NATIONAL
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- 7 major vaccine policy changes in 2025
- 2026: Healthcare-specific private equity reporting requirements set to go into effect
- 40 million Americans use ChatGPT for healthcare: Report
- 13 health systems affected by Oracle Health data breach
- 6 Stark law cases in 1 year
- A 2026 Stark law update goes into effect
- Breaking the discharge bottleneck: 3 systems’ strategies
- CMS drops vaccine reporting rule for states
- DEA extends telemedicine prescribing flexibilities through 2026
- FDA exempts more wearable, AI features from oversight
- Health IT companies seek ‘clearer, more consistent rules’ on AI development
- Here are the state healthcare laws taking effect in 2026
- HHS freezes $10B in funding for 5 states — 3 federal updates
- HHS overhauls childhood vaccine recommendations: 4 things to know
- Hospital CEO exits up nearly 6% year over year: 5 things to know
- Hospitals relieved 340B rebate program is delayed
- Hospitals postpone elective surgeries as flu strains capacity
- Hospitals win temporary block to 340B rebate program
- How roll-up ASC deals could be skirting antitrust review
- How to build a moneymaking hospital-at-home program
- Notable healthcare policies taking effect in 2026
- ‘Nuclear verdicts’ for medical malpractice cases on rise: AMA
- OpenAI launches health-specific ChatGPT
- Pharmaceutical Care Management Association names new CEO
- Provider, telehealth groups urge Congress to make telehealth flexibilities permanent
- Rapid private equity growth in autism care sparks scrutiny
- Top healthcare provider trends in 2026
- US companies are scaling back hiring in 2026. How do hospitals compare?
- US will overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots
- Why physicians must lead the next wave of innovation
ALABAMA
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- Alabama Rural Hospital Investment Program could save rural hospitals from closing
- Alabama Cardiovascular Group reaches $2.2M settlement in data breach lawsuit
- BCBS of Alabama Medicare beneficiaries to lose fitness benefit
- East Alabama Health opens $44M mental health facility
- Encompass Health names CEO for new rehab hospital
- Long-planned Shelby County addiction recovery center plans 2027 opening
- Metro hospital campus sold as part of $7B portfolio transfer
- New initiatives in Alabama offer relief for rural hospitals
- Twice-contested Shelby County health facility receives approval, opening date set
- UAB Health System acquires medical group
- Alabama physicians group says federal funds could address doctor shortage
- ‘Flawed system,’ Alabama leaders hopeful a reimbursement change could help struggling hospitals
ALASKA
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- Alaska flu cases spike, causing at least 3 deaths and high numbers of hospitalizations
- Ketchikan Indian Community Launching First Tribal Wellness Center at Salmon Falls Resort
- Alaska, Montana, Oklahoma crack top five in first rural hospital funding allocation
- Juneau child’s clinical trial can go forward after community raises more than $1 million
ARIZONA
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- Atlanta-based health care real estate firm opens Phoenix office with 20-year industry veteran
- Arizona law offers retired 1st responders expanded cancer insurance
- Banner Health enters 2026 with momentum — and a plan to accelerate
- Banner to cut corporate office space by 75% in HQ move, citing ‘hybrid work model’
- HonorHealth acquires Cigna care group
- HonorHealth expands primary care access across the Valley with acquisition of Evernorth Care Group locations
- Kane County Hospital cleared to provide ambulance service in Fredonia, northern Arizona
- Meadows & Ohly taps Ann Atkinson to lead Phoenix expansion
- Medicaid cuts backed by Juan Ciscomani will cost Southern Arizona hospitals $110 M every year
- Phoenix cardiology group acquired
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas hospital taps new interim CFO
- Arkansas law requires insurance coverage of bariatric surgery
- Arkansas receives nearly $209 million in federal funding for rural health care
- Eureka Springs Hospital names Doug Hoban Interim CFO
- UAMS earns 10-year accreditation for nurse anesthesia program
- Arkansas Children’s Hospital receives $50M gift to transform care
- Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Announces Appointments
- John Brown University Receives $750K From Walker Foundation
- Panacea Financial Hires Marketing and Compliance Leaders to Support Growth
CALIFORNIA
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- 1,500 Rady Children’s Hospital workers unionize
- Anthem sues 11 Prime hospitals, alleges $15M in fraudulent No Surprises Act awards
- Balloon catheter inventor Tom Fogarty dies at 91 after decades shaping medical device industry
- California hospital could close Jan. 10
- California Medicaid ends weight loss drug coverage
- California system taps former Sutter CFO amid ‘regional expansion’
- Dignity Health hospital elects chief of staff
- Kaiser-backed joint venture opens second California PACE center
- Kaiser opens new health facility in Compton
- Keck Medicine of USC names CFO from Optum
- Marshall opens on-mountain clinic at Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort for winter injury care
- NorthBay Health’s strategy chief on why long-term plans need time — not constant pivots
- Providence innovation leader joins City of Hope
- Sacramento pharmaceutical manufacturer Nivagen acquired by private equity-backed PAI Pharma
- Sutter Health begins latest expansion in Santa Rosa with $10 million renovation of medical building near hospital
- Sutter Health’s Hollie Seeley Is Piloting Health Care
- Why Rady Children’s Health built its own private GPT
- Workers to strike at 6 KPC Health hospitals
- California-Based Health Tech Company Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
- California hospital uses AI to boost breast cancer detection
- California launches low-cost insulin, helping Kern County patients
- Prime hospital CFO expands role to oversee 2 facilities
- Stanford AI model forecasts disease risk years in advance
- UC San Francisco develops AI method to diagnose pneumonia
COLORADO
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- Children’s Hospital, Denver Health end gender-affirming care to minors
- Colorado hit hard by flu surge as hospitalizations spike statewide; State among those with most cases in U.S.
