NATIONAL
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- 6 Joint Commission sentinel alerts, safety advisories in 2023
- After historic strike, Kaiser Permanente workers win 21% raise over 4 years
- AHA: Cybersecurity is a hospital board issue
- AHA Urges CMS to Rigorously Enforce New Policies to Safeguard MA Coverage
- AHIMA Launches Social Determinants of Health Data Initiative
- Amazon doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel in healthcare
- Amazon’s One Medical rebrands Iora senior centers to One Medical Seniors
- CMS data reveals increase in Stark law disclosure settlements
- HHS Says Physician-Employee Bonuses Aren’t Kickbacks
- Hospital CEO pay hits the Hill
- Hospital groups take aim at physician-owned facilities
- Hospital mergers continue upward trend in 3rd quarter
- Hospitals only use 3% of data, Microsoft says
- How to prevent surgical fires, per Joint Commission
- Safety net hospitals suffer steep losses, fear prospect of $8B in Medicaid cuts
- Uncompensated care puts essential hospitals deep in the red
- Uncompensated care hammering finances of essential hospitals
- What’s driving PE investment in ASCs
ALABAMA
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- Alabama Public Health launches flu, COVID-19, RSV database
- Birmingham hospital experiencing cancer drug shortage
- Driving 100 miles in labor; giving birth in the ER: Fears rise as 3 maternity units prepare to close in Alabama
- Local pharmacy awarded contract with Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Program
- This Alabama hospital was named the nation’s ‘Most Beautiful’
- Children’s of Alabama to undergo $55 million renovation
- Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission adopts new rules, expects to re-award licenses by end of year
- Cullman Regional trustee named to statewide board
- New USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital CEO already has overseen major expansion efforts
ALASKA
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- Alaska Medicaid fraud investigation leads to indictment for Kenai doctor and staff
- Providence Alaska Foundation Promotes New President
- State rejects freestanding South Anchorage ER proposal
- Alaska tribal health groups, Mayo Clinic to partner for study on tobacco cessation
- Alaska health department changes Medicaid renewal process to keep thousands covered
ARIZONA
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- Medical office buildings, senior housing in the cards for Novus Innovation Corridor
- Northern Arizona University, ABOR go all-in to alleviate medical professionals’ shortage
- Flagstaff initiative would build a new hospital. Why some say it’s not the right choice
- ‘Choose Your Person’ helps for end-of-life care
- Phoenix Children’s Among America’s 100 Healthiest Workplaces
- Northern Arizona Healthcare hosts second forum on Flagstaff Medical Center plans
- ‘Worthy to live a normal life’: Arizona health conference to bring equity for LGBTQ community
- AZ Nursing Board takes emergency action against Prescott nurse for improper use of powerful sedative
- Phoenix gains new medical school
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas to launch $9.5M behavioral health initiative
- CHI St. Vincent Partners With Park Plaza Mall on Community Health Programs
- Laura Gillenwater Named Assistant VP of Revenue Cycle at Unity Health
- Little Rock Children’s Clinic Plans to Relocate, Renovate
- Walker Foundation Pledges $1M to UAMS Radiation Oncology Center
- HeartX Accelerator Announces Five Startup Companies Selected for the 2023 Program
- Four more rural Arkansas hospitals set to receive federal pandemic relief funds
- Healthcare coalitions coordinate for disaster training
- Baptist Health to manage, then acquire Drew Memorial Health System
CALIFORNIA
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- 3 called-off hospital projects
- California makes RN license for retired nurses
- Harbor Associates Sells 47,850 SF Medical Office Building in Upland, California
- Hospitals work to bring on more nurses after pandemic and ‘great resignation’
- How 3 hospital execs are preparing for future pandemics
- How systems are preparing for California’s new minimum wage
- Kaiser reaches $200 million settlement to significantly change behavioral health care in California
- Kaiser Permanente’s Natomas site still uncertain on timing
- New California law raises minimum wage to $25 for health care workers
- Newsom signs bill raising health care worker minimum wage to $25
- Sharp Healthcare creates AI assistant
- The 86 best ASCs in California
- California governor signs 2 major proposals for mental health reform to go before voters in 2024
COLORADO
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- Banner Health expands advanced woman’s care in northern Colorado
- Colorado health network opens new facility in grand junction
- Estes hospital to transfer some services to bolster care, save money
