospital Foundation tool to secure funding on the bond market
- These Volunteer Pilots Are Helping Rural Hawaii Residents Get Much-Needed Medical Help
- Former military family gets $30M in damages in Tripler Medical Center malpractice case
- Hawaii’s largest hospital group drops mask mandate
- Healthier Hawaii: 1-year anniversary of Kapiolani’s Women’s Bone and Joint clinic
IDAHO
- Saint Alphonsus named among nation’s top performing hospitals
- St. Luke’s Health System assigned ‘A+’ ratings amid strong operating profile
- Idaho selects 16 rural health care providers for student-loan grants. One is the sole provider in his area.
- Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center Holds Trauma Simulation
- Idaho Falls Health: 20% of Seniors skip their meds because of costs. Doctor Explains
ILLINOIS
- Another small Illinois hospital is closing soon. Here’s what we know
- CommonSpirit expects to recover most of its $160M cyberattack costs
- How CommonSpirit’s CIO Ensures That New Technology Investments Are Worth It
- Illinois HFS set to open public comment on extension of Medicaid behavioral health transformation waiver
- Siemens teams with hospital giant CommonSpirit to acquire imaging vendor in ‘first of its kind’ deal
- Spring Valley to lose its hospital June 16? St. Margaret’s CEO warns closure looming without funds
- Conifer strikes partnership with Illinois hospital
- Ransomware gang claims it hit Illinois hospital
- Carle Health Certified as Great Place To Work for 6th Straight Year
- 20 IL Facilities Ranked Among Americas Best Maternity Hospitals
INDIANA
- Can new Indiana law lower drug costs? Answer is as clear as mud
- Indiana physician wins $3.7M in suit against health system
- Kaiser, Cleveland Clinic and more: 6 nonprofit systems back in the black
- Mental health training to become mandatory for first responders under new Indiana law
- Indiana physician wins $3.7M in suit against health system
- Carmel startup Syra Health files to go public
- How will artificial intelligence affect health care systems – will it hurt or help?
- Local hospital provides help to mothers with substance use issues
- Eskenazi Medical Group to free all physicians from non-competes, going further than new state ban
IOWA
- 5 health system leaders named to advisory board of virtual nursing company
- Nurse tells inspectors of ‘horrific’ conditions in Des Moines nursing home
- Physicians at OB-GYN Associates to become Mercy Iowa City employees
- Univ. of Iowa Health Care names new vice president
- Iowa hospital discloses data breach
- UI Health Care 2nd on list of ‘trusted health care brands’
- How Iowa nursing homes fared in the 2023 legislative session
- Nurse charged with abuse for stealing patient’s Oxycodone
- UnityPoint reports operating loss ahead of Presbyterian merger
- MercyOne announces closure of Johnston hospice center
- Iowa health system sees benefits from data-driven surgery
KANSAS
- Norton nonprofit to open assisted living facility
- Olathe startup Ronawk’s new subsidiary solves its challenges while also helping region innovate
- Patheous Health makes North Carolina acquisition after $15.5M investment
- Kansas officials announce grants for mental health hospital beds
- Kansas awards more than $65 million in healthcare grants
- Patient sues Saint Luke’s for discrimination after being kicked out of ED
- HCA women’s hospital rebrands
- Black woman was discriminated against at Leawood hospital and removed by cops: Lawsuit
- Kansas faces OB-GYN shortage. Providers warn new laws could further strain maternity care
- Hospitals in Two States Denied an Abortion to a Miscarrying Patient. Investigators Say They Broke Federal Law.
