NATIONAL
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- 5 multimillion-dollar Stark law penalties in 2024
- 5 Deals That Defined Hospital M&A in 2024
- 50 Joint Commission moves in 2024
- Bristol Myers Squibb latest drug company to sue HHS over 340B rebate model
- CMS finalizes new kidney transplant model: 10 things to know
- CMS updates immediate jeopardy guidance: 4 key changes
- CMS releases ‘significant revisions’ to nursing home survey guidance
- DOJ Pushes For Preliminary Injunction Denial in Nursing Home Staffing Mandate Lawsuit
- For rural hospitals, mergers may be key to survival, study finds
- Healthcare providers will need to boost cyber defenses amid AI adoption: Moody’s
- HHS-OIG Recommends OCR Enhance its HIPAA Audit Program
- Hospitals increase legal pressure to boost Medicare pay
- House COVID-19 panel releases final report: 3 key takeaways
- Is Walgreen’s primary care gamble backfiring?
- Judge orders CMS to recalculate UnitedHealth’s 2025 star ratings
- M&A or affiliation improved rural hospitals’ margins, reduced risk of closure: report
- PBM legislation again dominates lobbying expenditures in 2024
- Sanofi joins J&J, Eli Lilly in proposing 340B rebate model
- Sweeping nonprofit House bill passes, healthcare groups turn attention to Senate
- UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: sources
- Why private equity-backed players are losing doctors
ALABAMA
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- Alabama hospital listed as performing ‘unnecessary’ back surgeries
- Encompass Health prevails in lawsuit against former executives
- Executive Profile: Meet the man behind multiple Bham health care companies
- Home health to be core driver of Aveanna’s growth, CEO says
- How the health care landscape, future of care in Alabama are shifting
- Huntsville Hospital’s Madison Street Tower plans 154,000-square-foot addition
- Huntsville Hospital set to grow
- North Alabama Shoals Hospital prepared to add new juvenile behavioral health unit
- Startup partnering with Hardware Park to develop medical prototype
ALASKA
ARIZONA
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- Arizona Behavioral Health Hospitals Struggle Financially Amid Overall Hospital Profitability Gains
- Banner hospitals implement visitor restrictions in Arizona
- CHS subsidiary buys multiple Arizona urgent care centers
- CHS subsidiary buys Arizona urgent care sites from Carbon Health
- Families in limbo as Phoenix Children’s, AZ Blue fail to reach deal
- Retired airman finds joy in providing care to the incarcerated
- Rising cost from uncompensated care an issue for Arizona’s behavioral health hospitals
- The Benefits of Moving to a Unified Scheduling Platform at Banner Health
ARKANSAS
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- 12 Arkansas Groups Receive Grants to Fund Mental Health Programs
- Ark. health center receives funding to help people leaving prison
- CARTI’s Festival of Trees Breaks Fundraising Record, Raises Nearly $870K
- Pediatrics Plus Draws $8.7M Transaction
- Partnerships key to strengthening maternal health in Arkansas
- Rock Dental Secures $90M in Funding to Continue Growth, Adds Chief Development Officer
- Storage Project Starts With $5.1M Purchase (Real Deals)
- UAMS looking to improve maternal health in Arkansas with online scorecard
- West Memphis Company Raises $4M in Private Equity Placement
CALIFORNIA
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- $145M Sutter ambulatory complex secures city approval
- Amazon-Abarca Pharmacy Venture With Blue Shield Of California Readies January Launch
- California ASC physician faces negligence lawsuit
- California ASC sued for alleged wrongful termination
- California assisted living community pays $137K in back wages, damages
- California birth centers are shutting down. A lawmaker has a new plan to help them
- California city approves $1.2B HCA hospital expansion
- California hospital hit by network disruption
- California hospital reverts to paper records amid IT outage
- California lawmakers unveil new abortion protections ahead of Trump return to White House
- California medical office building sells for $14.4M
- California neurosurgeon adds neurology ultrasound treatment
- California nurse illegally fired for Pro-Palestine activism, aid group alleges
- California physicians pay $2.4M to resolve kickback claims
- California physician pleads guilty to $1.4M Medicare fraud scheme
- California system CEO to retire
- California system posts $165M annual operating loss, -18.5% margin
- California system taps CEO
- California system reduces workforce, streamlines leadership
- CHS subsidiary buys multiple Arizona urgent care centers
- CommonSpirit bolsters presence in Mountain region
- Development poised to add 800 health care jobs
- Dignity Health utilizing team of substance abuse navigators across California to connect patients with treatment options
- Folsom’s new Sutter Health facility moves construction to 2025. Here’s what it will offer
- Golden State Orthopedics & Spine opens new location
- Health care giant breaks ground on 650K-square-foot hospital
- Health care price transparency remains a concern in California hospitals
- Insights from new CEOs: Charlie Biegel, president, Eyefinity
- Hoag Hospital Irvine Expansion, Sun Family Campus, Irvine, California: First Look
- Insights from new CEOs: Hollie Seeley, Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento
- Kaiser-backed Risant Health completes Cone Health acquisition
- Kaiser Permanente leader, facility poised for January launch in Salinas
- Kaiser Permanente breaks ground on a new hospital in San Jose
- Kaiser Permanente inks NBA partnership
- Kaiser medical school leans into ‘3rd pillar’ of education
- Kaiser Permanente plans to downsize Oakland headquarters, report says
- Kaiser Permanente’s massive physician workforce
- Local health system taps new CEO
- New surgical robot expands to the ASC setting
- NIH to fund Scripps Health’s ‘smart’ shoulder implant
- Providence California hospital expands executive’s role
- Providence’s $712M California hospital expansion: 5 updates
- RadNet Dives Into AI Technology
- San Jose officials greenlight hospital expansion
- UC Regents reaches $15M settlement over medication error: 5 things to know
- Why Stanford isn’t doing hospital at home — yet
- What California’s Health Data Sharing Moves Might Mean for Rest of U.S.
