NATIONAL
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- 34.5% of hospitals complying with price transparency rule, report says
- 19 health systems that partner with Amazon’s One Medical
- AHA Expresses Concerns with UHG Program in Response to Cyberattack on Change Healthcare
- As Medicare price negotiations roll on, drugmakers counter HHS’ initial offers
- At HIMSS24, perspective on safeguarding ePHI and restricting unauthorized access
- CDC says new COVID-19 shot slated for fall: 5 updates
- CDC drops 5-day COVID-19 isolation guidance
- Change Healthcare offers funding program, prescribing workaround after cyberattack: 7 updates
- CMS offers relief to providers affected by Change Healthcare outage
- Congress floats Medicare physician pay bump: 4 notes
- DSH cut delay, doctor pay fix, health center funding bill passes House
- Feds probe private equity-backed healthcare deals
- Health-care hack spreads pain across hospitals and doctors nationwide
- Hospital staff experience workplace aggression every 40 hours
- Health system leaders join Microsoft-backed nonprofit
- Hospitals, health centers, doctors get relief in funding deal
- How hospitals are fighting to keep their former doctors from seeing patients
- Judge rejects AstraZeneca’s challenge to Medicare drug price negotiations
- Lawsuits start rolling in over Change Healthcare hack
- Merger, acquisition activity lags across healthcare
- More physicians are employed by private equity, study shows
- More than half of rural hospitals no longer deliver babies
- Nursing homes limiting admissions amid staffing shortage: AHCA
- Operating in the Red: Half of Rural Hospitals Lose Money, as Many Cut Services
- Outpatient surgery heads to the mall
- Patients or payroll? US healthcare hack creates hard choices
- PE-backed physician groups grew 600% in a decade
- Providers losing $100M daily over Change Healthcare hack: Report
- Thousands of Nursing Home Leaders Pen Letter to Congress, Again Urging Rejection of Federal Staffing Proposal
- Two major pharmacies plan to start dispensing abortion pills
- Two weeks and counting: How Change outage is hurting finances
- White House task force to scrutinize healthcare costs
ALABAMA
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- ‘Absolutely a crisis’: Huntsville Hospital Health System’s role in keeping rural North Alabama hospitals open
- Grandview starting expansion project, including emergency department
- Miniaturization in health care: One local physician says landscape is changing
- Robins & Morton tops out new medical office building for Rheumatology Associates of North Alabama
- Sports health care company names new CEO
- Two Alabama fertility clinics say they will resume IVF services after bill to protect doctors passes
- Absence of AI hospital rules worries nurses
- Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs legislation protecting IVF providers from legal liability into law
ALASKA
ARIZONA
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- Abrazo Health celebrates start of construction
- New bill pushes for standards, training at Arizona memory care facilities
- Tucson Medical Center’s newest hospital on the southeast side is now complete
- The state canceling $2B in medical debt
- Arizona’s health department has named the first statewide heat officer to address extreme heat
- Demand for these healthcare jobs in Arizona
- Arizona Dept. of Health Services announces first-ever chief heat officer
- Valley exec on track to raise $2B for pediatric health system
- Gov. Hobbs partners with nonprofit to eliminate $2 billion in Arizonans’ medical debt
- Valleywise Health replenishing mental health care capacity after staffing setback
- Prescott nursing home where employees worked while sick with COVID settles wrongful death lawsuits
ARKANSAS
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- County hospital signs long-term agreement with health system
- Fulton County Hospital to Join Baxter Health
- UAMS to Establish Institute for Community Health Innovation
- St. Bernards ends talks with United Healthcare
- Brandi Stewart Named Chief Nurse for Baptist Health in Fort Smith, Van Buren
- A closer look at Arkansas Children’s Hospital expansion
CALIFORNIA
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- Adventist Health to buy Tenet Healthcare’s Central Coast hospitals for $550 million
- California nurses use billboard to voice opposition to hospital sale
- California system approves ‘novel’ leadership structure
- Desert Healthcare District CEO on Desert Regional: ‘The board prefers a 30-year lease’
- Hammes Completes Silicon Valley Surgery Center In Campbell, California
