NATIONAL
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- 3 federal moves to address rural healthcare gap
- 340B purchases hit $66.3B in 2023
- 100M hit by Change Healthcare breach
- AHA pushes for hospital-at-home changes
- Amazon One Medical, Cleveland Clinic partner on primary care
- Big systems looking ‘outside of the four walls of the hospital’
- Calm Health, UnitedHealthcare form partnership: 3 notes
- Cigna-Humana merger talks are back on: report
- Doctors hate MIPS. They aren’t crazy about the alternative, either
- FDA outlines new Drug Supply Chain Security Act exemptions
- Healthcare executive pay rises 4.6%
- Humana sues to reverse cut to Medicare Advantage ratings
- Karen Lynch steps down as CVS Health CEO
- Nursing home survey teams don’t always have to include nurses: federal appeals court
- Senate report: How private equity ‘gutted’ dozens of U.S. hospitals
ALABAMA
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- Alabama faces 3rd hospital closure this year
- Alabama hospital’s future in limbo as receiver steps in
- Alabama medical center rebrands, adds ASC
- Nationwide medical provider acquires urgent care facilities in Alabama
- North Birmingham medical office property sells for $1.5M
- South Alabama hospital addition to open this month
- Struggling Jackson Hospital brings on restructuring officer, won’t move forward with investment group
- Struggling Alabama hospital ‘remains open’ after $60 million default: What comes next?
- Alabama Hospital Improves Follow-Up on Incidental Imaging Findings
ALASKA
ARIZONA
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- Developer buys Arizona vacant medical office building
- Meridian Purchases Medical Office Building for $8.05 Million in Tucson
- Steward Arizona behavioral hospital gets interim manager
- Former AZ Department of Health employee charged in Medicaid fraud indictment
- Arizona hospital performs kidney transplant using robotic technology
ARKANSAS
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- NIH Director “blown away” by health care efforts in Arkansas
- Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announce $5 million to expand support for mental health, substance abuse fight
- Votes won’t be counted for Arkansas medical marijuana ballot measure, court says
- Experts: More low-cost specialty care options needed in Northwest Arkansas
- Whitaker Family Foundation donates $5 million to Arkansas Children’s NWA expansion
CALIFORNIA
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- Adventist renegotiating lease for rural hospital with low margins
- Blue Shield of California partners with Salesforce to automate prior authorization
- California ASC ownership lawsuit settled after decade of litigation
- California Health Sciences University reaches full accreditation across all programs
- California lab and owners to pay $135K in kickback scheme: 5 things to know
- California system to trim services, lay off 107
- California supply chain VP laid off and 12 more supply chain updates
- California’s First Nurse Navigation Program Saves Thousands in Medical Expenses
- CVS workers strike at 7 Southern California stores for better pay and health care
- Elevance laying off 123 California employees
- Hospital teams up with ‘Sesame Street’: 6 things to know
- Elk Grove Planning Commission reviewing expansion of Sutter Health campus
- How this ‘David’ system is expanding among ‘Goliaths’
- Kaiser mental health workers begin strike: 9 things to know
- Kaiser Permanente CEO talks about acquiring more hospital systems
- Prime’s $375M acquisition would bring Epic EHR system to 9 Illinois hospitals
- Moody’s downgrades California system’s rating
- OneWell Health Care Expands Services to Northern California to Offer Supported Living Services (SLS) in Sacramento
- Orthopedic pain management company adds to clinical, scientific advisory boards
- Sutter Health plans to $67.8M speciality care center
- Why California is central in the anesthesia provider debate
COLORADO
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- Colorado health system plans to acquire hospital
- Colorado launches price transparency website
- DaVita shuffles executive roles
- Denver Health seeks help from voters, reflecting financial woes of hospitals across the state
- Denver Health changes how doctors administer nitrous oxide, saving money, medicine and air quality
- Medical practice claims construction delay cost $421K
- Orthopedic practice suing over opening delays
- UCHealth postponing some non-emergent cases due to nationwide IV shortage
- UCHealth to add a mountain hospital to its growing system
- Colorado patient, employee information posted on dark web in health systems hack