COLORADO
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- Ambulatory Surgery Center Breaks Ground in Colorado Springs
- An Intermountain Health physician and leader works to tackle diabetes among Indigenous populations in the South Pacific
- Cease-and-desist letter served to alleged unlicensed medical practice
- Colorado health care orgs: The stage is ‘set for disaster’ in 2025
- Children’s Hospital Colorado using virtual reality to make procedures easier for patients
- Colorado doesn’t have enough health care providers — even in Denver. What would it take to fix that?
- Denver Health CEO eyes tech, new buildings after ballot measure win
- Denver Health CEO hosts panel discussing anticipated changes in health care
- Denver Health to open new family health center in southeast Denver
- Fitzsimons life sciences campus launches search for new leader
- Former nursing home worker has COVID-19 vaccination lawsuit reinstated
- Intermountain Health Good Samaritan Hospital marks milestone anniversary
- New Colorado ASC planned in wake of nearby center closure
- New medical office building construction begins in northern Colorado Springs
- Report claims many Colorado hospitals do not fully comply with ‘Hospital Discounted Care’ law
- Colorado leaders prepare for changes in health care systems, discuss options
CONNECTICUT
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- $1B Sandoz Placeholder Bid Needs More Support, Judge Says
- American School for the Deaf, Hartford HealthCare partner for sign language interpreter program
- Armed guards coming to some healthcare facilities after workers report dangers
- As population ages, CT’s chronic disease hospital sector set to double in size with new market entrants
- Athena seeks to close two more nursing homes, this time in Bristol
- Connecticut hospital owner owes $56 million in back rent, new court docs say
- Connecticut Mental Health Center staff speak out in anonymous letter
- Connecticut medical office building housing ASC sells for $19M
- CVS Health confirms layoffs in two states
- Former gymnast’s path to founding $16M (and growing) virtual medical assistants business had twists and turns
- HHC Cancer Institute at St. Vincent’s Medical Center becomes nation’s 1st ‘Care Partner’ of Memorial Sloan Kettering
- Independent monitor appointed to oversee CT’s Waterbury Hospital amid health care violations
- MPT installs new leadership at Prospect hospitals as system continues to miss rent payments
- New Jersey-based Abra Health acquires dentistry group based in CT
- NJ chain buys CT kids’ dental practices in Fairfield and New Haven counties
- New Haven construction company finds niche converting defunct nursing homes into market rate apartments
- Owner of Sam’s Food Stores linked to $3.3M East Hartford pharmacy property purchase
- Report outlines coverage gaps for mental health care in Connecticut
- Stamford Health’s negligence treating appendicitis caused pregnant woman to lose twins, lawsuit says
- Yale New Haven Health expands Greater Hartford urgent care footprint
- YNHH tops off largest healthcare construction project in Connecticut history
DC
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- Cedar Hill, the Southeast D.C. hospital opening in 2025, starts staffing up
- DC Department of Health wants to stop the spread of HIV in the District by 2030
- ER doctors credit DC ambulance blood transfusion program for saving more lives
- George Washington University resident doctors vote to authorize strike
- Howard University inks lease in Douglas Development’s Wonder Bread Factory building
- Interview with Holy Cross Health Network’s President Annice Cody: Prioritizing health equity in Maryland and D.C.
- Kaiser-backed Risant Health completes Cone Health acquisition
DELAWARE
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- ChristianaCare taps chief well-being officer
- ChristianaCare residents file to unionize
- ChristianaCare-YMCA of Delaware Partnership Strives to Help All Ages Thrive
- ChristianaCare to place new neighborhood hospital in Aston, PA
- Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital emergency rooms reopened Tuesday after radiology services were restored
- Delaware Healthcare Association urges Gov. Carney to halt hospital review board appointments
- Encompass Health CEO Leads Charge in 2025 to Build a Community of Lifesavers in Delaware
- Jefferson taps chief of staff from ChristianaCare
- Lewes to get new freestanding pain management surgery center
- Medical facilities, fitness centers opening in Smyrna, Dover, Milford
- Nemours Children’s Health opens cardiology office at Beebe Selbyville location
- Report finds Delaware does not meet majority of primary care, dental or mental health needs statewide
FLORIDA
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- AdventHealth joins forces with the Straz Center to elevate performing arts in Tampa Bay
- AdventHealth reorganizes hospital leadership
- AdventHealth Wesley Chapel names new CEO
- Anticipating growth, Baptist Jacksonville moves obstetrics expansion forward
- Ascension Sacred Heart breaks ground on a $15M Perdido emergency room project
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donates millions to pharma company
- Boca Raton Regional Hospital Appoints Dr. William Holubek as Chief Medical Officer
- Broward Health, Nicklaus Children’s to combine pediatric care
- CareMax to close 29 locations amid bankruptcy
- CareMax finds potential $100 million buyer for medical clinics
- Community Health Systems to sell hospital to Florida-based AdventHealth
- Cross Country Healthcare to be sold for $615 million
