NATIONAL
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- 14 Joint Commission patient safety goals for post-acute facilities
- 36 rural hospitals have closed since 2020
- 80% of nonprofit hospitals’ community investments lag their tax savings, Lown Institute finds
- AHA: There is Nothing ‘Fair’ about the Lown Institute’s ‘Fair Share’ Report
- AHA comments on draft Senate bill to clarify, protect 340B program
- Biden leans into the ACA
- Change Healthcare to begin processing $14B in claims
- Change attack, disruptors will test hospital finances: Kaufman Hall
- Claim denials cost hospitals $20 billion a year, report shows
- Clarification Sought from OCR About Change Healthcare Ransomware Breach Notifications
- Congress needs to take action to help hospitals, AHA says
- Cybersecurity bill would add caveat to provider payments
- Healthcare cybersecurity standards tied to federal aid under new bill
- Hospitals Are Adding Billions in ‘Facility’ Fees for Routine Care
- Humana files motion to dismiss AI claims lawsuit
- Hospital financial performance off to a strong start
- Medicare Advantage plan facing termination challenges star ratings methodology
- Medicare paves way for weight loss drug coverage: WSJ
- Nearly half of health systems are considering dropping Medicare Advantage plans
- New federal bill seeks to ‘ban DEI in medicine’
- Physician shortage could reach 86,000, AAMC projects
- Stark law’s unintended consequences
- Supreme Court again confronts the issue of abortion, this time over access to widely used pill
- Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone
- US faces potential shortage of 86,000 physicians by 2036: AAMC
- Violence against hospital workers continues to climb
ALABAMA
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- Alabama lawmakers working to help rural hospitals, patients with proposed tax credit program
- Former pain clinic owner sentenced for role in healthcare fraud scheme
- Former Urgent Care For Children parent company files bankruptcy
- What happens when a rural hospital shuts its doors? Look to Pickens County
- Dr. Sandral Hullett, first Black woman hospital CEO in Alabama, dies
- Alabama hospital sending COVID-19 vaccination team to Peru
- Study: Alabama among the top 10 most stressed states in the country
ALASKA
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- Juneau’s hospital to receive $4M in federal dollars to improve emergency department
- MountainStar announces new president over its Utah, Idaho and Alaska facilities
- New online tool connects Alaskans with traumatic brain injuries to care
- Alaska Native Medical Center begins emergency services expansion
ARIZONA
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- 4 micro-hospitals, 1 freestanding ED properties sold for $86M
- 5 health systems selling off health facilities in the last year
- A bill to regulate nursing homes is making its way through the AZ Senate
- Arizona attorney general files lawsuit against Mesa assisted living facility
- As one bill targeting transparency in assisted living dies, another rises
- Banner Health eyes medical offices in Scottsdale as part of large hospital campus
- Mobile maternity care clinic work to expand prenatal care accessibility in the Valley
- HonorHealth exits the red with $32.8M operating gain
- Tampa health care REIT pays $86M for Texas, Arizona portfolio
- New Arizona transition-to-practice nursing program welcomes 1st cohort, aims to prevent burnout
- New issues at AZ nursing facility revealed
- Arizona AG asks courts to take over Mesa elder care facility accused of abuse and consumer fraud
- Phoenix Radiology inks deal with critical access hospital after previous imaging partner departs
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announces investigation of Change Healthcare, Inc. after cyberattack
- CHI St. Vincent and Morehouse School of Medicine of Atlanta to launch partnership
- Fayetteville nonprofit to offer state’s first-ever medical respite program for the unhoused
- Mercy Arkansas Hospitals receive designation
- Sage Health to Open Third Central Arkansas Location
- UAMS snags $11.5M for new cancer center
- Arkansas defense, health, education projects to receive federal funding
- CHI St. Vincent opens gastroenterology clinic in Hot Springs
- Venture Center, UAMS BioVentures launch healthcare accelerator
- Baptist Health Foundation names 6 to board
CALIFORNIA
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- 6 large health systems diving headfirst into ASC growth
- 7 health systems with credit rating upgrades
- 3,750 California nurses plan 3-day strike
- California hospital to close ED for 6-9 months
- California orthopedic surgeon among 1st to use CartiHeal Agili-C implant
- Documents show how Valley Children’s CEO pay compares to other hospital leaders
- Kaiser Permanente launching PACE venture
- LA County severs ties with orthopedic surgeon facing misconduct allegations
- Mayo, Kaiser Permanente + HCA: 8 Big Tech health system partnerships
- Providence names new philanthropy finance chief for its California hospitals
