NATIONAL
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- 2024 outlook: Health IT investment, M&A and AI
- AMA ‘disappointed’ after Congress leaves physician pay fix out of bill to avert shutdown
- American Hospital Association: Medicare Advantage denials jump 56%
- CMS awards second batch of new Medicare-funded residency slots to hospitals
- CMS issues proposed notice of benefit and payment parameters for 2025
- CMS releases playbook for social determinants of health
- GenesisCare Gets OK For Ch. 11 Plan To Slash $1.5B In Debt
- Health systems are investing in ambulatory pharmacy IT to improve patient access
- HHS’ call to action for payers on health equity
- Medicare Advantage plans ducking new coverage rules, AHA claims
- Rural hospitals’ maternity care crisis
ALABAMA
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- Agency awarded $63M to modernize Alabama’s Medicaid program
- Alabama digital health startup Acclinate plans to add 25 workers in Birmingham
- Alabama system names CFO
- Hoover inks deal for ambulatory, surgery center in Riverchase district
- Birmingham eye care company acquires Hoover media firm
- Local health care firm expands presence in Texas with new hospital
- Rep. Sewell introduces bipartisan bill to assist rural hospitals
- With tears and a lullaby, a rural Alabama hospital stops delivering babies
ALASKA
ARIZONA
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- Anchor Health Breaks Ground on 100 KSF Phoenix MOB
- AZ Cardiology adds heart healthcare option in Flagstaff
- Banner Health ordered to pay $31.5 million in malpractice lawsuit for brain-damaged boy
- Banner turnaround continues with $149M operating gain
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona going brick and mortar with proposed Valley network of medical clinics
- Fry’s parent target of class-action lawsuits claiming it shared customers’ health care data
- Labor shortages, supply chain issues delay opening of Arizona hospital
- Arizona’s infant mortality rate rose by 11% last year, new analysis says
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas Children’s Northwest executive departs
- Arkansas hospitals see spike in child RSV cases
- Arkadelphia hospital showcasing new MRI machine
- Arkansas rural hospitals make final push for funding
- Baptist Health tries to clear the air after Drew Memorial layoffs
- Jessica Rivera Named VP of Hospital Operations at Baptist Health NLR
CALIFORNIA
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- A hospital’s abrupt closure means, for many, help is distant
- Adventist Health backs out of plan to reopen Madera Community Hospital
- By the Bay Health CEO Skelly Wingard: The Case for Nonprofit Hospice Consolidation
- California hospital closes maternity ward, lays off 87
- California hospital lays off staff, including executives
- Dignity sues patients for allegedly refusing discharge
- During hospital cyberattack, a note came out of every printer
- Feds, state sue to halt John Muir Health’s acquisition of San Ramon hospital
- FTC sues to block Tenet, John Muir deal
- HCA workers in California plan Thanksgiving week strike
- Lack of SNF beds leads to hospital lawsuit against patients refusing discharge
- Providence Group taking over 7 ProMedica-owned SNFs
COLORADO
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- 5 highest paid anesthesiologists in Denver
- Colorado Senate Moves to Protect Rural Health Care
- Denver Health study aimed at expanding genetic testing for cancer
- Future medical professionals in Colorado learn to communicate better with all patients at UCHealth
- How a tech accelerator plans to use $2M to boost Colorado’s life sciences industry
- Memorial Regional Health recognized for Performance Leadership
- Failed inspection shut down one of Porter hospital’s boilers 18 days before second unit broke, state records show
- Children’s Hospital Colorado needed 10 people to donate part of their livers to sick kids. More than 100 stepped forward.