KENTUCKY
- COVID-19 emergency declaration has ended, but Kentucky’s health care worker crisis hasn’t
- Health tech startup Quovis receives big boost from Louisville investor
- Markey’s NCI designation: A decade of impact on cancer research
- Norton Healthcare still reeling 2 weeks after cyber attack
- St. Elizabeth Hospitals in Florence, Ft. Thomas get second ‘Magnet’ designation for nursing excellence
- Kentucky medical professionals gather for summit addressing children’s mental health
- Baptist Health Corbin donates supplies for medical mission
- A multi-million dollar grant will improve mental health services for Kentucky students
- Cardiologist files defamation lawsuit against Kentucky hospital, 2 physicians
- ‘A Model’: In New State Law, Nursing Homes Get to Influence Survey Process to Ease Punitive Aspects
LOUISIANA
- Hospital groups blast FTC for opposing Louisiana merger: ‘Unjustifiable overreach’
- Lawsuit over LCMC hospital merger will be heard by a federal judge in New Orleans
- Woman’s Hospital named best place to work in healthcare
- In win for LCMC, federal judge says legal fight over hospital deal should be heard in New Orleans
- Baton Rouge hospitals embracing new solutions to fill nursing positions
- New Orleans aims to wipe out millions in medical debt
- Lack of health providers for growing youth mental health crisis, New Orleans nonprofit stepping up
- The latest holdup in Louisiana’s court system: a long wait for mental health treatment
MAINE
- CEOs from UVM Health, Maine Health and Dartmouth Health hold roundtable discussion
- A nurse’s ‘gut feeling’ could stop hospital violence before it happens
- Maine confirms 1st death from rare tick-borne disease in 2023
- Maine legislators advance bill to address hospital facility fees, childcare on deck
MARYLAND
- 2 state grants push Johns Hopkins’ $516M hospital project forward
- Encompass Health opens rehab hospital in Bowie
- Johns Hopkins Hospital moving forward with $516M renovation, addition
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine nixes participation in U.S. News rankings amid recruiting concerns
- New cancer center construction underway
- U of Maryland set to open $70M multispecialty center
MASSACHUSETTS
- How Boston emergency rooms plan for possible disasters
- Massachusetts General Hospital accuses spinoff, researcher of stealing trade secrets
- UMass Memorial agrees to pay $1.2M to settle FLSA claims stemming from Kronos outage
- Donor heart travels from Alaska to Boston; breaks record
- Mass General, NIH partner to pin down key symptoms of long COVID
- Massachusetts Blues’ contract with Tufts Medicine rewards providers for meeting equity benchmarks
- The question Boston Children’s CHRO Lisa Abbott asks every Uber driver
- Massachusetts General Hospital employee charged in rifle incident on property
- Mass General Brigham margins rebound amid $361M net gain in Q2
- LRVHealth raises $200M to fund the ‘second wave’ of digital health innovation
- Why Memorial Hermann, Boston Children’s + MemorialCare got top digital health honors
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear to pay $5.7M in false claims settlement
- Steward Morton Hospital to close substance-use treatment program in Taunton
- Birthing center expansion eyed as use for state funding
- Mass General Brigham gets $5.8M to train nurse educators
- Mass. health insurance company admits personal data stolen in cyberattack
MICHIGAN
- 5 health system leaders named to advisory board of virtual nursing company
- Corewell Health financial results improve for the first quarter
- Former patients of Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital come together to share stories of alleged mistreatment
- Henry Ford Health taps Mass General Brigham AI spinoff for bedside medical coding
- Holland Hospital joint venture to develop $29M facility in Zeeland
- McLaren hospital CEO steps down
- New Michigan State Medical Society president pushes to preserve doctors’ authority
- Partners begin work on $22M Grand Rapids mental health crisis center
- Shoreline Orthopaedics partners with hospital for $28.9M facility
- Meet Moxi, the newest nurse assistant of Trinity Michigan medical team
- Trinity Health Michigan’s hospital farms assist food insecure communities
- 8 MI Facilities Ranked Among Americas Best Maternity Hospitals
- Michigan hospitals respond to shortage of chemotherapy drugs
MINNESOTA
- 2 Minnesota systems see Q1 losses
- $300 million for nursing homes part of larger deal for MN capital investment
- Mayo Clinic thanks governor, legislators after staffing bill revamp
- Minnesota ‘anti-competitive’ ban targets Sanford/Fairview merger
- Minnesota bill targets hospital mergers; Sanford Health, Fairview Health remain committed to deal
- Minnesota lawmakers take step to mandate nursing home wages
- Nursing bill passes state legislature, heads to Walz’s desk
- Sanford issues statement following passage of MN bill banning anti-competitive health care mergers
- Staffing levels left out of final nursing bill as Legislature ends historic session
- ‘That bill has died’: Staffing rules cut from Minnesota legislation
- Stanford, Mayo + more join Epic’s interoperability pledge
- ‘An anti-democratic ultimatum’: 8 leaders react to Mayo Clinic’s staffing exemption
- ‘Healthcare will surely crumble’: Mayo lands full exemption as hospitals protest Minnesota staffing bill
- Sanford, Fairview still intend to combine as oversight bill heads to governor
- Budget that expands Minnesota health care, abortion access heads to governor
- How a Minnesota hospital increased scheduling volume using AI
MISSISSIPPI
- 2 states loosening certificate of need laws for ASCs
- Closure looms for Mississippi hospital
- Mississippi hospital weighs legal action as Merit Health pulls lease
- Mississippi passed a $104M ‘lifeline’ program for hospitals. One CEO says it won’t help.