- CVS to close Tampa specialty pharmacy, cut over 50 jobs
- Florida health system to invest $160M in Epic
- Florida medical group lays off physicians after filing for bankruptcy
- Florida medical marijuana operators ready to light up
- Florida PA pleads guilty in $7.3M Medicare fraud scheme
- HCA to acquire Prime Florida hospital
- HHS Office for Civil Rights Imposes a $1.19 Million Penalty Against Gulf Coast Pain Consultants for HIPAA Security Rule Violations
- How this behavioral chain plans to double its patient base in 2025
- How 3 ASCs adapt to the anesthesia shortage
- Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital plans for $62 million expansion in 2025
- Memorial restructures executive roles: 4 things to know
- Orlando Health posts 7.5% operating margin in fiscal 2024
- PeopleOne Health keeps expanding in Florida
- UF Health Jacksonville to break ground on $90M emergency center honoring late CEO
GEORGIA
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- $5 million settlement reached in Atlanta health care fraud case
- Emory doctors first in U.S. to successfully perform new ‘experimental’ heart pump surgery
- Emory Healthcare’s chief AI officer exits
- Medical scan company to pay US, Georgia government $5.25 million for violating False Claims Act
- Ga. lawmakers look to improve health, safety in state-run prisons
- Georgia dismisses members of pregnancy maternal death review board after leak of information on 2 such deaths
- Maternal mortality review panels are in the spotlight in Georgia and other states. Here’s what they do
- Health experts agree Northeast Georgia seeing ‘exceptionally high’ rates of thyroid cancer
- New president and CEO named for Northeast Georgia Health System
HAWAII
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- Hawaii medical marijuana caregiver program set to expire Dec. 31
- Hawaii system names CFO
- Maui County Council passes resolution supporting healthcare workers’ contract negotiations
- Maui Health taps administrator of critical access hospitals
- US Seeks to End Hawaii Doctors’ Challenge to Abortion Pill Regs
IDAHO
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- 9th Circ. Partially Upholds Block Of Idaho Abortion Travel Ban
- Central District Health investigating tuberculosis infection at Meridian High School
- Portneuf Health appoints Nate Carter as new chief executive officer
- Governor Little names Trevor Sparrow Idaho’s new health and social services ombudsman
- Child care is one solution for Idaho’s health care workforce shortages
ILLINOIS
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- A ‘straight-A’ hospital’s safety playbook
- Chicago system partners with Clearway Health to expand specialty pharmacy services
- CommonSpirit bolsters presence in Mountain region
- CommonSpirit ‘focusing heavily’ on ambulatory development
- CommonSpirit Forms Alliance With University of Utah Health
- CommonSpirit on track for $1.3B in cash payments
- CommonSpirit’s Q1 revenue by region
- Cook County Health expands access to doulas for pregnant patients who need it most
- Former employee sues Lurie Children’s for alleged retaliation: 5 notes
- Former Horizon CEO gifts Rush $8.25M for orthopedic research
- How 3 Health Systems Are Scaling Hybrid & Home-Based Models
- Illinois hospital closes child care center
- Illinois hospital ends agreement with midwives, family medicine physicians
- Judge dismisses CommonSpirit data breach lawsuit
- Kindred Hospital building up for auction in Sycamore
- Memorial Health’s CFO on the system’s $100M turnaround
- More than 80 hospitals in Illinois recognized for efforts to improve outcomes for Americans with heart disease and stroke
- New report finds two Springfield hospitals aren’t fully compliant with price rules
- OSF HealthCare hospital names president
- Peoria Heights nursing home receives $100,000 in fines for violating state rules
- Rush’s Epic strategy evolves with emerging trends
- Severe pregnancy complications are rising in Illinois, affecting Black mothers the most
- The CommonSpirit region that ‘remains challenged’
- VillageMD’s CEO steps down
INDIANA
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- Aging care provider names CEO
- American Pain Consortium opens ASC
- Franciscan Health Dyer will transition to mental health campus in late 2027
- IN Hospitals Pull Merger Application After Pushback Over Monopoly Concerns
- Jennie Stuart board committee will meet Tuesday, but not to vote on Deaconess acquisition
- Petauri acquires Indianapolis-based company
- Priority Health completes deal for Northern Indiana health plan
- State moves to drop case against Carmel doctor
- Union Health withdraws proposal to acquire nearby hospital
- East Central Indiana emerging as hub for training Indiana’s health-care workforce
- Report: Indiana, U.S., could see closings of more rural hospitals
- Bedford health care providers recognized for collaborating after hospital closure
- Northwest Indiana health network included on national hospital price transparency report
- Indy Health District aims to address health disparities in neighborhoods near new hospital
- Baptist Health Floyd unveils 8 new operating rooms at southern Indiana hospital
IOWA
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- Health care leaders prioritize recruitment, retention as Iowa’s physician shortage worse
- Iowa hospital fires employee over alleged treatment of transgender patient
- Iowa KidSight launches its first Medical Advisory Board
- Mercy Foundation, Fairfax State Savings Bank announce donation match
- Nurses at 4 UnityPoint Iowa hospitals plan to form union
- Physician denied Iowa license for 3rd time
