NATIONAL
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- 12 healthcare trends and issues we are following for 2024
- AHA comments on proposed rule to discourage health information blocking
- Physician acquitted of $15M Medicare fraud conviction
- Bright Health finalizes MA sale to Molina, amends credit facility
- Cigna, HCSC in talks for Medicare Advantage deal: WSJ
- ‘Every hospital that does pediatric care is saturated’: Hospitals grapple with volume surges
- Healthcare M&A Market Braces for a Cautiously Optimistic 2024
- Here are the new state healthcare laws taking effect in 2024
- How Amazon expanded, adjusted its healthcare footprint in 2023
- How Will the Amazon Generation Change Healthcare?
- New CMS prior authorization rule takes effect
- New payer price transparency rules take effect in 2024
- Noncompete laws are changing: Here’s how
- Mark Cuban’s drug company now sells 2K medications: What to know
- Nurses ranked #1 in patient satisfaction, according to poll
ALABAMA
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- Encompass Health rehab facility files $6M expansion proposal
- Huntsville Hospital Health System makes major acquisition
- OB-GYN, women’s urgent care center opens in Gardendale
- Professor gets $6.4M from U.S. DoD for acute pancreatitis research
- Seniors in these Alabama counties have the highest Alzheimer’s rates
ALASKA
ARIZONA
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- New and upgraded health care facilities for Native Americans open in Arizona
- Abortions in Arizona see sharp decline with overturning of Roe v. Wade; expected to remain big issue in 2024 races
- Most nursing home residents in Arizona still haven’t gotten their COVID-19 booster
- COVID-19 hospitalizations are up in Arizona and around the U.S.
ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA
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- Blue Shield of California to lay off 67 workers in El Dorado Hills, Rancho Cordova
- California Law Aims to Aid Appeals Process for Nursing Home Discharges
- CHOC, San Diego’s Rady Children’s Hospital to Merge
- New California laws for 2024: Nursing homes must provide more information before evictions
- Providence hospital exec takes on dual role
- Thermo Fisher Scientific to close Petaluma facility, cut 74 jobs
- California becomes first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants
- Big Changes To Come In 2024 For Some California Health Laws
- New California law targets ‘surprise’ ambulance bills
- Adventist Health, Blue Shield of California come to terms on contract
- Judge to rule if California hospital is eligible for Chapter 9 bankruptcy
- California lawmaker plans to address maternity ward closures
COLORADO
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- UCHealth Begins $280M Expansion At Medical Center Of The Rockies In Loveland, Colorado
- UCHealth’s merger with a 100-year-old Pueblo hospital strengthens its dominant spot in the health care market
- As “food is medicine” movement takes hold, Colorado Medicaid looks to pay for produce and better meals
- ‘We were trusting them’: Family battling newborn’s $60K medical helicopter bill
- Colorado system turns to apprenticeships to ease tech shortage
- Mountain Family Health Centers names new CEO
- Sunrise Community Health receives $7.5 million donation from Yield Giving
- Swedish Medical Center awards $25,000 to Integrated Family Community Services
CONNECTICUT
D.C.
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
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- Ascension children’s hospital taps former CMO to serve as president
- Cano Health hit with NYSE delist warning. Here’s why.
- HCA Florida Poinciana Hospital names new CEO
- HCA names new CEO for St. Petersburg hospitals
- Milwaukee medical-imaging firm sold to rapidly expanding Florida company
- New leaders at Clay hospital and UF proton center lead Jacksonville area’s Healthful News
- Private equity-backed imaging supplier continues rapid expansion with another acquisition
- Citing Misinformation, Florida Health Official Calls for Halt to Covid Vaccines
- Lakeland Regional Health sees COVID-19 and flu cases double over the holidays
- Baptist Health (JAX) leader named chief marketing officer to know by Becker’s Hospital Review
- Two sentenced for health care fraud of Missouri, Florida hospitals
- DeSantis appoints seven to the Florida Center for Nursing Board of Directors
- HCA taps CFO for 447-bed Florida hospital
- Nurses save life on PBIA-bound flight, work together at same hospital months later
GEORGIA
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- ‘A bit unusual’ | CDC already reporting a ‘very high’ level of the flu in Georgia
- Georgia laws for 2024 will affect health insurance, mental health access and tax rates
- These Macon nursing homes are rated some of the worst in GA, according to Medicare
- Can family doctors deliver rural America from its maternal health crisis?
