NATIONAL
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- 150 top places to work in healthcare|2025
- Aetna to exit health insurance exchanges
- AHA backs bill revising reimbursement for long-term care
- CMS weighing prior authorization reforms: Report
- DOJ sues insurers over alleged Medicare Advantage kickbacks
- Epic sees biggest year for hospital EHR growth: KLAS
- HHS sued again over cuts to public health grants
- Hospital competition heats up as capacity wanes
- How the Supreme Court’s DSH ruling shifts hospital strategy
- Many nursing homes feed residents on less than $10 a day: ‘That’s appallingly low.’
- New nursing home surveyor guidance to finally go into effect Monday
- Pharma tariffs would raise drug costs by $51B: Report
- Prepare for more scrutiny of risk assessments with HIPAA security rule
- Proposed bill offers ‘two-fold’ answer to senior living workforce, affordability challenges
- States act on PBM laws while Congress idles
- Providers reevaluate construction under funding, tariff threats
- Reforms are needed in the 340B drug program, Senate report says
- Report: 12 cents of every federal dollar spent on medical bills
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
- RFK Jr. will require shift in how new vaccines are tested, HHS says
- State initiatives painted as ‘building blocks’ that may transform nursing home staffing
- States act on PBM laws while Congress idles
- Supreme Court rules against hospitals in DSH case
- Tariffs, trade war and healthcare: 10 things to know
- Where are Leapfrog’s 19 ‘F’ hospitals?
- Where are Leapfrog’s 11 straight-A hospitals?
ALABAMA
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- Alabama doctor discusses Maternal Mortality Rate statistics
- Alabama Law Opens Path to Jackson Hospital’s Dual Bankruptcy
- Alabama’s midwives continue pushback, claim state special interest trying to limit health care options for mothers
- Bham in-home care company expands services to Hoover, Vestavia
- Construction set for $15M senior housing project
- Lawrence Medical Center closing emergency department in May, looking to expand outpatient services
- Metro health system adds to C-suite amid expansion push
- Parental consent for minors’ medical care bill advances in Alabama House
- Rural hospital bill could provide needed funding
- State Sen. April Weaver: Alabama’s rural hospital crisis is a threat to health – and our economy
- Third-Party Data Breach Hits Ascension Health Patients In 5 States
- Tuscaloosa’s Huffman To Lead Alabama Healthcare High School Foundation
ALASKA
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- Alaska becomes first state to require warnings about alcohol link to colon, breast cancers
- Anti-abortion advocates gather at Alaska State Capitol in wake of reproductive health funding cuts
- Providence to close Alaska’s only short-term adolescent mental health crisis center
- Alaska releases online tool to compare costs for health care procedures and treatments
- ‘Life or death’: What happens now to suicidal young Alaskans with closure of Crisis Recovery Center
ARIZONA
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- Arizona built a fast-growing bioscience industry, but it could face new challenges
- Arizona patients call for change after receiving unwanted medical credit cards
- Family’s heartbreak prompts birth center investigation in Arizona
- How Mark Garvin Looks to Steer Banner Health’s Expansion Strategy
- ICYMI: In Northern Arizona, Kelly Hears Directly from Arizonans on the Impact of Medicaid Cuts
- Tucson hospital pioneers new cancer treatment in Arizona
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas Children’s shows off progress on outpatient services center in Little Rock
- Arkansas system taps HCA leader for chief nursing officer
- Dr. Brian W. Bell Named President & CEO of Arkansas Hospice
- Jackie Wilkerson Named Chief Nursing Officer of Saline Health
- Rock Dental Hires New CFO, Creates Transformation Team
- UAMS Receives $100K to Establish College of Medicine Scholarship
- Arkansas Children’s Northwest Expansion to Bring Faster, Broader Care
- Tennessee health system, Arkansas hospital plan to merge
CALIFORNIA
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- 23andMe gene privacy question takes a turn in bankruptcy
- AI Is Reshaping Black Healthcare: Promise, Peril, and the Push for Improved Results in California
- California Faces Probe After Sharing People’s Health Data With LinkedIn
- California governor to set minimum staffing rules for psych hospitals
- California hospital CEO heads to Catholic Health
- California hospital gets $3M lifeline to stave off closure
- California’s primary care shortage persists despite ambitious moves to close gap
- Children’s Hospital LA 1st to study pig heart transplant for infants
- Hoag Family Cancer Institute taps executive medical director
- Kaiser Permanente fined $819K for delays in handling member complaints
- Kaiser appoints new chief information and technology officer
- Kaiser fined $819K for slow response to member complaints
- Medi-Cal cuts could destabilize Valley health care, hospital warns
- Newsweek Names 14 Kaiser Permanente Southern California Hospitals on its America’s Best Maternity Hospitals 2025 List
- Kaiser lays off 38 California employees
- ‘Pioneering’ California neonatolist dies
- Prime warns of employment offer scams
- San Francisco partners on behavioral health stabilization center
- Sutter Health to pay $228M to settle antitrust lawsuit