- Redevelopment of Higley Mansion as residential substance abuse treatment facility progressing
- UI Health Care begins hiring process for North Liberty campus
- UI Nurse Innovators program transforms patient care solutions
- University of Iowa ramps up hiring as North Liberty hospital opening nears
- University of Iowa cancer care saves misdiagnosed 4-year-old
KANSAS
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- Discussion on long-term care blames profit motives for older Kansans’ suffering
- Hunter Health lines up partner for new $12M community wellness center
- Excellence in Health Care: November 2024
- Mergers, leadership turnover reshape Kansas City hospitals in 2024
- Supply chain and behavioral health the focus as acute-care hospitals tackle staffing
- Wichita State Launches Institute for Assistive Medical Tech
KENTUCKY
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- Aging care provider names CEO
- Attorney General Russell Coleman files lawsuit against Optum Rx for role in opioid epidemic
- Baptist Health Floyd unveils 8 new operating rooms at southern Indiana hospital
- Georgetown Community Hospital and Central Kentucky Cancer Care Announce Expansion and Renovation of Cancer Center
- Healthcare: Kentucky Health By the Numbers
- Humana CFO Susan Diamond stepping down, replacement named
- Jennie Stuart board committee will meet Tuesday, but not to vote on Deaconess acquisition
- Kentucky attorney general targets another big pharmacy benefit manager in opioid-related lawsuit
- Kindred Hospital building up for auction in Sycamore
- New Kenton County Health Center in Covington to be officially opened at Friday ceremony
- New Report Shows Double-Digit Job Growth for Kentucky’s Bioscience Industry
- St Joseph Hospital, St Joseph East score with Healthgrades
- The CommonSpirit region that ‘remains challenged’
LOUISIANA
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- As Medicare Advantage plans pull out of rural areas, patients stand to lose access to critical care
- Benson Capital Partners invests in local health benefits company for hospitality workers
- Better drugs through AI? Insitro CEO on what machine learning can teach Big Pharma
- How 3 ASCs adapt to the anesthesia shortage
- Louisiana’s rural hospitals find ways to persevere in a multiple-front battle
- St. Tammany Health System to open $75M surgery center
- State audit shows a quarter of home-based caregivers not inspected between 2019-23
- Ochsner Medical Complex – Clearview, in Metairie, Louisiana: 2024 Design Showcase Honorable Mention
- New Orleans to award $30M to pediatric well-being program
MAINE
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- Bar Harbor hospital moves ahead with $42M expansion
- DHHS proposes staffing changes for Maine assisted living and residential care facilities
- Feds, Maine settle behavioral health segregation allegations: 3 notes
- Governor Mills Announces Successful Resolution of 34-Year-Old AMHI Consent Decree
- Maine proposes major staffing changes for assisted living and residential care facilities
- MaineHealth names new chief development officer
- More Maine students are using school-based health clinics
MARYLAND
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- Arlington Capital Partners continues buying spree with deal for health care device manufacturer
- Baltimore Medical System CEO aims to combat health disparities
- Interview with Holy Cross Health Network’s President Annice Cody: Prioritizing health equity in Maryland and D.C.
- Maryland facing daunting shortfall of behavioral health workers
- Maryland practice to close
- Mental health care provider opens first city residential crisis center
- Nursing homes at a crossroads: Why investment matters now
- Some nurses at St. Agnes Hospital ask for vote to decertify union
- Maryland needs another 30,000 behavioral health workers to meet growing demand
MASSACHUSETTS
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- A new state law could ease Mass.’ nursing shortage. Here’s how
- Baystate tells IVF patients to find new homes for embryos, eggs, sperm
- Boston Children’s CEO on pediatric care breakthroughs ahead
- Boston Scientific continues acquisition streak, eyes Newton cancer treatment provider
- Cambridge Health Alliance deploys Abridge’s AI medical scribe
- Diabetes company to lay off more than 100 employees in Andover
- Here’s what the new Dana-Farber, Beth Israel hospital could look like
- How 3 Health Systems Are Scaling Hybrid & Home-Based Models
- Mass General Brigham creates AI testing grounds for hospitals
- Mass General Brigham pits AI models against each other in arena-style challenge
- Mass General’s $1.9B clinical care facility: 5 things to know
- Mass General Brigham’s CHRO unveils Gen Z retention success
- Mass. health secretary questions private equity’s impact on hospitals after Steward’s collapse
- Massachusetts regulators approve sale of health system’s insurance subsidiary
- Microbiome company founded by Erika Ebbel Angle now focused on cancer patients
- Private equity buyer keeps Steward executives on staff
- Private equity buyer hires 2 Steward leaders: 5 things to know
- Massachusetts health system, Abridge ink health equity deal: 5 notes
- Point32Health deal approved by Mass. insurance regulators
- Receiver unravels financial mess at Boston nursing home
- Sartorius opens Center for Bioprocess Innovation in Marlborough, plans to hire employees
- Snagging ex-Steward hospitals, BrownHealth secures a foothold in Massachusetts
- Tufts Medicine’s physician engagement strategy
- Werfen to hire ‘hundreds’ as it expands in Bedford Mass.
