NATIONAL
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- $14.6 billion Justice Department ‘takedown’ includes allegations of healthcare, narcotics fraud in assisted living
- 8 Hospitals Chosen for First Cohort of Rural Hospital Stabilization Program
- 3 recent updates to noncompete laws
- A ‘perfect storm’ strains rural hospitals
- AHA backs bill to expand physician residencies
- AHA supports legislation adding 14,000 residency slots to address physician shortages
- Behavioral health deals jump in 2025: 5 notes
- Big Beautiful Bill narrows CMS drug price negotiation authority
- Biggest healthcare data breaches reported in 2025, so far
- CMS sued over Trump administration’s ACA final rule
- CMS under Dr. Oz: 12 key actions
- Doctors’ groups sue Kennedy over Covid shot changes for kids, pregnant people
- HHS abruptly calls off meeting of expert panel on preventive care, raising questions about its future
- Hospital at home ‘isn’t dying’ despite vendor exits
- Hospital M&A talks pick up but looming cuts cloud outlook
- Medical groups sue HHS, RFK Jr. over ‘unlawful’ vaccine changes
- One Big Beautiful Bill Act fallout: Health system CEOs brace for change
- RFK Jr. sued over COVID guidance change: 10 details
- Supreme Court upholds no-cost colonoscopy screenings: 5 things to know
- The surprise medical bills just keep coming
- Trump threatens 200% tariffs on pharmaceuticals
- Bham behavioral health business acquires three programs
ALABAMA
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- Allegheny Health Network names UAB C-suite leader COO
- Birmingham execs named to statewide hospital board
- First psychiatric resident graduates from program at North Alabama Shoals Hospital
- President of Marshall Medical Centers appointed to Alabama Hospital Association Board of Trustees
- Mobile hospital CEO to retire
- Investing in Rural Health: Alabama high school students prepare for careers in medicine and dentistry
- Alabama Supreme Court weighs in on dispute over $60 million development at site of old Birmingham hospital
ALASKA
ARIZONA
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- Phoenix Children’s names new CEO
- Arizona communities have highest rates of adults covered by Medicaid. They’re bracing for cuts
- Kane County Hospital halts ambulance service to Arizona amid wrangling with state officials
- Rural hospitals at risk as Arizona faces billions in Medicaid cuts
- Tensions eased: Arizona grants Kane County Hospital leeway to provide ambulance service
- These 5 Arizona hospitals are at risk of closing now that Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is law
- What the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ means for AHCCCS recipients, rural Arizona hospitals
- U of Arizona to offer medical devices degree
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas Rural Health Academy Names Scott Kuttenkuler as 1st President
- Bob Sarkar Named Market VP of Population Health & Physician Alignment at Common Spirit Health
- Helena Hospital Under New Ownership
- Mayor’s criticism prompts cease and desist from Arkansas hospital
- Rural Hospitals Brace for Financial Hits or Even Closure Under Republicans’ $1 Trillion Medicaid Cut
- Arkansas families brace for Medicaid cuts
- Arkansas State Hospital kicks off pilot program with 16 new beds for people waiting on mental evaluations
- Baptist Health hospitals in Central Arkansas join initiative targeting high-risk pregnancies
- Federal tax and spending act will impact rural hospitals, health care coverage | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
CALIFORNIA
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- Adventist Health taps service area CFO
- Anaheim Medical Office Sells for $11.4 Million
- California bill would protect doctors who mail abortion medication to patients
- California hospital names new CEO 4 months after reopening
- Hospital Financials Better But Not Cured
- Insights from new CEOs: Bradley Schmidt, NCPIC
- Kaiser medical group CFO retires
- Kaiser in 2025: 20 big headlines
- Kaiser taps medical foundation CEO for systemwide role
- Keck Medicine of USC awards $100K to top nurses
- Local Urgent Care Chain Back in Growth Mode
- Sutter Health cuts ribbon on California surgery center
- UC Davis Health exec Jita Pandya Buño named CEO of UW Medical Center in Seattle
- 22-SNF portfolio sale is first one targeted under new healthcare transfer review in California
- California Advances Bill Regulating AI Companions Amid Concerns Over Mental Health Issues
- California business owner pleads guilty in $5.9M Medicare fraud scheme
- California HCA hospital closes pediatric unit
- California health care minimum wage increase effective July 1
- California’s Latest Dose of Enforcement Regarding Health Data
- Presence of ICE inside California hospital denounced by local leaders, immigration activists
