NATIONAL
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- AHA, others urge Supreme Court to review challenge to HHS interpretation of DSH formula
- AHA: Anti-hospital Group Misleads on Site-neutral Impact on Rural Access to Care
- AHA: New Error-Ridden 340B Study Misses the Mark
- Amazon to lay off hundreds in healthcare division
- At inaugural food-as-medicine summit, HHS announces partnerships to bolster the movement
- Cigna’s Medicare sale ‘clears path’ for M&A
- Healthcare CFOs explore M&A, automation and service line cuts in 2024
- Hospital groups push for Supreme Court to review DSH formula
- How a Stark law interpretation could be harming independent physicians
- Joint Commission CEO talks about new sustainability program for hospitals
- Positive financial finish for hospitals and health systems in 2023, though challenges loom
- Rural providers optimistic about financial stability, plan to expand services, Wipfli survey finds
- Senators seek stakeholder feedback on draft 340B legislation
- Survey shows violence against health care workers rose in 2023
- US has named 100+ counties as physician shortage areas for 40+ years
- Why Are Hospitals Fighting Site-Neutral Payments So Fervently?
- What Amazon’s layoffs mean for One Medical, pharmacy division
ALABAMA
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- Birmingham medical office building secures $37M in refinancing
- Alabama health agencies say they’re seeing increased need, staffing shortages
- US judge says Blue Cross must face Alabama health providers’ price-fixing claims
- East Alabama Health holds Groundbreaking Ceremony for new Mental Health Center
ALASKA
ARIZONA
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- BCBS Arizona, Dignity Health split
- Community Health Development Partners to open $20M Arizona ASC
- Arizona ranks among top five states coping with nursing shortages
- Northern Arizona Healthcare’s CEO David Cheney talks hiring auxiliaries, new hospital and Flagstaff’s proposition 480
- Arizona Burn Center prepares for major expansion
- Multiple failures at Goodyear rehab facility after nurse assistant accused of rape, docs say
- Children’s medical confidentiality would be eliminated under GOP proposal
- Lawsuit alleges medical mistake at AZ imaging center caused overdose
- Tuba City Regional Healthcare to break ground on new Bodaway Gap healthcare facility
- AI helps turn radiology reports around 82% faster at one outpatient imaging site
- AJ Thomas of Corgan: Face Time – HCD Magazine
- Medical tents at WM Phoenix Open to keep patients out of hospitals
- JLL sells medical building portfolio for $86 million
ARKANSAS
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- Baptist Health Names New VP & Chief Medical Officer
- UAMS Reaches $30M Fundraising Goal for Cancer Institute
- Central Arkansas hospitals seeing spike in flu and ER patients
- How Doulas Could Help Address Arkansas’s Maternal Health Crisis
- UAMS, Ujima Maternity Network conduct doula training in efforts to reduce Arkansas’ high maternal mortality rate
- $7 million to be invested for projects in Northeast Arkansas
CALIFORNIA
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- Apollo Medical Gets a New Name
- California hospital sale called off
- California hospital to cut services, lay off staff
- California hospital to pay $2M to settle overbilling allegations
- Cedars-Sinai anesthesiologists unionize
- CommonSpirit, UCSF Health hospital deal moves forward
- Dignity Health Sequoia Hospital donates to 7 local nonprofits to address public health issues
- Exclusive: UCSF to pay $100 million to acquire two struggling S.F. hospitals
- Mahmee Signs Deal With Local Hospital
- Physician fined $25K for supervising NP who called herself ‘doctor’
- Prospect Medical Holdings gets strict deadline for Crozer Health sale
- Sutter Health facility in Folsom to begin construction 2024
- Tenet Healthcare shares M&A updates, projects above-guidance 2023 earnings
- UCSF Health to buy Saint Francis, St. Mary’s hospitals in $100M deal
- University of California reaches $975M deal to buy 4 hospitals from Tenet
- University of the Pacific doubles size of physician assistant program with new building in Oak Park
- How a new California agency aims to cap your health care costs
- California health care workers won a path to $25 minimum wage. Now they fear a detour
COLORADO
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- Colorado hospitals’ profits plunged roughly 90% in 2022
- Denver Health and DPS to bring mobile health clinics to 4 schools
- Denver health care company merges, stretches reach to 2.5M patients
- Having a heart for the community: Lutheran Medical Center provides lifesaving medical equipment to nonprofits
- Intermountain Health and Elevation Community Land Trust launch $2M initiative to bolster affordable housing in Colorado
- Intermountain hospital names chief medical officer
- Meet the 24-year-old running a Colorado hospital
- Platte Valley Hospital pilots program to reduce length of stay, readmission rates
- Rural hospitals caught in aging-facility dilemma
- Sharon Hospital maternity services must stay open, state rules
- State asks Colorado hospitals to moderate their prices despite a dire 2022
- What can Colorado hospitals expect from state policymakers this year?