- Piedmont announces ‘unprecedented access to groundbreaking medical advances’ for Georgia patients
- Georgia medical board restores telehealth prescribing flexibility
- Possible closure of Georgia senior home reveals flaws in state oversight
HAWAII
IDAHO
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- Sterling Urgent Care Expands Reach in Boise with Four New Locations and Exciting Plans for a Fifth in Spring 2024
- Judge allows lawsuit that challenges Idaho’s broad abortion ban to move forward
- How much might that MRI cost in an Idaho hospital? The amount could vary by the thousands
- Idaho hospital board member resigns
- Idaho Health Provider Will Pay $2 Million to End PPP Fraud Suit
ILLINOIS
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- HSHS St. John’s Hospital creates serenity rooms
- How much health systems are paying to resolve pixel suits
- Illinois hospital CEO suspended
- Several Chicago-area health systems reinstate mask requirements as respiratory viruses spread
- HSHS St. John’s Hospital provides serenity rooms for staff
- St. Josephs Chief Nursing Officer Resigns After 6 Months
- ‘The current model doesn’t work’: Illinois hospital CEO on private equity hospital acquisition
INDIANA
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- ‘Everyone is nervous’: Indiana system CEO on rising hospital closures
- Local health departments receive Health First Indiana funding
- Triple threat of respiratory illnesses impacting Indiana hospitals
- Franciscan Health opening $200M Indiana hospital
- Indiana ranks 35th nationally in health and lower for women’s and children’s health
- Indiana health systems adds Mako robot for joint replacements
- Lilly launches online service that offers home delivery
- Connecting older Hoosiers to free fresh produce to improve health outcomes
IOWA
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- Audit finds conflict in University of Iowa hospital project in North Liberty
- Nursing home problems in Iowa require public investigation: Opinion
- Robotic surgery program hits 10,000th procedure milestone
- Iowa county takes control of non-profit ambulance service
- Waterloo hospital reopens after accidental gunshot caused temporary lockdown, police say
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
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- 171-year-old west Louisville hospital to be renovated
- Baptist Health to open 330K-square-foot surgery center in Kentucky
- Former Health Enterprises Network leader takes new position at LISC Louisville
- How The Walt Disney Co. helped shape Galen College of Nursing’s culture
- Kentucky Association of Health Plans names 2024 officers, expands reach to improve health of all
- Kentucky’s registered nurse median salary ranks 38th in U.S.
- St. E.’s Gary Blank, ‘a venerable institution’ himself, is ending 41-years of service; he made a difference
- These are the top Louisville health care capital raises of 2023
- Kentucky governor backs longer list of conditions eligible for treatment under medical marijuana law
LOUISIANA
MAINE
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Massachusetts hospital IT systems, EHR affected by cyberattack
- Boston-area companies usher in ‘the age of genomic medicines’
- Cancer-killing gel, minimally-invasive brain shunts: Here are recent startups spun out of area hospitals
- Cyberattack on Massachusetts hospital disrupted records system, emergency services
- Here’s why Tufts Medicine launched a new liver transplant program in 2023
- The Petri Dish: Boston biotech scores FDA approval, antiviral maker stops 3 studies
- The top Boston-area biotech VC deals of 2023
- Three Massachusetts healthcare stories we’re watching in 2024
- Tufts Medicine chooses Andrew DeVoe as next CFO
- Western Mass. rehab facility files $6M expansion proposal
- Largest health care system in Massachusetts now offering hospital level treatment at home
- Flooding at a Boston hospital has disrupted IVF services for 200 patients. Some are devastated
MICHIGAN
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- Michigan AG calls for laws following Corewell Health data breach affecting 1M
- Health system breach exposes 1M patients’ information in this state
- Hospital system mergers, technology will be key issues for health care in 2024
- Michigan launches effort to improve birthing equity, outcomes
- U of Michigan takes a layered approach to safety in 2024
- Rising infant mortality in Michigan: Black infants suffering higher death rates
- Sparrow Health officials reflect on hospital’s merger with Michigan Medicine
- Nurse staffing regulation efforts expand: 6 updates
MINNESOTA
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- $111M orthopedic verdict to be retried: A timeline of events
- Financing secured for $95M sale of The Waters senior housing portfolio
- UnitedHealth will take $7 billion charge in sale of Brazil unit
- Most workers will get paid sick time under new Minnesota law
- Urgent care seeing an uptick in patient visits
- New Health Clinic Moving Ahead in South Minneapolis
- Minnesota’s COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths in 2023 less than half those in 2022
MISSISSIPPI
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- Mississippi seeing sharpest increase of flu-like illnesses in U.S.