- RadNet inks AI deal with 1 of Southern California’s largest health networks
- Stanford Children’s taps chief strategy officer
- UC Health, Blue Shield of California reach new contract, avoiding disruptions to care
COLORADO
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- Colorado Medicaid recipient fears losing coverage after “big, beautiful bill” passes
- Colorado rural hospitals blindsided by recent funding loss
- Estes Park Health announces new community resource line
- Parker opening kicks off Kaiser Permanente’s new chapter in Colorado
- Private equity firm buys new Douglas County rehab hospital for $36.4M
- Colorado launches new health network to connect more people to mental health services
- Colorado Medicaid agency could claw back $60 million from Denver Health and rural hospitals
- Community Hospital to bring higher quality services to CMU sports
CONNECTICUT
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- Assisted living worker defrauds 3 companies of more than $360,000 in multiple schemes, DOJ says
- Connecticut ASC 1st to earn dual spine, total joint certification
- Greenwich Hospital plans to build in-house cancer treatment facility at a cost of $94M
- Long-serving Yale New Haven Health staff offered retirement deal
- New Hospital May Be Coming To Branford, Company Says
- Yale School of Medicine receives $27.7M grant to study autism
- A Leader in Quality: Hartford HealthCare’s Hartford Surgery Center Earns Dual Advanced Orthopedic Certification in Total Joint Replacement and Complex Spine Surgery: a First in Connecticut
- Connecticut Attorney General claims in lawsuit President Trump shared personal health data with ICE
- Federal changes could put health insurance coverage at risk for thousands of Connecticut residents
- Hospital for Special Care’s Kilis named Healthcare Hero
- The Uber of nursing reaches hospitals. Now, nurses question contractor status in lawsuit
- Yale New Haven Health system to offer voluntary retirement packages to some employees
DC
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- 3 months in, new DC hospital overwhelmed, facing staff shortages: Post
- A new D.C. hospital grapples with too many patients and too few nurses
- Children’s Inn at NIH makes ‘difficult decisions’ on expansion amid shifting funding climate
- The Needle: Tens of Thousands in D.C. Will Lose Health Coverage Under Trump’s Big Bill
DELAWARE
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- Beebe earns top rankings on Hospital Social Responsibility
- ChristianaCare, CHOP partner on pediatric care across four states
- Delaware physician faces false claims allegations
- ChristianaCare to invest $865 million in Delaware health expansion
- Delaware health system names interim CIO
- Nurses allege discrimination, hostile work environment at Delaware system
- Physician-assisted death leads legislature’s health care reforms
- Rite Aid bankruptcy prompts Delaware action to protect prescription access
FLORIDA
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- Florida hospital to close maternity ward
- Gulf Coast to be first in SWFL to use whole blood transfusions
- Health care system for The Villages files for bankruptcy, to be acquired
- Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital enters new phase of $62M expansion project
- Mayo Clinic receives $50 million gift to advance global healthcare innovation
- Medical device company receives FDA approval for Parkinson’s treatment
- Mount Sinai MC breaks ground on emergency center in Westchester
- Nicklaus Children’s names system VP of finance
- Tampa-based optometry chain announces mass layoffs
- Humana agrees to purchase bankrupt Florida provider The Villages Health for $50M
- HCA Florida Pasadena Hospital welcomes new chief of staff, Dr. Tim Carlson
- Planned Parenthood’s Florida merger will allow it to serve all 67 counties
- New Florida laws expand access to care for children with disabilities
- Gardner Orthopedics Ransomware Attack Affects 47,000 Patients
- ‘You’re not selling anymore’: AdventHealth University leader’s key to workforce development
GEORGIA
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- Emory to convert former Peachtree-Pine shelter into hospital staff apartments
- Emory to provide healthcare staff housing: 6 things to know
- Georgia Health Report: Nurses in Georgia identify their greatest concerns
- Gov. Kemp taps Dr. Dean Burke to lead Georgia Department of Community Health
- Ketul Patel to join Wellstar, leave Virginia Mason Franciscan
- Shriners Children’s to open $153M medical research facility in Atlanta
- ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ could impact health coverage for 750K Georgians
- OneWell Health Care Expands to Georgia, Launching Pediatric, Veteran, and Private Home Care Services
HAWAII
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- UH Cancer Center endowment to continue mission of late patient advocate