- Colorado’s health care sector faces regulatory, financial strains, study says
- UCHealth: Another Colorado hospital under stress from migrant care
CONNECTICUT
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- Connecticut will be first state to cancel medical debt for all eligible residents
- Hospital industry advocates want CT lawmakers to confront rising costs
- Johnson Memorial Hospital proposes $17M upgrade to surgery center
- Johnson Memorial Hospital seeks to turn Enfield surgery center into outpatient facility
- Johnson Memorial Hospital eyes $17.8M Enfield surgical center, to be partially owned by physicians
- Lamont proposes broad bill to address elder care reform in CT
- Rural CT town celebrates win on hospital birthing unit but fears future cuts to services
- Sharon Hospital maternity services must stay open, state rules
- State Supreme Court to hear tax case involving Backus Hospital, Town of Stonington
- What Lamont’s budget proposal would mean for health care in CT
- Hartford HealthCare taps former Mass General Brigham exec as chief people officer
- Connecticut denies Nuvance bid to close hospital’s labor and delivery unit
- A look at Lamont’s proposed CT nursing home, elder care reforms
D.C.
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
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- 1st Baptist Health, Compass Surgical ASC to open in Jacksonville
- AdventHealth, Orlando Health among systems with 11 freestanding ERs in the works
- Bethesda Hospital could sell 30-acre Boynton Beach site to developer
- Brooks Rehabilitation announces Bartram campus expansion
- Cano Health files for bankruptcy
- Florida sues HHS over CHIP eligibility requirements
- Moffitt led the state in NCI funding in 2023
- Orlando Health operating profit up 14% to $491M
- Orlando Health plans new corporate office tower in SoDo neighborhood
- RPM reduces 30-day readmission rates by 50% at Lee Health
- Shareholders of bankrupt health care firm to vote on $180 million sale
- Tampa area VA hospital ranks near the top of helping homeless veterans find permanent housing
- The Viewfinder: Memorial Cancer Institute opens in Broward County
- State investigating HCA surgery shutdown
- Florida ranks low for dental health, high in overall healthcare
- HCA Florida Ocala Hospital opens new emergency room
GEORGIA
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- Atlanta Women’s Health Group notifying patients of April 2023 data breach
- Atlanta’s health care system is strained by major hospital’s closing, doctors and patients say
- First Lady Jill Biden puts Morehouse School of Medicine on national stage
- Georgia sues federal government over Medicaid work program
- Georgia system CEO to retire
- Hospital regulation bill could clear path for Medicaid expansion
- New state-of-the-art NICU opens at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital
- Northeast Georgia Health System CEO to retire, oversaw ‘tremendous growth’
- PruittHealth buys Buckhead assisted living facility in latest Atlanta expansion
- Infant’s decapitation during delivery at Southern Regional Medical Center ruled a homicide
HAWAII
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- Big Island Now poll: What are the top healthcare needs on Hawai‘i Island?