- Colorado behavioral health specialists worried after 988 suicide and crisis line switches providers
- Turmoil on the landscape at 2 large Colorado Springs health care systems
- Nationwide IV fluid shortage impacts patients, hospitals in Colorado
CONNECTICUT
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- Amid Yale Health, Prospect hospital fight, Congress aims to provide oversight on private equity firms
- As more CVS/Aetna layoffs loom, some CT lawmakers want more info from company
- CT officials urge Yale hospital systems, Prospect to finalize $435M deal or move on and pay debts
- Hartford HealthCare in talks for 5-building hospital expansion: 4 things to know
- Hartford HealthCare, Yale New Haven Health to hold groundbreaking for new proton therapy center
- Lamont says he’s open to tighter restrictions on private equity ownership of CT hospitals; requests independent monitor for Prospect-owned facilities
- Lamont wants an independent monitor for Prospect’s CT hospitals
- State: Rockville General halting surgical, psych services may violate state law
- The best physician, NP, PA clinic staffing models: 4 study findings
- West Hartford-based remote medical staffing firm GMVA relocates HQ, adds 3 execs
- Yale New Haven demands ‘revised terms’ for $435M hospital deal
DC
DELAWARE
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- ChristianaCare one step closer to expanding Middletown campus
- Health systems take over Optum urgent care clinics
- N.J. health care company acquires three Del. nursing homes for $62M
- Bayhealth brings walk-in, health care services to Blue Hen Mall
- Beebe Center for Breast Health welcomes nurse practitioner
- Beebe welcomes psychiatrist Rebecca Montana
- ChristianaCare debuts Delaware’s 1st nurse anesthesiology program
- ‘Game-Changing’ Adaptive Radiation Therapy Program Will Enhance Cancer Treatments
- New laws expand insurance coverage of mammograms and ovarian cancer screenings in Delaware
- PELTO Health Partners adds Delaware orthopedic group
- Saint Francis Hospital’s Healthy Village will be national social-services model
FLORIDA
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- AdventHealth opens $263M Florida hospital
- Doctor Sues Bethesda West Hospital After Critical Injury
- Florida Hospital Association’s CEO on demand for behavioral health
- Florida law could bring new players to C-section business
- Hospital CEO on state funds for behavioral health teaching facilities
- How UF Health Psychiatric Hospital to expand new doctor training
- New laws aim to boost maternity services, train more mental health workers
- New York firm buys Boca Raton medical practice with 5 offices
- NSU recruits doctor to lead health programs
- Surgery Partners, Value Health opens Florida ASC
- Tampa General Hospital’s behavioral health CEO on new facility, state funding
- The Town of Havana is in dire need of a medical doctor: ‘We’re being flooded with phone calls’
- Two St. Johns County clinics become UF Health Urgent Care locations
- UF Health Jacksonville nabs funding from Florida’s $300M Live Healthy Act
GEORGIA
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- Encompass, Piedmont tap Georgia rehab hospital CEO
- Northside Hospital Healthcare System opens total joint replacement ASC
- Wellstar to redevelop site of closed Atlanta Medical Center campus
- Northeast Georgia Health System CEO named 2024 CEO of the Year by statewide hospital group
- Questions surface after inmate escapes from Georgia Regional Hospital
HAWAII
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- How UH Cancer Center is bridging the gap between research and patient care
- Hawaii’s State Psychiatric Hospital Has Leaks, Causing Mold To Grow
- NLRB Judge Rejects Hawaii Clinics’ Dress Policy on Union Logos
- Shriners Children’s Hawaii outreach team to provide free consultation services on Guam
- ‘The next frontier’: Hawaii’s health care, industrial fields get high-tech upgrade
- ‘This case could change the nature of health care’
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
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- Cook County’s large health system finds its new CEO close to home
- Former Crozer Health CEO joins Illinois system
- Inside an Illinois hospital’s safety-first culture: 3 successful programs
- Lurie Children’s Hospital celebrates record year for pediatric transplants
- Northwestern Medicine gets green light $95M medical office building
- Northwestern Hospital Huntley to get medical office building
- OSF Healthcare CFO resigns
- Prime’s $375M acquisition would bring Epic EHR system to 9 Illinois hospitals
