NATIONAL
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- A deep dive into health system and health plan Q1 earnings
- Amazon building ‘modern pharmacy’ of the future: Medical Officer
- Breaking down the FTC noncompete ban, its impact on healthcare
- CISA, HHS warn healthcare of Black Basta ransomware attacks
- CMS extends Medicaid waivers to 2025
- Could providers be liable in Change outage? Here’s what to know
- Hospitals to get cybersecurity mandates
- Hospitals charged private insurers 254% of Medicare in 2022: Rand
- How a ransomware attack is affecting Ascension’s facilities across the US
- How the two-midnight rule may affect Medicare Advantage finances
- Justice Department forms healthcare competition task force
- Lawmakers consider lifting restrictions on physician-owned hospitals
- Medicare Advantage will ‘sink’ rural hospitals, experts warn
- Medicare and Medicaid fraudsters continue to steal taxpayer money
- Missing payments increase for hospitals: Report
- Private-equity owner dropped from FTC’s USAP lawsuit
- Private Equity Investing in Healthcare Has Stagnated. Here’s Why.
- Rural health care falling behind nationally, and action is needed now, AMA president-elect says
- UnitedHealth offers to divest 100 locations in Amedisys deal: Report
- What healthcare REITs mean for providers, patients
ALABAMA
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- Brookwood Baptist Health makes C-suite change
- Cyber attack on Ascension Healthcare affecting USA Health Providence Hospital
- Encompass Health celebrates thirty years
- MPT selling assets, leasing hospitals following major tenant struggles
- Prominent medical office building in Homewood sells for $4.5M
- Pulmonology clinic relocates from Birmingham to Hoover
- Providence Hospital in Mobile experiencing ‘disruptions’ from Ascension Health cyberattack
- Alabama Department of Labor report lists nursing positions as dominant industry for online job postings in Alabama
- West Alabama’s largest hospital starting shuttle service while new parking deck is constructed
ALASKA
ARIZONA
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- Arizona attorney general launches investigation into Steward bankruptcy
- Banner Health’s ASC strategy: 3 updates
- Chandler to consider rezoning of longtime corporate offices to allow for medical use
- Dallas-based Steward Health Care puts four Arizona hospitals up for sale amid bankruptcy filing
- U.S. News & World Report hands out top marks to Arizona ambulatory surgery centers
- Phoenix Children’s to open new NICU
- Company that operates Arizona hospitals files for bankruptcy: Here’s what to know
ARKANSAS
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- Anonymous Donor Gives $1M to Support Arkansas Children’s Expansion
- Baptist Health Expands Partnership With Telehealth Firm Caregility
- Future of Wadley hospitals unclear as Steward healthcare files for bankruptcy
- State Awards $20.4M in Federal Funds to 19 Nursing Schools
- Steward Health Plans to Sell Its Hospitals in Hope, Texarkana
- UAMS Researcher Awarded $1.6M to Study Liver Repair
- Arkansas Children’s Research Institute Awarded $2.3M for Food Allergy Studies
- Arkansas officials grant $20 million to increase nursing pipeline
CALIFORNIA
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- ASHS acquires stakes in three Rhode Island radiology clinics
- California to redirect more than $7B in healthcare funding
- China-connected South Bay biotech company called out by Congress in Biosecure Act
- Dignity hospital to close pediatric unit
- Golden Valley Health Centers offers new ‘Enhanced Care Management’ program
- Kaiser med school graduates inaugural class
- Kaiser Permanente Plans to Sell Seattle Site Once Planned for 240,000 SQFT Project
- Kaiser to sell $3.5B in PE funds: WSJ
- Kaiser posts $935M operating profit in Q1
- S.F. General’s Susan Ehrlich talks humility, career pivots and treating the most vulnerable
- Sutter Health reports first-quarter earnings of $410 million
- The 3 states with the most top-ranked ASCs
- What’s new with Kaiser?