- Community roundtable to address women’s health issues in Maui County
- Green signs bill aimed at helping kupuna with dementia
- Maternal health care advocates worry Medicaid cuts could impact postpartum coverage
- Waianae health center planning to assist Medicaid patients after Trump tax bill
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
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- Ascension nurses rally against suburban labor and delivery unit closure
- Illinois-based American Academy of Pediatrics sues Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine changes
- Illinois Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery begins operations
- Illinois nursing homes ranked among the worst in the nation; residents call for action
- Kiser Group launches senior living division with industry veteran at the helm
- Medicare and Medicaid fund majority of services at Peoria hospitals
- Northwestern Medicine opens longevity clinic in Chicago
- Rush University System for Health launches DTC telehealth
- CIVIE, Prime Healthcare team up to streamline radiology services across Illinois hospitals
- Former Priority Health president named CEO at Illinois dental plan
- Franciscan Alliance makes leadership appointments
- Here’s why 9 rural Illinois hospitals are deemed ‘at-risk’ of closing
- Illinois hospitals fear massive cuts under Trump domestic policy law
- OSF HealthCare adds primary care provider in Sheffield
- SIH breaks ground on Mulberry Center expansion
INDIANA
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- Counterpoint: Indiana’s nonprofit hospital pricing law could backfire
- Here’s why 12 rural Indiana hospitals are deemed ‘at-risk’ of closing
- Indiana abortion report pushes fines for hospitals, greater state oversight
- Indiana health department may start fining hospitals that don’t comply with abortion law
- Big Beautiful Bill could impact health care in Indiana
- Memorial Hospital Uses Technology for Blood Collection
- First central Indiana case of measles reported in Putnam County
- AI Enhances Neurological Care at Franciscan Health Hospitals
IOWA
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- Ambient AI at University of Iowa Health Care: 4 key facts
- Mercy Iowa City asks judge to require MercyOne to accept $31k payment in bankruptcy trial
- New surgery center is investment in the future of the region
- St. Luke’s Hospital, UIHC among top performing hospitals for heart attack treatment
- Struggling rural hospitals will need Iowa’s help after ‘big, beautiful bill’ takes its toll
- UI Health Care to open new clinic in Urbandale, consolidating specialty services
- UI Health Care to open clinic in Urbandale
- UIHC awarded $49.4M in dispute over defective Children’s Hospital windows
- AARP and United Way Worldwide expand 211 Caregiver Program to Iowa
- Fearless Focus recap: Five takeaways on barriers to health care for women
- Nurse stole painkillers from patients, including a child mauled by a dog
KANSAS
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- Ascension president says cuts in ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ could destabilize the healthcare system
- Newman Regional Health administrators studying ways to bolster rural healthcare
- Kansas health officials share details of measles exposure at Wichita medical center
- Kansas to lose nearly $4 billion in Medicaid cuts under Trump’s bill
- Local nonprofit health care center braces for impact of Medicaid changes with new tax bill
- Moran says he protected funding for Kansas hospitals. What health care experts say
- Sen. Moran says he protected funding for Kansas hospitals. Health care advocates disagree
KENTUCKY
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- CenterWell agrees to purchase The Villages Health
- Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center among nation’s top performing hospitals for treatment of heart attack patients
- Kentucky leaders, advocates weigh in on how ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will impact health care
- NKY public company Quipt makes first acquisition since 2023 with $1.6M deal
- Relief from drug industry middlemen stalls in Ky as independent pharmacies struggle
- Three Kentucky hospitals, including St. Elizabeth-Edgewood, among Newsweek’s ranking for cancer care
- ‘Attack on rural America’: Kentucky Gov. Beshear rails against health care changes seen under ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
- Kentucky’s leading healthcare voice during COVID says we’re ‘worse off’ than before the pandemic
- A trio of Kentucky cancer centers named best in the country
LOUISIANA
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- Change is coming to rural health care in Acadiana but likely won’t be felt for some time
- Do Louisiana rural hospitals face closure following passage of One Big Beautiful Bill?