- Sutter Health lease at 660 J St. shows benefit of opportunity zones, investor says
- Tenet California hospital taps CEO
- UC Davis interim CFO heads to Maryland system
- UCLA Health Gets $25 Million Donation
- WellSpace Health promotes Dr. Janine Bera and Christie Gonzales amid shift in care model
COLORADO
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- Colorado Expands Paid Family and Medical Leave for NICU Parents
- Colorado Firm to Deliver Mindset Training for US Marines
- Colorado lawmakers brace for special session over potential Medicaid cuts
- Colorado Rural Health Center Sounds Alarm Over Proposed Cuts to Rural Health
- Colorado will cover abortion for Medicaid patients, state employees as Gov. Polis signs public funding law
- Diversus Health launches new location in Security-Widefield
- ‘Failure to launch:’ Polis’ plan to improve mental health faltering
- Gov. Polis signs duo of Colorado reproductive rights bills into law
- Hotter and drier climate in Colorado’s San Luis Valley contributes to kidney disease in agriculture workers
- Pharmacy chain taps Denver’s Guild to create talent pipeline
- Police investigate threats against UCHealth hospital in Aurora, find them not credible
- Some Colorado lawmakers craft plan to provide millions to providers that serve under, uninsured
- Some lawmakers want Coloradans to pay hundreds more in fees to fund health insurance for non-citizens
- Tennessee health care co. expands to Denver area
- ‘We have everything on the line right now,’ Colorado families with complex medical needs worry as federal research cuts loom
- Colorado’s behavioral health commissioner is finding hope despite facing funding headwinds
- With drop in Medicaid-covered patients, Colorado safety-net clinics seek help from lawmakers
- Colorado farmers just lost their most important mental health lifeline
CONNECTICUT
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- Boosting direct care hours at nursing homes would cost $24M
- CVS Health to lay off 55 more workers reporting to Aetna HQ in Hartford
- Hartford HealthCare to provide medical care on 7 CT college campuses
- Jury awards $22M to family of New Canaan woman who died giving birth to twins at Stamford Hospital
- Nonprofit hospital community benefit spending grows to $2B
- Norwalk Hospital union workers to hold rally amid contract negotiations, merger
- Sanofi Challenges Jurisdiction In Conn. Zantac Lawsuits
- State: Hartford Hospital doesn’t need regulatory approval to expand maternity service to CT Children’s
- Waterbury and Prospect Medical Holdings spar over hospital assessment
DC
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- D.C.’s Unity Health Care names COO Tracy Harrison interim CEO
- Outgoing Unity Health Care CEO Jessica Henderson Boyd heading to D.C. health startup
- Emergency Department Construction Project 2025 | VA Washington DC health care
- D.C. Citywide Baby Shower Seeks to Strengthen Maternal Health Outcomes Across Wards 7 and 8
DELAWARE
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- Crozer Health shut down Delaware’s biggest resource for burn victims. What happens next?
- Delaware sees a decrease in drug overdose deaths, according to state agencies
- DocuGuardian aids end-of-life planning for digital era
- Griswold Home Care moves office to Corporate Commons
- Merck plans to move manufacturing of its biggest drug, Keytruda, to a new U.S. factory and lab in Delaware
- Northern Delaware hospitals assist in wind-down of Crozer Health
- The debate about physician-assisted suicide in Del., NJ, Pa.
FLORIDA
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- $15 Million Freestanding Emergency Room Coming to Apopka
- Ascension St. Vincent’s expands services at Baymeadows location
- Baptist Health Breaks Ground on New Medical Center in Pembroke Pines
- BayCare breaks ground on $548M hospital: 4 notes
- BayCare names new president of Wesley Chapel hospital amid area’s population boom
- Bill expanding Florida’s parental rights for health care services passes House floor
- Cano Health to cut jobs, close offices in Central Florida
- DeSantis says Hope Florida didn’t get Medicaid money. Experts question state’s logic
- From hospitals to warnings: Eight ways healthcare is changing in Miami
- Gastro Health names VP of clinical research
- Growing Healthcare Talent for a Healthier Southwest Florida
- HCA Florida JFK North Hospital Announces Grand Opening of New Interventional Services Department
- Health care providers including Cleveland Clinic, HCA Florida expanding along the Treasure Coast
- How healthcare in South Florida is changing with risks and renewal
- K. Alicia Schulhof outlines her vision for Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
- Lakewood Ranch Medical Center names Rob Anderson as new CEO
- Mayo Clinic Platform Accelerate Showcase celebrates promise of health tech innovation for improving patient care
- Miami healthcare company to cut jobs, shutter offices in Orlando
- Nursing 2025: No Relief in Sight as Burnout, Stress and Short Staffing Persist
- Orlando-area primary care company plans expansion into men’s clinics and spa services
- Orlando Health taps CFO of ambulatory, post care division
- Senate defers vote on Department of Health bill, a DeSantis priority
- Senior health hubs under Centerwell sister brand open doors next to Walmart stores
- Tampa General Hospital institutes hiring slowdown amid uncertainty around Medicaid
- Tampa General Hospital ranked among top academic medical centers in U.S.