- CEO of Northwest Colorado Health selected for Colorado Governors Fellows program
- Colorado hospital achieves the quadruple aim with RTLS
- Colorado system’s delayed merger with UCHealth faces January deadline
CONNECTICUT
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- 4 Connecticut ASCs avoid bankruptcy through ownership swap
- CT to issue decision on Prospect hospital deal as talks with Yale Health break down
- Hospital for Special Care plans $1.2M expansion
- Joint venture buys Torrington medical buildings as part of $300M Northeast investment push
- Sharon Hospital in rural CT moves ahead with plan to close maternity unit as financial woes mount
- UConn Health squares away CMS audit trail and more with digital health platform
- Yale seeks state funding, lower price for Prospect Medical hospitals
- Yale wants $80M from CT for Prospect hospitals deal, sources say
- Following cyberattack, YNHH seeks state funding, price cut to acquire hospitals
- Testimony begins in shuttered nursing school $10M lawsuit case
- Talks break down over Connecticut hospitals
- Dozens of patients have sued Yale after saline was swapped for fentanyl
DC
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
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- Broward Health, Memorial Healthcare System break ground on 1st joint facility
- Memorial Healthcare System names CEO of Hollywood hospital
- Tampa General names 8 execs in C-suite revamp
- As Florida hands over new COVID data, what impact could it have?
- AdventHealth picks Wellvana to transition its Florida primary care network to VBC for select patients
- East Tampa doctor transforms former nightclub into wellness center
- BayCare Health system announces chief nurse executive, and more
GEORGIA
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- 5 health systems’ approach to COVID-19 vaccine rules
- After a year, questions remain on Atlanta Medical Center’s closure
- AmeriPro Health and EyeSouth acquisitions honored
- Company to Pay $200,000 to Resolve Allegations of Fraudulent Billing for Respiratory Devices
- Emory Healthcare to help forge universal digital health language
- Ga. nursing home advocate: industry in ‘death spiral’ from lack of health care providers, low pay
- Georgia medical center named one of the ‘most beautiful hospitals in the U.S.’
- Health tech company Streamline to lay off a quarter of its workforce
- How 3 hospital execs are preparing for future pandemics
- Ringgold Doctor Ordered To Pay $27 Million For Submitting False Claims To Medicare
- Georgia ranked worst state for health care, study finds
HAWAII
IDAHO
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- Idaho Hospital Association honors EIRMC volunteer
- Judges ruled Idaho doctors can be prosecuted for ER abortions
- Kootenai Health provides inside look at newly expanded Heart Center
- St. Luke’s hospital addresses flood of text messages due to vendor transition
- Thrasher steps into VP role at major medical system
ILLINOIS
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- Advocate Health building ASC at Chicago mall
- Advocate Health doubling down on innovation in 2024
- Ascension St. Joseph Hospital Is Down 350 Nurses From Five Years Ago
- Central Illinois nursing homes facing serious violations after resident’s death
- CEO of Illinois hospital dies at 69
- Chicago hospital’s innovative program paving the way for more male nurses
- Danville nursing home fined $100k by IDPH for care violations
- How 3 hospital execs are preparing for future pandemics
- Illinois court rules employee can be fired for refusing COVID vaccine
- Illinois health system severs relationship with medical transcription vendor
- Ransomware group steals 5TB of sensitive data from Illinois hospital
- Illinois hospital installing Oracle Health HER
INDIANA
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- State of Indiana ranks 40th in health study
- Indiana rehab centers named in Newsweek rankings
- Indiana health professionals detail how closing delivery units impact mortality rates
- State’s newest public company faces hurdles
- Beacon Health transfers Medicaid patients from several Beacon primary care practices
- Health care clearinghouse Inmediata to pay $1.4M for data breach
- Indiana systems referring Medicaid patients to federal healthcare clinics
IOWA
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- 4 exec exits in 1 day
- EIHC receives highest level of compliance from government
- Mercy holds groundbreaking for new emergency department in Marion
- University of Iowa Says They Were Better Choice For Mercy Iowa City
- University of Iowa’s final bid for Mercy Hospital was $28 million
- U of Iowa investment in Mercy City would have topped $50M
- Mercy Cedar Rapids supervisor Kevin Neef honored as ‘Hospital Hero’ by Iowa Hospital Association
- Q&A with Denise Jamieson on Mercy Iowa City bid, next steps for UI Health Care, and more