- Medicaid cuts threaten closure of Acadiana rural hospitals
- Phoenix Children’s names Louisiana health-care executive as its new CEO
- President Donald Trump’s budget bill cuts Medicaid. Here’s what it means for Louisiana.
- See list of Louisiana hospitals that could be in jeopardy of closing
MAINE
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- “A choice we should have” — Maine law lets doctors shorten Death With Dignity waiting period
- Few turn out for public hearing on CMMC’s acquisition
- MaineHealth Behavioral Health to hold benefit for mental health services
- Medicaid cuts lead to rural Maine hospital closures and service reductions
- Portland digital health startup taps industry veteran as CEO
- Swedish medical equipment company plans $135M Maine expansion
- Talks Between Northern Light and Anthem Stall as Deadline for New Contract Approaches
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
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- 2 health systems move Epic to Amazon cloud: 6 notes
- $1.7B Beth Israel, Dana Farber cancer facility plan moves forward
- Baystate Health faces up to $50M annual losses from GOP budget law
- Cambridge’s Vie Ventures launches to rescue ‘marooned’ autoimmune treatments
- Mass. hospital revamps ER amid overcrowding since Steward collapse
- Mass. public health nonprofit, other groups sue RFK Jr. over vaccine changes
- Massachusetts hospital merges with UMass Memorial facility
- Akoya Biosciences completes $20M acquisition by Billerica biotech firm
- Cambridge’s Actithera joins radiopharmaceutical boom with $75.5M VC deal
- Fears grow in Massachusetts that Trump’s bill could unravel health care safety net
- Health care giants, led by Blue Cross Blue Shield, helped keep top Massachusetts politicians’ campaigns flush
- KalVista’s oral HAE drug Ekterly wins FDA approval after delay
- Marlborough Hospital to merge with UMass Memorial Medical Center
- Merger the latest shift in Central Mass. health care world
- Report: Mass. opioid overdose deaths dropped by 36% in 2024
- UMass Memorial Health to merge two of its hospitals
- UMass’s radiology workflow redo brings in $1M annually
- Waters Corp. outperforms biotech peers after CEO takes a back-to-basics approach
MICHIGAN
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- Michigan hospitals brace for $6B in Medicaid funding cuts
- Here’s why 3 rural Michigan hospitals are deemed ‘at-risk’ of closing
- Trump gets his ‘big, beautiful bill.’ What it means for Michigan
- Carson City hospital faces closure threat due to Medicaid cuts
- ‘Big, beautiful bill’ affecting Mid-Michigan health care centers
- Michigan may force doctors to report drivers with seizures. A slippery slope?
