NATIONAL
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- AHA issues letter of support for ‘gold card’ legislation
- AHA presses CMS to do more on cost sharing, junk plans
- Amazon’s One Medical CEO to step down later this year
- Americans support Medicare drug price negotiations
- CMS threatens to cut hospices from Medicare if they can’t prove legitimacy
- Data breaches are down, but number of people affected is rising
- Distrustful patients, scarce resources hamper social needs screening
- FDA delays enforcement of Drug Supply Chain Security Act
- Financial performance worsens in July, Kaufman Hall says
- HHS loses 4th No Surprises Act lawsuit
- Hospital Financial Performance Continued Downward Trend in July
- Hospitals’ operating margins fell in July as fewer patients sought care
- Nursing homes, hospices, other businesses sold as hospitals refocus
- 3 Stark law updates affecting ASCs
- US names first 10 drugs for Medicare price negotiation
- Will CMS’ Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?
ALABAMA
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- American Family Care opens new health care center in Northeast
- Birmingham doctors secure $13.9M for research study
- Health practice to open in Hueytown
- Huntsville Hospital eyes merger with HEMSI ambulance service
- Princeton Baptist Medical Center names CEO after lengthy search
- Alabama COVID hospitalizations continue to rise
- Alabama Department of Public Health approves new regulations for birthing centers, sparking legal action
ALASKA
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- Bartlett Hospital brings home health and hospice care back to Juneau
- Providence St. Elias Specialty Hospital Accredited for Medical Rehab
- Alaska hospital receives national recognition
- Thousands of Alaskans may lose their Medicaid benefits this year, but not because they don’t qualify
- High staff vacancy rates have plagued the Anchorage Health Department for months
ARIZONA
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- Coconino Voices: NAH wants to build the hospital this community needs
- Fire breaks out at building under construction at Phoenix Children’s Hospital; no injuries
- Health systems can be disruptors too, says Banner Health CEO
- Phoenix Children’s exec takes on role as head of clinical care
- White House plan to negotiate drug prices could affect 165,000 Arizonans
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital To Add Multispecialty Clinic And Hospital In Arizona
- 3 Phoenix hospital employees arrested on patient abuse charges
- NAU takes steps to combat shortage of nurses in Arizona
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas hospital transitions to rural emergency status
- Pocahontas hospital set to be first in state to receive new designation for rural hospitals
- Randolph County medical center to become Arkansas’ first rural emergency hospital
- COVID-19 cases on the rise in Northwest Arkansas
- Mercy Health Foundation appoints 3 new NWA board members
- Arkansas directs federal grant money to DHS-run behavioral health crisis stabilization units
CALIFORNIA
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- 7-story tower housing new emergency dept. part of Rady Children’s Hospital’s largest expansion ever
- California bails out distressed hospitals, offers interest-free loans to 17 troubled providers
- California PICU back in state compliance
- California’s medical board can’t pay its bills, but doctors resist proposed fixes
- CEO leaves Providence hospital
- EHR and earthquakes: How 1 California hospital will use a $28M loan
- Gov. Newsom announces distressed hospital loan program
- Kaiser Permanente frontline workers strike could begin Oct. 1
- Madera Community Hospital to receive $2 million loan for operation costs
- Nurses protest ‘short staffing’ at Lynwood hospital in latest iteration of ‘hot labor summer’
- Plans to build an Elk Grove hospital, announced nearly 4 years ago, are on hold. Here’s why
- Ransomware gang reportedly selling Prospect Medical patient data
- Ransomware attack not the only headache for Prospect Medical
- Ridgecrest Regional Hospital receives $5.5 million interest-free loan in state aid to bolster financial health
- Risant Health could reshape healthcare: Geisinger CEO
- Strike set at Cedars-Sinai hospital
- Sutter Health faces challenge on $400M antitrust win
- UC Davis Health piloting digital program for opioid surveillance
- How a California hospital will reopen with a $50M loan