- New hospital, medical campus project in Puna moving forward
- UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Hawaii aims to improve health, expand access to care
- State psychiatric hospital overcrowded with patients who don’t have medical needs
- Oʻahu’s new crisis center offers insight to gauge next steps in mental health legislation
IDAHO
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- After wide opposition, Idaho bill that would likely repeal Medicaid expansion held in committee
- Bill limiting Idaho health districts advances
- Idaho bill to re-establish maternal death review panel advances to House floor
- Hospital mulls four bids for expansion
- Official: Idaho should consider withdrawing from Health Data Exchange
- Idaho would have holds process for neurological patients under a new bill
- Idaho’s COVID data set for disruption after state lawmakers reject millions in federal aid
ILLINOIS
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- A Chicago children’s hospital has taken its networks offline after a cyberattack
- After extracting $85M from imaging provider and its CEO, DOJ targets former chief financial officer
- Arbitration order ruled invalid in COVID wrongful death case. That could be trouble for nursing homes: legal experts
- Cardiology company president accused of Stark law, kickback violations
- Central Illinois nursing home company faces foreclosure on 17 properties
- CommonSpirit, UCSF Health hospital deal moves forward
- ‘Cybersecurity matter’ forces Lurie Children’s Hospital to take communications, MyChart offline
- Illinois hospital extends CEO’s suspension
- Illinois hospital loses trauma center designation
- Intermountain taps market president from CommonSpirit
- Lurie Children’s Hospital network outages enter 4th day
- Nurses at Ascension Saint Joseph go on third strike within a year
- OSF HealthCare expanding women’s health care in Urbana, Forsyth and Lincoln
- Ransomware gang gives hospital 2 days to pay $900K
- Rush lays off admin, leadership staff
- The senior living trend we’re not hearing enough about
- University of Chicago Medical Center lays off 180 employees
- Waukegan hospital loses trauma center designation: ‘lives will be lost’
INDIANA
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- Cameron Memorial Community Hospital adding gastrointestinal services
- Denver health care company merges, stretches reach to 2.5M patients
- Lilly reports $2B profit in Q4 fueled by diabetes, weight loss drugs
- New Indiana partnership focuses on reducing health care costs, improving workforce health
- Orthopedic clinic planned at long-rumored hospital spot
- ‘People want a second option’ | Union Health & TH Regional merger concerns
- Surgical center coming to Munster
- Elevance Health named top 10 company for public issue response
- Study: Indiana and Kentucky score low on mental health rankings
IOWA
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- Eastern Iowa nursing home cited for death and physical abuse
- Iowa system leaves out orthopedic contracts in new Mercy deal
- Mercy cancels employees’ 401(k) plans, future of pension fund also uncertain
- Steindler Orthopedics’ year of ups and downs: A timeline
- University of Iowa settles baby delivery lawsuit for $2M
- Iowa nurses sanctioned for drug theft, fraud and being drunk on the job
- Mercy virtual care model expands to 5th location
- Bill would cap payments from nursing homes and hospitals to temp agencies
- Nursing home administrator accused of failing to prevent abuse
KANSAS
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- As another rural Kansas clinic shutters, Kelly renews call for Medicaid expansion
- Kansas maternity centers could buy state insurance under new proposal
- Pressures to merge are high for KC-area hospitals, experts say
- Kansas hospital seeks 1% sales tax spike to tackle financial struggles
- AdventHealth Shawnee Mission new CEO comes from system’s Overland Park operation
- Eureka the latest rural Kansas community to lose health clinic
KENTUCKY
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- Bill to let Kentucky pharmacists give vaccines to children 5 years and older advances
- CHI Saint Joseph Health – Cancer Care earns CoC accreditation
- Park DuValle Community Health Center names new COO
- Pediatric & Adolescent Associates joins Lexington Clinic
- St.E.’s Dr. Doug Flora sees ‘good and bad’ in latest cancer data; good is fewer deaths, earlier treatments
- Study: Indiana and Kentucky score low on mental health rankings
- University of Louisville details plans for Downtown health sciences campus
- Westmoreland Pharmacy + Compounding consolidating into New Albany location
- Why Kentucky is the worst place for physicians to retire
- With federal funding set to expire, advocates say more Kentuckians rely on community health centers
- Kentucky House advances two preventive, diagnostic health bills
- Kentucky Primary Care Association receives over $5M for mobile health clinics
LOUISIANA
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- Louisiana hospital taps executives for dual roles
- Here’s how Jeff Landry sees the $2.5 billion sale of Blue Cross Louisiana to Elevance
- Elevance, Blue Cross of Louisiana acquisition bid awaits approval
- Lawmakers seek answers from Blue Cross over controversial proposed sale
- New mental health program offered in north La.