- UF Health and United Healthcare come to an agreement
GEORGIA
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- Atlanta Medical Center site gearing up for major demolition work
- Bomb threat made against Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta suspends gender-affirming care
- Children’s Hospital Of Georgia To Add Pediatric Behavioral Health Center In Augusta, Georgia
- Georgia’s Medicaid Program Ranks Last in Mental Health Care
- How ABA therapy is reshaping the future for children with autism in Atlanta
- How Timothy Jefferson made it work
- Longstreet Clinic to officially join NGHS by the end of 2025
- Medicaid fraud allegations against United are plausible, Georgia judge rules
- St. Mary’s Medical Group holding ribbon cuttings for two new facilities
HAWAII
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
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- Abbott recalls HeartMate mobile power units, citing sudden power loss
- Advocate will soon stop accepting some Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Illinois
- Cook County Health Cuts Ribbon on New Health Center in Bronzeville Neighborhood
- Prime names CFO for newly acquired Chicago hospital
- Rising expenses eating at Illinois hospitals’ margins
- St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet ending inpatient pediatric care
- Suburban hospital has its Level II trauma status revoked by IDPH
- Illinois health system leader to receive AHA Justin Ford Kimball Innovators Award
- Safety hospital grades for 2025 are out. See where your Illinois hospital ranks in new report
INDIANA
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- Attorney general: hospital merger would hurt competition in Terre Haute
- ‘Comprehensive’ health costs plan sent to governor despite access to care concerns
- Elevance Health dealt second ‘ghost network’ lawsuit
- FTC, Indiana AG urge rejection of HCA, Union Health merger
- Here’s what died – and got dropped in – during the final hours of the Indiana legislative session
- Indiana lawmakers send hospital pricing legislation to Braun
- IU Health to ‘course correct’ after Q1 margin slips to -0.8%, CFO says
- IU Ortho names sports medicine leader
- Johnson Memorial Health’s New Behavioral Health Unit Set to Open This Year
- Preserving young patient’s hair prompts IU surgeons’ invention
- Some Ascension St. Vincent patient information ‘likely stolen’ from former business partner
- Price limits, nonprofit status threats for Indiana’s ‘big five’ hospital systems sent to governor
- Indiana AG says Terre Haute hospital consolidation will drive up costs
- Health departments scramble after state, federal funding cuts
IOWA
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- After resident’s death, Iowa nursing home is being fined $2,200 per day
- Iowa governor weighs bill targeting physician shortage
- Iowa Hospitals Struggle With Doctor Shortages
- Iowa nurse sentenced to prison after patient death
- Lydia Brown named president of Mercy Medical Center Foundation
- Nursing home worker says she was told ‘keep your mouth shut’ about man’s death
- After being convicted of defrauding the elderly, Iowa woman wins nursing license
- Amber Deardorff named next president and CEO of Mary Greeley Medical Center
- Nebraska says Iowa-licenseIowa hospital taps CEO
- d nurse is a ‘serious risk to public safety’
- Bill regulating pharmacy benefit managers passes Iowa Senate
- Des Moines doctor faces malpractice claims and allegations of sexual misconduct
- Senate approves bill requiring schools to publicize vaccine exemption information
- UI Health Care to open new family medicine clinic in Tiffin
KANSAS
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- HCA Midwest Health helps address shortage with Kansas’ first nurse apprenticeship program
- Northland sees health care boom as hospitals expand
- 2 Northeast Kansas hospitals earn high marks for safety
- Excellence in Health Care: April 2025 – Wichita Business Journal
- Freeman Health System, Fort Scott, Now Looking At Fall Opening
- Kansas hospital taps new CFO
- Kansas Medicaid advocates share dire forecast of potential congressional funding cuts
- New report examines how Medicaid cuts impacts Kansas
KENTUCKY
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- Cincinnati Children’s celebrates opening of primary care, specialty clinics in Union
- Cincinnati Children’s gears up to open first-of-its-kind $22M facility in NKY
- Gov. Beshear: Kentucky overdose deaths decline by 30.2% in 2024
- Humana beats earnings expectations despite Medicare Advantage challenges
- Kentucky Children’s Hospital launches affiliate network, welcomes Georgetown Community Hospital
- Kentucky Medical Association names next CEO
- Lexington Clinic Opens New Orthopedic and Neuroscience Center
- Norton Healthcare, Norton Children’s raise $200 million from community
- Only 27.7% of Kentucky Small Businesses Offer Health Coverage, Down From 38.6% in 2009
- School of Medicine, UofL Health create first-ever joint leadership role
- The Medical Center earns another ‘A’ for hospital safety
