NATIONAL
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- 60% of health systems considering ASC joint ventures
- 9% of hospitals had ‘vulnerable’ cash on hand levels in 2022
- $3.7B acquisition shakes up urology business
- AHA comments on proposed Medicare Advantage policies for 2025
- Amazon expands healthcare reach with Omada partnership
- Analysis: 91% of hospitals posting machine-readable price transparency data
- Biden administration replaces Trump-era provider conscience rule
- Elevance Health sues feds, challenging changes to MA star ratings methodology
- Experts scrutinize HHS’ plan to improve primary care
- Expect more healthcare and life sciences mergers, and more hospital closures, KPMG says
- Health systems invest in new facilities, services to grow revenue
- Health system leaders expect similar M&A activity in 2024
- HHS names 1st chief competition officer
- Medical groups struggle as operating costs surpass revenue
- Nation’s Biggest Hospital Landlord Suffers New Losses
- Nursing home numbers reveal up to half could close in next 10 years without ‘major’ changes, expert warns
- Payer M&A deals to watch in 2024
- Pharma M&A rebounded in ‘23, set to grow in ‘24, report finds
- UnitedHealthcare vs. Cigna vs. Aetna: 15 updates for 2024
- Walgreens halfway through VillageMD closures
- Walgreens to pay Humana $360M to settle drug pricing lawsuit
- Workforce shortages plague rural hospitals, legislation to address it stalls
ALABAMA
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- 7 hospital expansions in 6 days
- Alabama medical office building breaks ground near Ascension
- Bham health care leaders talk what’s on the horizon in 2024
- Biotech firm with Birmingham facility cuts R&D jobs
- Groundbreaking for new medical office building in Chilton County
- New medical facility coming to Chilton County
- Several states reinstate mask mandates in hospitals; Health leaders weigh in on if Alabama should follow suit
- Huntsville Health System expands Alabama footprint with latest acquisition
- Alabama hospital completes $30M expansion project
- COVID-19 activity ‘very high’ in Alabama, according to CD
- Alabama Health Rating Among Lowest in U.S. According to the Forbes Advisor
- Ribbon cutting held for brand new Pediatric Emergency Center at Children’s & Women’s Hospital
ALASKA
ARIZONA
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- Home Healthcare Company Agrees to Pay Nearly $10 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Its Participation in the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program
- HonorHealth names revenue cycle VP
- Phoenix medical office building sells for $46M
- Valleywise Health’s $463M replacement hospital nears opening
- The Top 20 healthcare companies in Arizona
- How health systems are using AI to augment patient safety
- New and upgraded health care facilities for Native Americans open
- ‘Our broken system’: Arizona lawmaker vows to share story of mental health failure each week, reduce SMI deaths
ARKANSAS
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- Baptist Health Out of Insurer’s Network
- St. Bernards Implants Region’s First Artificial Heart Pump
- Clarity Pointe Assisted Living Facility Sells for $5.9M
- Families left in a bind as dispute between Baptist Health and United Healthcare continues
- Baptist Memorial, Anderson Regional complete merger
- Racial disparity in healthcare impacts the well-being of babies born in Arkansas, report says
- As more states pass laws addressing maternal mental health, barriers to access continue
- Lessons in telehealth: How one Arkansas health system kept seeing patients after a severe weather event
CALIFORNIA
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- 3 health systems ending RCM partnerships
- 7 hospital expansions in 6 days
- Cedars-Sinai Launches Aorta Clinic
- East Bay biotech registers Bay Area’s first IPO filing of 2024
- East Bay cancer drug maker to cut 175 jobs, reduce real estate footprint
- ImmunityBio Gets $320M Investment
- Peninsula cancer test developer to pay $70 million upfront for Israeli company
- Rare disease drug developer pays $6M after DoJ alleges ‘kickback’ scheme around lab tests
- Sutter Health taps CFO
- UC Davis Health creates road map to diversify health care workforce
- UCLA Cancer Center Wins Grants