- Why Tufts Medicine ended its hospital-at-home program
- Why UMass Memorial Health is expanding care at home
MICHIGAN
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- Corewell Health COO leaving for larger health system in Washington
- Former Trinity cardiology chief says he was fired for raising concerns: Lawsuit
- Gentex-backed medical device firm to relocate HQ to Grand Rapids
- Mary Free Bed launching partnership with West Virginia hospital
- McLaren extends Southeast Michigan presence with primary care acquisition
- Mich. AG Deal, NIH 4th Circ. Win And X Corp Bid In HIPAA Row
- Michigan hospital files for bankruptcy for the third time
- Michigan hospital files for bankruptcy, loses Medicare funding: 4 things to know
- Michigan Medicine to shutter health plan
- Pontiac General Hospital files for bankruptcy after announcing Medicare funding loss, layoffs
- Priority Health completes deal for Northern Indiana health plan
- Trinity Health back in the black in Q1
- Trinity Health names regional chief integrity and compliance officer
- University of Michigan Health Plan to cease operations, citing ‘significant financial losses’
- Study gives Michigan low rankings in several women and children’s health categories
- Michigan outlines plan to reduce new HIV infections 90% by 2030
- Michigan hospital joins Insight Health
MINNESOTA
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- Essentia Health continues to promote rural health care
- Judicial branch partners with therapy firm fined millions for sharing health data with advertisers
- Mayo Clinic expands charity care, writes off $90 million in patient debts
- Mayo Clinic, Philips ink AI deal
- Mayo Clinic adds genetic test action items to EHR for 100,000 patients
- Mayo develops new AI tools
- Minnesota hospitals navigate IV fluid shortage
- Minnesota nursing homes sue to block state pay rule for workers
- Minnesota becomes first state to release report on 340B drug discount program for ‘safety-net’ hospitals
- Minnesota practice to close
- Minnesota providers earned $630M in 340B revenue in 2023
- New 340B report from Minnesota exposes steep hospital markups on medicines, patient benefits remain unclear
- NYPD: Shooting of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson was targeted
- Slain UnitedHealth executive lacked security detail, a rare perk for Minnesota companies
- UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in New York
MISSISSIPPI
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- DocGo subsidiary Cardiac RMS expands into Mississippi
- Great River Health moves into the future with new EHR
- HopeHealth Welcomes New Provider
- Mississippi medical center faces Stark law allegations
- Mississippi could suffer the most if health insurance subsidies lapse
- Mississippi Hospital Association hires new chief information officer
- Specialty Orthopedic Group to launch $30 million expansion, add 115 new jobs
MISSOURI
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- Ascension names new chief managed care officer
- Ascension posts $197M operating loss in FYQ1, improving $1.2B from last quarter
- Ascension takes aim at antibiotic misuse
- Ascension’s big organizational realignment
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital cuts patient sleep interruptions with nurse-led project
- Centene draws ire of trade group with cut in commissions
- Centene Foundation pledges $3M to strengthen community health centers
- Circuit court judge upholds Missouri ban on gender-affirming care for minors as legal
- Expansion at MU Health Care children’s emergency room opens
- Festus nursing home loses Medicare and Medicaid funding
- Fire forces residents out of assisted living center in Kennett
- HCA Missouri hospital taps new CFO
- KC-area hospitals see more than a dozen C-suite changes in 2024
- Medicaid and Medicare funding terminated at Jefferson County nursing home, forcing residents to leave
- Mercy and Anthem ink new, multiyear contract
- Mercy takes to Capitol Hill on AI
- Mergers, leadership turnover reshape Kansas City hospitals in 2024
- Missouri system CEO transition on hold
- SSM hospital, physician sued for alleged patient abuse
- SSM Health trims Q3 operating loss to $21.8M
- St. Louis-based eye care group names IT chief
- The lingering effects of Ascension’s cyberattack
MONTANA
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- $11M University of Montana research center targets improving health of Montanans
- Lung cancer screenings lag in Montana, raising health concerns
- Montana among nine states poised to end Medicaid coverage amid Trump cuts
- Western Montana Mental Health Center Notifies Federal Government of Recent Data Breach
- Yellowstone County seeing a resurgence of whooping cough
NEBRASKA
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- Community Hospital and McCook Clinic finalize acquisition agreement
- Another rural Nebraska hospital will stop accepting Medicare Advantage plans
- Many questions left to be answered in Nebraska’s medical marijuana rollout
- Nebraska DHHS probes Medicaid service for autistic youths as costs escalate
- Nebraska hospitals shift away from Medicare Advantage citing coverage and payment issues
- Nebraska Medicine offers free Narcan: ‘It should really be available everywhere’
- Nebraska Medicine opens new cancer center in Kearney
- Nebraska nurse practitioner has licenses revoked for prescribing while suspended
NEVADA
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- A freestanding children’s hospital is coming to Las Vegas in 2030
- Distance, workforce shortages complicate mental health access in rural Nevada communities
- People: Angelina Craig appointed at REMSA Health
- Sunrise Health System hospitals earn top honors for clinical excellence
- West Henderson Hospital opens with aim of meeting community’s healthcare needs
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- After a decade of hard work, overdose deaths are declining in NH
- Cottage Hospital CEO shares ‘growing our own’ workforce strategy
- Councilors hit pause on Dartmouth Health takeover of psychiatric hospital for kids
- In NH, Not All Nonprofit Hospitals Are Alike
- State proposes allowing Dartmouth Health to take over Hampstead Hospital