- UK King’s Daughters to acquire Tri-State Regional Cancer Center, expand radiation oncology services
- UofL School of Medicine appoints first-ever joint chief scientific officer with UofL Health
- Kentucky addiction specialists face uncertain future as federal health cuts loom
LOUISIANA
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- Louisiana Bill Could Protect Nursing Homes from Negligence Lawsuits
- Ochsner breaks ground on $300M children’s hospital: 4 things to know
- Ochsner raises operating margin to 2% in 2024
- Proposed law would limit liability for SNF management companies
- Louisiana launches statewide effort to stop opioid overdoses in new mothers
- Louisiana senators face wrongful death lawsuit against nursing home they co-own
MAINE
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- UMF nursing ‘sim lab’ aims to prepare future health care workforce
- Health care in Maine has become a waking nightmare | Opinion
- New aging report provides community-level health data for older adults in Maine
- Birthing unit closures a terrible omen for Maine hospitals
- ‘It’s just not safe’: Breaking down why Maine’s delivery units have been closing
- Federal funding cuts limit at-home medical care program across Maine
- Maine nonprofit aims to close mental health care gap for first responders
MARYLAND
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- $62 million transformation of Grace Medical Center celebrated in West Baltimore
- Frederick Health data breach impacts nearly 1 million patients
- Inside LifeBridge Health’s twofold growth under longtime CEO
- Johns Hopkins debuts 2 grant programs amid federal research funding cuts
- Johns Hopkins names executive director of revenue cycle, billing operations
- Luminis Health eyes fall groundbreaking for Lanham pavilion after landing crucial state funding
- New Innovation Alliance Aims to Drive New Med Tech Ventures In Region
- Organizers demand Baltimore’s tax-exempt hospitals and universities pay their fair share
- Ransomware Attack on Frederick Health Medical Group Affects 934,000 Patients
- UC Davis interim CFO heads to Maryland system
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Baystate to lay off 43 employees
- Boston Children’s Hospital Pauses Planned Move Into Fenway Lab Building, Reports BBJ
- Cape Cod Hospital opens new cancer center, part of $215M expansion
- Hebrew SeniorLife names new CEO
- Here are the highest-paid Mass. life sciences CEOs
- Mass. hospital makes third round of job cuts
- Massachusetts doctor to plead guilty in $35.5M Medicare fraud scheme
- Patients who needed financial assistance said nonprofit hospitals in Massachusetts didn’t help them
- Pharmaceutical company to cut 83 Boston-area jobs
- Physician charged in $35.3M fraud scheme
- St. Elizabeth’s, Good Samaritan hospitals lose their names as part of BMC rebrand
- Acquisition price for Marlborough biotech slashed
- DPH: Framingham Union’s neonatal unit, which is scheduled to close, is medically necessary to the region
- Holden rep. pushes for insurers to cover cognitive rehab therapy
- Insulet names new CEO, becomes sole woman-led Central Mass. public company
- Labor Board Ruling Sides with Union Against Mass General Brigham
- Moderna continues to expand cost-cutting measures, focuses on cancer
- Two Central Mass. manufacturers receive $350K from state to support tech upgrades
- UMass Memorial expands AI triage tool to 5 more hospitals
MICHIGAN
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- $160M senior living expansion aims to meet growing demand from aging population
- A look into medical bill debt in Michigan
- Ascension healthcare system: Data of Michigan patients may have been breached
- Corewell Health names COO
- Detroit nursing home operator enters bankruptcy protection
- Former Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss joins MSU medical school
- Michigan Health Council Details Solutions to Health Care Workforce Challenges
- Northern Michigan’s New Mental Health Crisis Center Is Thriving
- Nurses sound alarm over Michigan hospitals’ push for out-of-state staffing solutions
- Priority Health president Praveen Thadani steps down
- Trio of Corewell hospitals in West Michigan earn top grades in latest safety report
- Michigan Health and Hospital Association breaks down the impacts of Medicaid
- Safety grades: 24 Michigan hospitals earn ‘A’ while 3 get failing marks
- Michigan House Health Policy Committee discusses bill that could bring more nurses to UP
- 3 Michigan hospitals earn failing patient safety grades for spring 2025
- UM Health-Sparrow report shows overall decline in drug-related deaths in Mid-Michigan
- Michigan headed toward worst year for measles in decades, chief medical exec says
MINNESOTA
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- After historic strikes in 2016 and 2022, Minnesota nurses say all options on the table in 2025
- Delay and deny: How this insurance company avoided paying for nursing home care
- How much is Minnesota paying for undocumented people accessing MinnesotaCare?