- California to make $3.3 billion available for mental health, substance use treatment centers
COLORADO
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- Pam Health To Build Rehabilitation Hospitals In Four States
- What it’s like to be a doctor at a Denver’s newest boutique medical office
- VA Hospital in Colorado reschedules surgeries after residue found on equipment
- As talks continue, Colorado health care group urges Anthem to file complaint against CommonSpirit
- Colorado hospital discovers dozens of cremains from miscarriages
CONNECTICUT
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- Connecticut ophthalmologist sentenced for healthcare fraud scheme
- CT Hospital Association sues Prospect Medical for unpaid dues, service fees
- CT OKs $8M in opioid settlement money for a range of services
- CT Senate gives final approval to nursing home oversight bill
- Masonicare, United Methodist Homes announce plans to merge
- New CT law will prevent medical debt reporting to creditors
- Prospect Medical Holdings’ troubles endanger potential Crozer Health sale. Will Pa. step in to save health care in Delco?
- Prospect owes $10.5 million in taxes to Waterbury as state hospital taxes face larger deficit
- St. Francis Hospital names new president
- Trinity hospital taps HCA exec as president
D.C.
DELAWARE
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- After major pushback, Delaware’s hospital cost review board bill to see vote. What changed?
- By the numbers: A deeper look at health care spending in Delaware
- Citing ‘burnout,’ doctors with ChristianaCare file papers to form system’s first labor union
- Del. hospital cost-saving bill amended; votes expected this week
- Forbes Ranks ChristianaCare as a Best Employer for Diversity in the U.S.
- HB 350 compromise brokered by hospitals, lawmakers
- Hospital leaders, legislators agree on hospital spending bill in Delaware
- Workforce development remains a priority for Delaware’s life science industry
- Would a Vermont-inspired hospital cost review board work in Delaware?
FLORIDA
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- AdventHealth East Orlando to add parking garage
- AdventHealth emergency department coming to Winter Haven
- AdventHealth University is expanding its nursing education model to Tampa site
- Baptist Health System, Feds settle False Claims Act
- CEO of UF Health St. Johns to step down
- Central Florida hospitals see shift in demand for travel nurses
- Couple donates $10 million to Jupiter Medical Center
- HCA kicks off construction on $231M Florida hospital
- Ocoee assisted-living and memory care facility parent company acquired by New Jersey firm
- Orlando medical office market heats up in 2024 with development, leases
- Rehab hospital snags $38M financing to start construction
- Sarasota Memorial CEO David Verinder leads the health system through major milestones
- Steward puts all hospitals up for sale, including in Central Florida
- The 3 states with the most top-ranked ASCs
- Where South Florida ranks in analysis of U.S. life sciences hubs
- Tampa General chosen as one of Florida’s first behavioral health teaching hospitals
GEORGIA
HAWAII
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- Hawaii ranks among top in the U.S. for senior care staffing
- Hawaii ranks No. 1 for health care by U.S. News & World Report
- Nursing Spotlight: Workforce data, trends and priorities from The Hawaii State Center for Nursing
- Nursing Spotlight: UH nursing programs get top marks
- On Molokai, health care providers struggle with low payments, high costs — and little support
- Hawaii study shows almost 75% of Maui wildfire survey participants have respiratory issues
IDAHO
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- Are Idaho’s rural hospitals on the brink of collapse? What medical leaders are saying
- Boise healthcare startup lands seed funding round
- Saint Al’s wanted to build a hospital by St. Luke’s. Now, the land is for sale
- Idaho health department plans to stop paying health data contractor
- Idaho AG concludes antitrust investigation into Kootenai Health and Syringa Hospital
ILLINOIS
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- CommonSpirit takes ‘firm stance’ with payers
- Illinois bill requiring medically necessary colonoscopy coverage heads to Senate floor
- Illinois releases playbook for future public health emergencies
- Update: Ascension, St Joseph Nurses Come To A Tentative Agreement Must Be Finalized Before June 1st
- Illinois hospitals are exploring a merger
- Illinois Supreme Court considers expectation of privacy in hospitals
INDIANA
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- 43,000-square-foot Indiana medical office building sells