- Department of Labor obtains consent judgment ordering 2 healthcare staffing companies to pay a total of more than $2.4M in back wages, liquidated damages to 341 employees
NEW JERSEY
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- Atlantic Health System Announces CEO Gragnolati’s Intended Retirement
- Dr. Jason Lowenstein debuts Mako Spine robot
- First robotic-arm assisted spinal surgery performed at Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center
- Hudson Regional Assumes Control of Bayonne Medical Center
- Inspira Health names chief human resources officer
- Meridian Health receives $7 million in federal funds for COVID-19 expenses
- New Jersey hospital names CEO
- New Jersey system CEO to retire
- NJ awards $9 million to expand mental health services in all 21 counties
- NJ chain buys CT kids’ dental practices in Fairfield and New Haven counties
- NJ OB-GYN accused of inappropriately touching 2 patients
- Pascack Valley Medical Group adds gastroenterologist
- RWJBarnabus names chief pediatric surgeon
- SOBA New Jersey Introduces Convenient Telehealth Rehab & Recovery Services for Addiction and Mental Health Treatment
- The tools lowering turnover at Hackensack Meridian
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- Albany Med files federal trademark lawsuit against nurses union
- Another transplant ‘first’ at NYU Langone: 5 notes
- Breaking down New York’s hospital cybersecurity regulations
- Cuomo committed ‘medical malpractice’ during COVID crisis: House report
- Former New York pharmacy owner sentenced for role in $11.5M Medicaid fraud scheme
- Highmark reports net loss here as parent company fares better
- Hospital Association of New York State leader makes the case for change
- How 3 ASCs adapt to the anesthesia shortage
- Independent Health CEO talks industry changes and competition
- Memorial Sloan Kettering names 1st care partner
- Montefiore’s financial comeback: From $28.6M operating loss to $147M gain
- Most New York hospitals are ‘financially fragile’
- Mount Sinai Health opens AI center for research, development
- New York health system rolls out ambient AI to 150 primary care physicians
- New York hospital opens psychiatric crisis residence
- New York hospital suing state over $1B in ‘deprived’ DSH funds
- New York system taps supply chain officer
- New York system to train employees as peace officers
- New York physician charged with kickbacks in $1M fraud scheme
- Northwell posts $77.5M operating income in Q3
- Northwell’s Huntington Hospital nurses vote to change union representation to NYSNA
- Police Hunt for Gunman After UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Is Killed in Midtown Manhattan
- Rochester Regional Health to train peace officers as an added security measure
- Regional hospitals plan upgrades amid rising health care costs
- Southtowns nursing home leads region’s list of largest memory care facilities
- Spectrum Health rebuilding after ’22 winter storm
- WNY hospitals plan millions in upgrades despite industry challenges
- Southtowns nursing home leads region’s list of largest memory care facilities
- Why Northwell Health, UPMC are partnering on digital
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Advocate Health generates $135.7M in savings through federal programming
- Advocate Health takes to Capitol Hill on hospital at home: 5 notes
- AdventHealth partners with Southeastern Orthopedics and Spine
- Behavioral health providers pay $2.5M to settle Medicaid fraud allegations
- Cone Health operating margin rises to 5.3% ahead of Kaiser acquisition
- Dr. Mary Jo Cagle, Cone Health CEO, details Risant Health integration plan
- Florida regenerative medicine company moves to Winston-Salem, partnering with Novex for production
- HCA closes long-term acute care hospital in North Carolina
- Kaiser-backed Risant Health completes Cone Health acquisition
- Michael Tart named as new president of Cape Fear Valley Harnett Healthcare
- North Carolina grants AdventHealth approval to add beds
- Pharma giant planning $1B expansion in Holly Springs
- Triangle health system’s physicians’ group among largest in Triad
- UNC Health approved for new imaging center in Chapel Hill
- UNC Health lays off 40 administrators
- North Carolina Hospital Fights Medicare Denial of Training Funds
- Mission Health permanently shutters Asheville Specialty Hospital
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- Biotech boom fueling job growth, innovation in Central Ohio
- Bon Secours Mercy Health posts $46.5M Q3 operating loss, improves margin to -1.4%
- Centerville doctor’s office practices ‘family-first’ approach
- Cleveland Clinic reverses Q3 operating loss with 1.1% margin
- Dayton’s largest company finalizes new deal
- MetroHealth hires overnight doctor for jail, aims to reduce offsite medical costs
- Nationwide Children’s Hospital opens Close to Home Center in Athens
- Nevada firm proceeds to buy innovative Dayton medical company
- OhioHealth CFO shares 3 strategies for financial success
- OhioHealth’s revenue tops $6B
- Ohio State licenses cancer drug with ‘tremendous potential’ invented at the James
- Premier Health Q3 operating loss improves to $12M: 4 things to know
- TriHealth taps former Kettering Health executive to serve as CFO
- University Hospitals’ ‘Epic first’ strategy
OKLAHOMA
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- Mental health center faces cost overrun
- OU researcher contributes to study published in New England Journal of Medicine
- Boost in federal dollars could strengthen prenatal, early childhood Oklahoma home visiting services
- Oklahoma ranks among worst for mothers, children due to ‘maternity care deserts’ report says
- Oklahoma City police respond to 57% fewer mental health calls thanks to 988
OREGON
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- 5K Providence nurses and doctors authorize strikes across Oregon
- Lawmaker Calls for Federal Scrutiny of OHSU’s Acquisition of Legacy Health
- OHSU study sheds light on the role housing and other needs play in health care
- OHSU employee survey reveals lack of confidence in senior leadership
- Oregon providers and advocates share more on primary care physician shortage
- Providence hit with $100M negligence lawsuit from woman who died after giving birth