- Minnesota lawmakers propose ban on facility fees that trouble patients, increase spending
- Minnesota nursing homes facing potential cuts and closures pending proposed budget from Gov. Tim Walz
- Optum names new CEO
- The fight over giving undocumented Minnesotans health insurance
- UnitedHealth Group avoids shareholder vote on coverage denial audits in wake of CEO killing
MISSISSIPPI
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- Governor vetoes certificate of need reform bill, cites ongoing litigation over Jackson psychiatric hospital
- Mississippi hospital chosen for CMS’ rural hospital payment program
- NMHS breaks ground on Medical Office Building
- Three rural Mississippi hospitals join program testing alternative payment model
MISSOURI
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- Benedictine College appoints deans to lead new Catholic-focused medical school
- HCA Midwest Health offers innovative option for ER care close to home
- Judge in St. Louis OKs data privacy watchdog for 23andMe sale
- Kansas City brain clinic bankruptcy leads to prison time for owner
- Philadelphia children’s hospital names former Children’s Mercy exec as interim CEO
- Reviving rural health care: Boone Health’s push to bring back a hospital to Audrain County
- SSM Health addresses food insecurity
- Ascension alerts patients to data breach linked to former business partner
- Centene stock falls on fear of Medicaid cuts, CEO sounds optimistic note
- Mercy Springfield names new chief nursing officer, Nicki Gamet
- Missouri hospital taps CFO
- Missouri health nonprofits may have to stop offering birth control after losing federal funding
- Missouri public health agencies say they need better ways to share data — and experts agree
- Northland sees health care boom as hospitals expand
- SSM Health offers nursing programs for new graduates and student
- Town hall addresses loss of health care access for thousands of mid-Missourians
MONTANA
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- ‘Access saves lives’: Harlowtown to open new medical facility in February 2026
- Candida auris infection reported in Montana
- Charlie Health expands to substance use disorder treatment
- Two new positive measles tests in Gallatin County tied to previous cases
- Billings veteran hoping to use her mental-health training to help other vets
- Montana Hospitals Preserve Medicaid Expansion, Fend Off Regulations
- Bitterroot Health offering fast track medical assistant training program for second year
NEBRASKA
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- Nebraska hospital names CEO
- Rural nCHI Health Good Samaritan using new cancer treatment for patients
- Nebraska bill aims to expand protections of healthcare workers assaulted by patients
- Nursing home closure sparks fight for certificate of need modernization amid national pullback
- UNMC begins construction on $2 billion health care, training and research facility
- Vanishing $100 million: Nebraska health officials decry federal cuts
NEVADA
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- Donor Network West and Humboldt General Hospital Launch the First Birth Tissue Donation Program in Rural Nevada
- Judge pauses old Nevada law requiring parental notification for minors to get abortion
- Northern Nevada clinics brace for fallout from Medicaid cuts
- President of Nevada’s first standalone children’s hospital says Las Vegas needs more pediatricians
- UNLV names interim leader for its medical school
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
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- Hackensack surgical firm secures $77M credit facility to grow in Northeast
- Rutgers Cancer Institute taps C-suite leader
- The debate about physician-assisted suicide in Del., NJ, Pa.
