NATIONAL
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- 5 issues shaping anesthesia in 2025
- 4 new healthcare laws in 2025
- Agency nurses linked to lower CMS ratings: 2 notes
- ASC leaders ‘divided’ on noncompetes
- ASCs to capitalize on growth in 2025
- Biden signs law to include optometrists in physician pay scale
- CMS selects states for Medicaid maternal health model
- Cut swing-bed pay rates to match skilled nursing reimbursement and save billions, OIG tells CMS
- FDA drafts guidance for AI developers
- Healthcare poised for ‘robust’ M&A activity in 2025: PwC
- HHS proposes HIPAA update to boost healthcare cybersecurity
- Hospital-at-home programs in limbo with waiver uncertainty
- How state laws, regulations could shape hospital deals in 2025
- Investor confidence wavers in healthcare
- Joint Commission revamps survey process: 5 things to know
- Rural healthcare in crisis: innovations for a brighter future
- Senate report slams private equity in healthcare
- States curb CON laws to boost bed capacity
- Stryker to acquire Inari Medical for $4.9B
- Transcarent to acquire Accolade for $621M
- UnitedHealth Group in the headlines: 10 updates
- Where hospital at home is lacking
ALABAMA
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- Community Invited to Hospital’s 75-Year Anniversary
- Grandview Medical building $15M specialty surgery center
- Huntsville Hospital to move ER entrance during new construction project
- New leadership for Alabama AGC
- Silver wave, new tech, AI, facility growth on horizon in health care for 2025
- The Ensign Group adds 9 nursing homes in 2 states
ALASKA
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- 4 new healthcare laws in 2025
- After months in a stalemate, union employees at Juneau’s hospital have a contract
- Southeast Medical Clinic Joins SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Network
- ‘A loss on all fronts’: Geneva Woods Birth Center in Anchorage will no longer deliver babies
- SEARHC Welcomes Southeast Medical Clinic to its Care Network, Further Strengthening Internal Medicine and Family Practice Services
- Thousands of Alaskans to see a steep rise in health insurance costs for the third year in a row
ARIZONA
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- Arizona’s long-term care industry eyes more state funding for nursing home care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield, Phoenix Children’s dispute continues to impact families
- Nursing home sector seeks Medicaid rate increase as concerns, shortfalls boom
- Phoenix burn center treating Hawaii fireworks explosion victims
- Public Health Data Portal: New tool for Arizonans
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas Children’s Northwest Receives $2M Grant From Mabee Foundation
- Arkansas Hospital to Pay $14K in Back Wages
- Arkansas nets $17M federal grant to improve maternal health access, outcomes
- Arkansas Surgical Hospital Nationally Recognized for Patient Experience
- UAMS Receives $2.9M Grant to Study Virus That Can Trigger Cancers
CALIFORNIA
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- 3 planned hospital reopenings
- Blue Shield of California is latest Blues plan to restructure
- California children’s hospitals complete merger
- California clamps down on AI-based coverage denials
- Hospitals and California wildfires: What to know
- Doctors sue Fresno hospital over staffing shakeup they say could ‘disrupt’ patient care
- Hologic finalizes $350M acquisition of ultrasound imaging device developer
- Kaiser Permanente, Habitat Health open Sacramento center for elderly care
- Kaiser Permanente strike enters 11th week
- Kaiser Permanente’s new head of AI on ‘two fundamental shifts’ the technology will enable
- Marin County outpatient services building sold for $30 million
- Masonicare completes merger with UMH, facility acquisition
- Pasadena senior center evacuated as Eaton Fire spreads
- Sutter Health names chief nurse
- UCSD explores AI cameras for hospital rooms
- 107 more women allege sexual misconduct in lawsuit against Cedars-Sinai physician
- California hospital COO exits for HCA Virginia CEO role
- California nonprofit buys Central Maine Healthcare
- California physicians sue hospital over staffing group switch
- California system, nonprofits pause lawsuit alleging $1B in misuse
- California system tees up 12 hospital acquisitions
- Commons Clinic expands insurer contracts in California
- Dignity hospital internist begins term as chief of medical staff
- Dr. Erica Pan appointed next California Department of Public Health director and state Public Health officer
- Hack affects over 65,000 Dignity Health patients
- Rady Children’s, CHOC officially merge
- Sutter Health taps new CHRO
COLORADO
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- Denver clerkship pairs clinicians with medical students for a year at a time
- Hospital starts $300 million expansion project in Parker
- Patients call for end of UCHealth lawsuits
- What to expect from Colorado lawmakers on health care in 2025
- Rural Colorado communities still lack adequate behavioral health services. A new state-sponsored group will help.