- Health care systems feel the costs of building for tomorrow while meeting the demand of today
- How Kaiser’s national expansion plan may take shape
- Kaiser, Boulder Community sign network agreement
- Kaiser to cut dozens more back office jobs in the Bay Area
- LA Hospitals Ranked Among Best In World: Newsweek
- Marshall Medical Center reports $9.5 million in income for fiscal 2023
- Nurse accused of sexually assaulting patient at Kaiser Permanente Hospital
- Radiology Partners Closes $720 Million in Funding
- SCA, Palomar Health open California ASC
- Sutter Health acquires 5 radiation oncology centers
- Sutter Health buys GenesisCare’s Northern, Central California cancer centers
- Tentative construction start date set for new Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Jose
- Torrance Memorial’s succession plan ‘left nothing to chance’
- California hospitals, advocates seek stable funding to retain behavioral health navigators
- Providence names new chief community health officer for California
COLORADO
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- Ensign Acquires 3 Skilled Nursing Facilities Across Kansas, Colorado
- Healthcare real estate companies close $21B merger
- Kaiser, Boulder Community sign network agreement
- ‘We want more’: Colorado health care groups say violence prevention bill doesn’t go far enough
- Attorney General ends anesthesia monopoly in Colorado
- “Leadership failures” to blame for prosthetics scandal and other problems at Aurora VA, undersecretary says
- Federal judge weighs Children’s Hospital Colorado challenge to Defense Department payment cuts
- Medical bill lawsuits fill county courtrooms with confusion
CONNECTICUT
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- Amid pending Yale New Haven Health deal, Weymouth takes on larger role with Prospect’s struggling CT hospitals
- CT elder care bill gets mixed support from advocates, officials
- CT lawmakers unveil bill overhauling aspects of elder care sector
- CT legislators aim to curb private equity investment in health care
- DSS commissioner withdraws nursing home staffing cost estimate
- Hartford HealthCare expands into Middlesex County
- Meriden sets timeline for new senior center and health department
- What if a local hospital goes broke? CT lacks receivership authority
- Connecticut awarded $5M prejudgment remedy from defunct nursing school
- Bill to allow chambers, trade groups to pool members for health benefits gains support
- Many CT towns, cities still deciding how to spend opioid funds
D.C.
DELAWARE
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- ChristianaCare taps population health exec from Virtua
- ChristianaCare’s medical director takes the lead in fight against heart disease and stroke in Delaware
- RISE Delaware stands by state retiree healthcare recommendations but says fight is not over
- Here are Delaware’s most influential people in health in 2024
- Delaware school-based health centers face dire financial woes
FLORIDA
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- 7 ‘best and brightest’ health systems to work for
- A bill creating ‘rural emergency hospitals’ is going to the governor
- Ashley Winkle named COO of Consulate Health Care
- BayCare Medical Group names new COO
- Billionaire Ken Griffin donates $50 million to university cancer center
- Groundbreaking event for Encompass Health inpatient hospital in Fort Myers
- HCA Florida hospital fires employees in wake of surgery disruptions: Report
- HCA opens free-standing emergency department in Miami-Dade
- Keeping nurses in SWFL, New partnership with Lee Health and FGCU
- Logistics legwork: South Florida Baptist Hospital ‘mock move’ engages a cast of hundreds
- Mount Sinai Medical Center to Open New Freestanding Emergency Center in Westchester
- North Carolina company plans its first outpatient surgery center here
- Parrish Medical Center’s future up for grabs, with Fine’s bill potentially triggering sale
- Steward leader heads to Hackensack Meridian
- Steward Health Care to cut 150 South Florida jobs
- Steward’s Brevard hospitals face mounting lawsuits, court records show
- Tampa General-USF behavioral health teaching hospital approved
- Telemedicine gains popularity in SWFL
- Trinity Health hospitals file parallel lawsuits calling anesthesiology group’s noncompetes unlawful
- Troubled Gainesville hospital removes surgical vice president, gets clean checkup from state regulators
- Largo hospital nurses protest understaffing they say puts patients at risk
- Florida Hospital Association CEO describes ‘massive’ impact of Change Healthcare cyberattack
GEORGIA
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- EMS Grady to become first Atlanta paramedics to give blood transfusions in the field