- More hospitals drop out of the Mississippi Hospital Association
- Mississippi Delta hospitals battle financial factors to survive
- Some of Mississippi’s largest hospitals have left the MHA
- Mississippi doctors want adequate health care for patients
MISSOURI
- Centene names new chief communications officer
- Compass Health to open comprehensive children’s center
- Kaiser, Cleveland Clinic and more: 6 nonprofit systems back in the black
- MU Health Care said employee improperly accessed 736 medical records
- SSM Health reports $16.5M Q1 operating loss
- Western Governors U to open 18,000 square-foot nursing simulation lab
- BJC HealthCare reports $105.6M operating income upswing
- Centene makes 2nd C-suite change this week
- Telehealth helps rural Missourians access mental health services
- Missouri easing training requirements for nursing aides to help staffing shortages
- Hospitals in Two States Denied an Abortion to a Miscarrying Patient. Investigators Say They Broke Federal Law.
- MU Extension works to fight startling statistics on mental health in Missouri
- St. Louis County Children’s Service Fund Invests $150 Million in 72 Local Mental Health Organizations
- Saint Luke’s Health System announces CEO of North Region
- KC psychiatric hospital is ‘in disrepair.’ MO lawmakers want to spend $300M to replace it
MONTANA
- Montana becomes 1st state to ban TikTok — what that means for hospital marketing
- Community Hospital of Anaconda receives national recognition
- Montana judge blocks abortion restrictions from taking effect while lawsuits continue
- Bill appropriating grant funds for autism centers in Montana signed into law
- Missoula Health: 20% of Seniors skip their meds because of costs. Doctor Explains
NEBRASKA
- Nebraska passes abortion, gender-affirming care ban
- Crisis in Care: Impact of violence in hospitals on the Nebraska nursing shortage
- Avera St. Anthony’s Hospital celebrates expansion, renovation project milestone
- ‘Our voices weren’t being heard’: COVID-19 restrictions rolled back in Metro nursing home
- Nebraska lawmakers send $10.7 billion budget plan to governor’s desk
NEVADA
- ‘Never did I imagine that I would have to ration chemotherapy’
- Only 1 Las Vegas valley hospital receives the grade ‘A’ for Safety
- The Neighborhood Clinic Aims to Make Healthcare More Accessible In Las Vegas
- Northern Nevada Medical Center celebrates 40 years
- NRMC has applied for grant to start hospital food pantry
- Nevada could pass a bill requiring health insurance to include gender-affirming care
- Renown Health announces academic practice partnership for Orvis School of Nursing Students
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- CEOs from UVM Health, Maine Health and Dartmouth Health hold roundtable discussion
- Former New Hampshire doctor pleads guilty in $1.9 million Medicare fraud scheme
- New England hospital CEOs say lack of adequate housing hurting doctor, nurse recruiting
- Judge says New Hampshire must end practice of involuntarily holding psychiatric patients in hospitals
- NH announces plan to end ‘ER boarding’ of psychiatric patients in next 2 years
- How New Hampshire’s housing crisis is making it hard to hold onto essential health workers
- Judge: State has 6 hours to move patients from ERs to treatment when holding them for safety
- As public health emergency ends, here’s what’s changing
NEW JERSEY
- Bayonne council votes in favor of local medical center acquiring $40.55M in grants
- Capital Health receives $500K grant for expansion in Trenton
- South Jersey hospital supply company faces nearly $500K in federal penalties after workplace amputation
- NJ Hospitals Caring for Sicker Patients
- Broad new oversight planned to lead NJ’s maternal health efforts
- Here Is NJs Health, Wellness Rank In New Study
- 15 NJ Facilities Ranked Among Americas Best Maternity Hospitals
- N.J. ends daily COVID case count reporting
- Hackensack University Medical Center Performs First Innovative BEAR Procedure in New Jersey for ACL Reconstruction
- Here’s how NJ lawmakers are trying to ease shortage of health care workers
NEW MEXICO
- New Mexico’s behavioral health hospital agrees to pay $215K after allegations of abuse, neglect
- Medical care at largest jail in N.M. to go public
- New Mexico Program to Reduce Maternity Care Deserts in Rural Areas Fights for Survival
NEW YORK