- UCHealth to use war medical tactic to help save lives in Northern Colorado
- New Northern Colorado program delivers whole blood to patients in the field
CONNECTICUT
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- $1.9 million recovered for Kent County Memorial Hospital workers denied overtime
- Connecticut ASC postpones surgeries after car damages building
- Connecticut judge nixes appeal for new ASC
- Connecticut psychiatrist settles fraud allegations
- CT OHS fines Johnson Memorial Hospital $153.5K for terminating labor, delivery services
- Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford settles with the state for $153,500
- Nonprofit acquires Atria Greenridge Place, merges with United Methodist Homes
- Rival healthcare system’s antitrust lawsuit against Hartford HealthCare reaches settlement; terms not disclosed
- Telehealth company fined $358K over improper Medicare billing practice
- Trinity Health fined $153,500 by CT regulators in settlement for closing hospital birthing unit
- Aetna sues drugmakers for widespread price-fixing and collusion
- CT dentist pays more than $600K to resolve kickback allegations
- Hartford HealthCare taps revenue cycle VP from Cleveland Clinic hospital
- Hartford HealthCare uses AI to identify critical conditions faster
- Virus activity increasing in Connecticut following holidays
DC
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
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- $30M rehab hospital breaks ground in Lakewood Ranch
- 5 recent moves by the 5 biggest GI chains
- 10 changes that will affect Florida healthcare in 2025
- AdventHealth creates new C-suite role
- AdventHealth launches hospital at home: 5 notes
- Baptist Health posts over $1 billion profit in post-Covid rebound
- Cleveland Clinic to open first hospital in West Palm Beach in more than 100 years
- Clermont medical facility to add beds
- Dallas company arranges $20 million construction loan for Orange Park hospital
- Florida Blue fights feds over ratings
- Florida system reports $395M operating gain, 6.3% margin in FY 2024: 4 things to know
- Lee Health’s growing home care investment
- Miami company plans to establish network of ketamine therapy clinics
- Orlando Health hospital closure sparks shift in Seminole County
- Orlando Health Names President of New Pasco County Hospital
- Palm Beach County approves $10 million investment in mental health facility
- Population growth outpacing health care in Tampa Bay
- Sarasota Memorial Hospital opens expanded emergency department in Venice
- Tampa General names COO
- Palm Beach County approves $60 million new mental health facility – but questions remain
GEORGIA
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- 5 recent moves by the 5 biggest GI chains
- A new Northeast Georgia Health System Urgent Care clinic is opening in Oakwood
- Emory achieves 16% revenue spike after leadership reboot
- Emory DEI chief heads to Rush
- Georgia ACA health insurance enrollment surges again, to 1.5 million
- Health rankings report shows how Southwest Georgia fares
- How a Georgia health system is aiming to protect staff
- CHI Memorial Celebrates ‘Topping Out’ of New Hospital in Ringgold
HAWAII
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- Healthcare workers vote to ratify 4-year contract with Maui Health and Kaiser Permanente
- Hawaii Hospice Collaborative Launches Into ‘New Era’ of Care Delivery
- Hawaii nurses plan 3-day strike
- Hawaii still facing health care worker shortages
- Too Many To Handle: Fireworks Tragedy Overwhelms Hawaiʻi’s Medical System
IDAHO
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- Eastern Idaho Public Health Discovers Insider Data Breach
- Idaho hospital and clinic partner to launch orthopedic express care
- Idahoans can now get six months of birth control under new law
- Largest medical group in Idaho reports ‘explosion’ of flu cases in the Boise area
- Woman opens medical clinic to help patients improve health through lifestyle changes
ILLINOIS
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- Advocate opens new ASC, cardiovascular center in Chicago suburb
- Bill allows residents to sue nursing homes over ‘retaliation’
- Emory DEI chief heads to Rush
- Groundbreaking heart procedure performed on toddler at OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois
- Hospital mergers ring in the new year
- Illinois multispecialty group inks $18.6M deal with imaging vendor
- Illinois system names new CEO
- Major modernization plan announced for Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital outside Chicago
- New Illinois laws target healthcare and assisted living safety