- What Hackensack Meridian’s new executive learned from her Walmart ‘career pivot’
- New Jersey looks to poach Texas health care workers with abortion-focused billboards
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- 15 Long Island nursing homes fined $661G in 2024 for health and safety violations
- Albany Med Partners With Honest Health on Value-Based Care
- California hospital CEO heads to Catholic Health
- Catholic Health taps California executive to lead Mercy Hospital
- Chamber welcomes new spine surgery center
- Elevance Health dealt second ‘ghost network’ lawsuit
- Inside Northwell’s $1.2B plan to unify 30+ EHRs with Epic
- NY hospital taps new patient billing partner
- NY nursing homes face mounting pressures amid protests and looming Medicaid cuts
- Regional health systems use community-based programs to address social determinants of health
- Spine Associates of NYC taps surgeon
- 1 in 4 NY hospitals earn top patient safety grades, report shows
- Anesthesia firm to pay $2.4M in data breach lawsuit
- Bruderman out at NUMC | Long Island Business News
- Erie County’s health staff contained a measles outbreak. How they did it
- Multispecialty ASC opens in New York
- Nassau County replaces hospital board chair
- New York now reimburses for RPM: One nurse’s view from the trenches
- Northwell’s operating income grows to $291.9M in 2024
- NYU Langone to add $9M ER expansion on Long Island
- Weinberg Campus liquidation to include 2,200 artworks amid $25M property listing
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Atrium Health Levine Children’s brings hospital care to the home
- Atrium Health wins hospital expansion bid over Novant Health
- Cost vs. care: NC bill renews debate over certificate of need laws
- Gender-transition patients urge lawmakers to extend medical-malpractice window
- Hospital care at home, for kids
- Medical software company database may have exposed tens of thousands of health records and PII
- Meeting patients where they are: Mobile medicine in rural NC
- NC Senate budget plan filled with health care policy initiatives
- New adult emergency department opens at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
- New bill renews debate over North Carolina certificate of need laws
- New psychiatry residency program aims to strengthen mental health care in North Carolina
- North Carolina Stakeholders Work to Simplify Value-Based Primary Care
- Novant Health breaks ground on ASC
- Novant Mint Hill’s rapid growth, innovative procedures propel it to top ranking
- Operator first in US to pilot portable, interactive technology across care settings
- Possible cuts to Medicaid and food stamps raise concerns in rural southeastern NC
- WFU med school dean warns of ‘devastating’ research threat, addresses expansion plans
- Wilkes Medical Center Foundation invests $522K in community health initiatives
- Hospital safety grades in central NC range from A to D
NORTH DAKOTA
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- Bill signed this week seeks to prevent health coverage delays for North Dakota patients
- North Dakota governor vetoes bill to change state employee health insurance
- North Dakota Law Expected to Curb AI Influence in Health Care
- North Dakota Senate sustains governor’s veto on state health insurance bill
- St. Alexius is celebrating its 140th anniversary in Bismarck
OHIO
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- Christ Hospital Physicians names next president following months-long search
- Cincinnati Children’s celebrates opening of primary care, specialty clinics in Union
- Cincinnati Children’s gears up to open first-of-its-kind $22M facility in NKY
- Cleveland Clinic to debut AI tools for revenue cycle
- Former National Cancer Institute director to lead OSU James Cancer Hospital
- LetsGetChecked picks Greater Cincinnati for Midwest fulfillment hub
- Ohio Supreme Court reinstates law banning trans healthcare for minors
- Swiss firm lands incentives to open North American hub in Greater Cincinnati
- The search for a new CEO begins: Wilson Health to replace retired executive, interim named
- Vora Ventures acquires Cincinnati Children’s-born health tech startup
- What TriHealth learned from aviation
- These Ohio med students want to improve rural health care with cell phones
- Medicaid cuts could add to Ohio’s struggle with infant and maternal mortality
- Ohio hospital closure lawsuit grows as 201 workers demand justice
- Ohio hospital misses $33K payment—$1.8M now due to avoid foreclosure
OKLAHOMA
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- Cyber Security Company CEO Arrested for Installing Malware Onto Hospital Computers
- OKC Indian Clinic earns health award for 15th year
- Pfizer donates $250K to Oklahoma Tribal health clinics
- VA funds OMRF Alzheimer’s research with $710K grant
- ‘A loss for our city’: Mental health outcomes in Shawnee worsen without federal funds
- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma State Department of Health identify case of measles within the tribe’s reservation
- Citizen Potawatomi Nation installs free Narcan machines
- Integris Health CEO’s ‘crazy dream’ for Oklahoma’s health
- New measles exposure reported at Sallisaw Walmart
- OKC Indian Clinic earns health award for 15th year
- OSDH reports another confirmed measles case in Oklahoma
- OU Children’s named Region 6 Pediatric Pandemic hub
- University of Oklahoma Cancer Center implements new technology to make cancer care more comfortable
- Wheeler Bio founder looks to boost R&D in new role with Our Blood Institute
OREGON
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- Advanced Practice Providers at OHSU warn of burnout as bargaining continues
- ‘Health Care For All Oregon’ hopes to bring the idea of universal health care to all Oregonians