- Catholic Health forbearance agreements with lenders total $398M
- Catholic Health to open temporary ER in Lockport until new hospital opens
- Elmhurst Hospital residents, interns prepare for strike and demand fair pay
- Explosive growth at Trusted Nurse Staffing prompts office expansion
- Hospice Buffalo receives $6M pledge for new training center
- More New York City physicians authorize strike
- New York City hospital physicians strike
- Northwell Health planning $45M expansion into Yaphank retail, office, residential complex
- Nurse who lost job due to COVID vaccine requirement unsure of future after mandate enters repeal process
- NY to repeal COVID vaccine mandate for health workers, AG attorney says in appeals court
- NYC Health + Hospitals names VP of quality management
- Over 150 doctors on strike at NYC hospital that was once called pandemic epicenter
- Resident doctors at NYC’s Elmhurst Hospital reach tentative deal after 3-day strike
- URMC surgery center will open on Wednesday at Marketplace Mall
- WNY Immediate Care is Buffalo’s largest urgent care center, but traffic is down
- New York hospital CIO takes on chief medical officer duties
- Catholic Health secures more time to meet requirements of $44M loan
- Kaleida recruits new chief nurse executive from Texas
- New York health system nurses approve labor deal
- U of Rochester Medical Center unveils first phase of $227M orthopedic surgery center
- Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital authorize strike
- US drugmaker to close July 1
NORTH CAROLINA
- 5 health system leaders named to advisory board of virtual nursing company
- 2 states loosening certificate of need laws for ASCs
- Billionaire’s Morrisville firm no longer trading on the Nasdaq
- CaroMont Health opens critical care tower at Gastonia hospital as part of larger $350M plan
- Cone Health reports operating income in the black after previous loss
- Cone Health to use new $160M tower to prevent heart disease as much as treat it
- Patheous Health makes North Carolina acquisition after $15.5M investment
- NC hospitals chart new strategies amid staff shortages, rising costs
- Radiology Group Sues Broker Over Lapsed Cyber Insurance Policy
- UNC Health joins Epic, Microsoft’s generative AI pilot
- WakeMed announces plans for new mental health facility in Garner
- Youth mental health focus of latest report card
- Forum seeks ways to advance maternal health equity in NC
- Bon Secours Mercy Health, Compass Surgical partner to expand ASCs
- North Carolina bill seeking greater transparency on healthcare M&A pulled
- Duke LifePoint hospital no longer in immediate jeopardy
NORTH DAKOTA
- University of Jamestown receives $2.5M grant for nursing shortage
- 5 latest hospital exec team shake-ups
OHIO
- 26,000-square-foot medical building could be coming to local township
- 3 nursing homes closing quickly as Ohio leaders plead for Medicaid adjustment
- $15M gift to fund women’s health at Ohio State medical school
- Bon Secours Mercy Health embraces nursing flex program to reduce turnover
- Bon Secours Mercy Health, Compass Surgical partner to expand ASCs
- Cleveland Clinic cardiologists make history, become first in world to implant new heart failure device
- Cleveland Clinic reports operating income up $136.8M in Q1
- Dayton nursing home where woman went missing had been fined more than $140K by Medicare
- For hospital president service to community is a ‘way of life’
- Judge dismisses retaliation, intimidation claims in Akram Boutros lawsuit against MetroHealth
- Ohio nursing home staff members stretched to the limit, want Governor DeWine’s attention
- Ohio State’s James Cancer Hospital sees outpatient campus as key to continued growth
- One of region’s largest hospitals turning Covid vaccination center into cardiology suite
- Quovis, a health tech startup in Cleveland, lands $1M investment
- Springfield medical leader moving needle on women’s, infant health
- Three Cincinnati nursing homes close, 200 residents displaced, as tensions rise to find them new homes
- Top of the List: Central Ohio’s largest assisted living facilities
- Ohio’s University Hospitals First in US to Achieve System-Level Advanced Chest Pain Certification by DNV
- Health equity: Transforming concepts into actions at Ohio health system
- Are northwest Ohio hospital systems in the health care business or health business?