- Colorado physician sentenced in patient death
CONNECTICUT
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- CT regulators scrutinizing deal involving Guilford Surgical Center
- Following $2.8M purchase, Hartford HealthCare launches new substance abuse recovery center
- Litchfield Hills Orthopedic building sold for $8.1M
- Meet the hospital mega-landlord at the center of the Yale-Prospect deal
- Prospect-YNHH deal nearing 1 year of waiting for CT approval
- Connecticut Hospital Association: ‘Collaboration is Vital to Protect Healthcare Access, Advance Affordability’
- We tried to quantify how harmful hospital ransomware attacks are for patients. Here’s what we found
DC
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
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- AdventHealth to lead first-of-its-kind research around Alzheimer’s and exercise
- After mass layoffs, pharma company considers another merger or sale
- Lee Health gets naming rights to Minnesota Twins’ Fort Myers stadium
- Lee Health launches E-Visits using artificial intelligence to avoid waiting rooms
- Punitive damages nixed in Jacksonville medical malpractice case
- Why Johns Hopkins All Children’s wants to challenge $261M verdict
- CDC reports highest levels of hospital visits for respiratory illness in Florida
- Florida hospital launches $29 virtual visits
- Florida leads nation in ACA healthcare enrollment
- Florida Community Health Centers seek solutions after having to stop performing deliveries
- State investigating closure of health clinic after patients tell FOX 35 they need medical records
- Hospital For Special Surgery, NCH Healthcare System Plan Orthopedic Facility In Florida
GEORGIA
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- Beyond dashboards: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s approach to analytics
- Children’s Healthcare sets opening date for $1.5B Arthur M. Blank Hospital
- City Council extends moratorium on Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center site
- Georgia healthcare advocates oppose federal nursing home mandate
- Georgia ranks 21st for percentage of hospitals earning an ‘A’
- Georgia mulls Medicaid expansion
- Gwinnett population boom fuels health care expansion
- New Atlanta tech company CEO sees growth in solving ‘massive problem’ for health care companies
- New report shows the needs of healthcare among Georgia’s Latino population
- Former network security COO pleads guilty to hacking Georgia hospital
HAWAII
IDAHO
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- How safe are Boise hospitals for patients? Check new local medical center report cards
- Idaho Falls Community Hospital starts stroke survivors support group
- Ada County commissioners say hospitals get too many tax exemptions. They propose this
- Why this state is lagging behind the rest of the US in routine childhood vaccinations
ILLINOIS
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- Illinois health care workers rally for improved wages and retirement
- OSF completes deal for Peru hospital
- Catholic health system to replace all crucifixes
- Chicago clinic workers begin strike
- Cook County Health data breach could mean blackmail and fake medical bills for patients
- Over 500 nurses in Joliet nurses begin 2-day strike
- Remedy Medical Properties and Kayne Anderson Real Estate Acquire RUSH Oak Brook Medical Center
- Rush medical building, ASC acquired in Illinois
INDIANA
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- 33K-square-foot Indiana medical office building sold
- Indiana reports zero abortions for the month of August, research says
- Lilly to build $2.5B factory in Germany for injectable drugs
- Northwest Community Healthcare opens medical office building
- Homeland Security warns Indiana hospital of breach
- Over 500 nurses in Joliet nurses begin 2-day strike
- Government seeks remedy for health care worker burnout
- Rural health organization talks priorities ahead of Indiana legislative session
IOWA
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- Complaints pile up as Iowa ranks 49th among states in nursing home inspectors
- Grant renewal to help University of Iowa Health Care continue expand mental health care to youth in Iowa
- Nebraska, Iowa governors raise concerns about long-term care staffing requirements
- New report highlights continued maternal health care concerns in Iowa
- UIHC to open two urgent care clinics in the Quad Cities
- U of Iowa halfway done with new hospital as costs soar
KANSAS
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- Ascension nurses plan management face-off
- Ascension Via Christi Manhattan recognized for commitment to error prevention
- Expanding Medicaid to Help Rural Hospitals a Priority for Kansas Governor
- Health system CEO orders ‘phone jail’ to set boundaries
- Rural hospitals in Kansas, across U.S. face growing challenges to stay open
KENTUCKY
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- BehaVR merges with New York City-based Fern Health
- For years, a powerful Louisville hospital sued people for unpaid bills. Experts say they could have gotten free care
- Kentucky Hospital Assoc. partners with Ky Chamber to help recruit workforce
- Med Center Health announces new patient care tower project, additional expansions
- New Centene chief operating officer is a veteran of Humana Inc.
- New Children’s medical facility in Union Promenade named for benefactors, Brandon and Kelly Janszen
- Southcentral Kentucky’s largest health system is expanding
- Kentucky hospital association nursing shortage
- Kentucky infant mortality rate lowers as national rate increases
- Kentucky first state with automatic Medicaid renewal for children
- Cincinnati children’s hospital breaks ground in Union
LOUISIANA
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- Louisiana among top seven states for very high flu activity
- Embracing technology and improving care access: 1 year in with Ochsner’s CEO
- LCMC Health to offer flexible nurse scheduling
- Louisiana hospital’s board ousted
- Louisiana is one of worst states in US for pre-term births. Why is it so dire here?