- Power restored at California hospital that evacuated 200+ patients
COLORADO
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- CIO Gary Hall retires from Estes Park Health
- Why Jefferson is partnering with a Denver hospital to address a mutual staffing problem
- Why Denver’s National Jewish partnered with a university that is 1,700 miles away
- Man with knife put Colorado Springs hospital on lockdown
- Colorado awarded $245M for cost savings from state health insurance programs
- Northwest Colorado agencies partner to raise health outcomes in Moffat County
- Colorado Springs’ newest hospital completes 1st surgeries
- Kaiser Permanente employees in Denver join vote on possible strike
- Nurse assaults in workplace continue as hospital industry looks for answers
CONNECTICUT
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- Connecticut hospital nurse says ransomware attack has affected payroll
- CT denies hospital’s request to disband the only rural labor and delivery unit in Sharon
- CT Children’s Medical Center expands in Fairfield County as Westport property sells for $19.1M
- Fate of Chester nursing home rests in state hands as families scramble to relocate: Exclusive
- Health Care Company and Cheshire Pharmacy Pay $500K to Resolve Controlled Substances Act Allegations
- Johnson Memorial Hospital’s expanded cancer center in Enfield reopens
- Ransomware attack not the only headache for Prospect Medical
- Sharon Hospital’s plan to shut labor and delivery gets initial denial
- Wellmore Behavioral Health’s Urgent Crisis Center Opens In Connecticut
DC
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
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- Florida hospital moves dozens ahead of Hurricane Idalia
- Florida physician pleads guilty to antitrust conspiracy that limited cancer options
- Local leaders discuss state of health care in Southwest Florida
- Orlando Health to debut region’s first orthopedic hospital
- 1 dead, 4 injured after Miami crane collapses at HCA Florida Mercy Hospital
- HCA Florida Trinity Hospital recognized for stroke care
- HCA Florida Aventura Hospital Introduces Cutting-Edge Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Depression Treatment: First in HCA Healthcare
- Tampa General celebrates 13,000 transplants since 1974
- The Florida health system competing with tourism — and still winning workers
GEORGIA
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- An Atlanta-area hospital system has completed its takeover of Augusta University’s hospitals
- Cancer drug shortage prompts Georgia lawmakers to raise issue with FDA
- Commission chair: Georgia CON laws ‘intended to stifle competition’
- Fast growing Atlanta health care company pays $17M for South Fulton facilities
- Georgia CON law criticized at legislative hearing
- Georgia eye center suffers data breach
- Georgia system names 4 executives
- Georgia nurses could receive tax cut amid nationwide shortage: A look at the proposed bill
- CareSource Georgia rolls out mobile clinics to help Medicaid recipients maintain health coverage
HAWAII
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
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- Advocate Health notches 0.6% operating margin, $1B net gain halfway through its first year
- Illinois public health officials warn of “rising COVID-19 activity”
- St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and other HSHS facilities dealing with major technology outage
- Striking nurses in Joliet will return to work Saturday as four-day lockout ends
- These 6 Chicago hospitals are top ranked in 2 or more physician specialties
- Several Illinois hospitals experiencing network outages through week
- Why an Illinois hospital CEO laid off 20% of its leadership
- Illinois health system expands nursing education platform
- New report shows access to maternal care in Illinois worsening
- Chicago-Area Nursing Home Workers Deliver 10-Day Strike Notice, Could Strike as Early as Labor Day
INDIANA
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- Final beam placed at Women and Children’s Tower at Ascension St. Vincent
- Lawmakers begin work tackling Indiana’s high heath care costs with new oversight task force
- Lutheran Health Network breaks ground on medical office building in Huntington
- Northwest Medical Group Specialists Move to New Location in Knox
- Parkview LaGrange Hospital temporarily closed due to air conditioning outage