- Cleveland area hospital systems collaborating to promise workforce diversity and inclusion for the long term
- Grant Medical Center plans to break ground on expanded campus in September
- Ohio nurses push for safe staffing ratios in ‘Code Red’ campaign
- Ohio State to open a $15 million women’s health research center
- Mercy Health threatens Anthem Medicaid contract termination
OKLAHOMA
- Ascension St. John’s Expands Critical Care Capacity For Growing Community
- More Oklahomans calling 988 for help in mental health crisis
- Oklahoma hospitals face savings squeeze
- Gov. Stitt signs bill banning all forms of gender affirming medical care to adolescents
- OK providers preparing for not-OK 20 percent funding loss
- Oklahoma CNA arrested for abuse after allegedly slapping patient with dementia 3 times
- Ground broken on new health facility in Salina
- More money to go to Oklahoma nonprofits serving sick children, families
OREGON
- Improved Oregon revenue forecast could fund health care improvements
- PeaceHealth, LifePoint plan rehabilitation hospital in Springfield
- Nurses at St. Charles Hospital in Bend vote to authorize strike
- Early numbers show nearly 70% of Oregonians keep Oregon Health Plan benefits in first round of renewals
- Medicaid Redetermination in Oregon and the Partnership Between CareOregon and SCAN Health
- PeaceHealth to shut down its pediatric cardiology practice in Springfield
- Oregon lawmakers further ease proton therapy coverage despite lingering debate
- Oregon nurses at two Providence facilities seek strike authorization
PENNSYLVANIA
- 3 local hospital groups crack top 50 in a national ranking of top health system brands
- AHN launches digital nursing program at hospitals
- AI helping Temple Hospital doctors with medical treatments
- Allegheny Health Network to have digital nurses in all 14 hospitals by end of ’24
- ‘An opportunity to enhance our model’: Geisinger CEO Dr. Jaewon Ryu on Risant Health
- Bucks County health care provider for patients with disabilities opens 3 of its centers to the public
- Cash-strapped Main Line Health reports $114.4M operating loss, extending declines
- Encompass Health announces plans to build a 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Concordville, Pennsylvania
- Encompass Health to open new hospital in Northeast
- Excela Health and Butler Health System become Independence Health System after merger
- Kaiser Permanente disclosure details planned investments in Geisinger after Risant deal
- Nemours opens second of three new pediatric outpatient care centers in suburban Philadelphia
- New Pennsylvania ASC to focus on value-based care
- ‘Not going to close us’: Health care workers picket at Crozer-Chester Medical Center
- Penn Medicine to establish mental health care hub at its Cedar Avenue campus
- Punched, kicked, threatened with rape: Einstein nurses raise alarm about dangerous work environment
- Temple Health boosts lung health testing with campaign that addressed barriers to care
- UHS’ 5 highest-earning execs
- Unions file antitrust complaint against UPMC
- Union hospital workers at Crozer-Chester Medical Center to conduct information picketing
- Western Pa.’s third-largest health system has a fresh name and new branding
RHODE ISLAND
- Could Rhode Island become New England’s next life sciences hub?
- Fallout from settlement in Barrington COVID-19 vaccine lawsuit?
- Westerly Hospital to partner with local solar farm
- Hospitals in R.I. have tenants that are not exempt from real estate taxes. Lawmakers say it’s time for them to pay.
SOUTH CAROLINA
- $48M Charleston mental health center is state’s first in 30 years
- Charleston County in maternal health crisis
- MUSC expanding access to complex MRIs through remote technology
- MUSC Health Midlands names new chief operating officer
- MUSC sending equipment, supplies to African hospital
- South Carolina is rolling back hospital regulations. But rural areas could be left behind
- Tidelands Health receives $50K grant to help uninsured, underinsured access healthcare
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Minnesota bill targets hospital mergers; Sanford Health, Fairview Health remain committed to deal
- Sanford issues statement following passage of MN bill banning anti-competitive health care mergers
- Sanford, Fairview still intend to combine as oversight bill heads to governor
- SD lawmakers want stronger system for long-term care
- Senior care leader shares benefits of Sanford partnership
- Wakonda Man Sentenced for Theft in Connection with Health Care
TENNESSEE
- 5 health system leaders named to advisory board of virtual nursing company
- As Tennessee’s physician assistants help more patients, they’re pushing for changes to restrictions set in 1999
- Envision Healthcare’s operating performance will continue to deteriorate, Moody’s predicts
- HCA Healthcare and union reach agreement just days before planned strike set to begin
- HCA Healthcare buys 41 urgent care centers in Texas
- HCA tests new mental health program for its health care workers
- Lawsuit filed after man dies in fire at Nashville hospital
- Nashville-based Skin Pharm lands $15 million investment