- Mississippi Officials Maintain Hold On Most Medical Cannabis Products
- Hosemann focused on workforce, PERS, health care
- Where does Mississippi rank in life expectancy? Check to see
- Seniors in these Mississippi counties have the highest Alzheimer’s rates
- Mississippi has highest rate of C-sections in US
MISSOURI
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- 3 Missouri health system mergers in 2 days
- BJC HealthCare, Saint Luke’s Health System close $10B nonprofit health system merger
- BJC names regional execs as merger with Saint Luke’s closes
- Centene PBM settlement with South Carolina raises total payout to $964.8M
- HCA Midwest hospital CEO to retire
- KC-area hospital continues to battle cybersecurity incident
- Mercy acquires SoutheastHealth
- Optum, SSM Health end partnership
- Saint Luke’s-BJC merger promotes local leaders to executive team
- SLU Hospital nurse strike ends, SSM Health addresses concerns
- Two sentenced for health care fraud of Missouri, Florida hospitals
- Urgent care chain to pay $9.1M to settle false claims allegations on physician visits
- Missouri hospital grapples with cybersecurity disruption
- Mercy leaders promise upgrades as they close deal for southeast Missouri health system
- Rural Missouri has very few doctors. MU hopes to change that
- Missouri orthopedic hospital adds Velys robot for joint replacements
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
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- New bill increases access to postpartum health coverage for Nevada moms
- Unprecedented surge in RSV infections in Northern Nevada worries public health officials
- Nationwide data breach impacts Northern Nevada Medical Center: What we know
- Nevada’s health care industry faring well; health care consumers, not so much
- Southern Nevada health officials bracing for late-January COVID-19 surge
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
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- New year, new health care laws in the Garden State
- As COVID, flu and RSV spike, NJ hospitals require masks again
- New health care laws in Pennsylvania and New Jersey to take effect in 2024
- New Jersey board votes on adding medical office building in single-family home
- Robotics to aid early lung cancer detection at Englewood Health
- Nurse staffing regulation efforts expand: 6 updates
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- New York City public hospitals bring back mask mandates in certain areas
- Hochul proposes law to stop hospitals like Upstate from suing poor patients over unpaid bills
- Hochul weakens Covid-era nursing home law
- How much health systems are paying to resolve pixel suits
- New York hospitals seek recovery of data stolen in cyberattack
- Niagara County agency names new leader as CEO prepares to retire
- PT practice doubles in size with move to West Seneca
- Strong Memorial Hospital Opens $7M Brain Injury Rehab Unit In Rochester, New York
- Doctor Issues Warning on Risk of Polio in New York
- New York governor urged to prevent hospital service cuts
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Chapel Hill public company shrinks share volume by nearly 99%
- Cigna and WakeMed Enter Two-Year Contract: A New Chapter for Healthcare in Raleigh
- Raleigh public company lands $400M to fuel pivotal year
- Stories to Watch: Will AHWFB put a $246M hospital in northwest Greensboro?
- Stories to Watch in 2024: Leadership changes, manufacturing pause make 2024 critical year for ProKidney
- Social issues dominated NC’s health topics in 2023
- North Carolina flu cases surpass COVID-19 cases for the first time since 2020
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- Blue Water reinvents itself once more: Biotech firm pivots with $75M acquisition, name change
- Central Ohio hospitals kept construction crews busy
- Lindner Center of Hope adds 15-year veteran to new C-suite role
- Medicare OK clears sales hurdle for heart surgery simulation software
- Ohio Department of Health reports first flu-related pediatric death of season
- Direct primary care sees growth in Northeast Ohio
- Nurse staffing regulation efforts expand: 6 updates
- Mobile health clinics reach out to the hard-to-reach
OKLAHOMA
OREGON
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- Oregon police confirm investigation into medication theft amid report hospital patients died
- Health care giant wants to buy locally-owned Corvallis Clinic chain
- Medicaid integrated care models don’t improve behavioral health outcomes, OHSU study finds
- OHSU Health CEO to step down
- PeaceHealth’s home care nurses authorize option to strike
- Police probe at least 1 patient death at Oregon hospital
PENNSYLVANIA
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- 2023 in Review: Health systems large and small enacted layoffs as post-pandemic financial struggles continue
- How clean are hospital rooms in Philadelphia? See how patients rated each hospital.