- Southern California dealing with a trio of viruses this winter — and yes, one of them is COVID
- Bankrupt California hospital has 3 potential buyers
- After FTC Lawsuit, Tenet Scraps Sale of California Hospital
- California’s San Joaquin Valley has a therapist shortage. Here’s how a university hopes to change that
- California’s updated noncompete rule: What ASCs need to know
COLORADO
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- Boulder public company completes $1B merger after thorny investor vote
- Colorado hospital wants to acquire some Vail-Summit Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery locations
- Colorado system in talks to acquire orthopedic clinics, ASC
- Denver Health says uncompensated medical costs are impacting patient care
- Good Samaritan Hospital awards $66,000 in grants
- Intermountain Health names new Colorado president
- Intermountain Health cuts back on student loan reimbursements for Colorado nurses
- Almost 100 norovirus outbreaks in Colorado lead officials to issue warning
- Rural hospitals are caught in an aging-infrastructure conundrum
- Community Hospital welcomes public into new cancer center
- Denver Health says it spent $136 million in uncompensated care for patients in 2023
CONNECTICUT
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- Boosting workforce pipeline, new facilities, flexible care delivery key trends in 2024
- Duncaster CEO Papa to lead major independent living expansion in Bloomfield
- Hartford HealthCare launches new virtual care service – in a grocery store
- More than 800,000 CT residents impacted by data breach
- New Trinity Health facility under construction in Watertown; set to open this spring
- Nursing home in Middletown plans to close
- ‘Please give what you can’: Connecticut hospital asks community for funding
- Prospect Medical chain owes CT $67 million, tax liens show
- Telehealth company Hims & Hers partners with Hartford HealthCare
D.C.
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
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- Allstate accuses Florida clinic of billing fraud, unnecessary spine surgeries
- Baptist Health, Compass Surgical Partners to launch ASC network
- Broward Health taps former Cleveland Clinic Florida CEO
- Cape Coral medical office building sells for $2.2M
- CFO abruptly resigns from multimillion-dollar publicly traded health care firm amid bankruptcy
- FDA approves Florida drug importation plan
- Hospital workforce challenges in Florida showed improvement in 2023
- Hospitals oppose Florida’s plan to import drugs from Canada
- Lee Health’s Cape Coral Hospital completes ICU expansion
- Medical company partners with FAU for new cognitive brain health center
- Moffitt Cancer Center to pay $19.5M to settle improper billing allegations
- COVID-19 variant JN.1 leads a new surge of cases in Florida
- HCA Florida West Hospital opens Pea Ridge Emergency
- 2 Florida HOPCo practices to merge
GEORGIA
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- Alpharetta-based health care company names new CEO
- Atlanta Hospital Worker Fired for Refusing Flu Vaccine Mandate Wins Settlement Payout
- Certificate of need, school choice among the issues facing Georgia lawmakers
- Kaiser Permanente supports work to address ongoing needs of homeless Georgians
- Metro Atlanta hospitals see ‘significant surge’ in patients
- Piedmont announces launch of new cancer research center
- Georgia hospital lands over $60M funding agreement
- Georgia hospital 1st in US with Amazon ‘walk-out’ store
- More hospitals are requiring masks as flu and COVID-19 cases surge
- Georgia House hearing on maternal mortality calls for solutions to healthcare deserts
- Grady Hospital to open new Atlanta area clinics more than a year after Wellstar hospital closures
- Atlanta hospital named a ‘Center of Excellence’ in robotic surgery
- 10 rural hospitals across Ga. received $400K donation from Colony Bank
HAWAII
IDAHO
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- Idaho’s Top 15 Counties with the Longest Reported Life Expectancy
- Idaho might require Medicaid expansion population to work through new policy proposal
- Kootenai Health makes change from public-district hospital to nonprofit ahead of new CEO this spring
- NorthStar Anesthesia providing services for Portneuf Health
- Supreme Court allows Idaho to reinstate abortion ban