- Michigan AG sues Trump administration over sharing health data with ICE
MINNESOTA
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- AI tool flags postoperative infections on portal images: Mayo Clinic
- DOJ interviewing former employees about Medicare billing practices at UnitedHealth: WSJ
- New $50B rural hospital relief fund brings hope in Minnesota
- Essentia, Duluth-area hospital nurses reach contract deal to avoid strike
- Essentia East Market MNA members go on strike
- Health care officials say ‘big, beautiful bill’ threatens rural hospitals in Minnesota, North Dakota
- Minnesota hospitals miss out on Medicaid windfall after Trump’s budget bill passes
- Minnesota medical group workers begin 4-day strike
- On the brink of a strike, nurses at one Duluth hospital reach tentative agreement
- Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” means massive cuts to Medicaid — here’s how Minnesotans could be affected
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
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- Abortion services in Missouri set to resume Monday after ruling
- California to appeal St. bankruptcy judge’s approval of 23andMe sale to former CEO Anne Wojcicki
- Centene must rebuild investor confidence after stock plunge, financial analysts say
- HCA Midwest Health making communities healthier, stronger through medical training and education
- Jefferson City hospitals provide $15 million in unpaid services
- SSM Health, St. Louis County Health Department partner on new digital medical records sharing system
- SSM Health to train 400 ‘nontraditional’ student nurses every year
- Vacant St. Louis medical building sells for $6.3M, set for behavioral health center conversion
- Columbia’s Boone Health searches for healthcare partner
- HCA Missouri hospital to close NICU, end labor and delivery services
- Kansas City’s largest safety-net hospital braces for Medicaid fallout under Trump budget
- Missouri health system switches to Epic
- Missouri’s rural hospitals won’t get enough from Trump law to survive its enormous Medicaid cuts | KCUR
- MU Health Care mulls new coverage offer from Anthem
- Nearly 100 people laid off as St. Louis business closes
MONTANA
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- Supreme Court rejects Montana’s bid to revive parental consent law for minors’ abortions
- Insurers fight Montana’s attempt to restrict surprise ambulance bills
- More patients coming to Montana Mental Health Nursing Care Center
- MSU is key in nursing grant across 6 states
- Near old Montana mine, special clinic for asbestos-related illness fights to survive
NEBRASKA
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- Rural hospitals brace for financial hits or even closure under Republicans’ $1 trillion Medicaid cut
- ‘Already operating in the red’: Hospitals and Nebraskans bracing for cuts to Medicaid
- Kearney Regional branching out for more space
- OpenSky: “One Big Beautiful Bill” could lead to lead to 150,000 Nebraskans losing health insurance, closing rural hospitals
- Postpartum Alert Initiative to help reduce maternal deaths in Nebraska
- Rural medical center in Southwest Nebraska to close its doors
NEVADA
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- HCA nurse exec heads to Las Vegas hospital
- Here’s the latest on Nevada’s upcoming standalone children’s hospital
- Gardnerville hospital losing Prominence Medicare Advantage
- Hope Cancer Care of Nevada and American Oncology Network Open New Henderson Clinic
- How Renown Health is reshaping workforce resilience
- Nevada Children’s Hospital construction partners named; opening expected in 2030
- Polomar Health Services Executes Financial Amendments and Agreements
- Sotera Health Company (NASDAQ:SHC) Shares Sold by KBC Group NV
- World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos
- Zenyth Partners raises $375 million for healthcare investment fund
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
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- ChristianaCare, CHOP partner on pediatric care across four states
- Nursing Home Chain Centers Health Care to Pay Over $6M for Falsifying Cost Reports to CMS
- Amazon One Medical Opens Second NJ Location with Hackensack Meridian Health
- AtlantiCare Opens $75M Expansion Featuring 50 Private Rooms with Integrated Care Technology
- Clover Health Launches New Jersey Community Pharmacy Program in Partnership with IPC’s iCare+ Network
- Elizabeth Pharmacy Implicated in Nationwide Health Care Fraud Takedown
- Englewood Health & AM/PM Walk-In Urgent Care launch new urgent care network
- Hackensack Meridian Health expands hospital at home to 5 hospitals
- New Jersey Takes Additional Steps To Help Prevent Legionnaires’ Disease
- NJ Panel Revives Doctor’s Fight Against Noncompete Clause
- Saint Peter’s University Hospital Implements Lightbeam AI to Cut ED Visits by 7%
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- Albany health care startup plans expansion regionally, nationally
- Jim Dunlop out as president at Independent Health
- New York implements new behavioral health regulations: 3 things to know
- Northwell Health uses AI to boost hospital security
- Nursing Home Chain Centers Health Care to Pay Over $6M for Falsifying Cost Reports to CMS
- 58% of NY’s rural hospitals were at risk of closing. Now more are in danger. See the list
- 8,000 Kaleida workers reach labor deal
- Audit: N.Y. DOH slow on inspections at adult care sites
- Catholic Health hospital names president, CNO
- Innovative programs target nursing gap in New York
- Medicaid cuts in reconciliation bill spark fears of rising medical debt
- Medicaid cuts will pummel NY jobs and health care. The Bronx could take the biggest hit.