- Hicks: Indiana’s hospital monopolies are worsening
- Indiana sees ‘substantial’ spike in COVID hospitalizations, CDC says
- Reid Health, Kroger partner on new Ohio grocery store
- State, local initiatives fight Indiana’s subpar life expectancy rate
- Franciscan Health Indianapolis awarded trauma designation
- Local rural hospitals could close if lawmakers don’t act
IOWA
KANSAS
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- Cigna exiting ACA exchanges in Kansas, Missouri for 2024
- Deadline approaches for new contract between Salina hospital, insurer
- Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System announces replacement of interim CEO
- Johnson County Clin-Trials receives investment from private equity firm FFL Partners
- South-central Kansas a step closer to a regional psychiatric hospital
- Why nurses lined the sidewalk outside Wichita hospital
- Kansas patients in coverage gap face Medicaid issues
KENTUCKY
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- Apellis to lay off 225 amid shaky drug launch
- Baptist Health Lexington earns ACC HeartCARE Center award
- Chris Johnson named vice president of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at St. E. Healthcare, Physicians
- St. Elizabeth Medical Center to receive nearly $400k in federal funds to combat substance abuse
- UofL lands nearly $12 million grant from National Institute of Health
- Winchester physician Michael Kuduk, M.D., installed as KMA president
- Kentucky health leaders tracking rise in new COVID-19 cases
- UofL Health mends 60K hearts in first year
LOUISIANA
MAINE
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- Maine hospital refutes safety claims by former employee’s son
- New hospital president addresses challenges facing health care system
- New hospital head sees telehealth and teamwork filling Aroostook health care gap
- Northern Light files tax exemption complaint against city of Brewer
- UMFK nursing simulation center is 1st of its kind in New England
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
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- A second Boston-area biotech files to go public via IPO
- Apellis to lay off 225 amid shaky drug launch
- ChatGPT can eliminate jargon in medical forms: Brown, Mass General Brigham researchers
- DHC continues to advocate for merger, says future of senior living portfolio ‘highly uncertain and unpredictable’
- CVS Health to lay off 140 Massachusetts employees
- Leominster politicians fight closure of local UMass Memorial maternity unit
- Mass General Brigham Adopts Templated Clinic Design
- UMass Memorial maternity unit closure plan continues to draw criticism
- Mass. healthcare network brings back staff mask mandate amid ‘dramatic increase’ in COVID cases
MICHIGAN
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- $1.35M awarded to 2 senior living facilities coming to Kalamazoo
- Children’s Healing Center plans new $8.5M facility near Calvin University
- Health care industry groups back Whitmer’s call for prescription drug cost review board
- Michigan Doctor to Pay $6.5 million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
- Michigan Pain Center Owner Pays $6.5M to Settle Lab Fraud Claims
- More than 80,000 purged from Michigan Medicaid in redetermination
- ProMedica hospital rehires past president amid sale
- First US case of new COVID-19 variant identified in Michigan lab
- New health center opening inside West Michigan high school
- Trinity Health Medicare ACOs Continue Savings for Eighth Year
MINNESOTA
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- Only 1 state ranked highly for nurses, physicians and health systems: WalletHub
- Aspirus Health seeking merger partners beyond St. Luke’s Duluth
- MercyOne announces it will close Albert Lea clinic at end of the year
- Former Mayo Clinic researcher sentenced for trying to join ISIS
- Minneapolis nonprofit promotes ‘simple and easy test’ to fight lung cancer
- Fitch Affirms Essentia Health (MN) at ‘A-‘; Outlook Stable
MISSISSIPPI
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- Mississippi hospital system hit by cyberattack
- An increasing number of Mississippians are being hospitalized for COVID-19, data shows
- At least three Mississippi hospitals aim to end inpatient services, convert to rural emergency status
- Mississippi sees ‘substantial’ spike in COVID hospitalizations, CDC says
- A program is putting more doctors in rural Mississippi. The auditor says it needs improvements.