- Report: Billion-dollar Valley Children’s Hospital skimps on charity care
- Two Fresno councilmembers demand investigation of $5M payday for Valley Children’s Hospital CEO
- UCI Health completes acquisition of 4 Tenet hospitals
- Tuberculosis cases jumped 15% in California in last year
- California hospital closing its dialysis center
COLORADO
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- Colorado home healthcare business owner said there’s high demand in Colorado Springs for services
- Colorado hospitals no longer required to report newborns who test positive for drugs
- Colorado health officials hope mixed reality head sets will ease anxiety about blood donations
- Emails show state health agency desperate to rationalize regulations on Colorado hospitals
- How long COVID is still affecting Coloradans
- Healthy Colorado: Penrose Hospital receives stroke center designation
- Proposed VA surgery center in Colorado Springs approved for market assessment, outpatient clinic in Fremont County under consideration
- UCHealth reports half a billion dollars in uncompensated care in 2023
- Banner Health’s Ion procedure as high as 95% accurate at detecting lung cancer nodules
CONNECTICUT
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- Ambulance providers strained as demand is up and funds run low
- Connecticut bill calls for more oversight of private equity in healthcare M&A
- CT approves Prospect Medical-YNHH deal, paving the way for sale
- Report: CT hospital consolidations raised prices faster, but did not affect amount of care provided
- Top physician practices for gastroenterology: Castle Connolly
- Face the Facts: Lawmakers call for transparency into use of federal money in nursing homes
- CT officials, advocates condemn Supreme Court abortion pill case
D.C.
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- Children’s National trustee shares how board members at pediatric hospitals can improve outcomes for children
- DC system names CEO
- Inova receives $10M gift from local investor to support ‘critical programs’
- Whitman-Walker appoints new health system CEO
- How housing insecurity, structural racism affect maternal health in DC
DELAWARE
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- Delaware health care facilities opposing bill to oversee hospital spending
- Delaware hospitals say cost review board proposal a ‘non-starter’ for providers
- How ChristianaCare’s digital cardiac care program is closing racial gaps
- Slate of long-term care facilities reform bills drafted
- New Del. bill signed into law ensuring coverage for Ovarian Cancer screenings
- Legislature on hospital funding draws concern from healthcare workers
- A bill concerning access to gender affirming care narrowly clears a House committee
FLORIDA
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- 6 large health systems diving headfirst into ASC growth
- 4 micro-hospitals, 1 freestanding ED properties sold for $86M
- AdventHealth celebrates topping out of medical center in Palm Coast
- AdventHealth plans $254M hospital amid HCA turf war
- AdventHealth CEO: 3 leadership essentials for the next 3 years
- AdventHealth Waterman project to nearly double size of this unit
- Ascension Riverside offers new technology for patients with chronic hypertension
- DeSantis signs Live Healthy bills meant to train, retain health-care workers
- Florida adds new teaching hospital designation
- Gov. DeSantis signs major health care package
- HCA commits $1.8 billion to improve local hospitals
- Health First breaks ground on $410 million hospital, medical office building
- Lee Health provided $179M in benefits in 2023 in exchange for tax breaks
- New CFO appointed to HCA Florida Lake City hospital
- New Florida law adds rules for ERs
- NIH awarded almost $1 billion to Florida health researchers in 2023
- Opening date for BayCare’s new South Florida Baptist Hospital in Plant City is set
- Orlando Set To Receive New Flagship Hospital at Orlando Health Campus
- Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bills to train, retain healthcare workers
- Tampa health care REIT pays $86M for Texas, Arizona portfolio
GEORGIA
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- 9 Georgia hospitals earn awards for patient safety
- Another inmate escapes Grady Memorial Hospital
- CHI Memorial breaks ground on new North Georgia hospital
- CON overhaul gains final passage in General Assembly
- Ga. lawmakers agree to make it easier to build new hospitals
- Hoar Begins Construction on $18.3M Hospital Expansion, Renovation in Cordele, Georgia
- Kaiser Permanente supports work to increase mental health professionals in Georgia
- Mayo, Kaiser Permanente + HCA: 8 Big Tech health system partnerships
- Northeast Georgia Medical Center’s $566M tower is ‘first major addition since 2009’
- Report alleges some Georgia hospitals are noncompliant with federal price transparency rule
- Georgia Senate lawmakers give final passage to bill to loosen health permit rules
- Ringgold’s new smart hospital breaks ground
HAWAII
IDAHO
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- MountainStar announces new president over its Utah, Idaho and Alaska facilities