- Meet Sofiya, Mount Sinai’s latest AI assistant
- Meet the ‘anti-silo’ leader joining Northwell Health
- Mount Sinai South Nassau set to open $70M ambulatory care center
- New York Medical Center to revive defunct Lakeshore Hospital
- NYU Langone expands healthcare in Suffolk County
- Vibrance 360 blends science and wellness in Greenvale
- Why 1.5 Million New Yorkers Could Lose Health Insurance Under Trump Bill
NORTH CAROLINA
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- AdventHealth makes its most public case for building region’s second-largest hospital, but has yet to ask the state for permission
- Advocate Health names chief philanthropy officer: 3 things to know
- Atrium Health acquires Hugh Chatham Health in Elkin, pledges $100 million for rural care expansion
- Charlotte physician group names Muns CEO
- City OKs Pardee’s southside medical office building
- Cone Health names behavioral leader
- Holly Hill mental healthcare can stay a provider of services under Medicare program: Documents
- Hugh Chatham Health joins Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
- Life sciences giant falls short on 750-job expansion in North Carolina
- Local Novant Health hospitals earn top cardiology recognition
- Merck acquires Raleigh pharma for $10 billion
- NC eases restrictions on vital health-care workers
- Novant Health confirms AirLink flight operations temporarily paused
- PACE of the Triad to open Winston-Salem center amid looming Medicaid funding concerns
- UnitedHealthcare’s Anita Bachmann reflects on Medicaid threat, CEO’s death and university leadership
- ‘Tears My Heart to Pieces’: North Carolina Braces for Medicaid Cuts
- Advanced practice nurses call ‘matchmaking’ services linking them to physicians expensive, exploitative
- The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ has passed. Here’s how it could affect health care in NC
- Proposed federal cuts put rural behavioral health resources on the line
- UNC, Duke pick site for state’s 1st freestanding children’s hospital
NORTH DAKOTA
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- Devils Lake Altru clinic to open new outpatient dialysis unit next week
- FBO Backs Air Medical Service In North Dakota
- Federal budget could have negative impact on survival of rural hospitals, says JRMC official
- Grim Outlook For Rural North Dakota Health Care
- Health care officials say ‘big, beautiful bill’ threatens rural hospitals in Minnesota, North Dakota
- Hoeven, Cramer, Fedorchak address Big Beautiful Bill Medicaid Cuts
OHIO
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- 11 rural Ohio hospitals listed at-risk under Trump’s spending bill, according to Democratic Senators
- CareSource taps new Ohio market president, replacing longtime leader
- Impacting Tomorrow, HealthSource of Ohio to open 45,000-square-foot health facility in Clermont County
- UC Health’s Daniel Drake Center hits the market; billed as one of city’s ‘largest redevelopment opportunities’
- University Hospitals physicians say firing over texts was union-related
- This Ohio health system tested an AI tool to predict sepsis. Here’s how it went
- ‘Big Beautiful Bill:’ Cuts to Medicaid could reduce billions in health spending power at hospitals statewide
- Medicaid work requirements, rural hospitals: What ‘big beautiful bill’ means for Ohio
- Ohio State Wexner Medical Center nurses union finalizes new contract after months of protest
- Wooster Community Hospital Nears Completion Of ED Expansion In Ohio
- OhioHealth among U.S. hospital systems committing to repay future employees’ student loans
- Police records: Aultman Orrville Hospital staff warned security about patient before ER shooting
- “This hospital failed because of poor ownership” Ohio hospital new Chief Medical Officer doesn’t hold back
OKLAHOMA
OREGON
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- Oregon’s hospital merger oversight law upheld
- PeaceHealth CEO Dunne announces retirement
- Riverpark settles $2M civil lawsuit over Medicare and Medicaid fraud allegations
- Two Oregon bills aim to create more options for senior housing
- Oregon’s largest Medicaid provider on how Trump’s megabill will affect health coverage in the state
- Another top Oregon State Hospital leader resigns
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Allegheny Health Network appoints COO, chief quality officer
- Allegheny Health Network goes cashless for medical services
- ChristianaCare, CHOP partner on pediatric care across four states
- ‘Every year we pay more’: Main Line CEO on the push to cut costs
- Here’s how Jefferson Health will spend a new $28M donation from the Kimmel family in Philly
- Nursing homes face financial strain as Pennsylvania cuts Medicaid reimbursement rates
- State reps call on UPMC to allow Magee-Womens nurses’ union election amid ongoing dispute