- State’s top court embraces broad COVID immunity for nursing homes
- Where health care is going: Ascension Alexian Brothers opens neurosciences unit to meet demands of aging population
- Advocate redesigns the nurse manager role
- Assisted living providers have broad immunity in negligence claims, justices find
- Chicago Cardiology Institute under investigation in data breach
- CommonSpirit makes 26 executive moves in 2024
- How Illinois Tech helped map out UChicago’s Hospital at Home initiative
- How Northwestern Medicine uses AI from Microsoft, Nvidia
- HSHS to shutter university clinic
- Illinois nurse anesthesia program wins accreditation
- Illinois State University cut the ribbon on its future of healthcare training
- Illinois’ top court rules nursing homes had broad immunity during COVID
- IRA Capital acquires medical outpatient facility in Chicago
- Lurie Children’s CIO departs
- Northwestern sues Moderna for alleged patent infringement in COVID shots
- Why Walgreens physician clinics struggled to survive
INDIANA
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- Guardian article looks at high costs at Parkview Health
- Cincinnati Children’s, Peyton Manning Children’s recruit surgeon to round out new partnership
- Indiana sees some gains in health rankings, child mortality still a concern, report says
- Indiana hospitals conserving supply of IV fluids amid national shortage
- UK regulator approves Lilly’s new Alzheimer’s drug but government won’t pay for it
- Zionsville-based health care data company Hc1 acquires Accumen
- Report: Indiana’s total health costs near national average, but differ in other key areas
IOWA
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- Iowa sees largest-ever sale of nursing home chain for $85M
- Iowa medical office building sells for $31.7M
- Iowa system to fully reopen hospital
- Mercy Medical Center introduces online food ordering, delivery service to surgery waiting room
- Mercy Cedar Rapids earns accreditation for metabolic, bariatric surgery
- Private-equity firm buys 29 Iowa nursing homes in massive $85 million deal
- Second wrongful-death lawsuit filed against Iowa nursing home
- University of Iowa expands Air Methods partnership, opening Quad Cities helicopter base
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
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- CHI Saint Joseph Health names new Kentucky president
- Cigna, Humana reportedly resume talks of possible merger
- Humana resumes merger talks: Report
- Jewish Hospital celebrates 60 years of organ transplant
- Police shoot armed man at Kentucky hospital
- Trinity market president takes new role at CHI Saint Joseph
- Officer-involved shooting inside Baptist Health Hardin Hospital under investigation
- UK announces plan to create network to improve health, workforce
- Supporters of birthing centers gain some political ground in Kentucky
LOUISIANA
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- Ochsner moves forward with new Children’s Hospital, commits to community concerns and future growth
- Why a Louisiana health system made a $40M EHR investment
- Breast cancer rates in Louisiana are higher than the national average
- Louisiana doctor pioneers obesity research, developed Amazon tech to track muscle mass
MAINE
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- Maine system asks 3 senior leaders to resign
- A week of turmoil at Northern Light raises concern about further cuts
- Maine EMS debates how to spend remaining emergency funds
- Moody’s downgrades Maine system’s rating
- Mount Desert Island Hospital receives $10,000 grant from Maine Council on Aging
- Northern Light Health outsources roughly 500 jobs
- Nurses at Northern Maine Medical Center filing unfair labor practice charge
MARYLAND
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- $540M hospital project breaks ground
- Health systems find new ways to combat staff shortages, gaps in care
- Maryland lawmakers OK plan to allow caps on high-cost prescription drugs
- Medical company, private school partner on West Baltimore center
- UMMS breaks ground on $540M replacement hospital
- Virtual nursing program eases workload at Sinai Hospital
- U. of Maryland School of Medicine Program Focuses on Rural Eastern Shore
- Forbes Names Adventist HealthCare to Maryland’s Best Employers List for Fifth Year in a Row
MASSACHUSETTS
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- 10 hospitals that saw major operational changes this year
- Baystate Health to lay off managers: 6 things to know
- Insurance dispute in Massachusetts may force thousands of patients to find new doctors
- New leader outlines Baystate Health restructuring in face of losses