- West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park ends delivery privileges for midwives, family doctors
- Blessing Health adds orthopedic, neurosurgeon
- CVS Health, Aetna grant $750,000 to organizations improving health outcomes in Illinois
- Host of new Illinois health measures in effect this year
- Illinois colonoscopy legislation takes effect
- Illinois lands $17M grant as part of federal maternal health pilot
- OSF hospital team 1st to perform pediatric heart procedure
- Planned Parenthood of Illinois CEO steps down
INDIANA
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- A successful health care real estate strategy requires research and trusted partners
- Blood specialists in demand as caseloads grow
- Community Health Network pays $135 million to settle remaining claims on kickback scheme
- Elevance completes IU Health Plans acquisition
- Indiana nonprofit hospitals sitting on billions in net assets, legislator says
- IU Health patient data compromised in cyberattack
- Indiana Dept. of Health at Wakarusa nursing home following I-Team report
- Indiana Hospital Association names board chairman
- Beacon Health System receives grant from 1st Source Foundation
IOWA
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- Cedar Rapids UnityPoint Health leader named among Becker’s Healthcare “CMOs to Know”
- Mission Cancer + Blood officially part of UI Health Care
- UIHC acquires cancer clinics operated at 21 Iowa hospitals
- UIHC acquires Mission Cancer + Blood network in Iowa
- University of Iowa seeks approval for $252.7 million hospital revenue bond sale
- Lawsuit alleges West Des Moines nursing home let resident wander away, suffer fatal injury
- No deal for MercyOne Genesis and Humana health care
- Nurse’s license reinstated after sanctions for home-health violations
- Shawn Johnson East named to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals board
- UI Health Care acquires $280M oncology practice
KANSAS
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- Kansas hospital to unite EHR systems with Meditech
- Power restored at The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus
- Southwest Medical Center strikes anesthesia partnership with Sound Physicians
- Strawberry Fields REIT adding 14 properties in Kansas, Missouri
- Top 10 highest-paying allied health specialties for 2025
KENTUCKY
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- State health official says diabetes is a growing problem for Kentuckians
- Northern Kentucky representative reappointed to head health committee
- Kentucky reaches $110 million deal with Kroger to settle its opioid lawsuit
- How the new $100M UPS Labport will help you get test results from your doctor quicker
- Louisville’s New Hospital Shines Light on Community Needs
- She’s the driving force behind west Louisville’s new hospital. Her work is far from over
LOUISIANA
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- Fire breaks out at Louisiana medical office building
- First U.S. bird flu death reported in Louisiana after severe case of H5N1
- Louisiana hospital taps CEO from New Mexico
- Louisiana miscarriage patient who had to cross state lines for a D&C wants answers
- Ochsner Health extends NFL partnership
- UMC New Orleans partnership to support victims of New Orleans attack
- Why are RNs leaving? Retirement and salary among the top reasons in Louisiana
MAINE
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- California nonprofit buys Central Maine Healthcare
- Central Maine Healthcare to be acquired by California-based nonprofit
- Maine hospital collaborative aims to better rural obstetrics care
- Maine’s new staffing mandates shake state’s long-term care system
- MaineHealth Behavioral Health names VP for child and adolescent services
- Maine DHHS awarded nearly $17M for maternal health care
- Maine hospitals face financial crisis
- Norway health center presents check to Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine
MARYLAND
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- Catholic Charities sells Baltimore nursing home
- Johns Hopkins, Howard U to ‘reignite’ health equity alliance
- Johns Hopkins Medicine plots aggressive growth in Northern Virginia
- Police investigate alleged patient beating at Maryland psych hospital
- Rockville’s OS Therapies raises millions to get cancer treatment to market
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Amid capacity crisis, UMass Memorial adds new inpatient hospital beds
- Gov. Healey to sign health care oversight bill
- Mass General Brigham’s 2025 hospital-at-home plans
- Massachusetts assisted living community first to fly Purple Flag for excellence in dementia care