- Salem Health punches back in $15M lawsuit alleging anticompetitive behavior
- Salem Health seeks dismissal of $15M monopoly lawsuit
- Surgery tool startup Axia Orthopedics wins AOBIO
- Why Druker is stepping down from his critical OHSU role
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Bucks County turnaround firm’s $120M deal to buy 3 Pennsylvania hospitals is called off
- Chester County firm expects to raise $42M after trimming staff and naming new CEO
- ChristianaCare to place new neighborhood hospital in Aston, PA
- CHOP creates new AI model
- CHOP makes available AI model that can enhance tumor analysis
- CHS hospital, ASC sale falls through: 5 things to know
- Concentra, with 18 Philadelphia-area care centers, spins off from Select Medical
- Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital emergency rooms reopen after temporary closure
- Dr. Jim Wilson’s Franklin Biolabs startup names its first CEO
- Employees hold informational picket at Philadelphia’ Chestnut Hill Hospital
- Encompass names Pennsylvania rehab hospital CEO
- Former Optinose CEO Peter Miller comes out of retirement to launch new startup
- Future of Steward Pennsylvania hospital in limbo: 7 things to know
- Heart Care Consultants medical group files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
- Helius to explore ‘strategic alternatives’ with revenue from flagship product stunted by pricing issues
- Highmark Health revenue, net income up despite industry headwinds
- Idorsia, with U.S. operations on the Main Line, expects to cut hundreds of jobs
- Jefferson taps former chief of staff to Mayor Kenney for same role
- Jefferson taps chief of staff from ChristianaCare
- Lahaska-Based WoodBridge Healthcare’s Acquisition of 3 Pennsylvania Hospitals Falls Through
- Mergers and $6B in construction projects to reshape region’s health care landscape
- Pa. Nursing Home Eying Sale Seeks Fraud Sentencing Delay
- Paolino putting former St. Joseph’s Hospital property on market
- Penn Health System and Independence Blue Cross hammer out new rate agreement
- Pennsylvania health system sale collapses
- Pennsylvania hospitals’ financial impact about $186.5B a year
- Pennsylvania hospital acquires 5 physician practices from Steward
- Pennsylvania health system to pay $1.8M over breach
- PeopleOne Health keeps expanding in Florida
- Physicians in four Philly hospital networks move to unionize
- Pittsburgh Penguins team up with UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
- Sharon Hospital’s Financial Situation Dire Prior to Steward Bankruptcy
- St. Luke’s opens new South Whitehall medical office building
- Temple Health names new CHRO
- Thousands of resident doctors in Philadelphia want to unionize
- Tower Health CEO Sue Perrotty to step down; successor named
- University City Science Center reveals 10 companies in new Capital Readiness cohort
- UPMC, Vanderbilt join Aegis consortium to scale health tech
- UPMC cuts operating loss to $57.6M in Q3: 6 things to know
- UPMC posts wider loss after industry headwinds
- UPMC plans to wind down internal medicine residency at UPMC McKeesport
- Welltower acquires two Philadelphia-area senior living communities for $42.7M
- Why Northwell Health, UPMC are partnering on digital
RHODE ISLAND
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- Brown University Health, squeezed by government payors, finishes FY24 in the black
- Care New England CFO on Epic integration, 1.25% operating margin target
- Care New England posts $15.2M operating income in 2024
- CVS cuts jobs at troubled Aetna
- CVS Health names new retail pharmacy chief
- CVS Health plans $2.5B bond sale to repurchase debt: Bloomberg
- CVS names Dr. Sreekanth Chaguturu president of health care delivery
- Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Flynn Foundation announce pediatric oncology nursing fellowship
- Nationwide PBM litigation could land in Rhode Island
- Ocean Biomedical faces Nasdaq delisting
- Prospect Medical expects to sell CharterCare hospitals in January
- Roger Williams, Fatima hospital sale set to close in January after license application approved
- Shuttered RI hospital will go up for sale, possibly for much-needed housing
- Southcoast Health opens new office in Fall River
- Strike avoided at Women & Infants after tentative deal reached with union
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Hospital board prepares for Prisma merger
- How Tidelands Health gained stakeholder buy-in for a $40M EHR
- MUSC rings in Blue Sky Ctr.
- Prisma Health to launch $2M orthopedic expansion project
- State insurance pays widow $250K after medical mishap at local hospital
- Trident Health opens new therapy center in downtown Charleston
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- Dr. Mara Groom, Physician At LRH, Named New Chief Medical Officer For Avera
- Inside Sanford Health’s $40M telehealth training center
- Sanford opens Virtual Care Center, improving their virtual healthcare footprint in rural communities
- Rapid City’s Monument Health hospital ranked best for safety in South Dakota
TENNESSEE
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- Brookdale Senior Living dropping 120-community partnership after continued financial losses
- CEO shares HCA’s technology insights
- CHS subsidiary buys multiple Arizona urgent care centers
- CHS hospital, ASC sale falls through: 5 things to know
- CHS to sell 2 hospitals to AdventHealth
- Collierville-based co. moving HQ to Nashville
- C. Wright Pinson to step down as Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s deputy CEO
- HCA to acquire Prime Florida hospital
- Hospital board prepares for Prisma merger
- How Vanderbilt University Hospital improved length of stay
- IMAC Holdings receives another strike from Nasdaq
- Large Memphis employer names top-level exec to key role
- Meet the CEO running one of the nation’s fastest-growing companies
- Memphis-based Enjoin moving headquarters, C-suite to Nashville
- Petauri acquires Indianapolis-based company
- Tennessee doctors could get paid less under proposed Medicare cuts
- Tennessee behavioral health group taps former Walmart exec as CEO
- Wayne Medical Center to transition to Rural Emergency Hospital on Dec. 1
TEXAS
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- 2 shuttered Texas system EDs reopen: 4 things to know