- UMC nurses’ union will push for lower patient loads in contract negotiations, a first in Louisiana
- Children’s Hospital Opens Pediatric Therapy Clinic in Covington
- Largest cancer care organization in state expands into north and central Louisiana
- Orleans Community Health workers ratify new 3-year contract
MAINE
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- Maine tax increase for York Hospital could be ‘death knell,’ local leaders warn
- Maine’s highest court hears arguments on vaccine mandates for EMTs
- Northern Light Health says patient records are safe after weekend cyberattack
- MaineCare proposal aims to level the playing field for hospital reimbursement
- Amid ‘unwinding,’ some Mainers say they’re being made to jump through hoops to keep MaineCare
- Bangor’s top public health official to retire after decade of service
MARYLAND
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- Local cancer therapy company shedding Gaithersburg office
- New Aberdeen medical center opens, Harford Memorial Hospital closes
- Pharmaceutical giant doubles down on Montgomery County with $300M investment
- Harford Memorial Hospital officially closes its doors tomorrow after 112 years
- As Md. considers medical aid in dying, here’s how it’s playing out in D.C.
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Boston biotech loses Novartis drug license agreement for nonpayment
- Eisai’s U.S. CEO hired to lead Cambridge cancer biotech
- Former hospital president wins defamation, retaliation suit brought by nurses
- Hospital backlogs push parts of care system into ‘high risk’
- Mass General Brigham may return doctors to Holy Family after supplies restocked
- Mass General physicians consider return to Steward
- One year after devastating fire, Brockton Hospital is still working to reopen
- Shares of Fractyl Health fall 14% in first day of trading after first Mass. IPO of 2024
- Steward Health Says They Have Enough Money To Keep Mass. Hospitals Open
- Steward puts financial Band-Aid on Massachusetts hospitals
- Vertex plans more launches following 11% jump in product sales
- With one hospital down and Steward reeling, Brockton and nearby towns can’t afford to lose hospital beds
- Massachusetts General expands clinician leadership program
- Health systems at ‘high risk’ in healthcare’s darling state
- Massachusetts hospitals experiencing capacity crunch
- How Mass General Brigham is using augmented reality to train its nurses
- Former Blue Cross CEO joins new board of behavioral health company
- Mass. receives $8M following settlement with pharmaceutical companies
- Property records shine light on Steward finances
- Major swaths of state’s healthcare system considered high risk due to patient backlog
MICHIGAN
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- Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital to open specialized unit combining medical, mental care
- NLRB claims Trinity Health Grand Haven violated workers’ union rights
- Private equity investment boosts Southwest Michigan medical device acquirer
- Doctor weighs in on women outliving men, Michigan’s health ranking
- Patient steals ambulance from Michigan hospital, flees from police
- From social workers on the force to crisis centers, Michigan is improving behavioral health care
- Trinity Health Muskegon adds virtual nurses to patient rooms
- Hamilton Community Health receives nearly $2 million in funding for healthcare expansion in Michigan
MINNESOTA
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- 2,000 Allina employees will move to Optum in outsourcing deal
- Medica lays off 162 workers
- Medical Alley brings in executives from Fairview, Medtronic, Mayo and GE Healthcare
- Minnesota hospital imports new rooms, eases strain on emergency department
- Minnesota hospitals lose $487M to discharge delays: Report
- Minnesotans can buy insulin for just $35 a month over the next 5 years under a state settlement with Eli Lilly
- MSPBJ Health Care Update: Executives talk labor costs, industry challenges
- New board of Minnesota nurses union replaces leadership in major shake-up
- North Memorial Health names Trevor Sawallish as CEO
- Nurses union proposes cap on nonprofit hospital CEO pay in its ‘Healing Greed Agenda’
- Partners tackle women’s homelessness with new medical, mental health care pilot
- UnitedHealth Group Chief Operating Officer Dirk McMahon to retire
- Why Allina Health outsourced IT to Optum
- Optum backs $70M funding round for AI company
- Mayo Clinic seeks $231K AI role
- Minnesota nurses’ union proposes cap on hospital CEO pay
- What growth looks like for Optum — and how ASCs fit in
- C-level UnitedHealth exec retiring after 20+ years
- How midwives are filling the void as rural Minnesota birthing centers close
- Mayo Clinic Health System will stop delivering babies at its New Prague hospital
- New Minnesota heart treatment procedure being used
- Optum’s unprecedented growth in 5 numbers
MISSISSIPPI
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- Court orders attorney to pay nursing home legal fees in ‘frivolous’ False Claims case
- Cyber Attack on Mississippi Hospitals Jeopardizes Patient Info
- Mississippi hospitals received more than $658M in Medicaid funding last month: How much did local hospitals benefit?