- Massachusetts governor reviews healthcare PE bill
- Massachusetts hospital audit finds ‘startling’ lack of oversight: 8 things to know
- Rural community health centers face workforce, patient population challenges
- Three issues to watch in Mass. healthcare in 2025
- Venture arm of local type 1 diabetes nonprofit names first CEO
- 5 Steward hospital closures in less than 1 year
- Anna Jaques Hospital, Beth Israel Lahey Health face lawsuit over 2023 holiday hack
- As Central Mass. hospitals struggled, audit claims state watchdog agency failed to sufficiently monitor deteriorating situations
- Dana-Farber launches gene therapeutics center
- Family Health Center of Worcester names inaugural chief workforce officer
- Hologic completes $350M acquisition of California women’s health device manufacturer
- Massachusetts Governor signs new law to close Steward-exploited loopholes
- Riley Children’s interim president exits for Boston Children’s
MICHIGAN
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- 2,000 UM Health-Sparrow nurses and health care workers plan strike
- Iron Mountain hospital included in Marshfield, Sanford merger
- Michigan system CEO shares key leadership insights for hospital acquisitions
- Michigan hospital joins Insight Health
- U-M Health-Sparrow workers announce strike
- ‘Nothing I can do’: Woman concerned over healthcare after Humana, Trinity Health cut ties
MINNESOTA
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- Lawsuit in Minnesota deepens pharmacy benefit manager pushback against state regulations
- Mayo Clinic sues Sanford Health Plan over a patient’s unpaid medical bills
- Minnesota sanctions South Dakota-based Sanford Health for wage violations
- Patient message billing cut provider workload, but not ED visits: Mayo Clinic
- Children’s Minnesota plans $181M revenue bond sale
- Mayo Clinic nurses vote to remove union
- Minnesota ERs stressed by ‘quad-demic’ of COVID, flu, RSV, novovirus
- Providers decry short shelf life of new critical access nursing facility program
- Staff-strapped nursing homes look to new Americans for help
MISSISSIPPI
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- Bill of Health: Rural Mississippi confronts health care crisis amid calls for Medicaid expansion
- ‘Fragile and unequipped’: Disproportionate number of Mississippi mothers died preventable deaths during COVID
- NMHS CEO Shane Spees recaps system’s 2024, looks forward to 2025
- Mississippi hospital hires 60 new employees for Epic switch
- Mississippi system names administrator ahead of CHS hospital acquisition
- OptumRx sues Mississippi Board of Pharmacy, alleges due process violation
- Rural hospitals across Mississippi struggle to stay open
MISSOURI
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- 4 new healthcare laws in 2025
- Ascension finds ‘magic’ in implementation science
- Mercy Health rejects retaliation allegation by construction firm
- Missouri company to kickstart anesthesia drug production amid shortage
- SSM Health adds pediatrician, legal expert to board of directors
- SSM Health expands role of digital chief
- Strawberry Fields REIT’s big buys include two area skilled-nursing centers
- The Exec: How SSM Health is Succeeding in Value-Based Care
- After delays due to opposition, BJC and supporters make case for children’s psychiatric hospital in Webster Groves
- Former SSM surgeons no longer bound by noncompete clause
- HCA Midwest treats over 150 patients after Winter Storm Blair
- Mercy COO transitions role to focus on joint ventures
- Missouri virus hospitalizations continue to strain hospitals
- MU Health Care settles $8M data breach lawsuit
- Strawberry Fields REIT adding 14 properties in Kansas, Missouri
- Supporters pack hearing for Webster Groves mental health hospital
- University Of Missouri Kicks Off Nationwide Study Of Pregnant Women With Heart Disease
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
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- 4 new healthcare laws in 2025
- Nebraska hospital leaders outline issues for future of rural healthcare
- Nebraska law requires full coverage of colonoscopies
- Rural Nebraska hospitals plead for higher reimbursement, say some are at risk of closing
- Nebraska DHHS, health care providers offer same day scheduling for mental health needs
- Nebraska Hospital Association, Nebraska Rural High Association unveils roadmap to strong rural healthcare
NEVADA
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- Justice Department settles with Nevada over behavioral care
- Nevada sues Kroger to ensure opioid settlement payment