- Georgia lawmakers rally to safeguard IVF treatments amid Alabama’s controversial embryo ruling
- Georgia patients struggle to find drugs they need due to shortages
- Medical Office Building Coming to Highway 140
- Cyberattack on health care system creates havoc for Georgia hospitals, delays for patients
- All 159 Georgia counties sign resolutions urging mental health reform
- Georgia Heart Institute adds new clinical staff amid upcoming relocations
- Georgia House bill would limit liability of mental health providers
HAWAII
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- Hawaii lawmakers consider bill allowing telehealth access for those seeking gender-affirming care
- UCSF Health Expands Network of Care with 2 Hawaii Hospitals
- Salesforce CEO, wife donate $150M to Hawaii hospitals to bolster healthcare access
- Hilo Medical Center to be renamed, marking Benioffs’ $50M charitable investment
- Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi residents say unreliable flights hinder access to critical health care
- Hawaii State Hospital Implements Crucial Safety Overhaul After Tragic Nurse Stabbing
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
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- 20 IL Hospitals Ranked Among The Best In The World: Report
- 4 hospitals with uncertain futures
- Attune Medical acquired by Massachusetts-based Haemonetics for $160 million
- Chicago building with medical office bought for $20M
- CommonSpirit expects $1B in cash payments by end of year
- Computers at Lurie Children’s Hospital back online Friday night
- Hacking of health care company leaves Chicago area man stuck in hospital
- Illinois physician pleads guilty to fraud
- Lurie Children’s Hospital health records, phone lines back up after cyberattack
- Oak Street Health tackling Chicago’s health equity problem
- SCA, Palomar Health open California ASC
- Should Illinois become a ‘right-to-die’ state? Lawmakers consider end-of-life option for terminally ill adults.
- Tammy Jackson is new vice president of patient care services and CNO at SSM Health
- UChicago Medicine nurses plan 1-day strike
- OSF HealthCare plans to build a new hospital in Illinois with wide range of services
- Illinois public health adopts new COVID guidelines
- These Are The Top 5 ‘Best Hospitals’ In Illinois
- Illinois Association of Medicaid Health Plans Announces the Appointment of Jill Hayden as CEO
- Statewide: When health care systems fail to report abuse
INDIANA
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- Ascension St. Vincent providing Narcan dispensing boxes in Evansville and Boonville
- Attorney General Rokita Filing Lawsuit Against Apria Healthcare for a Data Breach
- Cincinnati Children’s partners with Indiana health system
- Cincinnati Children’s expands partnership with Parkview Health, with ‘aspirations’ to build new pediatric hospital
- Community Health lands $5M gift to support housing for its Fairbanks Recovery Center
- Community Healthcare System rebranding to Powers Health
- Elevance gains $190M on revised MA star ratings
- IU Health CEO asks peers to donate to Chambers to head off industry harm
- Local hospitals scramble to deal with disruptions after major cyberattack on vendor
- Logansport Memorial Hospital to open a new pain management center in April
- New data shows state averaging 15 abortions a month under new ban
- Schneck CEO named ‘rural hospital CEO to know’
- Tampa REIT buys suburban Indianapolis medical building for $39 million
- Crown Point micro-hospital set for April opening
- Bowen Center plans to open four new clinics
- Indiana’s largest hospital system praised for lowering prices
- Notre Dame, county partner on maternal health support
- Franciscan Health, OrthoIndy Announce New Orthopedic Clinic
- HealthLinc to open Michigan City clinic
IOWA
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- ‘Dozens and dozens’ of data analytics projects drive $100M+ in savings, revenue gains for UnityPoint Health
- Melanoma vaccine trial to start at University of Iowa Health Care
- Total University of Iowa cost to buy Mercy near $40M
- UnityPoint Health – Sioux City names new VP of operations
- UI Health Care first in North America to implement new cancer-fighting software
- Report finds more than two dozen Iowa hospitals not in compliance with federal price transparency rules
- Iowa bill would cap amount travel nurse agencies can charge hospitals, nursing homes
- Former Iowa nursing home employee accused of stealing nearly $28,000 from residents
- Iowa Board of Medicine: Fired UIHC resident violated medical privacy of his romantic partners