- Is the new COVID-19 variant JN.1 ‘more transmissible’? What to know about COVID in Idaho
ILLINOIS
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- 81K extra visits: How Cook County Health is meeting migrant healthcare demands
- Advocate Health Care names new president of Lutheran General Hospital, central Chicago area
- Ascension hospital CNO resigns amid union negotiations
- Ascension Saint Joseph Hospital to discuss new, final contract offer with Joliet nurses
- CMS to terminate Illinois insurer’s Medicare Advantage drug plan following low star ratings
- How the 5 largest health systems used AI in 2023
- Joliet nurses file unfair labor practices against Ascension Saint Joseph
- Lurie Children’s Hospital receives major support from Bears’ President Kevin Warren
- Rush plans new $27 million medical office in Lakeview
- UChicago Medicine gets $20 million gift to support 575,000-square-foot cancer care and research pavilion
- Mask mandates return to Illinois hospitals as doctors see rising COVID, flu, RSV cases
- Health center opens in southern Illinois with Tennesseans in mind
INDIANA
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- $8.6M expansion planned for Westfield senior living community
- Eli Lilly to sell weight loss drugs directly to consumers; warns against ‘cosmetic’ usage
- Franciscan Health hosts open house at new Crown Point hospital
- HCA Indiana hospital to get $25M makeover if sold
- Lilly Completes $1.4 Billion Acquisition of Point Biopharma
- Memorial Hospital recognized for excellence in infant and maternal health
- Riley Children’s Foundation sets up nutrition research partnership with $2.5M gift from Lilly CEO’s foundation
- Union Health Proposes Merger with Terre Haute Regional Hospital: A Vision for Enhanced Healthcare
- RSV, COVID and flu: Fighting the ‘trifecta’ as cases rise in Indiana
- Lilly launches virtual medical care website
- Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb cites strong manufacturing, health initiatives, in State of the State
- Lutheran Health Network breaks ground on Indiana medical office building
- This robot is helping southern Indiana patients recover faster from surgery
IOWA
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- Delta Dental of Iowa names April Schmaltz new president, CEO
- Federal fix for rural hospitals gets few takers so far
- Twelve Iowa care facilities fined $500 each for resident abuse, lack of background checks
- UI Health Care job offers go out to Mercy docs, staff
- University of Iowa’s new Mercy integration officer could earn $780K this year
- UnityPoint Health partnership to expand remote patient monitoring
- Iowa Board of Medicine hears public comment on proposed 6-week abortion ban
- Springfield Plastics presents John Stoddard Cancer Center with $27,000-plus donation
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
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- Beshear administration seeks to expand medical cannabis program to include additional conditions
- Construction on schedule at Baptist Health Lexington’s new Hamburg location
- Former Executive Sentenced to Probation for HIPAA Violation
- Healthcare returns to Louisville’s original West End hospital
- Kentucky health system drops UnitedHealth, Centene Medicare Advantage plans
- Kentucky lawmaker files bill to add limited exceptions to state’s abortion ban
- Northern Kentucky lawmaker files three bills loosening certificate of need requirements
- Kentucky Children’s Hospital philanthropist is a finalist in nationwide contest
- Mercy Health acquires Orthopedic Institute of Western Kentucky
- Forbes ranks Kentucky among unhealthiest states in the US
LOUISIANA
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- M&A Report: Louisiana merger and acquisition activity dropped in 2023
- Nonprofit sues over Louisiana medical board diversity requirements
- Nonprofit sues over Louisiana medical board diversity requirements
- Ochsner updates C-suite
- ‘I’m filled with optimism’: New Orleans East Hospital’s journey to value-based care
- Suit Challenges Required Minority Appointments to Louisiana Medical Licensing Board
MAINE
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- Proposed $61M rehab hospital could come to Bangor in early 2027
- Maine health system facility to end urgent care services
- Maine hospital adds new role after merging COO, CFO