- St. Luke’s Health System Turns to Equipment Depot, Hai Robotics Partnership to Advance Distribution Operations
- St. Luke’s pens 2 partnerships for future supply warehouse
- Saltzer Health in Treasure Valley closing, planning patient care transition
- With closures imminent Saltzer physicians finding new workplaces
ILLINOIS
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- 2 medical office building updates in Illinois
- 7 health systems with credit rating upgrades
- Advocate Health sells home care company to private equity firm
- Advocate proposes $52M outpatient center in Naperville
- Ascension outsourcing Illinois hospitalist staff
- Ascension uses private equity staffing firm for Chicago hospitals
- Illinois could create grant program to support behavioral healthcare providers
- Illinois system splits president, CEO roles in succession plan
- Illinois health system names CEO
- Illinois hospital adds robotic knee replacements
- Nursing home co. Petersen files for bankruptcy after cyberattacks
INDIANA
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- 6 large health systems diving headfirst into ASC growth
- IU, Eskenazi hospitals to limit surgeries on eclipse day
- Franciscan Health opens new cancer center in West Central Indiana
- Preliminary data shows decease in Indiana’s infant mortality rate after increase prior year
- Eskenazi Health Announces Opening of New Eastside Location
- AG Todd Rokita says Indiana used faulty COVID-19 data
- Indiana AG Sues Drugmakers, PBMs Over High Insulin Prices
IOWA
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- Iowa care facility where nurse quit over staffing issues has history of abuse
- Pharmacy drive-thru a possibility for Jones Regional Medical Center, thanks to donation
- UI Health Care downtown campus leadership to step down
- Failure to attempt CPR for two residents nets fine against Iowa nursing home
- Ottumwa Regional Health Center stacks incentives to attract and retain healthcare workers
- Five Iowa care facilities cited for abuse-related violations
- Local Health Organizations and Partners Launch Community Health Needs Assessment in Central Iowa
- Northwest Iowa nurse facing criminal charge after death of care facility resident
KANSAS
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- After Covid, insurance companies cause concern for physical therapists
- Kansas hospital CEO resigns, successor named
- Kansas Legislature sends Democratic governor bill banning under-18 transgender health care
- Read about the 2024 Health Care Heroes
- Kansas Senate opts to not debate in-vitro fertilization protections after Alabama ban
- Excellence in Health Care: March 2024
KENTUCKY
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- Accelecom to provide network connectivity for UK HealthCare
- Bamboo Health inks deal with Prisma Health
- CEO picked to lead Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital
- How Centene’s WellCare is creating custom SDOH outreach across Kentucky
- Louisville CEOs’ advice for women who want to be leaders in health care
- State’s certificate of need repeal dies on bipartisan vote in House committee; better solutions needed
- The eICU that powers the newest floor at UK’s Chandler Hospital
- UofL Health opens Bullitt County hospital while Norton goes public with $200M fundraiser
LOUISIANA
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- Louisiana debates civil liability over COVID-19 vaccine mandates, or the lack thereof
- The tech Ochsner physicians hail as ‘life-changing’
- State law could hinder coroner’s shift of sexual assault exam duties to hospitals
- Louisiana Nurses Union contract negotiations
- How Louisiana’s abortion ban has changed pregnancy care in the state
MAINE
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- 3 more Maine nursing homes announce closures: Coalition urging lawmakers for more money
- Maine hospitals concerned about lack of nursing home beds, call for state funding
- Maine families grapple with uprooting loved ones amid nursing home closures
- Bill to limit patients per nurse in Maine moves forward
- Congress approves $42M for upgrades at 11 Maine hospitals, health centers
- Maine nursing home closing down due to workforce, inflation issues
- Maine inches closer to mandating nurse-to-patient ratio limits
MARYLAND
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- Advocate offloads senior home care business to private equity firm
- Coalition says Hopkins University’s credibility at risk after diversity head resigns
- Maryland has issued more than 500 loans due to Change Healthcare cyber attack
- Where Johns Hopkins Health Plans is driving growth, facing headwinds in 2024
- Frederick County among the healthiest in Maryland, new report shows
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Boston group buys RI medical practices, clinics
- Lawmakers zero in on private equity in health care amid Steward troubles
- Mass General Brigham ‘all in’ on ‘hospital at home’
- Mass. migrants are a housing challenge. They’re also an opportunity to boost our healthcare workforce.