- Baylor University Medical Center tower to be overhauled
- CareMax to close 29 locations, including one in Houston, amid bankruptcy
- Christus Health’s decade-long Epic journey ‘paying dividends’
- Christus posts 2.1% operating margin in Q1
- Community Health Systems to sell hospital to Florida-based AdventHealth
- Feds seize phones of former Steward CEO, top exec
- Fresh off ‘pharmaceutical Nobel’ win, TMC Innovation Factory continues to open lab space
- HCA Surgery Ventures breaks ground on Texas ASC
- Hackers breach Texas health system: 4 things to know
- How Cook Children’s plans to care for a booming population
- How Tenet’s ASC playbook is crushing the competition
- Manufacturing co. Velentium names new CEO as co-founder moves to board
- Marker Therapeutics files to raise $11 million
- Memorial Hermann names chief legal officer
- Methodist Healthcare may be eyeing expansion on South Side with its acquisition of 9 acres there
- More than $50M raised by publicly traded drug developer
- Neurosurgeon settles false claims allegations for $2M
- Out-of-state companies win grants for trials at Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Pennsylvania hospital acquires 5 physician practices from Steward
- Physician’s TikTok over Texas’ patient citizenship law spurs warning from governor
- SEC settles charges with Kiromic Biopharma for misleading investors, issues penalties for former execs
- Texas clinics face potential $300M fine for submitting 20K false claims
- Texas committee won’t review pregnancy-related deaths from 2022, 2023
- Texas governor threatens hospital funding after viral video
- Texas system addresses closure of 2 freestanding EDs amid contractor disputes
- The CommonSpirit region that ‘remains challenged’
- TMC Venture Fund still investing from 2022 cash boost as portfolio grows
- UT Southwestern plans $177M cancer treatment campus in Fort Worth
UTAH
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- CommonSpirit bolsters presence in Mountain region
- CVS closing its MinuteClinics in Utah by week’s end
- Gonter joins UT Health East Texas Physicians at Tyler orthopedic clinic
- Intermountain hospital earns vascular recognition
- Intermountain Health names chief digital and information officer
- IV fluid shortage affecting Utah hospitals
- Oris Health Surpasses 5,000 Orders Since Kickstarter, Announces Holiday Launch Plans for 2025
VERMONT
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- Vermont lawmakers raise concerns over UVM Health Network service cuts
- Calling all country doctors: Study challenges assumptions about rural physician recruitment
- Cost cuts may be demise of the Rockingham Health Center
- Councilors hit pause on Dartmouth Health takeover of psychiatric hospital for kids
- Drug companies owed Vermont nearly $3 million in unpaid fees as of this fall
- ‘Prominent’ Vermont cardiologist dies
- Rural dialysis clinics will remain open as UVM Health Network staff protest other planned cuts
- UVM Medical Center Board of Trustees Welcomes Five New Members
- UVM Medical Center staff to rally against health care cuts
- Vermont hospital hones in on postpartum support
VIRGINIA
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- Blue Ridge Hospice eyes N. Va. expansion, breaks into preventative care
- HCA Virginia hospital taps CEO from Las Vegas
- Inova breaks ground on Alexandria, Springfield hospitals
- Inova first to earn Joint Commission’s health data certification
- Inova Health System fills out leadership team after multiple high-level departures
- Sentara expands behavioral health services
- Valley Health opens new Strasburg medical office, combining primary, urgent care and lab services
- Virginia system CEO to exit
- VA launches new outreach campaign to enroll Virginia Veterans in health care
WASHINGTON
WEST VIRGINIA
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- How a West Virginia hospital’s retiring CEO is shaping its next chapter
- Mary Free Bed partnering with Vandalia Health to bring expert rehabilitation to West Virginia
- Valley Health joins statewide clinical research program
- Pilot program focuses on mental health care for pregnant women with substance use disorder in WV
- West Virginia solicits company to manage its contract nurses, won’t answer questions
- Access to health care challenges persist in West Virginia
WISCONSIN
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- Ascension Wisconsin planned service cuts; Milwaukee alderman concerned
- Aspirus Health Offers Comprehensive Birthing Center Classes Across Its System to Support Expectant Parents
- Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative announces plans to build new hospital in Lake Hallie
- Colliers brokers St. Mary’s medical office building sale in Grafton
- Epic, startup legal case continues: 5 updates
- Judy Faulkner’s net worth, by year
- Madison and Milwaukee children’s hospitals partner to expand cardiac care
- Massive health care bill erased after SOS intervenes in financial aid imbroglio
- Public health providers urge vaccination as pertussis surges in Wisconsin
- Two new hospitals may open in western Wisconsin
- Wisconsin hospital facilities to rebrand
- Wisconsin hospital taps former CFO as new CEO
- Wisconsin hospital to end labor and delivery services
- Wisconsin hospital safety net in danger. Two have already closed for good. [Opinion]
- Wisconsin Wayfinder helping special health care families celebrates its 1st year
- UW Health, Children’s Wisconsin partner to treat congenital heart disease
- Aspirus will adjust facility names, removing ‘Riverview’ from Wisconsin Rapids hospital
- Wisconsin Hospital Association names new CEO
- Back in the News: Only 30% of Wisconsin Hospitals Obey Federal Price Transparency Rules
- Wisconsin Hospital Association CEO, Eric Borgerding, to step down. Successor Kyle O’Brien to begin in July
WYOMING
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- Banner Health launches virtual colonoscopies
- Casper abortion clinic buoyed by court victory, but battle isn’t over
- Central Wyoming College Announces Medical Assistant Apprenticeship Program
- Karns apartments a housing salve for St. John’s Health
- Wyomingites could be eligible for payout from prescription drug settlement