- Maine nursing homes face $96M funding shortfall, raising concerns about additional closures
- Empty beds, untenable staffing needs push the nation’s rural nursing homes closer to the brink
- Hospital consolidation drives high health care costs in Maine, according to progressive think tank
MARYLAND
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- 7 hospital expansions in 6 days
- Sheppard Pratt pays nearly $3M for two properties near Mt. Vernon
- Vienna health care firm led by industry veteran makes big acquisition
- Maryland expands gender-affirming care covered by Medicaid
- UM Upper Chesapeake Health holds ribbon-cutting event for new patient tower in Bel Air
- Best Hospitals In MD Revealed In Yearly Rankings
- Luminis Health rolls out virtual nursing
MASSACHUSETTS
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- 7 hospital expansions in 6 days
- 25 nursing homes swept up in wage-withholding investigation
- Beth Israel Center Pledges $7.25M for Community Health Needs
- Dana-Farber pitches $1.68B cancer hospital
- Lawrence General Hospital picks next CEO
- Massachusetts hospital welcomes new CEO
- New plans for Quincy building call for waiving taxes for 40 years. What we know
- Tufts hits transplant record as competition intensifies
- Tufts Medicine taps new CFO
- Two of Devoted Health’s MA plans earned 5 stars during a difficult year for star ratings
- UMass Memorial to convert former Beaumont nursing home to hospital to reduce ER congestion
- Mass General Brigham hospital physicians seek unionization
- Generative AI IDs social determinants in EHR notes: Mass General Brigham
- Boston Children’s Hospital adopts new ChatGPT platform
- Home-based care’s role in ‘flattening the curve’ of healthcare costs
- Two biotech organizations look to shape conversations and action
- DPH eyes improvements amid worsening maternal healthcare outcomes
- State regulators want more oversight of urgent care facilities
- Framingham Union Hospital nurses vote to join union by 188-37 vote
- Heywood marks behavioral health milestone as it works to emerge from bankruptcy
- UMass Chan granted $93K to implement oral health program for people with substance-use issues
MICHIGAN
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- 3 Thumb area hospitals merge to form new health system
- Bills for drug review board, nursing staff mandates await state lawmakers
- Former Beaumont CEO John Fox received $10 million exit package after Spectrum merger
- Health care cyberattacks are up — and it’s probably going to get worse
- How the 5 largest health systems used AI in 2023
- JPM 2024: Henry Ford maps out funding plan amid expansion
- JPM24: Corewell Health’s merger is saving $200M per year. Here’s what it learned along the way
- Meet Michigan’s newest health system
- COVID on the rise as Michigan hospital admissions near 2-year high
- West Michigan organizations awarded $50K to improve maternity health equity
- Co-CEOs will run Michigan’s newest health system
- FDA scolds Michigan hospital’s response to drug trial error
MINNESOTA
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- 7 hospital expansions in 6 days
- 2 Hennepin Healthcare board members resign after oversight tightened
- Duluth-based Essentia Health ends merger talks with Marshfield Clinic
- How the aging population in Minnesota is being cared for
- JPM 2024 Day 1: Mayo Clinic looks to AI innovation for ‘huge win’
- Mayo Clinic inks ‘multimillion-dollar’ deal with AI startup
- Minnesota Sanford Health rehabilitation unit to close; hearing planned
- Public hearing set for Jan. 17 on closure of Sanford Bemidji’s inpatient rehabilitation unit
- Tonka Bay Equity Partners sells United Skin Specialists; includes Zel Skin & Laser, Southwest Dermatology
- Mayo Clinic collaboration to address health disparities
- Dermatology group that includes Zel Skin & Laser sold
- How Allina Health’s revenue cycle VP is building payer relationships
- Task force strives to foster better future of Minnesota health care by focusing on U of M
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
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- 61-year-old with schizophrenia still missing three weeks after nursing home shut down
- 1 health system among top 100 companies for remote work
- 3 health systems ending RCM partnerships
- Ascension ramps up joint ventures