- Mass. policymakers seek guardrails for private equity involvement in health care
- Mayo, Kaiser Permanente + HCA: 8 Big Tech health system partnerships
- MGH performs first-ever pig-to-human kidney transplant
- Nurses sue St. Vincent Hospital for violating whistleblower protections
- Private equity investment is accelerating in Massachusetts healthcare
- R1 RCM Data Breach Impacts 16,000 Patients
- Steward’s legal battles offer insight into pattern of mismanagement
- Steward is being sued by a Mass. law firm claiming missed payments
- Steward Health Care strikes deal to sell its nationwide physician network to Optum
- Tufts expands access to virtual care
- Massachusetts hospital taps chief nursing officer
- 8 nurses file wrongful termination suit against Tenet
- Massachusetts hospital nears reopening after 10 years
- Stoke Therapeutics plans $75M public offering on heels of Dravet trial results
- Mission Hill nursing home sued by families alleging ‘intolerable’ conditions
- UMass Chan to create joint research hub with Lahey Hospital
- Steward rehab hospital to close April 2
- New Worcester behavioral health clinic aims to make mental health care more accessible
MICHIGAN
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- 2,300+ University of Michigan Health workers unionize
- Ascension divesting 3 Michigan hospitals to MyMichigan Health
- BAMF Health, Ferris State University form training partnership
- Behavioral health provider expands trauma, grief services with new $2.9M federal grant
- Corewell hires executive with nursing background to lead former Beaumont hospitals
- Corewell Health names new president for Corewell Health East
- Corewell keeps ‘aggressive schedule’ with Epic ecosystem integration
- Henry Ford Health to break ground on first part of $3B project in Detroit this spring
- Trinity Health acquires Grand Rapids medical practice
- WMed’s fellow and resident physicians vote to unionize
- Ascension St. Mary’s of Saginaw among mid-Michigan hospitals nearing ownership change
- University of Michigan Health buying former Kmart headquarters in Troy
- ‘Truly visionary’: Henry Ford Health plans expansion with $2.5 billion project
MINNESOTA
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- Mayo Clinic clarifies hiring practices amid ‘false’ social media claims
- Mayo, Kaiser Permanente + HCA: 8 Big Tech health system partnerships
- Report says tax breaks for Minnesota hospitals, including Mayo, outweigh community benefit
- Sanford Health’s Karla Eischens ranks among top rural hospital CEOs to know
- UnitedHealth cyberattack left $14 billion backlog of unprocessed claims
- Mayo embraces ‘citizen development’ for AI
- St. Luke’s CFO, co-president to retire
- HealthPartners names care group COO
- UnitedHealth’s Optum to acquire 9-state multispecialty radiology provider
- Mayo launches primary care app
- UnitedHealth pays $3.3B to providers following Change hack
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
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- 7 health systems with credit rating upgrades
- 5 health systems selling off health facilities in the last year
- Ascension continues to downsize across Midwest
- Children’s Mercy move into Springfield will improve revenue and patient care, expert says
- Missouri cracks down on Goldner Capital Management over nursing home mismanagement
- SSM Health cuts operating loss by 76%
- Former Oklahoma hospital executive named new COO of Boone Health
- On Your Side: New report finds only 22% of Missouri hospitals complying with Hospital Price Transparency Rule
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
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- Hospital Medicaid funding bill passes on final reading
- How Nebraska Medicine used AI to reduce first-year nurse turnover by nearly 50%
- State auditor exposes questionable handling by DHHS of tens of millions of federal dollars
- Bill passed to bring in more than $1.4 billion federal boost for Nebraska hospitals
- New Medicaid funding bill would help one hospital with current services
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- Ambulance service in N.H. faces problems from big surprise patient bills to struggling companies
- Dartmouth Health nurses make another attempt at unionization
- New Hampshire Hospital increases bed capacity