- Massachusetts ERs near closed Steward hospitals see more patients
- Newton-Wellesley Hospital Nurses Authorize One-Day Strike
- Two Massachusetts Hospitals Receive Lowest Patient Safety Grade in the State
MICHIGAN
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- Michigan HHS to pay $13M after unannounced shooter drill at psych hospital
- U-M Health to build $32M health care facility near Grand Ledge
- Health care union votes to authorize strike at Michigan Medicine
- Proposed maternal health bills in Michigan pass out of Senate committee
- Henry Ford Health in Detroit Opens Michigan’s First Trauma Recovery Center
MINNESOTA
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- A Minnesota hospital tested VR in its nurse residency program. Here’s how it went
- Mayo team performs first paired living-donor liver transplants
- Minnesota ASC property sells for $72M
- Allina may exit Humana’s Medicare Advantage network in 2025, affecting 18,000 Minnesotans
- Cyberattack at UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare affected 100M Americans
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
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- Ascension taps 2 regional financial officers
- Ascension foundation donates $1M for postpartum needs
- Large Northland health clinic reports cyberattack affecting patient information
- Marcus & Millichap closes sale of 24,952-square-foot medical office building in Missouri
- Mercy partners with New York-based health plan
- Owens & Minor will close North Kansas City facility cutting 60-plus jobs
- Boone Health introduces new Da Vinci 5 robotic surgical systems
- MU Health Care announces new transplant, cellular therapy program
MONTANA
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- Assisted living employers cannot discriminate based on vaccination status, court rules
- Billings Clinic-Logan Health to use Oracle EHR across 30 hospitals
- Intermountain opens new $17M cancer center in Montana
- Intermountain Health Holy Rosary Hospital Opens Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Montana hospital taps CEO
- Montana medical professionals sign letter supporting CI-128
- Ninth Circuit Court ruling impacts Montana healthcare workers and providers
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
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- Cleveland Clinic programs could boost medical tourism in Las Vegas
- First freestanding children’s hospital coming to Las Vegas
- 1 million+ patients lose coverage as insurers, hospitals drop Medicare Advantage
- Molina Healthcare of Nevada Grants $250,000 to Increase Health Care for Local Women
- Nevada U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen Joins Amicus Brief Urging Federal Court to Affirm Hospitals Must Provide Emergency Stabilizing Care, Including Abortion Care
- New Las Vegas nursing college is looking to help combat the state’s nursing shortage
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
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- CarePoint, Hudson Regional to combine under MSO
- N.J. health care company acquires three Del. nursing homes for $62M
- Palisades Medical Center Breaks Ground On New ED In North Bergen, New Jersey
- Virtua Health gets a rating upgrade amid ‘very strong operating results’
- A New Jersey hospital CEO’s 2025 strategy
- AtlantiCare names new chief physician executive
- GI specialist earns inaugural endowed professorship
- HCCC Receives Excellence in Diversity Health Professions Award
- New Jersey hospital system advances merger amid deepening financial woes
- NJ nursing home workers charged with brutally beating patient
- Northeast Spine and Sports Medicine under investigation following data breach
- OSF HealthCare chief financial officer will leave Peoria-based company for job on east coast
- RWJBarnabas names heart and vascular services leader
- Steven K. Libutti, MD, FACS, Named Inaugural William N. Hait Director at Rutgers Cancer Institute
- VA Clinic To Close As New One Opens In Toms River
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- Antibiotic-resistant gene widely detected at Northwell hospitals: Study
- Bucks County organization to be part of $430M life sciences development in New York
- CarePoint, Hudson Regional to combine under MSO
- Direct primary care health practice opens in downtown Albany
- Independent Health, Highmark warn of potential network changes
- Independent Health cuts 66 jobs in Buffalo
- Mercy partners with New York-based health plan
- New York firm buys Boca Raton medical practice with 5 offices
- New York medical transport company owners convicted in $2.1M Medicaid fraud