- Bremner Real Estate to provide development services for medical office building in Brownsburg
- Indiana hospital margins lag behind nation, with some budgets in the red
- Indiana hospital prices remain among highest in nation, report says
- Lafayette pain management doctor unexpectedly closes practice
- Pam Health To Build Rehabilitation Hospitals In Four States
- Indiana scores poorly on health care cost survey
- Northwest Health names new chief medical officer
IOWA
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- Iowa nurse pays $52,560 to settle million-dollar Medicare fraud case
- Former Iowa hospital president, CEO dies
- 5 UnityPoint hospitals honored for LGBTQ+ equality
- Iowa AG Brenna Bird Visits SMCH
- Unitypoint Health St. Luke’s Hospital sees record number of twin births
- Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs new law reforming mental health care
KANSAS
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- $100 million state psychiatric hospital in Wichita gets needed zoning approval
- Cardinal Health acquires Olathe medical devices company
- Centene holds onto Kansas Medicaid managed care contract
- Cingulate resolves threat of having its stock delisted
- KCAS Bio expands global reach into Australia
- National report rates Wichita’s high-performing outpatient surgical centers
- A cyberattack forces a big Kansas-based health system to divert ambulances and take records offline
KENTUCKY
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- Experts address elder equity at Optimal Aging Conference in Louisville
- Jim Rechtin To Take Over For Bruce Broussard As Humana CEO This Summer
- Lake Cumberland Regional using 4K-3D Exoscope for surgery
- May is Nurses Month, celebrating the 90,000 nurses who live, work in Kentucky
- Physician sentenced to prison for $14M fraud scheme
- St. Elizabeth-Edgewood among state’s hospitals getting ‘A’ rating; most received ‘C’s’ again
- UofL receives $3 million gift from Jewish Heritage Fund
- University of Kentucky Starts Work on Cancer & Ambulatory Center
LOUISIANA
MAINE
MARYLAND
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- Cyber attack still compromising systems at Baltimore hospitals
- How Holy Cross Health’s new virtual nursing model is revolutionizing care and addressing workforce challenges
- Johns Hopkins hospital names president, COO
- Leapfrog Says AAMC Gets Yet Another “A”
- Sage Health opens third Baltimore-area health center for seniors
- Why are hospitals vulnerable to cyberattacks? St. Agnes Hospital reacts to “mini-disaster status”
- Maryland enacts sweeping ban on noncompetes for all healthcare professionals
MASSACHUSETTS
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- After CEO change, Lantheus announces more new C-suite additions
- Bayer discloses 1,500 global job cuts in Q1; silent on Mass. impact
- Beth Israel Lahey scores $400M MassDevelopment bonds for real estate
- BioMed lands $683M mortgage for Kendall Square building
- BMC names top physician as first-ever president in leadership restructuring
- Mass General Brigham posts $30M operating income in Q2
- Mass. Medical Society names Hamilton primary care physician as new president
- Mass. primary care system is in ‘crisis’, says new report
- Meet the Mass. life science CEOs with the largest pay packages
- South Boston nursing home to close this fall
- Leaders leave patients in PE hospital shell game
- Certification test language may be contributing to Massachusetts’ CNA shortage
- MGB spinout gets $33M for injectable ‘ice’ to treat pain
MICHIGAN
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- AI-powered mobile medical carts take patient monitoring to the next level
- Corewell nurses rally as they aim to organize with Teamsters union
- Cyberattack forces Ascension hospitals in Michigan to reroute patients
- How Ascension ransomware attack is affecting Michigan patients, appointments
- Michigan hospitals rank 3rd nationally on pricing, but still charge too much, advocates say
- Michigan physician sentenced for distributing 270,000+ opioid pills
- Michigan physician convicted in $6.3M Medicare fraud scheme
- One of Michigan’s largest insurers is altering telehealth billing. What does it mean?
- Three Trinity Health Michigan Hospitals Earn “A” Safety Grade
- Ascension Genesys nurses give 10-day notice of planned strike
MINNESOTA
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- Minnesota legislation targets health insurers’ power to block medical care, medications
- Mayo, Mercy collaborate to harness data for improved patient care
- Patients wait longer, transferred farther for care after Mayo scaled back inpatient services in Albert Lea
- Senator requests info from UnitedHealth Group on Change hack
- What’s a fair price for University of Minnesota Medical Center?