- CoxHealth, Select Medical plan to build an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in the Springfield area
- Data breach affects ‘limited number’ of SSM Health patients
- Hedrick Medical Center earns recognition for rural cardiac care
- How the 5 largest health systems used AI in 2023
- Mercy taps 3 leaders to spearhead specialty service lines
- Missing patient found following abrupt nursing home closure
- North Kansas City Hospital patient data may have been compromised in vendor data breach
- Nurses scrutinize Ascension’s obstetrics unit closures
- Optum, SSM end partnership
- SSM Health hospital nurses hold 2nd strike since September
- St. Louis-based Ascension sells a Buffalo-area nursing home
- St. Louis cancer drug startup’s expansion plans include research pact with pharma giant
- University Health requests $22M to build onto health sciences district
- Workers, officials want feds to investigate St. Louis nursing home closure
- Missouri system names dual-hospital administrator
- Waiving ban, feds will pay Missouri to treat substance abuse in mental health hospitals
- St. Luke’s merger with a St. Louis hospital system could mean bigger medical bills in Kansas City
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
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- 7 hospital expansions in 6 days
- Nebraska hospitals could get Medicaid payment boost under legislative bill
- ‘Win-win’ hospital proposal could generate nearly $1 billion to improve bottom line, services
- Empty beds, untenable staffing needs push the nation’s rural nursing homes closer to the brink
- Nebraska HA says housing, childcare important in resolving nursing shortage
- Nebraska Hospital Association announces support of Senator Jacobson’s LB 1087
- Kozyra announces as new CEO of Avera St. Anthony’s Hospital
- Nebraska senator renews bid to curb Lincoln health department’s authority to issue mandates
NEVADA
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- 7 hospital expansions in 6 days
- How Las Vegas has become the abortion care hub of the southwest
- Las Vegas hospital unveils patient tower part of $55M project
- New bill increases access to postpartum health coverage for Nevada moms
- Nevada Health Exchange closes year with surplus
- Las Vegas area hospital distributes Narcan to curb surge in deadly fentanyl overdoses
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
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- Hackers say they didn’t encrypt health system’s data to not ‘interfere with patient care’
- Jackson medical office building sells for $24M
- LockBit Ransomware Claims Capital Health Cyberattack
- New Jersey medical office building reopens after upgrades
- RWJBarnabas to lay off 79
- They ran the ‘worst’ nursing home in N.J. until it was shut down. Owners are under fire again for running another unsafe facility.
- Top 19 N.J. hospitals for delivering babies, according to U.S. News
- Wiping out NJ medical debt: Can Murphy’s plan make a dent in millions in unpaid bills?
- Masks back at hospitals, other health care sites over viruses
- N.J. hospitals filled with COVID, flu cases. When will the surge ease?
- New Jersey Laboratory and Its Owner and CEO Agree to Pay Over $13 Million to Settle Allegations of Kickbacks and Unnecessary Testing
- Most insurers would have to cover infertility treatment under advancing bill
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- 6 Mount Sinai hospitals out of UnitedHealthcare network amid dispute
- 2 New York systems hit with cease-and-desist letters
- 7 hospital expansions in 6 days
- Hospitals sue ransomware group
- Judge tosses lawsuit challenging New York nursing home staffing law. Is enforcement next?
- New York clinic agrees to $1.2M investment, $450K fine in wake of ransomware attack
- Northwell anesthesiologist accused of drugging, abusing woman
- NY Gov. Plans To Limit Hospital Suits Over Medical Debt
- Orthopedics practice expansion drives revenue over $100M
- Our Lady of Peace nursing home sold to private group
- Refuah Health Center Pays $450K HIPAA Fine; Agrees to $1.2 Million Cybersecurity Investment
- Rome Health nursing home names assistant administrator
- State orders New York system to keep maternity services
- St. Louis-based Ascension sells a Buffalo-area nursing home
- What happened with New York’s noncompete ban bill?