- Louisiana earns ‘F’ grade for high premature birth rate
MAINE
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- $61M rehab hospital proposed for Bangor by fast-growing national chain
- Dana Farber, Maine hospital partner on cancer care
- InterMed donates $30,000 to help solve Greater Portland homelessness crisis
- Physicians speak up about gun violence as Maine grieves from mass shootings
- Spring Harbor Hospital in Westbrook appoints former resident as medical director
- Maine physicians rally in Lewiston Sunday to demand action to reduce gun violence
MARYLAND
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- 3 healthcare real estate transactions totaling $73M
- Adventist HealthCare, Montgomery College strike deal to bring 350 nurses into workforce pipeline
- At Hopkins Greenberg Center, doctors offer more than medical advice to people with dwarfism
- Health care technology company to lay off 99 employees in Hunt Valley
- Medstar Medical Group leases nearly 20K of space in Annapolis medical office building
- Hospital CEO says Harford County does not need more bed capacity at this time
- Some of the longest emergency room wait times in Maryland can stretch almost a whole day
MASSACHUSETTS
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- 5 systems selling their labs
- AdCare CEO departs after six months on the job
- Boston Scientific completes $850M+ acquisition of spine company
- CEO Kenn Turner is on leave from the Mass. Life Sciences Center
- Dana Farber, Maine hospital partner on cancer care
- Flagship spins out $50M startup to mine new drugs from genetic mutations
- Health equity group pushes hospitals to reinstate masking amid holiday season
- Mass General Brigham sued over infection control lapse
- Massachusetts Nurses Association urges statewide halt to birthing unit closures
- Mass. Senate moves to control drug prices through oversight
- Salem Hospital warns endoscopy patients of potential HIV, hepatitis exposure
- State lawmakers embrace small-house nursing homes, tackle prior authorization in ‘transformative’ bill
- Sturdy Health breaks ground on new $50M cancer facility in Attleboro
- Worcester home care service provider arraigned for alleged $1.6M Medicaid fraud
MICHIGAN
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- Ascension gastroenterologist dies in car crash
- Trinity Health to grow West Michigan orthopedic practice after settling federal lawsuit
- Michigan health official is taking her county to court over $4 million resignation offer
- ‘There has been a shortage’: West Michigan hospital system has limited doses of kids’ RSV vaccine amid surge
- Michigan has 8,500 open hospital jobs and 50,000 nurses who aren’t filling them
- MDHHS announces key staffing changes and reorganization to further commitment to children, youth and families
- New UM Health-West president leads with heart
MINNESOTA
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- Fairview notifies U of M it won’t renew current contract
- Fairview signals doubt with partner U of Minnesota
- Health tech startup YourPath adds Philip Rutherford as COO
- HealthPartners moves forward with $400M campus
- How Mayo Clinic cut unnecessary antibiotic prescribing by half
- Mayo Clinic, Ayble Health launch GI care model
- Mayo operating gain doubles in Q3
- Mayo Clinic posts $4.5B in operating revenue for Q3
- Vita Group, I-Tek merger creates ‘one-stop shop’ for medical devices
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
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- 2 transgender boys sue after University of Missouri halts gender-affirming care to minors
- CHI Health Missouri Valley continues to add services
- Hospital officials don’t believe patients involved in charges against pediatric neurologist
- Rural Missouri communities receive federal funds to combat opioid overdoses, neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Spira Care is changing the way people feel about health care
- St. Louis health system strikes deal with southeast Missouri provider
- St. Mary’s Hospital accused of negligence and medical malpractice in wrongful death suit.