- Mississippi’s oral health among worst in US
- House Democrats unveil Mississippi’s first major Medicaid expansion plan
- Lawsuits filed against Singing River Health System in 2023 cyberattack
- Merit Health Natchez CEO: Additional Medicaid payments will ‘go a long way’
MISSOURI
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- FDA denies approval for St. Louis firm’s lead drug candidate
- Leader to exit Planned Parenthood in St. Louis
- Missouri could start licensing naturopathic doctors under new Republican bill
- Missouri physician pleads guilty in $1.4M fraud scheme
- Newly filed legislation in Missouri aims to address workplace violence in health care
- Pressures to merge are high for KC-area hospitals, experts say
- SSM Health to buy home health business
- St. Louis health system expands home health business with acquisition
- Missouri health system CEO to retire
- Truman Medical Center guard shot at hospital, suspected shooter in custody
- Missouri hospital ousts 2nd CEO in 2 years
- Proposal in the Missouri Legislature would allow medical providers to use any platform for telehealth service
- Why Kansas City hospitals feel pressure to merge
- Missouri bill would allow workers to decline restraining violent patients
- Kansas, Missouri lawmakers question if KU Health-Liberty Hospital deal is legal
- Report reveals the struggles of Missouri’s rural hospitals and the impact on patients
- Missouri mental health workers facing trauma, lawmakers told
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
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- ‘We need help’: Struggling Nebraska hospital workers support bill that provides support to medical system
- Medline, Children’s Nebraska broaden partnership
- Struggling Nebraska hospital workers support LB 1087
- Nebraska’s colonoscopy coverage bill advances
- New bill aims to ease Nebraska hospitals financial issues
- Nebraska bill would allow parents to refuse newborn health screenings
- Healthcare workers decide plan on mental health strategy during Omaha meeting
- Suffering in Silence: how Nebraska is tackling behavioral health staffing shortages
- Jacobson calls health care bill a win-win-win for Nebraska
- Former Lexington Regional employee files lawsuit against hospital, CEO
NEVADA
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- Did residents at Boulder City veterans home die because of COVID-19 testing lapse?
- Nevada state senator files suit to scuttle public health care option
- Las Vegas area flu deaths at 49 after monthlong surge in hospitalizations
- Nevada to receive over $4 million as part of Publicis opioid lawsuit settlement
- Prevention tops Nevada group’s recommendations to stop drug abuse
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- New Hampshire Hospital workers testify on gun bill inspired by fatal shooting
- Conifer, Dartmouth Health strike new deal
- Bill targets gender-affirming surgeries NH hospitals say aren’t happening
- Portsmouth Regional Hospital and St. Ann Rehabilitation awarded: Seacoast health news
- Bill aims to free up mental health beds, end ER waits by increasing housing
NEW JERSEY
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- RWJBarnabas Health Honored by Newsweek as “America’s Greatest Workplace for Diversity” for Second Consecutive Year
- Virtua Health establishes advanced heart failure center in Camden
- Will more transparency lower cost of NJ hospital care?