- NYU Langone Health taps CFO
- Northwell inches closer to Epic launch
- New York looks to strengthen healthcare cybersecurity
- New York Medicaid waiver opens door for $7.5B funding
- New York hospital groups spend $10M on ads pushing for higher Medicaid reimbursement
- Montefiore levels up community health worker training
- NYC Health + Hospitals keeps pulse on city healthcare with new podcast
- WMCHealth reinforces commitment as facility closure discussions loom
- HSS names revenue cycle VP
- Mask mandates return to hospitals in Massachusetts, New York
- New York system names CEO
- CMS OKs New York Medicaid demonstration
- NY nursing homes law still requires minimum staffing
- On Long Island, a new mental-health support pilot program
NORTH CAROLINA
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- 4 health systems outsourcing RCM functions
- 2 pharmacies help expand access to medication in western N.C.
- Duke Health conserving as Red Cross’ blood supply reaches emergency shortage
- How Certificate of Need changes in both Carolinas will deliver more health-care development
- NC hospital system settles patients Meta Pixel lawsuit for $6.6 million
- North Carolina drugmaker BioCryst cuts dozens of jobs
- North Carolina firm joins push to create EpiPen alternatives
- WakeMed Wendell Healthplex opens nearly 15 years after certificate of need awarded
- WakeMed program makes impact beyond traditional health care
- COVID Mask Mandates Are Returning To North Carolina
- North Carolina set a new all-time high for COVID-19 particles
- Asheville independent hospital monitor to add oversight
- Court grants HCA extension of deadline for response in state lawsuit about Mission Health
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- Americans are skeptical about AI in health care. Cincinnati hospitals are already using it
- Cincinnati Children’s taps one of Kroger’s top executives to board seat
- Cleveland Clinic’s $150 million overhaul of Fairview Hospital campus triggers concerns among neighbors
- Dayton senior care facility unveils $8 million renovation project
- GE HealthCare to acquire Cleveland-based provider of AI imaging-analysis software
- Hospice of Cincinnati launches new inpatient unit at Christ Hospital
- Kettering Health closing area ER, says no changes planned in Springfield, other sites
- Kettering hospital to close ER
- Nationwide Children’s spinoff raises $33M toward infection-busting treatment
- New $1.4 million opioid treatment facility debuts in region
- One of region’s largest hospitals to shed service days after Kettering Health decision
- Steward Health owes $50M in back rent, claims property owner
- TriHealth CFO Andrew DeVoe exiting
- Top health system debuts new campus on former large hospital site, part of $18M project
- Voices: Many Ohio nonprofit hospitals are ‘nonprofit’ in name only
- Ohio governor signs executive order banning gender surgeries for minors
- Steward sells lab assets in Ohio, Pennsylvania
- Ohio hospitals make push for ChatGPT use
- Ohio hospital seeks $5M to ‘return to normal’
- Ohio hospital first to combine new heart clip with minimally invasive procedure
- Upper Valley Medical Center in Miami County to stop baby delivery
- Ohio hospital’s clothing closet started with one night nurse’s locker
OKLAHOMA
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- Oklahoma among states urging feds to reconsider nursing home staffing rules
- SSM Health affected by business partner breach
- OIG Report Highlights Critical Deficiencies at Oklahoma Nursing Homes, Staff Turnover, Limited Resources To Blame
- New Oklahoma City mental health hospital expects to break ground in March
OREGON
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- 3 providers being acquired by payers
- 600-plus OHSU advanced practice providers want to form a union
- New data shows Oregon’s Measure 110 services are ramping up as overhaul looms
- OHSU Health CEO to exit amid Legacy Health merger talks
- Oregon health system begins CEO search as merger talks continue
- Police confirm probe at Oregon hospital amid reports of patient deaths
- Providence Health’s Portland hospitals slowly emerging from anesthesiology crisis
- Providence pressures Regence to resolve contract dispute affecting 260K members
- Oregon nurse allegedly replaced fentanyl IV bags with tap water prior to patient deaths