- Trustee sues Missouri hospital system over open records act
- State health director: It will take 20 years to recover from health care worker shortage
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
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- 3 healthcare real estate transactions totaling $73M
- Covid deaths at facility tied to notorious nursing home forces N.J. to halt admissions
- New bill would require New Jersey hospitals, birthing centers to allow doulas
- Nurses at North Jersey nursing home seek to unionize, saying they face low staffing
- RWJBarnabas names chief investment officer
- New Jersey health care workers call for protection of hospitals in Gaza
- New Jersey Hospital System Gets Greenlight for Antitrust Suit
NEW MEXICO
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- An inside look at New Mexico’s biggest mental health facility
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico to open neighborhood center in Las Estancias
- Newly Created Anchorum Health Foundation Commits $500 Million Over 10 Years To Get In Front Of New Mexico’s Health Crisis
- New Mexico seeing higher flu activity than other western states
- New Mexico Supreme Court sets date to hear arguments over governor’s public health order
NEW YORK
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- 5 systems selling their labs
- County reimbursement could help New York hospital reopen maternity ward
- Hospital For Special Surgery, NCH Healthcare System Plan Orthopedic Facility In Florida
- Mount Sinai Health System names next CEO
- New technology, apps coming for 2024 from WNY commercial health plans
- New York system taps interim after CEO’s removal
- New York hospital earns CAH status
- New York State Leans on Hospitals to Close Gaps in Social Safety Net
- New York system pays settlement to resolve alleged employment discrimination
- New York’s hospital cybersecurity rules could spur similar mandates
- Northwell CISO optimistic about New York’s cyber crackdown
- Southern Tier hospital plans $8.4M renovation
- St. Joseph’s Medical Center Pays $80,000 HIPAA Fine for PHI Disclosure to a Reporter
- The Capital Region’s busiest outpatient surgery centers
- Doctor sues New York hospital for firing him over post criticizing those ‘who supported violence toward and death of Israelis’
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Advocate Health appoints industry veteran Brad Clark as new CFO
- Advocate Health CEO Gene Woods pens book on pandemic lessons, future of heath care
- Advocate Health posts $721M bottom line gain
- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist reports record community benefit spending
- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist restructures leadership with departure of Lexington leader
- Baptist gets OK for ambulatory surgical center cost overruns
- Drug shortages raise concerns for patient care in NC
- How Advocate’s Gene Woods is tackling health equity, staffing
- North Carolina AG: Medical records should not be disposed of in bankruptcy case
- Novant CEO Armato gains 19.5% boost in fiscal 2022 compensation
- OrthoCarolina’s new CEO on how his passion for sailing has prepared him to lead
- Physicians vote against Mission Hospital discipline policies
- What Novant Health execs made in 2022: CEO gets nearly 19% raise
- Rural providers especially excited about NC Medicaid expansion: ‘They have a chance now’
- NC preps for Medicaid expansion challenges
- New study offers surprising news about rural access to dialysis
- Meet Sam, Maynard Children’s Hospital’s new facility dog
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- Augment Therapy adds $1.7 million for AR exercise technology
- Cincinnati Children’s breaks ground on first-of-its-kind NKY facility thanks to major gift from local couple
- Downtown Dayton’s only primary care practice opens in prominent office tower
- In Ohio, nurse practitioners push to lift restrictions on how they provide care
- New UC Health CEO Cory Shaw navigating NCI pursuit amid financial challenges
- Olive AI’s journey: Our timeline breaks down the shuttered unicorn’s rise and fall
- ProMedica to close urgent care location in Holland, combine locations in Perrysburg
- Providence Group taking over 7 ProMedica-owned SNFs
- This startup took a ‘huge leap of faith’ — and it paid off
- University Hospitals shifts to ‘more service line, less hospital’ model
- Why Cleveland Clinic answered TikTok’s call on mental health
- Northeast Ohio family shares story of why school-based health care is essential
- Southwest General CEO shares hospital feats, post-COVID challenges
- How flu season in Ohio is different than other parts of the US
OKLAHOMA
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- $141M Children’s Behavioral Health Center Breaks Ground In Oklahoma City
- Construction starts on surgery center
- Merger includes two privately held Oklahoma hospitals
- Oklahoma has one of the highest rates of pregnancy-related deaths, and it’s gotten worse
- Oklahoma sues to get health care grant back
- OU Health names inaugural chief academic officer
- Seven Mercy Hospitals in Oklahoma receive Rural Performance Leadership Award
OREGON
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- 2 hospitals to reduce surgeries due to anesthesiologist shortages
- Doctors At Legacy Health Hospitals Vote To Unionize
- Insurers paid Oregon hospitals wildly varying amounts for Covid procedures
- Oregon’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law faces growing pushback amid fentanyl crisis
- Oregon Health Authority data shows massive insurance payments to hospitals for COVID-19 treatment
- Oregon Health Plan support experiencing high wait times
PENNSYLVANIA
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- American Medical Response to lay off 152 employees after losing Main Line Health contract