- New York physician charged with accepting kickbacks for unnecessary brain scans
- New York system cuts 100 jobs
- Northwell Health expands behavioral health program for children and adolescents
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Advocate taps Mercy exec
- Atrium, Novant compete for PET scanner: 7 things to know
- Independent ophthalmology practice joins Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist after shuttering facility
- N.C. Supreme Court orders medical certification lawsuit be reheard
- North Carolina Supreme Court orders Certificate of Need lawsuit be reheard
- North Carolina system president steps down
- Raleigh CEO exits after selling company
- UNC Health looks to add new hospital in Wake Forest
- UNC, Duke Health compete for Durham County expansion
- NC Supreme Court ruling could shake up multibillion-dollar hospital industry
- Report: North Carolina ranked 10th worst for healthcare access
- Doctor’s lawsuit tests constitutionality of how NC regulates health care facilities
- Some NC nursing homes still without water, 3 weeks after Hurricane Helene
- NC health organizations create partnership to reduce maternal mortality rates
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- Amazon One Medical, Cleveland Clinic partner on primary care
- Cincinnati Children’s, Peyton Manning Children’s recruit surgeon to round out new partnership
- Here are Ohio State’s top 25 highest-earning health system employees
- Local clinic closure leaves patients with rare disorders in limbo
- MetroHealth’s virtual care startup expands into behavioral health
- New PatientPoint CEO makes first leadership move days into new role
- Why Cleveland Clinic is partnering with Amazon’s One Medical
- OhioHealth Van Wert Hospital launches automated to-go market
- Ground broken for planned inpatient rehabilitation hospital in South Point
- Akron Children’s Hospital, University of Akron to offer free associate degree in nursing
- Shriners Children’s Ohio receives record $11.5M donation
- Holzer Health System continues its march forward in Gallipolis, Ohio, providing high-quality care
OKLAHOMA
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- Care Providers chairperson joins national assisted living board
- OU clinical trial shows IV Ensure cuts hospital readmissions
- OU Health places last beam in behavioral health hospital for children
- SSM Health, Select Medical form joint venture to operate Oklahoma City hospital
- New OU health center to expand mental health resources for children
OREGON
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- Adventist breaks ground on surgery center expansion and modernization
- Healthcare workers vote to authorize first doctors strike in Oregon history
- Oregon leads battle to beat cancer: Collaboration, funding vital for driving next-generation research
- Oregon physician clinic to close
- Physicians file $4.5M suit against Samaritan Health Services, allege retaliation
- Q&A with Providence Portland Medical Center’s Jessica Monego regarding the changing ER landscape
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Bucks County organization to be part of $430M life sciences development in New York
- CHOP will borrow $750 million for $2.59 billion patient tower, $480 million research center
- Former Crozer Health CEO joins Illinois system
- Health systems take over Optum urgent care clinics
- Jefferson Health will spend $900M on Lehigh Valley capital projects, according to LVHN
- Lehigh Valley Health sued over retirement plan: 6 things to know
- Penn State Agrees To Pay $1.25 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
- Philadelphia children’s hospital gets $30M financial support: 6 things to know
- Philadelphia-area health systems end use of four race-based algorithms to guide care
- Physician sues Pennsylvania ASC over alleged wrongful termination
- St.Peter’s and UnitedHealthcare end payment standoff, reach agreement
- Still in need, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children gets another $30M lifeline
- Temple Health tries new tactic to recruit and retain nurses amid ongoing shortage
- UPMC closes practice, leaving town without a physician
- Viatris licenses cardiovascular treatment from Lexicon for $25M
RHODE ISLAND
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- Acadia faces another investigation
- Ascension hospital CEO to retire
- Compassus CEO seeks more partners following Providence announcement
- HCA creates EHR-agnostic platform
- HCA continues to climb
- HCA Healthcare to enter partnership with California-based AI company
- How Oracle Health says AI can triple nursing capability
- Insights from Nashville’s $2.7 billion-dollar man Brad Smith