- Oregon COVID-19, RSV, flu rates lower than many other states
- Oregon Hospital System Ranks Surgeons by Carbon Footprint
- Health care giant wants to buy locally-owned Corvallis Clinic chain
PENNSYLVANIA
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- 3 health systems snag innovation grants
- 6 St. Luke’s hospitals top ranked nationally for safety
- Announcing the Business Times’ 20 People to Know in Health Care
- FTC conducting review of proposed UPMC, Washington Health System merger
- Geisinger trims operating loss by 52%
- HAP CEO ‘laser focused’ on hospital labor issues, opposing mandatory staffing ratios in Pennsylvania
- Independence Blue Cross inks partnership to expand telehealth services for members
- Jefferson Health gets new marketing chief
- JPM24: Jefferson Health says LVHN merger would double its insurance business within 2 years
- Rothman Orthopaedics trimming workforce by up to 5%, citing inflation and rising labor costs
- Steward Health owes $50M in back rent, claims property owner
- Temple Health provides peer support, not just medical care, for those living with Parkinson’s
- Steward sells lab assets in Ohio, Pennsylvania
- COVID-19 in Pa. by the grim numbers: Report details death rates, medical impacts
- Hospital progress report for Lehigh Valley
- As more Pa. residents rack up medical debt, hope hinges on a state solution
- How many hospital beds are enough? Report finds that Western Pennsylvania has too many
- 23 patients evacuated from Pennsylvania hospital after utility issue
RHODE ISLAND
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Centene settlement with South Carolina raises total payout to $964.8M
- How Certificate of Need changes in both Carolinas will deliver more health-care development
- McLeod Health expands presence in Lake City and Lower Florence County
- ‘We have nowhere to go’: Mother left worried after son’s doctors at Prisma go out of network
- South Carolina lawmakers bring bill banning surgeries, medications for trans minors to House floor
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- Inside the new Sanford Center for Digestive Health
- Sanford Health names new CFO
- South Dakota health systems pay $160K for governor ad feature
- Health systems invest in new facilities, services to grow revenue
- Avera expanding inpatient behavioral health space
- New Avera CEO: ‘We’re in an incredible, positive position’
TENNESSEE
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- 1 hospital operator among Bloomberg’s ‘Companies to Watch’
- Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Welcomes New Leadership to Hospital
- Ascension expands home health services
- Baptist Memorial, Anderson Regional complete merger
- Brentwood-based ClarisHealth receives growth investment from private equity firm Pamlico Capital
- Cigna terminates contract with Tennessee anesthesia provider
- Clinical trial at Middle TN hospital helping kids with sickle cell disease; FDA approves new drug
- Compassus and Ascension expand partnership for home health care
- Germantown-based West Cancer Center & Research Institute acquires Lifesigns
- How the 5 largest health systems used AI in 2023
- Memphis health system pays $7M to settle kickback allegations
- Methodist Le Bonheur pays $7.25M to settle kickback allegations
- Nashville Health Care Council announces 2024 class of fellows
- New tool to fight opioid addiction expands to Nashville General Hospital
- Onsite Women’s Health secures office space at Serendipity Labs in downtown Nashville
- The Boss: Dr. Anderson Spickard’s three pillars are family, faith and science
- Top of The List: Nashville’s largest assisted-living facilities
- Williamson Health’s Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee names John Reynolds as CEO
- Surgery Partners projects growth in 2024
TEXAS
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- 96% of nurse residents, fellows vote to unionize at Ascension hospital in Texas
- 3 providers being acquired by payers
- A top Austin biopharmaceutical company is doubling down on its campus
- Ascension Seton, Acadia Healthcare forming venture to expand behavioral services in Austin
- Babson Diagnostics founder prepares to launch innovative blood testing product across Texas
- Medical Properties Trust details plan to collect debt from Steward