- UnitedHealthcare faces state penalty for uneven mental health care coverage
- Winona Health celebrates 130 years in Southeastern Minnesota
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
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- 3 admit $500K-plus health care fraud
- Ascension hit with lawsuits days after ransomware attack
- Ascension confirms cyberattack is ransomware
- Ascension cyberattack should not thwart financial rebound: Fitch
- Ascension: ‘We do not have a timeline’ for networks to be restored after cyberattack
- Health care consulting firm promotes president and CEO
- Janet Smith-Hill tackles nursing shortage at SSM Health
- Missouri home health care leaders plead guilty to $552K of fraudulent Medicaid claims
- Missouri judge ruled HIPAA restricts access to trans patient data. Both sides are unhappy
- Missouri physician charged for patient assault
- Saint Francis Healthcare to close surgery center
- St. Louis-based health system says it’s ‘making progress’ in restoration after cybersecurity incident
- HCA names CEO for Missouri hospital
- Mayo, Mercy collaborate to harness data for improved patient care
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
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- UNMC gets federal grant to lead effort to design better response to national health disasters
- Nebraska DHHS expands nursing scholarship program
- CHI Health Immanuel opens Community Corner Wednesday
- U.S. Justice Department investigates Nebraska over mental health
- Kearney hospital earns ‘A’ rating for patient safety, among top in Nebraska
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
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- 3 medical office building updates in New Jersey in 30 days
- AtlantiCare CEO on plans to consolidate facilities and grow market share despite Cooper-Cape merger
- AtlantiCare CEO on $1B plan to double revenue, partnerships with Drexel and Oracle
- New Jersey hospital’s ED expansion to create separate space for mental health patients
- Best hospitals in NJ ranked by Jersey’s Best magazine
- Nemours hit with penalty for leaving NJ Medicaid
- Bergen New Bridge hospital unveils major ER expansion to deal with mental health crisis
NEW MEXICO
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- How UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of New Mexico is collaborating to create long-term solutions to the state’s health challenges
- Lovelace and Texas-based hospital corporation to build new Los Lunas medical center
- HHS Watchdog Presses New Mexico Over Nursing Care Payments
- Reproductive health care clinic is a step closer to opening in Las Cruces
- UNM and hospital residents continue pay negotiations
NEW YORK
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- A Hospital’s Slow Death: As Beth Israel Shrinks, Patient Care Suffers
- Albany Medical Center names new hospital general director
- ECMC’s team approach to care helps to cut readmission rates
- How telehealth is boosting care access among NYC’s homeless population
- Immediate jeopardy citation preceded open-heart surgery halt at New York hospital
- New buyer sought as 2023 deal for shuttered hospital crumbles
- Surgery Partners inks deal with GI ASCs
- U.S. Attorney Announces $2.5 Million False Claims Act Settlement With Diagnostic Testing Facility For Paying Kickbacks To Physicians For Patient Referrals
- Why One New York Health System Stopped Suing Its Patients
- Mount Sinai hospital opens $2M epilepsy monitoring unit
- Guthrie Lourdes Hospital affected by Ascension cyberattack
- NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell names chair of medicine, physician-in-chief
- Healthcare workers call for greater enforcement of New York clinical staffing law
NORTH CAROLINA
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- AdventHealth to hold listening sessions for more input on Buncombe County hospital
- AdventHealth kicks off listening sessions after receiving approval for new Weaverville hospital
- HCA loses AdventHealth CON appeal
- Judge Approves AdventHealth’s New Hospital
- NC judge upholds AdventHealth’s Certificate of Need for building new Buncombe hospital
- New buyer sought as 2023 deal for shuttered hospital crumbles
- Owners of North Carolina orthopedic clinic convicted of fraud still liable for unpaid taxes
- Report claims North Carolina hospitals overcharged state workers for cancer drugs
- Working to improve the mental health of North Carolina clinicians
- North Carolina could ban face masks for medical reasons in public
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- Adena Health hit with False Claims lawsuit
- Mount Carmel Health System names new president, CEO
- Hearings begin for nurse-to-patient ratio legislation in Ohio
- Family Health Services receives $2.4M grant to help patients in Northeast Ohio
- How do Cleveland-area hospitals rate on Leapfrog’s new patient safety grade report?