- Billing, reimbursement reforms proposed as potential fixes for NH’s ailing ambulance market
- State issues RFP to bolster security at New Hampshire Hospital following 2023 shooting
- Monadnock Community Hospital opens first gastroenterology department
- Hassan secures better loan terms for NH hospitals hit by cyberattack
NEW JERSEY
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center takes ‘very organic’ approach to first New Jersey location
- Industry leaders oppose legislation proposing a standardized resident admission agreement
- Leapfrog opens ASC survey: NJ has 180+ eligible participants
- Low pay a driving factor in NJ’s primary care shortage
- Troubled New Jersey Hospitals Tap Insight to Rescue Finances
- New Jersey Hospital System CarePoint Health Taps Insight to Stabilize Finances
- ‘New era of health care’: Officials tout new Valley Hospital in Paramus at ribbon-cutting
- NJ maternal health center to be built in Trenton
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- 6 large health systems diving headfirst into ASC growth
- 7 health systems with credit rating upgrades
- Montefiore hopes to build $15M ICU
- New York medical group drops Humana Medicare Advantage across 70 practices
- New York system names new CEO
- Northwell hospital nurses set strike date
- Nurse managers’ 4-day workweeks: How it’s going at Mount Sinai
- Trillium Health division earns national recognition
- FDA hands warning to New York hospital’s drug researcher
- MVP Health Care names new president
- How Mount Sinai is bridging the gap between nurse education, patient care
- These WNY researchers landed NIH funds in fiscal year 2023
- Two NY hospitals have largest gaps between tax breaks and charity care nationwide
- From Stony Brook Medicine, a new meal-ordering app for hospital patients
- Northwell backs ’emotionally intelligent’ AI voice startup
NORTH CAROLINA
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- AdventHealth plans $254M hospital amid HCA turf war
- EMTALA infractions pose second threat to hospital’s Medicare funding; corrective plan due by March 24
- Mayo, Kaiser Permanente + HCA: 8 Big Tech health system partnerships
- Mission Health seeks publication of recent CON court ruling
- NC firm BioAgilytix Labs cancels deal that promised 878 jobs
- Novant Health appoints new chief financial officer, and more
- Status of nine-story medical office by Samet, Lindbrook in limbo as Cone Health buys site for $11.7M
- The Triangle’s health outcomes rank among highest in the nation
- What HCA has told feds it’s doing to fix staffing issues at Mission Hospital. Why nurses say it’s not happening.
- UNC Health signs long-term contract with UnitedHealthcare, keeping patients in network
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- $26M Cleveland Clinic-backed apartments open
- 6 new Ohio ASC projects
- 5 health systems selling off health facilities in the last year
- 7 health systems with credit rating upgrades
- Bon Secours Mercy Health CFO announces exit, replacement named
- Bon Secours Mercy Health posts $123.9M operating loss; new CFO to begin July 1
- Cincinnati healthcare staffing company agrees to pay $9.25 million to resolve visa fraud investigations
- Cleveland Clinic Once Again Among Worst Hospitals in “Fair Share Deficit” Rankings, Comparing Charity to Tax Breaks
- Cleveland Clinic to roll out supply tracker chatbot systemwide
- Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Cavaliers opening performance center
- ‘Creative’ nurse shifts gain traction at Mercy Health hospital
- Exit interview: Mount Carmel’s outgoing CEO says the system is stronger today
- Ex-nursing home employee pleads not guilty to $57K theft from Ohio patients
- Healthcare CEOs to Columbus region: You don’t know how good you have it
- Large Dayton home health agency to partner with out-of-state hospital
- Mercy Health to consolidate labor and delivery services from Fairfield hospital
- Norwood-based Health Carousel to pay $9.25 million to resolve visa fraud investigation
- P&G, Cincinnati Children’s among the nation’s most innovative companies, according to Fortune
- St. Vincent de Paul to open third charitable pharmacy location, expanding service to four counties
- Ohio pediatric hospital unveils simulation center
- Why are mortality gaps higher in rural areas of Ohio?