- House bill calls for reviewing citations with all nursing home staff
- Assisted living center fined $6000 after resident dies
- Demand for these health care jobs is increasing most in Iowa
KANSAS
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- Ensign Acquires 3 Skilled Nursing Facilities Across Kansas, Colorado
- Instead of Medicaid expansion, GOP legislators try for higher reimbursement rates
- Kansas House passes abortion survey bill, rebuffs erectile dysfunction, vasectomy amendments
- Kansas could soon make doctors ask patients why they want abortions and report the answers
- Senate probes bill banning state fire marshal from recording inspection of licensed facilities
- Kansas lawmakers debate gender transition ban for minors
KENTUCKY
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- Confluent Health’s Larry Benz is our 2024 Health Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement award winner
- KDMC adds space, employees
- Kentucky measure to allow parents access to children’s medical records passes House
- Ky native new director of outpatient services for Sun Behavioral in Lexington
- Longtime CEO of Atria stepping down, successor named
- Pediatric Associates of Northern Kentucky’s Dr. Charles Cavallo warns that private practices have three major threats
- These are Louisville’s Health Care Heroes
- Senate bill would lift conditions for Ky. medical marijuana patients
- UofL Health will provide for 106th PGA Championship at Valhalla
- Maternal mortality’s effects across Kentucky
- Prospects for freestanding birth centers clouded despite committee advancing bill
LOUISIANA
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- AHA files brief defending Louisiana 340B contract pharmacy law
- Louisiana physician gets prison for tax evasion
- Louisiana health department threatens to kick Mandeville hospital out of Medicare program
- Man arrested for assaulting nurse at Shreveport nursing home on Mansfield Road
- Louisiana seeks to overturn court ruling of ‘abhorrent’ prison health care
- Allison Guste Named New CNO at UCM New Orleans
- LCMC Health names VP of middle revenue cycle
MAINE
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- Matt Hill named regional orthopedics practice manager at Pen Bay, Waldo
- Mental health funding bill draws broad support at Maine State House
- Rural Maine Nursing and Rehab Center Announces Closure
- Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital uses $1.4M gift to improve cardiology and breast health facilities
- Maine GI practice adds 2 providers, cuts colonoscopy wait time in half
- In Maine’s medical field, artificial intelligence takes on a mountain of data
MARYLAND
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- 6 MD Hospitals Ranked Among World’s Best: Newsweek
- Baltimore hospital debuts $6M outpatient heart institute
- Bridging the gap between medicine and community health
- Johns Hopkins ramps up cybersecurity amid Change Healthcare attack
- Johns Hopkins Chief Diversity Officer stepping down following controversial remarks in January
- MedStar opening new $6 million center designed to ease treatment for cardiovascular outpatients
- Two Maryland health care organizations named to Forbes’ top midsize employers list
- Maryland Senate approves legal protections for gender-affirming care
MASSACHUSETTS
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- A 2024 life sciences outlook in Boston – and beyond
- Attune Medical acquired by Massachusetts-based Haemonetics for $160 million
- Cambridge precision medicine startup brings in $145M
- East Boston Neighborhood Health Center to rebrand in June
- Hospital accreditor says St. Vincent ‘non-compliant’ with federal standards
- Local CF startup raises one of the largest VC rounds in Mass. so far this year
- Mass. hospitals first to reach health equity standards
- MGB to open walk-in sports medicine clinic at Boston Landing
- Microsoft partners with Boston biotech to build ‘drug discovery on steroids’
- Steward appoints new president to oversee Mass. hospitals
- UMass Memorial, Google Cloud partner to connect patients with cardiometabolic drugs
- U.S. agency: St. Vincent Hospital not meeting standards of safe patient care
- Boston U accelerator funds vaccine for infant sepsis
- Boston federal hearing set over for-profit companies in healthcare
- Worcester health board backs injection site pilot
- Demand for dementia care outpacing demand
- Steward Health Care’s financial crisis will be addressed in an April congressional hearing
- Lahey launches heart disease program aimed at South Asian population
- Cambridge precision medicine startup brings in $145M
MICHIGAN