- Mississippi system delaying surgeries as Epic EHR experiences outage
MISSOURI
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- Clayton health care giant Centene to sell U.K. hospital company for $1.2B
- Children’s Mercy Hospital receives notice to stop gender-affirming care to minors
- First senior living community earns Joint Commission assisted living memory care certification
- Here’s how 4 southwest Missouri institutions plan to revolutionize health care training
- Missouri law allowing direct access to physical therapists takes effect
- Missouri system reorganizes, makes leadership changes
- Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming health care for minors can take effect next week, judge rules
- SSM Health posts back-to-back quarterly losses
- Suit alleges violation of federal law in closing of St. Louis hospital
- ‘You can’t do this to people’: Patients say they waited 12 hours to be treated at hospital
- Missouri health system names CEO
- Petitions seek to add rape, incest exceptions to Missouri abortion law
- Cigna exiting ACA exchanges in Kansas, Missouri for 2024
- ‘It’s a win-win for everybody’: Gov. Mike Parson signs bill improving healthcare access in rural communities
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
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- Two health clinics are set to close in rural Nebraska. Others could follow.
- Nebraska Medicine says patients may have to pay for some messages to a doctor starting next month
- Hospital seeing dip in revenue from EHR installs is the norm, Fitch says
- Nebraska hospital board, CEO clash on ‘micromanaging’ improvement plan
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
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- New Jersey hospital to suspend healthcare benefits from striking nurses
- New Jersey’s Largest Health System Is Partnering With Google Cloud To Deploy Generative AI
- St. Luke’s Health Center to Open in Northwest New Jersey
- Former CEO sues New Jersey hospital over ‘amateurish’ firing
- As COVID-19 cases slowly rise again, 1 in 4 nursing homes in N.J. report an outbreak
- These are the biggest private health info breaches in New Jersey
- NY’s largest health care provider moves into NJ
NEW MEXICO
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- NM rural hospitals struggling to find insurance coverage
- New Mexico health system automates nursing workforce
- New Mexico health system gets gig app for nurses
- New Mexico Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on local abortion-ban ordinances
- Federal funds aim to grow NM’s nursing workforce as shortage persists
- Rural hospitals at the brink
- Hospital board interviews CEO candidates
NEW YORK
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- Buffalo Surgery Center transferring ownership to 6 orthopedic surgeons
- Buffalo Vascular Care adds new site for wound care, hyperbaric medicine
- Catholic Health names new CEO after leader steps down, and more
- Hospital for Special Surgery loses suit alleging $51.2M shortfall in COVID-19 funds
- Meet Joyce Markiewicz, Catholic Health’s new CEO
- Mount Sinai hospital combines executive roles
- Mount Sinai faces backlash for plans to relocate historic New York hospital
- New surgery center extends MediSys expansion in Queens
- Nursing shortage crisis threatens tri-state health care
- Nurses union meets with hospital management about staffing
- NY’s largest health care provider moves into NJ
- Patient found dead in Montefiore clinic stairwell
- Wynn Hospital preparing to open in Utica
- Northwell to launch on-demand care
- New Catholic Health CEO has more than just administrative experience
- NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst expands exec team
- How New York’s Public Hospitals Cut Carbon Emissions: More Vegetables
- New York on high alert over new COVID variant detected in U.S.