- Memorial Hermann hospital system in Houston terminates agreement with Humana’s Medicare Advantage networks
- Portal Innovations hires Houston leader after Texas Medical Center move
- Steward $50M behind on rent
- Texas Children’s Hospital gets data to clinical teams bedside to improve outcomes
- UT Health San Antonio will anchor a 60,000-square-foot medical office development
- Agilon Health CFO retiring
- Harbor Health raises $95.5M to expand new health care models in Central Texas
- USACE taps Clark for $617M Texas hospital
- Babson Diagnostics founder prepares to launch innovative blood testing product across Texas
- Texas hospital names CEO
- Eddie Bernice Johnson’s family alleges negligence at Baylor hospital, intends to sue
UTAH
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- Intermountain Healthcare Opens Ambulatory Surgery Center In Murray, Utah
- Lehi Primary Children’s Hospital to open in February
- Gov. Cox unveils recommendations to create new clinical paths in behavioral health
- Utah ranks 39th in the nation in terms of per capital spending on mental health treatment
- Utah clinic offers new treatment for patients dealing with long COVID
- Analysis pegs Utah as second healthiest state in US, beat out by only Hawaii
- Valley Women’s Health adopts on-call labor and delivery schedule to better serve patients, doctors
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
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- 4 health systems outsourcing RCM functions
- Carlyle Group-backed Acentra Health acquires consultancy focused on employee mental health
- How UVA Health is striving to be the ‘workplace of choice’
- Virginia rehab hospital names CEO
- Virginia sees ‘very high’ levels of respiratory illnesses, health officials warn
- Lawsuit: HCA hospital hid lack of credentials from Virginia
- Acentra Health acquires workplace mental health biz
- Virginia could lose 50% of its community health workers by July
- Taking a deeper look at the cause of medical staffing shortages in Southwest Virginia
- Construction On Inova Hospital In Springfield To Begin In 2024: Report
- Nine Indicted in Federal Health Care Fraud Probe
- Seniors in these Virginia counties have the highest Alzheimer’s rates
WASHINGTON
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- 4 health systems outsourcing RCM functions
- Hackers threaten to send SWAT teams to Fred Hutch patients’ homes
- Kootenai Health makes change from public-district hospital to nonprofit ahead of new CEO this spring
- Some nurses experience violent attacks at Seattle Children’s Hospital, say they want protection, support
- Washington state facing an increase in spread of the new coronavirus variant, flu and RSV
- Washington lawmakers’ health priorities will focus on unfinished business from 2023 during short session
WEST VIRGINIA
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- New Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Clinic opens in Spring Mills Medical Office Building
- West Virginia healthcare industry leaders discuss need for more providers, lack of healthcare access
- WVU Health System builds out cancer institute
- CDC map shows dramatic increase in illness in West Virginia, Ohio & Kentucky
- West Virginia ranked least healthy state in America
- The West Virginia Behavioral Healthcare Providers Association appoints new CEO
- Investment needed to grow West Virginia’s health care professions
- 1 patient injured in equipment malfunction at West Virginia facility
- Marshall Health Network offers telehealth service
WISCONSIN
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- 4 health systems outsourcing RCM functions
- Duluth-based Essentia Health ends merger talks with Marshfield Clinic
- Froedtert Hospital to build 9-story patient tower at Wauwatosa campus
- Home Health Agency Agrees To Pay $10 Million In Fraud Case
- New CEOs and new deals among 5 Milwaukee-area health care stories to watch in 2024
- ‘We exceeded our budget expectations’: Wisconsin health system CFO on 2023 fiscal year
- Wisconsin health care costs at core of battle between business lobby WMC and hospital group WHA
- COVID-19 cases rise in Wisconsin as new variant spreads
- Wisconsin bill seeks to regulate pharmacy benefit managers
- Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin workers file for union election
- Wisconsin lawmakers look to rename VA medical center
WYOMING