- ‘Sirens Going Off’: Providers Warn of Mass Closures, Vast Nursing Home Deserts Due to Staffing Mandate
KANSAS
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- HCA Midwest taps performance improvement leader
- Kansas hospital closes: What ASCs need to know
- Nonprofit expands services after Herington Hospital closure
- Healthcare in bourbon county: Amberwell
- Patients of closed Kansas hospital struggle to get medical records
- Medicare Advantage keeps growing. Tiny, rural hospitals say that’s a huge problem
KENTUCKY
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- Floyd County Company Agrees to Pay $200,000 to Resolve Allegations of Fraudulent Billing for Respiratory Devices
- Jeff Smith named CEO of Bamboo Health, as an affiliated company raises nearly $14 million
- Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital launches Magseed Technology
- NKYHealth reports robust accomplishments in 2nd quarter, plans for 4th — looking after public’s health
- Norton Children’s Hospital auctioning off rare Andy Warhol collection to benefit neonatal ICU
- Norton Children’s Hospital officially performs 100th heart transplant
- Norton Healthcare marks milestone in the construction of its new West Louisville hospital
- Pikeville Medical CEO recognized by Foundation for a Health Ky
- St. E’s Dr. Michael Gieske is ‘Catalyst for Change’ for promoting lung cancer awareness, early screening
- Fewer than 10% of KY nurses looking to retire in next five years
LOUISIANA
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- 4 exec exits in 1 day
- Facing criticism, Feds award first maternal health grant to a predominantly Black rural area
- Lawmakers examine Louisiana’s festering mental health care system
- State’s chosen mental health crisis provider for Acadiana folds after months of struggles
- CFO is a people-focused role at LCMC Health
- Ochsner LSU Health names CEO
MAINE
MARYLAND
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- Funding roundup: Health care startups lead smallest Baltimore venture capital quarter since 2020
- Johns Hopkins All Children’s begins defense in $220M lawsuit trial
- Maryland tightens noncompete policy
- Sharfstein set to take over important Maryland board overseeing hospital rates
- Some people go to the ER again and again. Maryland hospitals have ways to help them stop.
MASSACHUSETTS
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- 5 health systems’ approach to COVID-19 vaccine rules
- Boston Medical Center doctors to write prescriptions for electricity bills
- Mass General Brigham CEO downplays Dana-Farber split
- How Mass General Brigham Is Integrating Behavioral Care Into Its Primary Care Model
- Boston Medical Center Health System’s New Pilot Program Will Allow Doctors to Prescribe Energy Bill Credits for Patients
- Massachusetts nursing program that faced shutdown remains open
- Beth Israel signs lease for new medical facility in Quincy
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan appoints new board members
- South Shore Health names new CFO
- MGH Institute wins $1.1M grant to train 140 ‘complex care’ nurses
- Health Foundation of Central Mass. doles out $1M in funding
- AG reaches $2.5M settlement with autism providers
- 100+ patients sue former Brigham and Women’s physician accused of sexual assault
- Why doesn’t Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington have an MRI machine? Residents want answers … and an MRI machine
- State takes first look at pediatric hospital readmissions
MICHIGAN
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- 100+ Michigan doctors back legislation to create prescription drug board
- Ascension Genesys Hospital involved in joint venture with Henry Ford Health
- Ascension Standish Hospital to open a new wound care center
- Henry Ford Health, Ascension Michigan unveil plans to form $10.5B joint venture
- Hospitalist Companies Agree To Pay Nearly $4.4 Million To Settle False Claims Act Allegations
- Lawmakers weigh compacts for multi-state health care licensing
- McLaren Health Facing Multiple Class Action Lawsuits over Ransomware Attack
- Michigan, Vermont Blues plans finalize merger after securing key regulatory approval
- No-fault fix moves forward but without a $1 billion-a-year boost for Michigan hospitals
- Trinity Health plans long-term acute care at Grand Haven hospital
MINNESOTA
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- Allina Health clinicians vote by overwhelming margin to unionize in historic election
- Aspirus, St. Luke’s sign definitive agreement, close in on merger
- How Mayo Clinic Is Approaching Generative AI Risk Mitigation
- St. Luke’s, Aspirus inch closer to 19-hospital merger
- UnitedHealth boosts profit outlook after strong third quarter
- Mayo to close Minnesota clinic
- Mayo, Lifepoint sue Bristol Myers Squibb over cancer drug cost
- Mayo Clinic gets genes from 100,000 patients for predictive analytics database
- Optum Insight CEO out, replacement named