- OHSU plans to slow hiring, spending as financial losses mount
- Only 30.8% of Oregon Small Businesses Offer Health Coverage, Down From 41.2% in 2009
- Oregon doctors decry ‘hidden’ facility fees, urge lawmakers to pass SB 539
- Oregon hospitals continued to struggle in 2024
- Oregon hospitals house mentally ill for long periods, dashboard shows
- Praxis Health Advanced Primary Care and Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon Collaborate to Increase Access to High-Value, High-Quality Care
- Regence inks new primary care deal
- Samaritan patients to lose United Healthcare as in-network provider
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Aliya Health Group names 3 to senior management team
- As Crozer Health closes, Pennsylvania officials look at private equity in hospitals
- AtlantiCare pushes forward on more than $150M in projects as Vision 2030 builds momentum
- Behavioral volumes drop at UHS: 5 notes
- Crozer Health clears hospitals of all but 22 patients as shutdown nears completion
- First patient to receive gene therapy treatment developed at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia living pain-free
- GE HealthCare signs $30M MRI deal with Pennsylvania hospital network
- Guyaux family gift boosts AHN’s neuroscience, cardiology and orthopaedic programs
- ‘It’s huge’: Crozer Health closure will cost Delaware County schools, boroughs millions in tax revenue
- Penn Medicine officially breaks ground for $224M proton therapy center in University City
- Philadelphia children’s hospital names former Children’s Mercy exec as interim CEO
- Taylor Hospital to close Saturday days after Crozer Health shutdown announcement
- Temple Health hires former Crozer Health CEO Anthony Esposito
- Twelve Pittsburgh hospitals earn top safety grade in Leapfrog Group’s spring rankings
- UHS net income up 21% in Q1
- Allegheny Health Network adopts touchless prior authorization system
- Community voices concerns over Crozer closures as Delco looks to cover health gaps
- Crozer closure crisis could catalyze new state oversight of hospitals
- Medicus Pharma signs letter of intent to buy British biotech company Antev
- Pennsylvania Eyes Programs, Tax Credits to End Nursing Shortage
- Pennsylvania hospital closes
- UPMC creates hospital outbreak detection platform
RHODE ISLAND
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- CVS Health to exit Obamacare market
- CVS to report Q1 earnings under new CFO: What to watch
- Rhode Island to fast track Medicaid pay review following physician group closure
- RI jumps to No. 2 in rankings of safest hospitals in the US. Which ones got an A?
- 3 worker health and safety bills to watch at Rhode Island State House
- Butler Hospital unionized frontline staff vote to authorize strike
- Care New England Health System opens Pawtucket pharmacy
- CVS Health posts $1.8B profit in Q1
- CVS to report Q1 earnings under new CFO: What to watch
- Foes of Johnston rehab hospital now say it’s a success
- McKee announces strategic plans to strengthen R.I.’s primary care system
- Papitto Opportunity Connection awards $4.3M in grants to 136 organizations
- Rhode Island hospitals earn gold ELSO Center of Excellence Award
- Rhode Islanders can’t find doctors, and Anchor Medical closure will only make it worse
- “Risk to Public” – RIDOH Suspends Entire Healthcare Training Program for Violations
- SEC filing of the week: Ocean Biomedical expands into energy, digital assets; delisted from Nasdaq
- Strike set to begin at Care New England hospital
- These Are RI’s Safest Hospitals, New Ranking Says
- Warcup named chief medical officer of R.I. Primary Care Physicians Corp.
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- Acadia Healthcare execs awarded hefty bonuses amid investigations
- After accidental deletion brought down EHRs, CHS says hospitals’ downtime nearly over
- Albany Med Partners With Honest Health on Value-Based Care
- Ardent Health is looking to be more than a hospital company
- Ardent Health’s first CDIO, a nurse, on the value of ‘human-centric’ technology
- Brookdale Senior Living rejects activist investor’s board takeover attempt
- CEO Sam Hazen on where technology will be HCA’s ‘holy grail’
- CEO Sam Hazen: How HCA is preparing for policy changes, tariffs
- CHS has ‘some price protection’ from tariffs: CFO
- CHS sees payer pressures stabilize despite supplemental payment delays
- Covenant Health names VP of behavioral health
- Envision Healthcare exits imaging, with its 400 radiologists joining Rad Partners
- Erlanger settles whistleblower lawsuit over claims of overlapping surgeries
- HCA Healthcare looks for clarity from Washington
- Healthcare providers can deny care that conflicts with conscience under new Tennessee law
- Lifepoint, Ascension Saint Thomas secure approval for $91M rehab hospital
- Long a rural hospital desert, White House scores new emergency room
- Meharry Medical College acquires Sanitas clinics, expands footprint into Memphis
- Meharry Medical College buys eight clinics amid funding cuts
- Nashville joins three local governments in suing federal government over public health cuts
- Nashville sues RFK Jr. and HHS over ‘devastating’ public health funding cuts
- No further hospital sales planned for 2025: CHS CEO
- Republican TN bill allowing healthcare providers to deny patients some treatments based on personal beliefs signed into law
- The 45 CHS hospitals affected by the Oracle Health outage
- Third-Party Data Breach Hits Ascension Health Patients In 5 States
- Vanderbilt, VUMC lose NIH funding amid federal cuts to DEI and LGBTQ+ research programs
TEXAS
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- Are Texas nonprofit hospitals providing adequate charity care?