- NJ’s syphilis infection rate nearly doubled in 4 years
- Dr. George Raptis Named Director of Oncology Services at Rutgers CINJ
- NJ: Not enough primary care doctors or Medicaid reimbursement
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- A Tale of Two Hospitals in New York City
- HHS settles cybersecurity investigation with Montefiore Medical Center
- Hospital pays $801,000 to settle allegations radiology practices billed for ‘shoddy’ imaging services
- Lawsuit claims Mount Sinai cut services to sell real estate
- Mount Sinai partners with Estée Lauder’s Clinique for dermatology center
- New York hospital system joins Guthrie
- Northwell completes $560M surgical pavilion
- Why Northwell never bought into the ‘Great Resignation’
- New surgical tower enhances healthcare services of a Long Island, N.Y., hospital
- NYU Langone, UCLA receive $13M grant for diabetes equity hub
- Panic erupts over likely closure of only state-run hospital in NYC: ‘They’ve got to save this place’
- Powerful healthcare union benefitted from provision slipped into last year’s NY state budget — home health worker agencies beg Hochul to undo it
- Samaritan Medical acquires Cardiology Associates of Northern New York
- Southern Tier nursing homes call for NY funding boost
- The fates of 2 NYU Langone physicians suspended for social media posts
- In Yaphank, a new urgent care opens
- New health center opens at Malone hospital campus
- NY lawmakers, health advocates push for Medicaid funding
- Doctors, health leaders hold final day of rally for better pay in NYC Health + Hospitals system
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Carolinas will test new hospital rules
- Cone will use $1.2M grant to improve health in Rockingham County, East Greensboro
- Digital health company in Raleigh to hire dozens coming off $5M raise
- Gene therapy firm eyes growth in Morrisville amid clinical trial push
- How Triangle cardiologists are employing AI as a ‘decision-enhancer’ to improve mortality rates
- LendingTree CEO Doug Lebda gifts $500K to Atrium Health to expand virtual care to Rutherford County Schools
- Mission Health at risk of lost Medicare agreement after state agency conducts survey
- Mission Hospital must submit a plan to fix deficiencies by Tuesday, CMS letter states
- Novant makes $2.4B splash in coastal South Carolina
- What the closing of Novant Health’s $2.4 billion deal means for the health system
- CDC investigating ‘unusual cancer cluster’ at prestigious North Carolina hospital lab after 12 employees are diagnosed
- North Carolina doesn’t have a free-standing children’s hospital. Here’s why it matters
- Forbes Advisor ranks North Carolina third worst for healthcare
- North Carolina healthcare company is connecting patients and caregivers through AI Art Therapy
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- Academic partnerships remain key driver in recruitment for healthcare sector
- As stock hits all-time high, Cardinal Health raises FY24 profit projections
- Bon Secours, Compass Surgical ASC opens in Ohio
- Cincinnati’s Center for Addiction Treatment launches new outpatient programs, including a first of its kind for the region
- Co-founder departs Forge Biologics after gene therapy startup’s acquisition
- Dayton region health care systems are dipping further into AI
- Diasome Pharmaceuticals could tap $100 billion market for obesity drugs
- Health care recruitment efforts include career pathways, more applied research dollars
- Health Collaborative announces promotion of two top executives
- Joint venture surgery center opens in Dayton area, more on the way
- Local insurance group makes $1M donation to St. Elizabeth Healthcare
- Mount Carmel adding ER to New Albany hospital for first time
- New pharmacy under construction at a local hospital; see details
- Nursing shortage continues to raise concern for health care industry
- St. Elizabeth Healthcare announces new COO and chief clinical officer
- Strong partnerships, support essential to retain top healthcare providers
- Summa Health fields concerns over General Catalyst acquisition
- University Hospitals CFO transition complete
- Ohio backs off proposed restrictions on gender-affirming care for adults
OKLAHOMA
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- Ascension St. John has new interactive training system for security officers
- Lawmakers Seek Changes to Mental Health Law
- Hospice Circle of Love rated as a five-star hospice
- Oklahoma sends a growing number of kids with complex needs out of state for treatment
- McAlester cancer patients share concerns after hospital declines to renew contract with Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute
OREGON
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- Another Oregon hospital system clashes with Regence BlueCross BlueShield
- Healthcare worker shortage in Portland metro challenges industry growth
- How health providers are conquering cardiac care in Oregon
- Legacy Health will end its contract with Regence BlueCross BlueShield on March 31, health care provider says
- Nurses accuse PeaceHealth of strike retaliation
- Oregon needs $500M to add 3,000 more behavioral health beds, report finds
- Oregon lawmakers’ health care priorities for 2024 session
- Oregon Legislature’s 2024 session looks packed with health care
- Oregon Health Authority releases report detailing lack of behavioral health treatment beds
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Another 128 workers at Temple’s Jeanes Hospital vote to unionize
- Crozer sues over withdrawal of surgery residency accreditation
- Dr. Cheryl Bettigole to step down as Philadelphia health commissioner
- Highmark Health, AHN expand social determinants of health program
- How did patients rate Philly-area hospitals from 1 to 10? Check your local hospital.