- Mayo to offer sleep care via telehealth
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
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- 3 called-off hospital projects
- Boone Health announces new CEO
- SSM Health to lease 181,000-square-foot space from Centene
- SSM Health, Siemens Healthineers look to bolster workforce and health equity
- UMKC releases renderings of new $120M medical, dental building
- Former workers accuse Saint Luke’s of ignoring sterilization issues
- Made me sick’: KC hospital had cockroaches, rusted instruments, ex-employee says
- Mercy pursuing dozens of use cases for AI
MONTANA
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- St. Vincent CEO leaving for new position
- St. V’s CEO leaving for bigger job in Denver; Montana has highest hospital CEO turnover in country
- COVID-19 hospitalization numbers drop in Montana
- Montana behavioral health commission discusses ideas to address service backlogs
- St. Peter’s Health clinic nurses vote to join Montana Nurses Association
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
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- E. L. Wiegand Foundation donates $500,000 to new Pediatric Residency Program
- COVID-19 hospitalizations jump as Eris, Fornax variants spread in Clark County
- How to address top drivers of hospital revenue leakage
- Nevada Heart and Vascular Center Becomes an in Network Provider for Aetna Health Insurance Patients
- Local OBGYN appeals his suspended medical license
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
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- Jersey Shore hospital earns ACGME accreditation for new anesthesiology residency program
- Talks to resume this weekend for 1,700 New Brunswick nurses striking over ‘safe staffing’
- Mount Holly skilled nursing facility in Lumberton partners with Samaritan for new initiative
- Rutgers, RWJBarnabas Health will work with Japanese university on cancer research
- RWJUH Doctor Named American Heart Association Eastern States President
NEW MEXICO
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- Christus Health buys out partner to fully own New Mexico hospital
- Gila Regional gets permanent CEO
- Lawmakers tackled New Mexico’s crisis of rural health care workers. It wasn’t enough
- Presbyterian launches new mixed-use concept in Winrock Town Center
- AARP NH: State’s rankings on long-term care are ‘lackluster’
- UNM Health Leaders Focus on Workforce Challenges, Needs with Sen. Ben Ray Luján
- Denied reproductive care at a religiously affiliated hospital? We want to know.
- New Mexico hospital names CEO as CFO steps down
- The state announces 11 recipients for the Rural Health Care Delivery Fund
NEW YORK
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- Catholic Health prevails in Medicare fraud case
- Genesee County leads Western New York in rate of child cancer diagnoses
- Health system that spent nursing home pay on its other businesses cleared in False Claims lawsuit
- Hochul: Roswell Park’s $98M expansion will create nation’s largest gene therapy production facility
- Mercy Flight invests more than $9M for fourth helicopter
- Neighborhood Health lands surprise $5M from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott
- New York governor presses hospitals to restore psychiatric beds: ‘We’re done with excuses’
- New York system to cut contract nurses by 1,500
- No matter where they live in WNY, men are more likely to be diagnosed with, and die, from cancer
- Stony Brook Medicine CEO exits
- Troubled Buffalo nursing home a candidate for program targeting nation’s poorest-performing facilities
- New 373-bed hospital opens in New York
- Local hospitals focus on future resiliency planning in wake of severe flooding
- Memorial Sloan Kettering partners to take proprietary biopsy global
- Northwell study: Demand for physicians growing ‘faster than supply’
- Memorial Sloan Kettering’s pilot blood test detects 50 types of cancer
- CNY hospitals band together to bring an end to violence against healthcare workers
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Advocate Health doubling down on innovation in 2024
- Atrium Health halts lawsuits against patients for unpaid medical bills
- Atrium to roll out AI ‘copilot’ across system
- Health-care giant OrthoCarolina taps spine specialist as next CEO
- North Carolina Medicaid expansion still set for Dec. 1 start as federal regulators give final OK
- Pfizer to cut costs by $3.5B. Pharma giant employs thousands in NC
- Startup founded by Cone Health cardiologist, Ventricle Health, raises $8 million in seed funding
- UNC Health in contract dispute with national insurer
- Inquiry by NC Attorney General provides insight of Martin General Hospital troubles prior to closure
- Carolina Spine & Neurosurgery Center returns to Mission Health, hospital system announces
- Will increased pay solve North Carolina’s home nursing shortage?