- Cases of COVID and flu drop in Ohio
OKLAHOMA
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- Former Oklahoma hospital executive named new COO of Boone Health
- Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City names chief nursing officer
- Bill giving nurse practitioners new freedoms faces criticism
- Lawmakers are divided over SB459 which gives nurse practitioners authority to prescribe meds
- Groundbreaking set for state’s largest mental health hospital
- Mooreland nursing home unexpectedly closing, families left upset
- Mercy Hospital Opens Love Family Women’s Center, Hopes To Revolutionize Women’s Health Care In Oklahoma
OREGON
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- How one Oregon hospital system dealt with the Change Healthcare ransomware attack
- Oregon AG seeks Providence Health documents in charity care investigation
- Oregon DOJ tells courts Providence isn’t cooperating with charity care probe
- Oregon hospital revenues rebound, but costs also surge
- PeaceHealth gets state approval to build a 42-bed physical rehab hospital in Springfield
- Portland area health care workers join growing unionization movement
- Regulators reviewing UnitedHealth’s $3.7B Amedisys acquisition
- Oregon Health Authority launches website dedicated to abortion access
- Legacy Health, Regence contract deadline looms
PENNSYLVANIA
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- 6 large health systems diving headfirst into ASC growth
- Another Pittsburgh-area nursing home hit with lawsuit for employing nurse accused of killing patients with insulin
- AristaCare Health will acquire Philadelphia nursing home Tulip Special Care
- Feds to probe UPMC heart implant practices
- Fox Chase Cancer Center takes ‘very organic’ approach to first New Jersey location
- Geisinger cuts ribbon on $90 million Medical Office Building
- Highmark Health names Craig Riner EVP/chief marketing officer
- Jefferson Health to tap more retired nurses as it expands mentoring program amid staffing shortages
- Johnson & Johnson is suing a former Philly-area employee, saying he took trade secrets to Pfizer
- Philadelphia District Attorney sues pharmaceutical companies over insulin prices
- Pittsburgh initiative World Tumor Registry aims to make cancer diagnosis, research more complete
- Pittsburgh challenging another 104 properties over tax-exempt status
- Weirton Medical Center to affiliate with WVU Medicine
RHODE ISLAND
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- Boston group buys RI medical practices, clinics
- Care New England reports Q1 operating gain
- Employees at odds over sale of 2 R.I. hospitals during second public comment meeting
- Rhode Island Nursing Home Cuts Half of Long-Term Care Beds Amid Insufficient Medicaid Funding
- Second public hearing Tuesday on hospital sale to Centurion
- VillageMD sells RI medical practices, clinics to Boston group
- R.I. commercial health care premiums are among the highest in the nation, report finds
- Southcoast Health opens new pediatric rehabilitation facility
- Fischer named acting director of R.I. Department of Health
- Employee admits to planting hidden camera inside hospital bathroom
- HealthFirst Family Care opens health center at Diman Regional High School
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Bamboo Health, Prisma partner on real-time patient intelligence
- Prisma Health to donate ambulance to local high school health sciences program
- Roper St. Francis will receive $8M in federal funds to improve healthcare access
- SC lawmakers urged to ‘let business do business’ as vaccine mandate ban advances
- South Carolina ASC breaks rules
- Trident Medical Center staffer named ER Nurse of the Year
- UnitedHealthcare, Prisma still ‘actively exchanging proposals’
- UnitedHealthcare makes latest proposal to Prisma Health in South Carolina standoff
- This SC hospital can now lower folks’ high blood pressure without using medication. Here’s how
- S.C. health system adds to hurdles of Alzheimer’s, experts say
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- 5 health systems selling off health facilities in the last year
- Ania Payne plans to make BioHub Nash the growth catalyst for Nashville’s life sciences industry
- Ballad Health’s post-merger ER wait times under scrutiny
- CON bill won’t include section making it easier to open a competing hospital to Ballad
- HCA’s 5 top-paid executives
- HCA’s CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 2023
- HCA’s highest-earning executives in 2023
- HCA provided $3.7B in 2023 charity care
- Nashville General Hospital names chief revenue officer
- North Knoxville Medical Center Expands In Powell, Tennessee
- Suspension of Rockwood assisted living home’s license leaves residents in limbo