- Nevada home health care workers prepare to lobby for another wage hike
- Ontrak Health Announces New Customer Partnership with Intermountain Health to Deliver Value-Based Behavioral Health Services to Medicare Advantage Members
- Renown Health selects NRC Health as partner to enhance patient experience and operational efficiency
- Touro medical students gaining experience without risk
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- HCA offers lifeline to Catholic system on ‘brink of bankruptcy’: 6 things to know
- New Hampshire hospital poised to gain new ownership
- Former New Hampshire orthopedic surgeon sentenced for patient abuse
- New Hampshire OKs HCA purchase of Catholic system
- Insurance dispute between Anthem and St. Joseph Hospital could impact thousands
NEW JERSEY
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- Staffing challenges unlikely to ease at NJ nursing homes
- Vehicle Plows Through Medical Office Building In Wyckoff
- Atlantic Health Collaborates With Dimer Health on Transitions of Care
- Dr. Stephen Johnson joins Atlantic Brain and Spine
- HMH Names Oluwole as Chief Marketing Officer
- Labcorp to manage NJ system’s lab operations
- OB/GYN Group with 30-Year History in Bergen County Joins Englewood Health
- Teladoc marketing leader joins Hackensack Meridian Health
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- 4 new healthcare laws in 2025
- Arnot and Cayuga Health hospitals successfully merge
- Beth Israel unloads two properties as hospital shutdown battle rolls on
- Catholic Health hospital president steps down
- City doctors plan strike amid stalled negotiations to improve pay, benefits
- Endoscopy group heads to Southtowns with new surgery center
- New 5-hospital system launches in New York
- New York orthopedic surgeon named in $450M insurance fraud suit
- NYC Health + Hospitals physicians set Jan. 13 strike
- NYU Langone Health acquires Rothman Orthopaedics of Greater New York
- Williamsville nursing center slapped with fine after resident escapes twice in a day
- Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation files for bankruptcy
- Montefiore taps chief pharmacy officer
- Mount Sinai, MSK researchers create AI tool to predict immunotherapy outcomes
- New York health system improves operating margin from -10.8% to -4.2%
- New York hospital to close beds due to nursing shortage
- New York hospital to resume open-heart surgeries after 8-month pause
- NYU Langone spotlights quality in new ad push
- Pennsylvania system to end inpatient care at New York hospital
- Richmond University Medical Center data breach affects 674,033 individuals
- SUNY Upstate asks New York Governor for $450M to build new ED
- Understaffed and overwhelmed: Nurse shortages plague New York hospitals
NORTH CAROLINA
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- 3 planned hospital reopenings
- $260M hospital opens in Belmont after 3.5 years under construction
- Mission pharmacy program plagued by high turnover, staffing shortage
- Novant Health buys Greensboro land near contested Cone, AHWFB sites
- Nursing home must rehire worker fired after wage disparity confrontation
- One of Triad’s largest medical office buildings, occupied by AHWFB, fetches $28M
- Piedmont Carolinas Radiation Therapy is evaluating potential new sites for expansion
- Randolph Health, Novant Health benefit from new heart and vascular partnership
- Stories to Watch in 2025: Novant Health makes push to become Carolinas’ largest health care system
- US Radiology Specialists names 2nd new CEO in less than 1 year
- 10 ways North Carolina health care providers are harnessing AI
- CaroMont opens ‘game changer’ Belmont hospital
- Central planning fails in health care for North Carolina
- As AI advances in NC health care systems, state leaders call for oversight
- NC addiction treatment programs partner to reduce maternal deaths from substance use
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- CareSource secures agreement to expand to new state
- Cincinnati Children’s $365M hospital expansion: 7 things to know
- Cincinnati Children’s to expand care with additional specialty in Centerville
- Green Hills residential community joins Warren County-based network
- Hospital mergers ring in the new year
- Ohio gets go-ahead for its private nursing home room Medicaid add-on
- OhioHealth outsourcing some lab work to Quest Diagnostics
- Quantum Health names Florida health IT exec as CEO
- Welltower names 2 co-presidents, announces other promotions
- New Ohio health care laws spark changes that may impact you
- Ohio hospital violence prevention bill signed into law by governor
- UC Health doctor running for Ohio secretary of state