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- 7 ‘best and brightest’ health systems to work for
- Ascension St. Joseph Hospital is growing orthopedic care, sports medicine
- CEO of McLaren Bay Region steps down
- Corewell Health South president retiring after more than four decades in health care
- Former Ascension Michigan COO heads to Munson
- Frustrations over staffing levels may lead ER workers at Ascension St. John to strike
- Investment returns boost Corewell Health earnings to nearly $1B in 2023
- Michigan Nurses Association files grievance against Ascension Borgess
- Nurses at Ascension Borgess Allegan ratify 3-year union contract
- State lawmakers take up bills aiming to ‘revolutionize the insulin market’
- Trinity Health hospitals file parallel lawsuits calling anesthesiology group’s noncompetes unlawful
- Michigan lawmaker introduces bill requiring state health plans to cover cutting-edge cancer treatments
- Michigan legislators push for mental-health care access
- Michigan’s top ranking hospitals, according to Newsweek survey
MINNESOTA
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- 7 ‘best and brightest’ health systems to work for
- Aspirus, St. Luke’s form 19-hospital system
- Mayo Clinic Health System announces permanent closure of 1 location
- Medical providers say UnitedHealth cyberattack fallout ‘a mess’ that threatens their financial health
- Minnesota Hospital Association CEO: Change Health hack is ‘quite a crisis’
- Twin Cities nursing home employees walk off the job, citing worker shortages, pay
- UnitedHealth paid $22M ransom for data, hacker post claims
- Minnesota bill would let nurses refuse to care for unsafe patients
- Allina plans to establish RN residency
- Essentia Health Overcomes Site Challenges To Build St. Mary’s Medical Center In Downtown Duluth, Minnesota
- Mayo’s plan to expand AI tool access in 2024
- Minnesota House Bill to Address Transparency in Hospital Unit Closures
- Minnesota health department opposes rehab hospital plan
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
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- Ascension’s chief digital officer expands role
- CareTrust REIT Acquires Three Property Skilled Nursing Portfolio in Texas and Missouri
- Family sues Mercy Hospital in Springfield, claims long wait time lead to man’s death
- Freeman opens new $10 million medical office building
- SLU Hospital nurses hold candlelight vigil for patient safety amid ‘staffing crisis’
- Ascension names new board members
- BJC posts $141.6M operating income, 2% margin
- With PACS as Partner, CareTrust Acquires 3 Skilled Nursing Facilities in Texas, Missouri for $55M
- Ascension appoints 2 C-suite leaders
- SEIU Healthcare Missouri applauds bill increasing accountability for long-term care facilities
- Missourians suffer financial, physical cost of medical debt
- CoxHealth’s international nurse fellowship 1st in US to earn accreditation
MONTANA
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- Montana judge declares 3 laws restricting abortion unconstitutional
- Operating in the Red: Half of Rural Hospitals Lose Money, as Many Cut Services
- Expanding maternal health care: Montana State announces new nurse-midwifery program
- Montana State Hospital is at ‘legally authorized capacity’
- Cyber attack continues to plague Montana pharmacies
- Missoula St. Patrick nurses launch sign campaign as contract negotiations continue
- Montana Supreme Court considers parental consent case for minors seeking abortion
NEBRASKA
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- How Nebraska Medicine is bucking nurse turnover
- Kearney Regional to break ground for 25 more patient rooms
- Scammers target Nebraska patients amid Change Healthcare attacks
- Nebraska bill nears approval to secure rural hospitals, proposes quality access measures
- Lawmakers seek extra federal funds to prevent closings of skilled nursing centers in Nebraska
- Hospital Medicaid funding increase advances to final reading
NEVADA
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- Cyberattack limiting Nevada hospitals, affecting prescriptions, billing, patient records
- Nevada hospitals impacted by cyberattack on national health care firm
- Woodside Health acquires Nevada medical center
- Struggles continue for Las Vegas home healthcare employees; some say they haven’t been paid in months
- Report tackles state’s deep-rooted health care problems
- Reno City Council advancing health equity in Northern Nevada
- Expanding healthcare services in the Las Vegas Valley
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- Cyberattack could cause delays with some Monadnock Community Hospital lab results