- Tennessee hospitals push back against proposed CON changes
- Why Ballad Health is under fire for long wait times
- Bill averting medical monopolies dies in House subcommittee
- Knoxville lawmakers calling for more mental health resources in East Tennessee
- After Appalachian Hospitals Merged Into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl
TEXAS
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- $1.8B in 3 years: The acquisitions driving Tenet’s growth
- 7 health systems with credit rating upgrades
- 4 micro-hospitals, 1 freestanding ED properties sold for $86M
- As hospitals struggle to retain staff, one Fort Worth health network bucks the trend
- Christus could invest $150 million in Longview facilities
- Dallas-based Steward Health Care to cut 150 South Florida jobs
- Houston-area hospitals that cost more may not necessarily offer better care
- Nearly 170 new doctors join Austin’s healthcare workforce, addressing physician shortage
- Physician pays $1.8M to settle False Claims Act liability
- Steward to sell ‘highly desired’ physician group to Optum
- Steward’s legal battles offer insight into pattern of mismanagement
- Tenet faces wrongful termination suit from 8 nurses: What ASCs need to know
- Tenet Healthcare completes sale of 4 hospitals to UCI Health
- Texas Medical Board drafts guidance on emergency abortion exemptions
- UK biopharma company IntraBio moves HQ to Austin, raises $40M
- Optum to buy struggling Steward Health Care’s physician group under proposed deal
- Anesthesiologist accused of poisoning IV bags at ASC appears in court
- Methodist Healthcare hospital appoints chief nursing officer
- Tampa health care REIT pays $86M for Texas, Arizona portfolio
- Texas hospital takes interim title off CFO
- How Tenet became a household name for ASCs
- How Home-Based Care Providers Are Leveraging Palliative Care In Hospital Partnerships
- Why a Texas system hasn’t hired a travel nurse in 30 years
UTAH
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- 6 large health systems diving headfirst into ASC growth
- HCA taps president for 8 hospitals
- Intermountain posts $137M operating income, 0.9% margin
- Intermountain nurse-midwives launch gynecology access clinic for women’s health needs
- Mayo, Kaiser Permanente + HCA: 8 Big Tech health system partnerships
- MountainStar announces new president over its Utah, Idaho and Alaska facilities
- Utah has two of Fortune Magazine’s Top 50 Heart Hospitals
- Utah rated as one of the best states for doctors
- Doctors looking into why Utah has one of highest multiple sclerosis rates in nation
VERMONT
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- Vermont seeks to implement new federal health care reform program
- Vermont House approves expansion of access to Medicaid, Medicare
- Doulas push to make their services more widely available
- UVM Medical Center tells patients of options for primary, urgent care
- Family medicine doctor residency program planned at SVMC
VIRGINIA
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- After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their ERs slowed to a crawl
- Inova receives $10M gift from local investor to support ‘critical programs’
- Remedy Medical, Kayne Anderson Break Ground on Virginia MOB
- Virginia Department of Health reports increase in mpox cases
- Virginia budget proposal: Free health clinics expected to receive biggest funding increase since 2016
WASHINGTON
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
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- 2 Wisconsin hospitals close despite orthopedic group’s pushback
- Froedtert ThedaCare breaks ground on $84M project, awaits city incentives
- New Froedtert Thedacare Health, Inc. campus coming to Oshkosh
- SSM Health to launch new addition to Cancer Care center
- Wisconsin hospitals close as communities search for answers
- Wisconsin hospitals close their doors
- Wisconsin hospitals have quietly rolled back COVID vaccine mandates
- Wisconsin Hospital Association CEO discusses hospital closures and financial woes
- ‘Long way to go’ in making Wisconsin health care costs transparent
- Seniors seek answers from lawmakers on long-term health care in western Wisconsin
- Ascension Wisconsin holding job fair to recruit while some criticize past layoffs
- OakLeaf Clinics to open 4 new clinics in Western Wisconsin
WYOMING
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- Foundation to add $4.2 million to support new assets, equipment
- Hospitals across the state will be getting new ultrasound imaging devices
- Sheridan Memorial working to remedy billing issues after nationwide cyberattack
- Wyoming Bans Gender Transition Care for Minors
- Jackson Judge Asks Wyoming Supreme Court If Abortion Is Health Care