- CHOP gets multi-million dollar gift from local family to support Osteosarcoma research
- CHOP continues King of Prussia expansion with $24.5M office building purchase
- Good Shepherd Rehabilitation unveils new robotics center at Center Valley hospital
- Health care software firm NextGen enacting layoffs at its Horsham office after being acquired
- Hospital Receives $6.4M Gift In Memory Of Central Bucks Graduate
- Micro and specialty hospitals to join region’s health care landscape
- ‘My biggest concern is the patients’: Washington Hospital workers concerned by proposed UPMC merger
- Pennsylvania hospital data breach affects 169,000
- Penn spinout Vivodyne raises $38M to advance platform making lab-grown human organs for new drug testing
- Piles of biohazard bags, delayed medications: inspection reports find ongoing problems at Crozer-Chester
- Proposed bill in Pennsylvania could decrease workloads on nurses
- SteelFusion Clinical Toxicology Laboratory files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
- Temple Health is converting six primary-care doctors’ offices into federal health centers
- UPMC’s plan for an affordable Epic install
- UPMC reports loss in quarter, first 9 months of 2023
RHODE ISLAND
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- How Prisma Health unified digital health tech to boost patient engagement, slash no-shows
- New CEO named at Summerville Medical Center
- Pharmacy supply chain company to expand Charleston County HQ
- Prisma, UnitedHealthcare legal fight flares as patients face possible higher costs
- Prisma Health in Greenville opens one of 9 new urgent care centers
- SC cancer expert steps up to take interim CEO role at Roper St. Francis
- South Carolina health care provider names new CEO
- South Carolina scores ‘F’ on maternal, infant health report card
- Health Care Partners of South Carolina, Molina partner to provide 300 holiday meals
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- Baptist, The Jackson Clinic Host Grand Opening for New $80-Million Outpatient Campus
- Belmont Data Collaborative releases findings on Nashville’s mental health
- Covenant Health To Expand Fort Loudon Medical Center In Lenoir City, Tennessee
- Inside Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown’s new women’s hospital pavilion, medical office building
- Oracle looks to Nashville to expand healthcare presence
- pH-D Feminine Health, one of Nashville’s largest women-owned businesses, poised for growth
- Physician staffing company Winnow AI acquired by national Aya Healthcare
- Lawmakers push for more mental health staff in Tennessee schools
- Health officials: Flu is soaring in seven US states
- Tennessee system joins Farm Bureau Health Plans’ Medicare Advantage network as others bail
TEXAS
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- 6 recent Texas hospital bankruptcies, closures
- Ascension nurses plan management face-off
- Houston companies, universities win nearly $50.7 million in latest CPRIT awards
- Lion Star files for bankruptcy
- Medical City Lewisville names new chief nursing officer
- Memorial Hermann, Ken Paxton reach agreement over access to medical records
- Memorial Hermann plans to roll out IT automation across 17 hospitals
- Pharmacy owners, physician convicted in $145M fraud scheme
- Sonida Senior Living Gains Momentum as Occupancy, Margins Improve
- Steward Health Care names president
- Tech issue limited medical record access at Memorial Hermann, Texas AG says
- Tenet Healthcare selling 3 South Carolina hospitals to Novant Health for $2.4B cash
- Tenet’s $2.4B hospital sale and 2 more industry updates
- Tenet’s latest executive appointments
- Texas medical equipment company owner pleads guilty to $20M kickback scheme
- Texas pain physicians charged in $12M fraud scheme
- US Anesthesia Partners files to dismiss monopoly lawsuit
- Westover Hills hospital to undergo nearly $140M expansion
UTAH
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
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- 3 healthcare real estate transactions totaling $73M
- Inova Health System taps U.S. Acute Care Solutions following longtime ER staffing firm’s Ch. 11 bankruptcy
- UVa named ‘best in class’ health system in Virginia by WebMD
- Va. pharmacies say low reimbursement rates keep them struggling to stay afloat
- New central Virginia unit provides immediate access to psychiatric care
WASHINGTON
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- Washington state invests $30 million to bolster mental health services and reduce wait times
- Everett hospital ‘operates smoothly’ despite 1,300 nurses on the picket line
- PeaceHealth agrees to refund $13.4M to Washington patients
- Seattle’s Newest Life Sciences Building 222 Fifth Tops Out
- Virginia Mason Fransican hospital donates tourniquets to teachers in case of school shootings
- UW Health: Medical assistant apprenticeship program marks milestone
- Vancouver Clinic CEO: Congress Must Prevent Medicare Cuts
- Washington hospital chain to refund up to $13.4 million to patients who should have received financial help
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
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- Ascension names new presidents for Columbia St. Mary’s, Elmbrook hospitals
- GE HealthCare, UW-Madison sign 10-year pact to advance health tech research
- Increased patient volumes boost revenue for Aurora Health Care’s parent company
- Marshfield Clinic Health System cutting pay for leadership amidst financial struggles
- SSM Health donates $10K for Pathway Home kitchen renovation
- Ascension Wisconsin names new president of Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee, following spring leadership shakeup
- Children’s Wisconsin plans to close a doctor’s office in a lead poisoning hotspot in Milwaukee. Some worry the lead problem will worsen
WYOMING