OKLAHOMA
OREGON
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- Aetna, Providence hospitals in Oregon split
- How potential strike of 5,000 health care workers at 14 Providence facilities will affect Oregon patients
- Largest group of nurses in ONA’s history take first steps to unionize
- Nurses at 3 Legacy Health hospitals in Portland push to unionize
- Legacy Health nurses announce union push covering 2,200 workers, 3 hospitals
- Oregon hires consultant to evaluate regulatory oversight of assisted living, other providers
- Oregon is one week away from largest health care strike in state history
- Pennant Group closes Signature Healthcare deal in Oregon
- Portland pediatrics chain with national expansion goal shuts down
- Providence CFO Melissa Damm on Obamacare future, federal uncertainty
- Regence BlueShield names Northwest market president
- Oregon lawmakers outline plans, priorities for health care in session
PENNSYLVANIA
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- 5 recent moves by the 5 biggest GI chains
- Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Chirag Shah joins Allegheny Health Network
- Elder Care list shifts with some facilities under new management, several providers struggling
- Independence Health System names Kelley Skoloda new chief marketing, communications officer
- KOP firm raises $67.5M to advance gene therapy targeting multibillion-dollar opportunity
- Lehigh Valley Health Network adds Pennsylvania GI practice
- More than 500 Einstein residents and fellows to join nation’s largest physicians’ union
- Penn expecting $467M windfall from COVID-19 vaccine royalty dispute
- Pennsylvania health system to acquire 16th hospital
- Pennsylvania nursing home fire sends 20 to hospital
- Pennsylvanians see billions in economic, community benefits from hospitals in their communities
- Pennsylvania set to limit physician noncompetes to 1 year
- Potential deal reportedly could save Sharon Regional Medical Center
- St. Luke’s University Health Network reaches deal to acquire Grand View Health
- Sharon Regional Medical Center closes following WARN notice, failed acquisition
- Steward Pennsylvania hospital closes, for now
- UPMC, AHN work to treat patients from Sharon Regional Medical Center
- Incoming Tower Health CEO tasked with sustaining turnaround
- Inside the deal: Penn spinout Verismo Therapeutics gets acquired
- Pennsylvania hospital faces $1.8M settlement over tracking software use
- Pennsylvania system to end inpatient care at New York hospital
- Pennsylvania’s hospital M&A boom
- Philadelphia clinic rewrites the cancer care playbook
- Philadelphia hospital physicians vote to decline union
- UPMC and Providence’s 2025 tech roadmap
- Windtree Therapeutics seeks acquisitions to stop slide as stock hits new low
RHODE ISLAND
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- Rhode Island system settles alleged worker pay violations for $1.9M
- Blue Cross reports $30M loss through Q3 2024
- Ex-CEO of recovery center sentenced to 8 years in prison
- R.I.’s new chief medical examiner looks to staff up, restore full accreditation
- Rhode Island resident physicians first doctors in state to unionize
- Southcoast Health hospitals recognized for maternity care
- The Miriam Hospital gains approval for $125M renovation
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Beaufort Memorial Hospital to oppose Novant Health’s Bluffton hospital plans
- Prisma Health CEO on the system’s 1st out-of-state acquisition, growth plans
- SC hospitals to give dementia patients more extensive care with federal program
- SE Spine joins Novant Health
- Flu explodes in SC with 1,000s of new cases, latest state report shows
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- 5 recent moves by the 5 biggest GI chains
- Ardent Health continues expansion of urgent care clinics
- CEO Marty Bonick: Ardent Health targeting growth outside of the hospital for 2025
- Dr. Lynn Simon is now an innovation consultant for CHS
- Former HCA executive creates Send-It Healthcare to combat physician shortage
- HCA offers lifeline to Catholic system on ‘brink of bankruptcy’: 6 things to know
- Labcorp, academic health system settle false claims allegations: 5 things to know
- Nashville Health Care Council announces 2025 class of fellows
- Nursing school exec weighs in on nurse shortage
- The Ensign Group adds 9 nursing homes in 2 states
TEXAS
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- 5 recent moves by the 5 biggest GI chains
- Ardent Health continues expansion of urgent care clinics
- Baylor St. Luke’s reopens rehabilitation unit with new operator, moves surgery to larger campus.