- Main Line dermatologist raises $4.3M for launch of skincare line
- Meet the music therapist helping ICU nurses at Philadelphia’s Jefferson Hospital
- Penn Health System CEO Kevin Mahoney warns hospitals are at an ‘inflection point’ in fight for survival
- Penn Health System seeks 60 acres in Chester County under plan to reimagine care for veterans
- Pennsylvania system to pay $11.7M after voluntarily disclosing improper Medicare billings
- Philadelphia business leaders address the life science industry
- Prospect Medical Holdings agrees to sell Crozer Health to a nonprofit
- Prospect Medical Holdings gets strict deadline for Crozer Health sale
- Shapiro’s budget proposal includes $4 million for medical debt relief
- UPMC International President Chuck Bogosta to retire
- Pa. increases access to doulas to help close maternal disparity gaps
- PA hospital vacancy rates top 10% for many key positions, report shows
- Growing mental health concerns lead to new legislation proposal by Pennsylvania lawmakers
RHODE ISLAND
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- CVS prepares for Medicare Advantage headwinds in 2024
- Lifespan taps Yale-New Haven talent for new chief physician role
- RI gets $1.56M in settlement with PR firm that helped Purdue market opioids
- RI’s Virgin Pulse, following M&A, is now called ‘Personify Health’
- Providence Approves First State-sanctioned Safe Injection Site in Rhode Island
- TOCCI Selected by the State of Rhode Island for Eleanor Slater Hospital Project
- Nation’s first state-regulated overdose prevention center to open in R.I. this summer
- R.I. third-best state for health care, Forbes Advisor finds
- CVS Health beats Q4 expectations, but trims annual outlook as costs rise
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- $2.4B deal buys 3 South Carolina hospitals, including Mount Pleasant facility
- A month in, Prisma vs. UnitedHealthcare standoff leaves 58k essentially without coverage
- Carolinas will test new hospital rules
- East Cooper Medical sale finalized
- Novant makes $2.4B splash in coastal South Carolina
- OneOncology purchases two radiation oncology centers in South Carolina
- Pandemic-fueled changes allowing virtual health care to flourish across SC and US
- Roper St. Francis marks largest gift ever with new Charleston projects
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- Bill Rutherford to retire as CFO of HCA Healthcare
- HCA continues to target ASCs in 2024
- HCA Healthcare’s revenue jumps nearly 8% in 2023. Here’s what CEO Sam Hazen has planned this year.
- HCA Healthcare CEO Sam Hazen talks AI during Nashville Health Care Council event
- HCA Healthcare names Chad Wasserman as chief information officer, Marty Paslick to retire
- Lawsuit says Tennessee hospital shouldn’t have discharged woman who died, police should have helped
- New efforts underway to address major shortage of health care workers in Tennessee
- OneOncology purchases two radiation oncology centers in South Carolina
- Tennessee man, 5 former hospital workers sentenced in conspiracy to sell patient information
- The Boss: Why full-speed is Jillian Wright’s default
- In Tennessee, here’s how your background could impact your health
- Bill seeks to repeal Tennessee law that allowed Ballad Health to form
TEXAS
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- Beaumont is getting a new $40M cancer center at Baptist Hospital
- Children’s Health, UT Southwestern planning new $5B pediatric campus in Dallas
- Dallas Firm Acquires DFW Healthcare Property
- DFW Hospital Building New ICU Unit
- H-E-B and Valero to put big money behind Texas Biomed expansion and education plans
- Methodist Health System wins national patient experience award
- New outpatient lab opens in Abilene’s Cedar Mall
- Physician-owned hospital to close campus
- Steward Health Says They Have Enough Money To Keep Mass. Hospitals Open
- Steward puts financial Band-Aid on Massachusetts hospitals
- Tenet’s sell-off strategy
- Texas Children’s CEO on the importance of strong leadership through challenges
- Texas Children’s unveils $485M hospital
- The Woodlands Community Hospital launched decades of regional health care
- University of California reaches $975M deal to buy 4 hospitals from Tenet
- South Texas Health System creates new medical program for physicians
- ‘A house of cards’: What’s going on with Steward’s finances?