- NYU Langone hospital violating state staffing ratios, union says
- Hospital for Special Surgery opens new Long Island location
- SUNY Upstate University Hospital Opens Nappi Wellness Institute In New York
- Catholic Health, New York-Presbyterian offer new clinical collaboration
- National health care co. sees opportunity in serving WNY’s radiation-sickened workers
- New York City specialty hospital loses suit alleging $51.2M shortfall in COVID-19 funding
NORTH CAROLINA
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- 13 ECU Health nurses nominated for Great 100 Nurses of North Carolina
- AHWFB seeks OK for extra $35M to build Winston-Salem ambulatory surgery center approved a decade ago
- Atrium seeks additional $35M from the state for proposed ASC
- Cape Fear Valley Health announces groundbreaking, new Dunn clinics
- CarolinaEast Medical Center named one of the best hospitals
- CaroMont Health looks to add beds, spend millions on upgrades
- Cone Health appeal of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist hospital contends DHHS ‘acted arbitrarily and capriciously’
- Durham startup raises $6.5M to expand commercial footprint
- Northern Regional to open North Carolina medical office building
- Northern Regional Hospital, Hugh Chatham Health rank among best community hospitals in the country
- Novant Health reports $38 million in excess revenue in Q2, with $60M from investments
- Pfizer moves closer to restarting North Carolina facility damaged by tornado
- Wake County finds partner for health facility ahead of UNC contract ending
- NC COVID-19 hospitalizations on the rise, highest since March
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- Anchor Health Properties Marks Completion of 53,000 Square Foot Collaborative Health Center in Hudson, Ohio
- Bon Secours Mercy Health files $93 million lawsuit against insurer Anthem in Virginia
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital completes $108M expansion at College Hill campus
- Healthcare execs talk workforce challenges, solutions
- KDMC opens new primary care center in South Point
- OhioHealth plans 11,000-square-foot addition to newly acquired rehabilitation hospital in Dublin
- Ohio’s Hospice and Pure Healthcare announces death of chief medical officer
- Ohio system faces overtime suit
- OhioHealth to see leadership changes at hospitals
- 53K-square-foot medical office building completed in Ohio
- Kettering Health to offer free hand surgery to the uninsured
- Forbes names Dayton Children’s Hospital best employer in Ohio, again
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Opens William K. Schubert, M.D., Mental Health Center In Ohio
OKLAHOMA
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- Lack of nursing home staffing a chronic issue in Oklahoma
- Mercy plans Kathryn Ann Meinders Digestive Health Institute
- First-of-its-kind GI center planned in Oklahoma City
- Oklahoma hospital selects new EHR
- New grant can help save lives, especially Oklahoma indigenous mothers giving birth
- DRH Health recognized by Okla. Hospital Association for supporting food insecure patients
OREGON
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- OHSU proposes spending $3M on safety study, as nurses push back on contract offer
- Regence BlueCross BlueShield appoints new Oregon market president
- Workers at behavioral health center vote to unionize
- Oregon Coast Home Health steps in to save Bay Area home care services amid financial turmoil
- A prison pipeline that could help meet Oregon’s behavioral health workforce needs
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Bucks County hospitals join effort to stop race-based medicine
- Bucktail Medical Center sounds alarm; CEO warns of financial struggles
- Concord Hospital-Laconia to move orthopedics in house, separate from Concord Orthopaedics
- Crozer Health says all computer systems ‘running normal’ following ransomware attack
- Doylestown Hospital publicly suspends a veteran OB-GYN’s privileges, citing the quality of his work
- Jefferson continues leadership revamp
- Jefferson Health posts losses for second year in a row as COVID-19 relief runs low
- Lava Therapeutics is latest life sciences company to trim its workforce
- Montco neurology group at odds with Independence Blue Cross, Highmark over coverage for new Alzheimer’s drug
- New Behavioral Health Center Launches in Eastern PA
- Nurse practitioners, physician assistants fill rural health care gap
- Philadelphia hospital taps pharmacy director
- Risant Health could reshape healthcare: Geisinger CEO
- Tower Health reduces operating loss to $141.9 million; projects profitability in fiscal 2024
- UPMC operating income drops 82%
- Why Jefferson is partnering with a Denver hospital to address a mutual staffing problem
RHODE ISLAND