- Police called to Hampstead Hospital for alleged assaults over weekend
- Finding in-patient psychiatric care is especially hard for older adults
- NH Supreme Court: State violating rights of mentally ill who are boarded in emergency rooms
- With ‘virtual ER,’ Elliot Hospital hopes to cut patient wait times
- 9 doctors leaving CMC heart institute for independent practice
- Dartmouth Health names interim CEO for New London Hospital
- Cheshire Medical Center settles with state board
NEW JERSEY
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- New Jersey ASC group lobbies for improved Medicare payment policies
- RWJBarnabas Health to anchor $450M digital innovation ‘city’
- RWJBH to become Hospital Innovation Lead Partner at SciTech Scity
- State slaps Secaucus surgical center with $76K in fines, citing 14 violations
- Steward leader heads to Hackensack Meridian
- NJ’s regional health care hubs highlighted by White House
- Hackensack Meridian Health awarded nearly $1M in grants by New Jersey Health Foundation
- Six NJ hospitals rank among the world’s best
NEW MEXICO
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- Column: New Mexico health care system in dire straits, affecting health care for thousands – and future statewide growth
- Concerns about private equity ownership drove state’s hospital oversight bill
- Governor signs health care bills signed into law in Truth or Consequences
- New Mexico governor signed bills aimed at improving healthcare affordability
NEW YORK
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- 7 ‘best and brightest’ health systems to work for
- 4 hospitals with uncertain futures
- $83M on the line for New York hospital in need of new CEO
- Acquisition of Nuvance Health by Northwell Health spurs discussion
- Columbia launches $50M pediatric heart center
- FDA ruling allows NY pharmacies to sell abortion pill Mifeprestone
- Judge dismisses NYU Langone’s trademark lawsuit against Northwell
- Most NY hospitals don’t comply with federal price transparency rule, report finds
- New president named at Buffalo hospital
- Northwell, NYU expressing interest in new 90K-square-foot medical office building
- NY nursing home to pay up to $8.6M, make major reforms to resolve criminal fraud charges
- NYC Health + Hospitals expands lifestyle medicine program
- Trinity Health hospitals file parallel lawsuits calling anesthesiology group’s noncompetes unlawful
- With deficit of $23.2M, health plan reports first loss in years
- Union submits 2,500+ staffing, safety complaints against Catholic Health
- Hospital-payer standoffs frustrate patients
- Catholic Health names hospital president
- Montefiore study pokes holes in ‘Hispanic paradox’
- NY system taps exec for new C-suite role
- ‘Waste of time’: Northwell marketing chief slams NYU Langone lawsuit
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel ending stroke, cardiac services amid hospital closure plans
- 6 workers assaulted at New York hospital: Police
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Atrium Health and Army partnership provides pathway from military to health care careers
- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is halfway done with new $450 million critical care tower, will open mid-2025
- Back in black: Here’s how the Triad’s health systems fared financially in 2023
- Duke Health names new CFO
- HCA system to build freestanding ED alongside $270M hospital
- Health system expands in growing city north of Durham
- Home-run deal: Cone Health becomes exclusive health care partner for Greensboro Grasshoppers
- Locke backs New Bern eye surgeon’s fight against NC certificate-of-need restrictions
- North Carolina company plans its first outpatient surgery center here
- Novant Health grows SC presence with majority ownership in 2 Mt. Pleasant surgery centers
- Providence Anesthesiology Associates hit total joint milestone in 2023
- Sandoz tries to overturn Duke’s $39 million court victory
- Southern Regional Center in Wake County reopens its health clinic
- vTv Therapeutics’ stock doubles after raising $51 million from health care investors including fund by JDRF
- Wilmington Health Expands ACO Activity
- Syneos Health, now private, leaves Wake County jobs deal
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- Bexion Pharmaceuticals names inaugural chief medical officer
- Cincinnati Children’s expands partnership with Parkview Health, with ‘aspirations’ to build new pediatric hospital
- Cincinnati Children’s partners with Indiana health system
- Cleveland Clinic posts $911M net income in 2023 on investment, volume growth
- Dayton Children’s $110M behavioral health building hits construction milestone