- Akron hospital honors trailblazing African-American nurse
- Kettering Health expands neurological physical therapy to rural areas
- Ovatient helps MetroHealth expand its virtual care footprint
- Hospital-based violence intervention program looks to tackle trauma
- Mercy Health offers pro-level ortho care to the community
- Ohio lawmakers consider expanding critieria for forced hospitalization
OKLAHOMA
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- 2 Community Health Systems Oklahoma hospitals tap assistant CFO
- Attorney General Drummond sues pharma, PBMs over insulin prices
- Nursing home workers praised for roles in harrowing tornado evacuation
- UnitedHealthcare beats TeamHealth in Oklahoma trial
- OU Medical Students Protest Bill That Would End Some Gender-Affirming Health Care
- New Law Gives Oklahoma First Responders Better Access To Mental Health Treatment
OREGON
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- Legacy Health’s primary care providers consider unionizing
- Optum agrees to Oregon lawmakers’ demands not to enforce noncompete agreements
- Optum forgoes physician noncompetes at Oregon medical group
- Oregon hospitals, patient advocates at odds over penalties for ‘unreasonable’ health care cost growth
- Oregon hospitals scramble to hire nurses to comply with new law in June
- Private investors acquire 104-year-old Portland senior living center
- Providence Health announces multi-million dollar expansion to emergency room space and cardiac care
- Providence invests $177M in ER, cardiac upgrades backed by high-profile donors
- Oregon’s health care cost-growth controls hit a crucial stage
- Case of Legacy hospital tech who took photos of burn victim uncovers culture of unauthorized patient photos
- Coastal Oregon health center fired medical director for blowing whistle, suit claims
- Newport hospital becomes first small, rural Oregon hospital to use robotic-assisted surgery equipment
PENNSYLVANIA
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- 2 Philly-Area Health Facilities Remain Up For Grabs As Clock Ticks Down On Sale Deadline
- CHOP lands $50M gift from local real estate family for new research tower
- Cooper Hospital seeks to train a new generation of compassionate caregivers
- Delaware County’s Crozer Health is for sale. It’s not clear if anyone is interested in buying it.
- Geisinger rehab hospital names CEO
- Heritage Valley Health System board considers merger, affiliation options
- Jefferson, Lehigh Valley Health move ahead with merger process
- John Potthoff named CEO of contract research organization RQM+
- No place for workplace violence at Penn Medicine
- Nurses at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children secure up to 15% pay hike in new 3-year deal
- Pa. hospital aims to increase number of cardiac care patients received
- Pennsylvania Hospital nurses receive Daisy Award for changing the direction of a patient’s future
- Philadelphia-area hospitals see the potential in virtual nursing, but are still learning how to use it
- Prospect Medical Holdings’ troubles endanger potential Crozer Health sale. Will Pa. step in to save health care in Delco?
- St. Luke’s Conducting Community Health Needs Assessment
- UHS taps RCM vice president
- UPMC to pay $38M in whistleblower lawsuit settlement
- Venatorx co-founder Christopher Burns steps down as CEO
- Pa. lawmakers told of health care system woes; ‘More people are putting off care than ever before’
- Pennsylvania Moves to Ban Non-Compete Agreements for Health Care Workers
RHODE ISLAND
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- Majority stakes of three RI radiology clinics acquired by California company
- R.I. health care spending skyrocketed after COVID. Now it’s coming back down to Earth.
- RI nursing home patients can be violent with each other. What can be done?