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- Care New England names new chief people officer
- CVS Health to cut nearly 200 jobs in Rhode Island
- University Orthopedics becomes 1st in Rhode Island to debut Intracept spine procedure
- Former Lifespan CFO joins supply company
- Emerging COVID subvariant raises concerns as cases climb in Rhode Island
- 3 Lifespan hospitals earn accolades from American Heart Association
- Sturdy, Tufts Medicine agree to clinical partnership
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Charleston health care network awarded $2M grant for women’s health
- Medical center purchases office building in Columbia
- New chief nursing officer named at Trident Medical Center
- Prisma Health files for temporary restraining order against UnitedHealthcare amid contract negotiations
- South Carolina abortion ban with unclear ‘fetal heartbeat’ definition creates confusion, doctors say
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- All but 3 Tenn. counties are in a health care shortage
- Ascension Saint Thomas opens new Women’s Health Center in Franklin
- Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Adds Four Leaders to Foundation Board of Directors
- Ballad responds to low hospital ratings
- California court rules SmileDirectClub must pay Align Technology $63 million
- Community Health Systems to expand virtual sitting to 29 hospitals
- Delta Dental names new leader as CEO Phil Wenk announces retirement
- Galen College of Nursing grows from 3 to 20 campuses
- HCA partners with Google Cloud to use artificial intelligence in its hospitals
- How $50M in Blue-Sky funding from St. Jude aims to support ‘transformational projects’
- Tennessee investors buy Buffalo medical building for $6.55 million
- Tennessee physician sentenced to 7 years for $1M+ fraud scheme
TEXAS
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- HCA, Google roll out generative AI project
- Methodist taps CEO for new $150M Westover Hills hospital
- New president to lead MAC at Morgan’s Wonderland
- Physical therapy operators charged in $80M fraud scheme
- Pipe rupture delays new Women’s & Children’s Hospital opening
- SA Medical Foundation president to retire after long run
- Tenet insiders sell $2.5M in shares
- Texas docs’ 4th courtroom win over HHS interrupts out-of-network billing arbitration yet again
- Texas hospital files for bankruptcy
- Texas Medical Association succeeds in new legal challenge to No Surprises Act
- TPG and Crowe LLP establish Crowe Healthcare Consulting as independent company
- This new law will help health care workers save lives in ambulances that cover wide-open West Texas
- UMC proposes tax rate increase; plans El Paso Children’s Hospital expansion
- New Texas hospital taps CEO
- Suburban Dallas hospital’s missteps lead to bankruptcy two years after opening
- Texas hospital alerts 350,000 patients to data breach
- Pests at Texas facility spur medical device, drug recalls
- These 5 Texas hospitals are top ranked in 2 or more physician specialties
- Houston Methodist tech hub opens
- New TX law to implement telehealth medicine inside ambulances
- Texas hospital taps chief medical officer
- Dangers and deaths around Black pregnancies in Texas seen as a “completely preventable” health crisis
- New Texas law increases hospital notice before removing patients from life support
- Tenet hospital names chief strategy officer
UTAH
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON
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- 3 physician groups exit Proliance
- Construction starts on $55M senior living project in Redmond
- Providence reports $202M operating loss in Q2
- Still targeting financial recovery, Providence trims H1 2023 operating loss to $547M
- 22 counties sue Washington state over lack of mental health care
- Violence against staff rises sharply at a Washington psychiatric hospital
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
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- Advocate Health notches 0.6% operating margin, $1B net gain halfway through its first year
- Aspirus Health seeking merger partners beyond St. Luke’s Duluth
- At UW Health, some patients are getting hospital care at home
- Inside SSM Health’s Wisconsin leadership realignment
- SSM Health names new leader at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison
- Wisconsin to no longer track daily cases of COVID-19
- Wisconsin communities continue to fight opioid epidemic
- Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations rising in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Wisconsin had the fourth-largest share of hospitals to receive perfect scores from federal agency
- Wisconsin lobbies to become tech hub for advanced medicine, jobs
- Children’s Wisconsin to open Kenosha mental health walk-in clinic
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