- The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh taps new president and CEO from UPMC Health Plan
- Tower Health announces about 50 layoffs across its 4-hospital Pennsylvania health system
- ‘It’s common sense’: Pennsylvania to reduce barriers for doctors, nurses in new medical licensure compact
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals appoints new CEO
- Jefferson receives $28M gift from Sidney and Caroline Kimmel
- Jim Wilson’s Gemma Bio enters into its second international gene therapy partnership
- Medicaid cuts in Trump’s tax bill will ‘devastate’ access to care in rural Pennsylvania, critics say
- New data shows challenges Delaware County faces since Crozer Health closure
- Pennsylania hospitals expected to lose out under ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
- Pennsylvania joins 3 licensure compacts
- Philadelphia-based Minaris Advanced Therapies cuts jobs two months after launch
- Temple seeks to ‘change the care experience for women’ at new $72M Philadelphia hospital
RHODE ISLAND
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- Judge orders CVS to pay nearly $1B in Omnicare lawsuit
- Rhode Island pharmacy benefit manager suit moved to federal court
- RI lawmakers ask DC counterparts to look into Medicare Advantage
- Health insurance costs going from bad to worse
- Lawmakers ease medical debt burden
- POWER SURGE: AG Neronha has asserted his authority in the name of activism. What are his ultimate goals?
- Report: Federal judge orders CVS’ Omnicare to pay $949M for fraudulent prescriptions
- Rhode Island regulators find ‘deficiencies’ at Butler Hospital
- RIDOH launches campaign to spotlight men’s mental health
- Term-limited AG has full plate as he mulls gubernatorial run
- ‘That’s a risk for me’: Health system woes force a R.I. hospital to cancel routine women’s care for hundreds of patients
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Novant Health and MUSC are pushing care out into fast-growing communities in Berkeley
- Prisma Health contract employee charged with voyeurism, records show
- SC health department launches mobile health clinics across state
- By 2043, SC hospitals could receive $2.4B less to treat Medicaid patients
- South Carolina sees first measles case of 2025
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- Sanford Health named a top non-profit for veterans
- Sanford Health earns full reaccreditation for nurse residency program
- Grant funds bolster rural South Dakota ambulances with training, equipment
- Innovation infuses UNT Health Science Center’s nursing school in Fort Worth
- Rule for round-the-clock nurses at nursing homes delayed a decade by ‘big, beautiful bill’
TENNESSEE
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- 3 Tennessee residents charged in $28.7M health care fraud case
- 2 health systems move Epic to Amazon cloud: 6 notes
- Acadia withdraws plans for Tennessee facility
- ALSAC names new president/CEO
- Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West Opens New $10M ED In Nashville
- HCA Healthcare’s TriStar Horizon Medical Center names new CEO
- HCA’s TriStar division gets exemption to build freestanding ER
- President of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt to retire
- VUMC receives $25 million in NIH funding for Alzheimer’s research
- East Tennessee Children’s Hospital opens neurosciences center
- Tennessee tries to boost awareness of 988 mental health hotline
TEXAS
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- Baylor Scott & White unveils opening date for Frisco hospital
- Behavioral health provider settles with HHS over potential HIPAA violations
- First Look: Baylor Scott & White’s Third Frisco Hospital
- Fort Worth co. buys 5 Texas nursing homes
- IRA Capital Acquires Premier Surgical Hospital in Houston
- Memorial Hermann lays off 83, closing University Place skilled nursing center and senior living community
- Methodist Hospital Northeast getting $146M expansion
- New Baylor Scott & White Health hospital nears opening
- VelocityTX spinoff to boost SA innovation hub push
- 15 Texas rural hospitals are at risk of closing
- CHRISTUS Health announces contract extension with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas through July 31
- CoRegen secures $93.3M to advance cancer therapy from Baylor College of Medicine researcher
- Health care is Houston’s fastest-growing industry, and shows no signs of slowing
- Houston nonprofit Santa Maria Hostel to close treatment campus, lay off 41 due to federal funding cuts
- JLL taps industry veteran to lead health care real estate teams in South and Central Texas
- Private equity firm acquires Texas surgical hospital
- Texas braces for impact of Medicaid funding cuts and new rules
- Texas says undocumented immigrants visited hospitals 80K times in 3 months. That’s 2% of all visits.