- Nashville surgeries rescheduled amid IV fluid shortage
- New Vanderbilt University Hospital tower to open next year
- Nurses secure AI protections from HCA
- Tennessee clinic pays $1.15M to resolve false claims allegations
- What Elevance Health will pay for CareBridge
- Judges temporarily block discipline of doctors who perform emergency abortions in Tennessee
- Baptist Hospital: The rise and fall of a Knoxville health care empire
- TN doctors can still face criminal prosecution for performing emergency abortions
- $3M grant to bring high-risk pregnancy services to rural West Tennessee communities
TEXAS
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- 2 recent orthopedic data breaches in the South
- A deep dive into Memorial Hermann’s healthcare high school
- Houston hospital named among smartest in the nation
- MD Anderson Cancer Center plans new $200M+ facility near Texas Medical Center
- New tower at Children’s Medical Center Plano means more sophisticated care, hundreds of new hires
- Rice University creates new company in TMC’s Helix Park campus to launch startups
- Texas Children’s leadership pay grew 125% in years before layoffs. Experts question transparency
- Texas system taps revenue cycle VP from LCMC Health
- Texas system taps revenue cycle VP from LCMC Health
- Texas hospitals will soon have to ask patients for their citizenship status
- The ongoing Steward financial saga: 67 things to know
- UT Southwestern to pay $900K to settle alleged bias against Black applicants
- Woman who posed as nurse leader pleads guilty
- Cyber attack effecting Texas Tech Health System’s students, patients
UTAH
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- New Intermountain Cancer Clinic opens at Intermountain Alta View Hospital in Sandy – cancer care close to home
- Family Healthcare receives generous humanitarian donation
- Intermountain 1st in US to perform aortic aneurysm procedure
- Intermountain Health and American Cancer Society work together to increase breast cancer awareness
- Intermountain to build estimated $1B Las Vegas freestanding children’s hospital
- U of U Health aims to reduce stillbirths via newly designated Center of Excellence
- Utah clinic’s chronic pain treatment could be PTSD answer for some
VERMONT
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- UVM Medical Center takes legal action in effort to prevent additional patient care cuts
- UVM takes action following budget restraints, ASC construction stalls
- Bellows Falls health clinic to close amid ‘unsustainable’ financial reality
- Howard Center unveils new mental health urgent care unit
- UVM Medical Center, regulator clash over enforcement action
VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON
WEST VIRGINIA
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- New Cardiology Clinic at WVU Medicine PCH to enhance patient services
- Parkersburg (West Virginia) recovery facility accused of Medicaid fraud
- West Virginia medical groups sue state over expanded ‘scope of practice’
- West Virginia’s rural hospitals encouraged to apply for share of $40M
- WVU Medicine Children’s named top children’s hospital in West Virginia by U.S. News & World Report
WISCONSIN
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- Ascension Wisconsin Prioritizes Maternal Health in Milwaukee With Specialized OBED Services
- Giannis Antetokounmpo family foundation teams with GE HealthCare on $1M initiative
- Sanford Health, Marshfield Clinic move forward on proposed merger
- Sixteenth Street switches maternity hospitals from Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s to Aurora Sinai
- Children’s Wisconsin’s Appleton Clinic to get an urgent care
- Judy Faulkner’s plan to distribute her wealth
- Hospital closures have ripple effects that reach Madison
- Milwaukee woman federally indicted for health care fraud
- Security Health CEO named to Wisconsin Titan 100
- Specialty health clinic seeking volunteer clinicians to help support uninsured Wisconsinites
- Spooner Health Now Seeking Candidate For APNP Hospitalist
- SSM Health at Home Joins Wisconsin Hospice & Palliative Care Collaborative
- Western Wisconsin Health impacted by Hurricane Helene
WYOMING
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- Jackson hospital, doctors deny wrongdoing in uninsured, undocumented patient’s death
- New UW School of Pharmacy Course Examines Preparing for the Next Pandemic
- What happens when a rural Wyoming town loses its only source of health care?
- Wyoming hospital fights EMTALA lawsuit, claims it should be malpractice case
- Cheyenne doctor looking to offer check ups for people without health insurance