- Baylor College of Medicine announces layoffs, citing federal policy changes
- CEO charged with abusing dead bodies
- MD Anderson pauses hiring for some roles: 5 things to know
- Pegasus Park startup sees $5.6 million in funding
- ‘Starting from scratch’: Texas Medicaid may cut Cook Children’s Health Plan
- Take a sneak peek into work on the $5 billion pediatric campus in Dallas
- Texas hospitals spent $121 million in a month caring for immigrants without legal status, memo says
- Third-Party Data Breach Hits Ascension Health Patients In 5 States
- USPI revenue surges to $1.2B in Q1
- Work begins on $50 million medical center in Frisco Station
- 30 hospitals with the lowest coronary bypass readmission rates
- Ambience Healthcare, Houston Methodist launch ‘first-of-its-kind endeavor’ to bring AI to high-acuity care
- Amid policy uncertainty, Tenet stands by strategic plan
- Experts cast doubt on state’s report that undocumented immigrants cost Texas hospitals $122M in a month
- Immatics US opens 100,000-square-foot Stafford cell-therapy manufacturing plant
- More than 30,000 undocumented patients sought medical care in Texas in November, state data shows
- Nexus Health Systems taps VP of revenue cycle
- Tenet makes 7 executive moves
- Tenet’s ASC playbook continues to evolve
- Texas Panhandle mental health resources to grow with 2027 opening of state hospital
- Why Texas Children’s develops its own AI
UTAH
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- CommonSpirit Health provides $208,000 in grants to Utah nonprofits who serve vulnerable individuals
- Healthcare workers at the University of Utah see increase in assaults
- Utah Issues First AI Guidelines for Mental Health Therapists
- Utah child psychologist says children are struggling more than ever with mental health
VERMONT
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- A day — and a lifetime — at an Essex County health clinic with Dr. Bob Primeau
- UVM Health Network employees plant thousands of trees
- Blue Cross VT CEO: Progress has been made, but health care costs ‘simply unsustainable’
- What patients should know about NVRH construction
- New Free Clinic in Vermont Tackles Access Barriers
VIRGINIA
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- Dems warn that 630K Virginians could lose health insurance if Congress makes changes to Medicaid expansion
- Fewer Virginia Small Businesses Are Offering Health Insurance
- Inova and Anthem Announce New Contract for Virginians
- Report shows Bon Secours made $276 million by exploiting program for Richmond hospital for low-income community
- Richmond’s Grenova lands new round of funding
- Sentara initiative expands mental health care access, embedding therapists in primary care
- SMJH announces new hospital president
- Virginia Department of Health announces new data trackers
- VDH reports say hospital failed to prevent abuse in NICU unit
WASHINGTON
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- Kaiser Permanente to open Everett Medical Center expansion
- New Washington law removes medical debt from credit reports, offering relief to thousands
- Physicians at Washington children’s hospital seek to unionize
- Seattle Children’s moves into new Denny Triangle research tower
- Tax bill threatens to stretch Spokane emergency room wait times and access to care
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and Seattle Children’s expand pediatric, neonatal partnership
- Washington State’s Healthcare Transparency Set to Improve with Rep. Tharinger’s APCD Bill Awaiting Governor’s Approval
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
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- Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment awards more than $5.6 m
- Orthopedic and Spine Centers of Wisconsin breaks ground on $10M surgery center
- SSM Health collects Wisconsin Safety Council Workplace Safety Award
- DHS: Federal cuts to Medicaid could cost Wisconsin billions in health care spending
- A poll released Thursday suggests a majority of Wisconsin voters are concerned about hospital closures
- 9 WI Hospitals Earn D Grade In New Safety Ranking
- Wisconsin lawmakers try for third time to remove out-of-pocket costs for supplemental breast cancer screenings
- UW Hospital dismissed from transgender surgery case against doctors
WYOMING
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- A new program is working to fill gaps in Wyoming’s maternal healthcare
- Cheyenne clinic performs Wyoming’s 1st laser-assisted cataract surgery
- Wyoming hospital taps chief nursing officer
- Wyoming’s Mental Health Struggles: A Closer Look At Statistics
- Wyoming Department of Health releases Vital Statistics Services 2024 records
- Wyoming’s first birth center receives national certification