- Healthcare practice experiences consistent patient growth through holistic approach
- Newsweek ranks Christ Hospital, Jewish among the world’s best in 2024
- OhioHealth hospital taps president
- Ohio University to offer nurse anesthesia program starting this fall
- ProMedica rebounds on return to hospital roots
- Venture capital firm’s plan to buy nonprofit hospital system has Ohio community on edge
- Woodside Health acquires Nevada medical center
OKLAHOMA
OREGON
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- Cyberattack at Change Healthcare leaves mental health providers in the dark
- Legacy Health, Regence take to their contract dispute directly to customers
- Oregon Health Authority’s new leader, Sejal Hathi, brings clinical experience, promises transparency
- ‘Silicon Forest’ lab gets a piece of a $25M global children’s cancer initiative grant
- Marion County must amend its lawsuit against Oregon State Hospital and OHA, judge says
- Most Oregon Hospitals Aren’t Following Federal Transparency Guidelines, Advocacy Group Finds
- Oregon bill aimed at curbing workplace violence in hospitals
PENNSYLVANIA
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- 26 PA Hospitals Ranked Among Best In World: Newsweek
- Change Healthcare cyberattack impacts Pittsburgh-region health systems
- CHOP doctor-led international research team wins $25M grant
- Crozer Health plans to covert a portion of Springfield campus into a micro-hospital site
- Geisinger appoints CEO Jaewon Ryu’s successor
- ‘Here for the long term’: Fortune 500 firm Universal Health Services executes growth mode strategy
- Highmark Health’s David Holmberg on downtown revitalization, Highmark’s growth and how an AHN officer saved Taylor Swift’s cat
- Jefferson Health awards $225K in grants to help fund employee ideas to improve health care
- Medical deportation is now unlawful in Philadelphia, but what could implementation look like?
- Penn Medicine to build cancer center in $400M project
- Pennsylvania hospital to pay $12K in overtime dispute
- Philadelphia health nonprofit lands $48.3M government contract to accelerate AI platform
- Rothman Orthopaedics’ 5-year recap: 36 big moves
- Summit inspires Pittsburgh to take lead in health care safety again through technology
- Temple Health hospital CEO steps down
- Temple Health overhauling leadership team at Chestnut Hill Hospital
- Penn Highlands Healthcare Q4 losses add to woes for Pa.’s rural hospitals
- Pennsylvania hospital signs agreement with rural healthcare collaborative
- These Are The Top 5 ‘Best Hospitals’ In Pennsylvania
- ACMH Hospital to join Pennsylvania Mountains Care Network
RHODE ISLAND
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- ‘Not credible or viable’: Union objects to 2-hospital acquisition in Providence
- Rhode Island’s health care system is sick. The State Senate has a 25-bill prescription.
- Sale of RI-based cancer centers to undergo state review
- Care New England CFO hopeful after strong Q1 despite lingering staffing, supply struggles
- Senate leaders unveil bills to improve health care access, affordability
- Leclerc nominated as director of state’s behavioral hospital agency
- Health care union opposes Centurion’s proposed purchase of CharterCARE
- Program gives 200K students in New England access to intensive care
- CNE reports $566K operating gain in Q1
- University Orthopedics opens Comprehensive Spasticity Management Clinic
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Beaufort Memorial names new board, chair
- Construction begins on 3 South Carolina medical office buildings
- Hospital at Home gives patients what they want and better outcomes to boot
- SC Governor’s cabinet awaits merger of public health agencies to fix ‘fragmented’ model
- South Carolina’s healthcare crisis: life expectancy, infant mortality, mental health
- Trident to build new ER on Johns Island ahead of hospital
- Wagener Medical Center to close indefinitely
- South Carolina Still Cannot Defund Planned Parenthood, US Court Rules
- South Carolina’s restrictive medical marijuana bill; cannabis health expert concerned
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- ‘Blackcat’ ransomware gang behind Change Healthcare cyberattack
- Certificate of Need: What HCA’s TriStar Division would do if reform passes
- Change Healthcare paid $22M ransom for data, hacker post claims
- Chattanooga’s growing surgery center industry touts cost-effective, convenient care
- HCA, CHS, Tenet and UHS: 342 hospitals, $112B in revenue
- Should Certificate of Need stay? Tennessee Republican lawmakers to file ambitious reform bill
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital launches commercialization department, hires industry veteran