- Nashville General CEO: Relocation project for city’s safety net hospital stalled for now
- Rural hospital closures across Tennessee leave a generation in need of care
- Ryan Seacrest opens a Seacrest Studios location at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
- Thrive Health Tech raises $7 million
- It’s getting harder for expecting mothers to deliver at hospitals in rural Tennessee, report says
- Why Tennessee medical center shut down for a week after cyberattack
- Report Ranks Tennessee Among Least Healthy States for Older Adults
- New ambulance safely transports critical pediatric ECMO patients
- Methodist settles ADA suit alleging interpreter not provided for deaf patient
TEXAS
- $24M Medical Office Building to be Part of The Mix
- 3rd health system joins AI consortium
- HCA Healthcare buys 41 urgent care centers in Texas
- Medical City’s parent company to add 41 urgent care centers in Texas to portfolio
- More women sue Texas, asking court to put emergency block on state’s abortion law
- SA hospital system strikes deal for more than a dozen urgent care centers
- St. David’s HealthCare acquires 10 Central Texas urgent care centers
- Texas AG to investigate 2nd children’s hospital over gender-transition care
- Houston Methodist’s CMIO takes a ‘different angle’ to generative AI
- The Battle Against North Texas’ Medical Debt
- Texas Children’s to end transgender care
- Tenet hospital faces disability discrimination suit
- Jochen Reiser appointed by UT Regents as next president of The University of Texas Medical Branch
- Why Memorial Hermann, Boston Children’s + MemorialCare got top digital health honors
- Fort Worth-based home health provider appoints new CEO
UTAH
- Here’s how AI could help Utah healthcare workers
- MedProperties Realty Advisors acquires a 51,591-square-foot kidney care center in Utah
- Intermountain Health reports $549M Q1 income
- Utah hospital system cancels adult gender-affirming surgery appointments
- Utah among three lowest states for mammograms, report finds
- Utah policy experts discuss lessons learned during COVID pandemic and strategies for rebuilding trust in public health
- St. George Regional Hospital makes plans for annex ER, patient care in Desert Color/SunRiver area
- Utah policy experts say work on health data interoperability remains unfinished
- Utah making further advances in value-based healthcare, according to experts
- CommonSpirit Health acquires Mountain Point Medical Center, facility re-named
VERMONT
- CEOs from UVM Health, Maine Health and Dartmouth Health hold roundtable discussion
- Vermont hospital patient survives 6-story fall
- ‘Almost the Uber of how we deliver care’: UVM Health CEO on creative rural staffing solutions
- VTSU announces plans for expansion of nursing programs
VIRGINIA
- All five Inova hospitals earn top safety grades from Leapfrog
- Inova Health sees costs jump 40% at Virginia hospital development site
- Inova Health’s heart center changes name after $75M gift
- Sentara Health Invests $18.2 Million in Northern Virginia
- Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center Names New President
- Virginia hospital readies drone medication delivery to remote Eastern Shore homes
- Long wait times for Virginia’s mental hospitals
- Virginia’s medical cannabis program has ‘improved’ but more needed to meet expectations
WASHINGTON
- Construction underway on new MultiCare Behavioral Health center in Hillyard
- KVH CEO addresses obstacles, successes in delivery of rural maternity healthcare
- Life Care Centers vindicated in early COVID wrongful death case
- Nurses at MultiCare hospital vote ‘no confidence’ in CEO amid contract negotiations
- Providence reports Q1 operating loss of $345M
- Washington VA hospital to cut staff due to lost revenue from Cerner EHR
- A new WA law may not cure hospital staff shortages, nurses say
- WA expands role of dental therapists, hoping to improve oral health
WEST VIRGINIA
- West Virginia hospital to close long-term care unit
- Justice announces leaders of the 3 agencies replacing health, human services department
- West Virginia officials mark end of COVID-19 national Public Health Emergency
- Behavioral health care provider shortages continue in West Virginia
- Restructuring of West Virginia DHHR continues as Gov. Justice names three new secretaries
WISCONSIN
- California-based urgent care startup prepares to open first Milwaukee-area clinic
- Froedtert closing units at 2 hospitals
- Kaiser, Cleveland Clinic and more: 6 nonprofit systems back in the black
- Over 100 hospitals call on Wisconsin Legislature to boost Medicaid reimbursement
- Wisconsin Hospital Association seeks $185M of state budget surplus to help its members
- Hundreds of students graduate from Medical College of Wisconsin
- 9 WI Facilities Ranked Among Americas Best Maternity Hospitals
- Wisconsin considers bill that would help pharmacists who commit to work in rural areas
- Marshfield Clinic Health System, Security Health Plan: Award behavioral health grants to 50 Wisconsin school districts
- New healthcare center expected to double graduation rates at Lakeshore Technical College
WYOMING