- Memorial Hermann inches closer to Epic install
- 3 recent Tenet executive changes
- The Tenet, HCA & Optum deals shifting the ASC industry in 2024
- Tenet sees $1.3B net income in 2023: 7 details
UTAH
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- Doctors speak about benefits of robotic surgery, as the first single-port robot is used in Utah
- Intermountain taps market president from CommonSpirit
- New Primary Children’s Hospital days away from opening in Lehi
- Utah lawmakers reject proposal to expand health coverage to more pregnant women
- Proposal to sell state psychiatric hospital dropped
- Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital Lehi opens this month
VERMONT
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- UVM Health Network plans to install state-of-the-art machines for radiation cancer therapy
- Vermont ACO model ties payer and provider payment to quality of care
- Survey shows violence against health care workers rose in 2023
- Advocates say health care price reforms could save Vermont millions
- Linking reimbursement to quality of care in Vermont
- CMS’ alternative payment model in Vermont
VIRGINIA
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- Government says Walgreens violated False Claims Act
- Most of Virginia’s rural hospitals don’t offer labor and delivery services
- Health insurance costs in Virginia are skyrocketing.
- Virginia to receive part of $350 million settlement with health firm marketing opioids
- Nursing shortage hitting southwest Virginia, local university hopes to provide relief
- Chippenham Hospital receives highest level as burn treatment center
WASHINGTON
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- Another state moves to restrict noncompetes
- Hospital executives rethink office space, staffing to offset losses
- Many WA hospital patients will share $158 million in refunds and debt forgiveness
- Providence agrees to $158M of refunds, debt erasure to settle charity care billing investigation
- Washington state experiencing 1st known outbreak of potentially deadly fungus: Health officials
- Washington will make free COVID and flu tests available in new vending machines
WEST VIRGINIA
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- WV Legislature punts professional midwife licensure
- West Virginia Senate committee passes bill expanding powers of health oversight commission
- WVU Medicine Children’s Partners with Valley Health to Extend Pediatric Heart Care in Southern West Virginia
- $50 Million Transformation of Historic Prichard Hotel Into Senior Health Center and Affordable Housing Begins in West Virginia
WISCONSIN
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- Dr. David Margolis promoted to top pediatrician roles at Children’s, MCW
- HSHS, Prevea respond to City Attorney’s letter
- A 30-year CFO’s secrets to a long career
- 2 hospitals, 19 clinics in western Wisconsin set to close this spring
- Combination of ills keeps health care in Wisconsin on the watch list
- Local physician network hopes to buy western Wisconsin hospitals, clinics to prevent closures
- Wisconsin hospital closures leave communities scrambling
- What to know about Gov. Evers’ task force to address challenges in Wisconsin’s health care system
- Gov. Evers discusses layoffs, health care access in western Wisconsin ahead of regional closures
- A bill to give some nurses greater autonomy appears destined for a veto. What happened?
WYOMING
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- Hospital: Doctor can prescribe abortion meds, at least for now
- Intermountain taps market president from CommonSpirit
- Medicare scams reported across state
- Governor Gordon announces roadmap to improve mental health care in Wyoming
- Agenda 2024: Access to preventative care is key to fixing Wyoming’s health system
- This Will Be The 12th Year Cale Case Will Try To Pass Medicaid Expansion For Wyoming
- Abortion access returns to Jackson — for now