- New health care laws in Pennsylvania and New Jersey to take effect in 2024
- Pennsylvania hospital’s unpaid taxes result in 17% tax increase approval
- Public Health Management Corp.’s new CEO outlines goals for the nonprofit
- Tower Health rejects latest $706M offer for hospital system
- UPMC breaks ground in Croatia
- WVU Medicine’s Dr. Vinay Badhwar named to leadership role in national partnership
- Zeal Specialty Pharmacy celebrates reaching various credential milestones quickly
- Main Line Health implements temporary mask mandate due to COVID-19
- Pennsylvania hospital cited for closing psychiatric unit
- On the move: Mobile health teams are taking medicine to the street in Philly
- Nurse staffing regulation efforts expand: 6 updates
RHODE ISLAND
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- Top 6 health care stories to watch in Rhode Island in 2024
- COVID, flu and RSV cases rising in RI after holidays
- McKee signs executive order regarding nursing home staffing emergency
- RI vasectomy-tech company gets FDA nod, CEO wants to be first patient
- ‘I’m really fearing that’s going to collapse’: Fewer psychologists in RI despite demand
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Centene PBM settlement with South Carolina raises total payout to $964.8M
- SC still among the worst for flu as COVID, RSV also makes the rounds in ‘tripledemic’
- UnitedHealthcare, Prisma Health split
- UnitedHealthcare-Prisma Health impasse leaves patients out of network
- Hospital patient steals ambulance, leads police on chase in South Carolina
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- Memphis-Based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals Pay $7.25 Million to Settle Allegations that They Violated the False Claims Act
- Advent Health Partners acquired by Trend Health Partners
- Compassus and Ascension expand partnership for home health care
- Germantown-based West Cancer Center & Research Institute acquires Lifesigns
- Harrow Inc. partners with technology companies for dry eye prescription Vevye
- COVID-19, flu and RSV cases are filling up Tennessee clinics and hospital ERs
- Senior living system sells 20% stake in joint venture with HCA
- Tennessee bill may change how mental health professionals handle threats
TEXAS
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- Artificial heart company Bivacor names Jim Dillon new CEO
- Diagnostic startup prepares to bring blood testing product to San Antonio, Austin
- Face to Face: Meet the woman working to close the knowledge gap in neurological diseases
- Inside Ascension’s legal fight with a Texas agency over caring for the poor
- Methodist Healthcare owner to invest nearly $15M in health equity groups
- Small cap drug testing company relocates HQ to DFW from Massachusetts
- Texas emergency rooms are not required to perform life-saving abortions, federal court rules
- Texas hospital closes ER abruptly
- 5th Circuit sides with Texas on abortion challenge
- Texas has ‘alarmingly’ high maternal, infant mortality rates, study shows
UTAH
VERMONT
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- Connecticut Woman To Become Vermont’s First Nonresident To Get Medically Assisted Suicide In State
- Maintaining Vermont’s pandemic stockpile remains a balancing act
- The health systems mandating masks for physicians, patients
- Are investments to solve Vermont’s nurse shortage paying off?
- After holiday gatherings, Vermont Covid hospitalizations hit highest point in a year
VIRGINIA
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- Virginia Hospital Bolsters Security Following Shooting
- First child dies this flu season in Virginia
- Inova Health System lays out construction timelines for Springfield, Alexandria hospitals
- Richmond’s Aditxt reaches deal to acquire maker of Phexxi
- HCA Virginia hospital temporarily closing obstetrics services
WASHINGTON
WEST VIRGINIA
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- West Virginia’s first renal denervation procedure performed at Mon Health
- West Virginia starts distributing funds from the settlement of opioid lawsuits
- West Virginia cancer center joins Vandalia Health
- West Virginia ranks 40th for median RN pay; WVUM, Mon Health comment
- New, state-of-the-art orthopedic hospital opens within Saint Francis Hospital
- The West Virginia Behavioral Healthcare Providers Association appoints new CEO
WISCONSIN
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- Wisconsin health care costs at core of battle between business lobby WMC and hospital group WHA
- Respiratory virus hospitalizations rising
- How much health systems are paying to resolve pixel suits
- Milwaukee medical-imaging firm sold to rapidly expanding Florida company
- ThedaCare and Froedtert Health Systems merge
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