- Aetna is cutting Medicare Advantage benefits in 2025, CVS exec says
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- McMaster urges legislature to revive healthcare agency consolidation bill
- MUSC Health hospital taps HCA exec as chief medical officer
- Prisma Health breaks ground on $128M Columbia medical park
- University of South Carolina unveils statewide neurology health network expansion
- Bill to merge 6 SC health agencies into 1 dies after last-minute turn
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- 1 year after Envision filed for bankruptcy: What’s happened since
- Ascension Saint Thomas to add transplant center to Nashville hospital
- Ascension Saint Thomas impacted by latest ransomware attack
- CHS sues MultiPlan
- Home health care company Compassus names CEO
- Maury Regional CEO shares concerns over Spring Hill hospital plan
- NHC’s net operating revenues increase by 10.2% year over year
- New ASC under construction at Tennessee shopping center
- Tennessee Ascension Locations Using Paper Systems Following Ransomware Attack
- What’s new with HCA Healthcare?
- Ballad: Holston Valley first hospital in East TN to complete cardiac procedures with new tech
- Lawsuit to block new Vanderbilt hospital in Murfreesboro filed by Saint Thomas
TEXAS
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- 5 Texas hospital closures, bankruptcies
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas signs big lease in southwest Houston
- Cook Children’s plans to relocate its day care in Fort Worth’s medical district
- Harris Health System Initiates Groundbreaking $1.6 Billion Hospital Project in Northeast Houston
- Houston ranks second for high-performing ambulatory surgery centers, US News & World Report finds
- How the Houston Methodist system diagnosed and treated its nursing workforce problem.
- Legacy Community Health breaks ground on clinic funded by $50M Houston Methodist gift
- Lovelace and Texas-based hospital corporation to build new Los Lunas medical center
- Memorial Hermann to expand into New Caney with new $10 million facility
- Private equity firm, accused of trying to build a monopoly in radiology, dismissed as defendant in FTC lawsuit
- Private-equity owner dropped from FTC’s USAP lawsuit
- Steward employee payment delayed over ‘processing error’
- Texas hospital names president
- Texas hospital to close, lay off 94
- The 3 states with the most top-ranked ASCs
- Dallas systems get $100M gift for pediatric campus
- Conifer is an ‘incredibly valuable asset,’ Tenet CEO says
- Houston Methodist donates $50M for development of 2 FQHC clinics
UTAH
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- Intermountain Health inks deal with professional rugby team
- Medical robot performs almost a dozen head, neck surgeries in Utah
- University of Utah Health launches regional first with Utah Pregnancy After Loss program
- Utah bill aims to boost mental health support for first responders and their families
- Southern Utah hospitals maintain ‘A’ grades in safety
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON
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- Advocates push for infertility insurance laws in Washington state
- Department of Health has launched the 988 Suicide and Crisis lifeline campaign website
- Kaiser Permanente Plans to Sell Seattle Site Once Planned for 240,000 SQFT Project
- New 150-bed UW psychiatric hospital opens to serve hard-to-treat patients
- Providence President and CEO Rod Hochman to retire
- Seattle Children’s Hospital seeks to throw out lawsuit alleging health care racism
- New center aims to address Washington’s behavioral health needs
- Clinic expands to Bellevue as demand for infertility treatment rises in Washington state
WEST VIRGINIA
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- Mon Health Preston (West Virginia) Memorial Hospital donates truck to Preston High School
- More than $2.5 million announced by Senator Manchin for health centers in West Virginia
- Mon Health Medical Center 1st in West Virginia to offer Optilume BPH Catheter System
- New Rural Health Clinic to open at Welch Community Hospital
WISCONSIN
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- Ascension is the latest Wisconsin health system hit with a cyber attack
- Gundersen Tri-County propels rural healthcare with ribbon cutting of new hospital
- KSB Hospital could merge with OSF HealthCare
- Pam Health To Build Rehabilitation Hospitals In Four States
- Study show hospital costs high in Wisconsin
- What we know about the cyberattack on Ascension hospitals and clinics in Wisconsin, across the U.S.
- Wisconsin hospitals face critical workforce shortages
- Area hospital systems respond to report that says Wisconsin has high health care costs
- New clinics pop up in Wisconsin after series of closures
WYOMING