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- Blue Water Biotech names new CEO, CFO as company faces dual Nasdaq delisting notices
- Bon Secours Mercy Health cuts some IT roles
- Central Ohio hospitals to forgive $335 million in medical debt for thousands of Columbus residents
- Christ Hospital underway on $20M hospital expansion in Butler County
- Cleveland Clinic, TikTok partner on search
- Cleveland Clinic dinged for charity care levels
- Longtime CEO of HealthSource of Ohio to exit in 2024
- UC Health taps 80 Acres Farms, GE Aerospace exec as chief human resources officer
- Access to expensive fertility treatment in Ohio varies but the Issue 1 amendment seeks to protect it
- Preparing for Ohio’s hospital license regime: Where are we today and what comes next?
- Central Ohio hospitals, ranked by FY22 financial performance
- Community Legal Aid’s new grant supports medical-legal partnership with Akron Children’s
OKLAHOMA
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- Ascension St. John surgeons hit 1K surgery milestone with robotic technology
- Integris Health to open first of numerous AllSet Urgent Care clinics
- SSM Health, Siemens Healthineers look to bolster workforce and health equity
- Multiple hospitals received fake calls of threats Thursday, making it the second swatting incident this week
- Patients struggle with healthcare costs, poll highlights a solution for Oklahomans
- Oklahoma children’s hospital celebrates milestone by announcing major expansion
OREGON
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- Aronora raises funding round to support clot-buster drug development
- Over 1,000 workers submit strike notice at PeaceHealth hospitals
- PeaceHealth threatens to cancel health insurance if workers strike, as negotiations break down
- Salem Health absorbs Hope Orthopedics
- Southern Oregon Orthopedic specialists to begin seeing patients locally
- Kaiser pharmacy workers in Oregon and Washington continue ongoing strike
- Oregon lawmakers prep to tackle drug addiction in 2024 session
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center invests in radiopharmaceuticals startup
- Lankenau Medical Center renames heart pavilion after ‘historic’ gift
- Pa. doctors ask state to help remedy prolonged hospital overcrowding
- PAs split on ‘assistant’ or ‘associate’: Survey
- Pennsylvania lawmakers chip away at stalemate, pass bill to boost hospital and ambulance subsidies
- Philadelphia-based Rite Aid pharmacy files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Prospect Medical Holdings reaches deal to halt litigation, opening 270-day window to sell Crozer Health
- St. Christopher’s Hospital expects to nearly break even after years of losses – but its financial lifeline expires next year.