- The advantages of being a CIO within HCA Healthcare
- UTHealth Houston launches tuition-free program for nursing students
UTAH
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute CEO to step down
- Intermountain Health Transplant Program leads nation through innovation and compassion
- University of Utah physicians now providing care at the Emergency Department at Holy Cross Hospital – Salt Lake
- Utah’s House Speaker rallies to support Utah doctor federally charged in COVID-19 vaccine scheme
- Arizona town declares local emergency to bypass ban on Utah ambulance services
- Medicaid cuts will impact kids, seniors, and rural Utahns, advocate says
- Two Utah healthcare workers charged with attempted aggravated murder, child torture
- U.S. Oral Surgery Management enters Utah market secures new partnership with Hopkin Oral Surgery
- Utah Doc Heads To Trial Over Bogus Vax Card Claims
- Utah health experts alarmed by decrease in childhood vaccine uptake
VERMONT
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- How Central Vermont ED is protecting patients and staff from violence
- Layoffs and program closures coming at Howard Center
- NVRH patients can breathe easier with updated pulmonology equipment
- Springfield rejects methadone clinic permit, as state looks to expand services to 3 communities
- State backs rural birthing center closure and warns of more ‘difficult decisions’
VIRGINIA
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- Bon Secours breaks ground on new medical office building at St. Francis
- CHKD to debut new weapons detection system at Norfolk hospital
- HCA hospital settles with families over NICU injury case
- Longtime Mary Washington Healthcare CFO retiring, successor named
- Medical office building sells in Richmond, Virginia, as sector attracts investor interest
- New Va. law protecting reproductive health data prompts Walmart’s online data collection pop-ups
- Virginia Wesleyan University, Sentara Health to expand academic partnership
- As partisan disputes boil, it’s still unclear how new federal law will impact Medicaid in Virginia
WASHINGTON
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- Fire destroys behavioral health provider clinic
- Harborview CEO warns of impacts akin to early COVID-19 crisis
- Ketul Patel to join Wellstar, leave Virginia Mason Franciscan
- Mary Bridge Children’s Breaks Ground on Tacoma Therapy Center
- New medical building breaks ground in Tacoma
- PeaceHealth CEO to retire, CAO named successor
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health CEO to depart for new role in Georgia
- Small Washington hospitals brace for ‘severe’ effects of Medicaid cuts
- Medicaid reform threatens rural hospitals in Washington state, including Mason General
- Samsung acquires Providence digital health spinoff
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
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- Expansion at Froedtert South hospital would house EMS training
- Here’s why 3 rural Wisconsin hospitals are deemed ‘at-risk’ of closing
- Wisconsin group acquires shuttered hospital, and plans for a new facility
- Children’s Wisconsin to open walk-in mental health clinic in Green Bay
- Wisconsin Hospital Association on board with budget despite assessment spike
- Carjacking suspect arrested in Chicago, but hospital van still missing
- Finding unity after the nurses’ strike at UnityPoint Health-Meriter
- Open houses planned for new Behavioral Health Clinics in Grafton and Sheboygan
- Wisconsin abortion ruling didn’t end threats to access, nonprofit says
- Wisconsin group acquires shuttered hospital, and plans for a new facility
- Wisconsin’s new budget retains higher minimum rates for many assisted living homes in state’s Family Care program
WYOMING
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- Star Valley Health terminates Cigna contract
- As Medical Imaging Tech Advances, Wyoming Has A Shortage Of People To Operate It
- Intermountain Health launches maternal health connections in Wyoming to bring pregnancy and postpartum care closer to home
- St. John’s Health surgery helps patients sleep more soundly
- Wyoming Health Insurer Launches New ‘Special Delivery’ Program that Covers Prenatal Vitamins, Breast Pumps, and Emotional Support for Expectant Mothers