- Campbell Clinic invests in Collierville with new $12M facility, job growth
- Doctor who failed drug tests no longer employed at Houston Methodist
- Texas physician accused of impairment during procedures, license suspended
- Texas system acquires 7 behavioral hospitals in 5 states
- UTHealth Houston to start overhaul of 38-year-old Harris County Psychiatric Center soon
- Cassava Sciences issues layoffs, regroups after failed drug study
- CommonSpirit Texas hospital to expand services, capacity
- HCA Houston hospital names CEO
- HCA taps new CEO for Texas hospital
- Hospitals ready to operate through North Texas winter storm
- Houston Methodist hospital names president of medical staff
- Texas ASC ‘1st in world’ to use new surgery system
- Texas hospital upgrades EHR system
UTAH
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
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- 3 planned hospital reopenings
- HCA Healthcare’s Dominion Hospital has new CEO
- Johns Hopkins Medicine inks deal for new location in Falls Church
- Virginia hospital indicted over unnecessary surgeries on women
- Virginia nurse arrested after babies in NICU suffer unexplained injuries
- Virginia physician convicted on 400+ drug distribution counts
- Virginia physician pays $625K to settle false claims allegations
- HCA Healthcare says most of its Virginia Health System hospitals are open, accepting new patients
- Virginia hospital indicted for fraud tied to unnecessary surgeries
- California hospital COO exits for HCA Virginia CEO role
WASHINGTON
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- 4 new healthcare laws in 2025
- Aetna tackles 3 pharmacy trends that Washington employers need to know
- Providence spins off venture capital arm
- Washington pharmacists prescribe abortion pills through new pilot program
- Prosser Memorial Health to open cutting-edge all-electric hospital in Washington state
WEST VIRGINIA
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- Vandalia Health receives $5 million for Neuroscience Institute
- WVU Medicine Harrison Community Hospital receives bed upgrades
- West Virginia EMS director stresses importance of mental health for paramedics, EMTs
- 2 West Virginia hospital workers charged in death of non-verbal patient left in scalding bath for nearly an hour
- West Virginia chosen as national leader in transforming maternal and infant health
WISCONSIN
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- Former SSM surgeons no longer bound by noncompete clause
- Hospital mergers ring in the new year
- Managed care giant expands to Wisconsin with closing of Common Ground affiliation
- Orthopedic and Spine Centers of Wisconsin can expand reach, plans to grow
- Aurora Health Care starts temporary mask mandate and visitor restriction policy
- Major Milwaukee-area health care projects expected to open in 2025
- Sanford Health, Marshfield Clinic merger boosts virtual care
- The ‘win-win’ mindset powering 1 Wisconsin orthopedic group’s impact
- U of Wisconsin gets $5.7M for vaping, cardio-pulmonary health study
- Wisconsin allows sale of SSM Health nursing homes to New Jersey company
- Wisconsin hospital makes largest tech investment with Epic
WYOMING