- Tower Health’s ‘diminished financial flexibility’ cited in latest bond rating downgrade
- Without antitrust law, Pennsylvania lacks regulatory muscle needed for oversight of hospital deals
RHODE ISLAND
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- How Sanford Health keeps pressing on to prevent doctor burnout
- Rural health care summit addresses workforce issues
- Sanford Health becomes 1st in region to add accredited GI fellowship program
- AHCA CEO: ‘Enormous Problems’ for Rural Skilled Nursing Providers Demand Innovation
- Sirens Going Off’: Providers Warn of Mass Closures, Vast Nursing Home Deserts Due to Staffing Mandate
- SD lawmakers recommend long-term care changes
TENNESSEE
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- 5 health systems’ approach to COVID-19 vaccine rules
- 3 called-off hospital projects
- Ascension Seton Williamson unveils expansion plans for Round Rock hospital
- August Bioservices expanding operations, staff thanks to $1 million in state funding
- Former hospital employees arrested for stealing $175K in medical supplies
- Here’s how much physicians and staff members make in Memphis
- How Main Street Health operates in rural clinics
- PBMs, drug costs, and workforce: Top issues plaguing pharmacists, according to Tennessee Pharmacists Association CEO
- What’s next for Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown? CEO Shubhada Jagasia says growth, maybe AI
- With two companies breaking ten-figure valuations, health care entrepreneur Brad Smith shares key to his success
- Two Memphis doctors, Bartlett physician punished by state health officials
TEXAS
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- Ascension Seton plans $230M expansion in Round Rock
- Christus Health buys out partner to fully own New Mexico hospital
- Christus hospital to close residency program
- Christus Health taps a new CEO to run its five San Antonio-area hospitals
- Dallas’ Access Healthcare Acquires Virginia-Based Envera Health
- Memorial Hermann Backs At-Home Cancer Care Company Reimagine Care
- Midland Memorial starts plans to add office building
- San Antonio hospital system names new executive leadership
- St. David’s forges ahead with new behavioral health hospital after rezoning vote
- Texas considers banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates
- New children’s hospital in Texas adds to wave of pediatric facilities
- Anesthesia group working in North Texas hospitals accused of driving up charges
- Midland Health teams up with Midland College to train staff in a creative way
- Texas Senate gives final approval to ban on COVID-19 vaccine mandates for private employers
- Texas hospital faces pushback on medical office building
- Baylor Scott & White, USPI ASC acquired in Texas
- Texas anesthesiologist suspended following patient death
UTAH
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- Intermountain digs deeper into ASC industry
- U. Health Population Health Center provides holistic care, and is a model for the state and nation
- U of Utah’s new population health clinic aims to find unmet care needs
- Utah Valley Hospital among facilities honored for quality of care
- How safe are Utah hospitals? Here’s what federal data shows.
VERMONT
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- Copley Hospital breaks ground on medical office building
- Michigan, Vermont Blues plans finalize merger after securing key regulatory approval
- UnitedHealthcare commercial coverage of UVMHN patients ends March 2024
- First phase of work on Southwestern Vermont Medical Center emergency department completed
- As Vermont ages, so do many of its unhoused residents
- Ransomware attack cost UVM Health $65M
- No deal for UnitedHealthcare and UVM Health Network
- Time has run out on health insurance coverage for nearly 2,000 Vermonters
VIRGINIA
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- Arlington’s Ventricle Health raises $8M to democratize heart failure care
- Dallas’ Access Healthcare Acquires Virginia-Based Envera Health
- Virginia misses key behavioral health goal; ahead on others
- Halfway through unwinding, 15% of Virginia Medicaid enrollees have lost coverage
- Virginia politicians likely to investigate failed VCU Health project
WASHINGTON
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- 5 health systems’ approach to COVID-19 vaccine rules
- Compass Health breaks ground on regional center for intensive behavioral health services
- Doctors want a union at Legacy Health
- Former medical director suing Seattle Children’s Hospital for alleged racial discrimination
- Hospital Association files legal challenge to Washington’s Charity Care law
- Hospitals sue state to prevent new rules requiring charity care coverage for out-of-state residents
- Over 1,000 workers submit strike notice at PeaceHealth hospitals
- Washington State Hospital Association files lawsuit to preserve access to care for patients
- What do Washington’s top health care executives earn?
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
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- Advocate Health doubling down on innovation in 2024
- Aspirus, St. Luke’s sign definitive agreement, close in on merger
- Pandemic brings telehealth boom to rural Wisconsin, but barriers linger
- St. Luke’s, Aspirus inch closer to 19-hospital merger
- Wisconsin Senate approves bill banning gender-affirming surgery for minors
- Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin rolls out virtual nursing
- The top 3 priorities for Froedtert Health’s CFO
- Wisconsin Bay Area nurses, health care professionals reach tentative agreement for new contract
WYOMING