- Tennessee Ranks Among States with the Least Healthy Hearts
TEXAS
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- 5 things to know about HCA Healthcare
- After millions of dollars of hospital bills, Central Texas woman left with debt she says she isn’t supposed to pay
- Ascension Seton Medical Center registered nurses gain approval of 3-year contract
- Baylor St. Luke’s names president
- CareTrust REIT Acquires Three Property Skilled Nursing Portfolio in Texas and Missouri
- Concierge medicine provider MD² eyes Houston growth after success of first office
- HCA, CHS, Tenet and UHS: 342 hospitals, $112B in revenue
- Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs to start making medicine in Dallas, CEO says
- SA health system launches CEO search amid billion-dollar expansion
- Tenet sells 2 hospitals for $550M
- Texas hospital leaders point to regulator issues for closure
- Texas hospital receives $70M to expand behavioral health division
- Medical City hospital names CFO
- SA company acquires Fortune 500 subsidiary
- Christus installs Epic at 6 hospitals
- In South Dallas medical desert, nonprofits expand health care to families
- LifeCare to close its Fort Worth hospital due to operational issues
- Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas announces expansion
- Lion Star reaches deal to transfer Texas hospital back to district
- Texas hospital CFO promoted to CEO amid ownership change
- Where Tenet is selling hospitals
- CEO Interview Series: Barclay Berdan, CEO of Texas Health
- A look at Tenet’s cybersecurity strategy
UTAH
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- Inside Intermountain Health’s new children’s hospital in Utah
- Intermountain Health’s $600M pediatric campaign hasn’t ended with opening of new hospital
- A third of Utah hospitals don’t comply with price transparency rules
- Steward Health Care owes Utah vendors and the state millions, lawsuits claim
- Utah’s battle against the mental health care provider deficit
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
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- Bill to legalize medical aid in dying fails to advance in General Assembly, won’t become law in 2024
- State investigation of a Carilion hospital found risk to patient safety due to improper cleaning of surgical instruments
- Virginia lawmakers look for ways to address rising mental health challenges
- 13 VA Hospitals Ranked Among Best In World: Newsweek
- Virginia’s Sentara Health joins multi-system cancer research
WASHINGTON
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- 235,000 Individuals Affected by Yakima Valley Radiology Data Breach
- Bill that would up oversight of WA hospital consolidations dies
- Harbor Regional Health responds to cyber security event on billing partner
- Physician pleads guilty to role in $13.7M fraud scheme
- Providence bounces back from Change Healthcare outage
- Proposal Gives Attorney General Authority to Oversee Hospital Consolidations in Washington State
WEST VIRGINIA
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- West Virginia governor forces out top health official, questions accuracy of state data amid outbreaks
- UVA Health Prince William Medical Center partners with UVA Children’s Hospital for telemedicine NICU care
- West Virginia Legislature passes Cardiac Emergency Response Plan bill
- West Virginia hospitals working to address staffing issues
- USDA helps people living in rural West Virginia access remote education and healthcare through grant applications
WISCONSIN
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- Aspirus, St. Luke’s form 19-hospital system
- Healthcare real estate companies close $21B merger
- Marshfield Clinic Health System to redirect urgent care services from Weston to Wausau starting March 8
- Milwaukee-area Obamacare co-op breaking new ground with $100M loan payoff
- Ransomware attack continues impact on unit of largest Wisconsin health insurer, but remedy is near
- SSM Health adds to Madison area’s expanding health care industry with planned Verona campus
- Wis. city pays hospital system $450K to settle over $1M in EMS claims
- 18 Wisconsin hospitals named to Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals in the U.S.
WYOMING
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- Operating in the Red: Half of Rural Hospitals Lose Money, as Many Cut Services
- Wyoming hospital names CFO
- Wyoming ranks last in breast cancer screenings but one state-wide nonprofit is trying to change that
- Lawmakers look at education, health care and energy
- Wyoming’s new abortion regulations could mean the end of last clinic