- Colorado law equalizes insurance coverage for behavioral, physical health
- New Colorado law requires insurers to cover mental health like physical illness
- Rural Colorado hospitals to forge joint venture
- UCHealth hospital uses AI in BPH treatment
- Children’s Hospital Colorado suspends gender-affirming care, again
- Flu spike impacting emergency rooms in Colorado Springs hospital
- Kaiser Permanente says Denver Public Schools will switch to different health care provider
- Colorado pushes back against CDC’s new childhood vaccine recommendations
- How UCHealth built a systemwide approach to behavioral healthcare
CONNECTICUT
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- 2026 begins with 4 hospital M&A deals
- Bridgeport’s St. Vincent’s Hospital receives $15 million gift for cancer treatment center
- ‘Generational moment’ arrives as HHC officially acquires Manchester, Rockville hospitals
- Hartford HealthCare caps Manchester Memorial acquisition: 6 things to know
- Hartford HealthCare to move newly acquired hospital to Epic
- Prospect to pay Vernon nearly $1M for tax debts as Hartford HealthCare takes over at Rockville General Hospital
- Southington, Glastonbury file federal lawsuits claiming diabetes drug manufacturers, PBMs collude on prices
- St. Vincent’s Medical Center receives $15 million for cancer care
- UConn Health, UnitedHealthcare agree to new contract
- Access Health CT extends deadline to enroll in health plan to end of January
- CT to get $154M through federal rural health grant for 2026
DC
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
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- AdventHealth to expand freestanding ERs in Polk, Pasco counties
- AdventHealth posts 10.3% operating margin in Q3
- BayCare plans to open $650M children’s hospital
- Charlotte developer breaks ground on Wesley Chapel medical office
- Cleveland Clinic names CMO for 3 Florida hospitals
- CMS lifts enrollment freeze on Florida Medicare Advantage plan
- Florida hospitals saw a major increase in revenue from commercial payers
- Florida systems gain imaging access in $100M acquisition
- HCA Florida hospital names chief nurse
- HCA opens $8.3M freestanding ER in Arlington
- Health care executives convicted of $34 million Medicare fraud scheme
- Holy Cross Health Expands Orthopedic Care with Two Mako 4 Robotics Systems
- How this AdventHealth ASC built a safety culture from day one
- Lakeland Regional Health and Tampa General Hospital Partner to Enhance Cancer Care and Research
- Oracle Health data breach ensnares AdventHealth
- Orthopedic Care Partners taps chief development officer
- Shriners Children’s taps regional hospital administrator
- South Florida nurses to strike at 3 HSA hospitals
- Tampa General, Lakeland Regional partner to expand regional specialized cancer care access
- TGH Ventures widens investment focus to medical devices with expanded fund
- The safety strategy behind Leapfrog-recognized Baptist ASCs
- What AdventHealth’s CEO is replacing resolutions with in 2026
- Why Baptist Health South Florida’s ASC strategy stands apart
- Winter Park sees wave of medical office projects as health care demand grows
- Millennium Physician Group adds 8 primary care practices
GEORGIA
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- Atlanta-based health care real estate firm opens Phoenix office with 20-year industry veteran
- Atlanta Medical Center demolition enters final stage as skyline undergoes major transformation
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta names orthopedics chief
- Georgia in ‘very high’ range for flu cases as state reports 29 deaths associated with virus
- Georgia legislative panel recommends mobile units, student loan aid for rural cancer care
- Healthcare Affordability Crisis in Georgia
- Metro Atlanta flu outbreak worst in years, doctors say
- Pediatric care group opens Atlanta clinics, eyes future growth
- Wellstar Georgia hospital names COO ahead of August opening
- Georgia gets nearly $219 million for rural health care
HAWAII
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- Hawaiʻi Awarded $188.9 Million to Transform Rural Healthcare
- Hawaii Pacific Health, HMSA plan new parent to improve patient care
- HMSA plans merger with Hawaii Pacific Health hospitals
- HMSA, Hawaii Pacific Health CEOs detail partnership aimed at improving patient care
- The Queen’s Health Systems in the midst of several expansion projects to improve access to care
IDAHO
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- ‘Egregious’: Idaho insurer says planned hospital’s practices could drive up costs
- Health insurance company eyes possible move after decades in Meridian
- Idaho therapists launch new virtual mental health platform
- St. Luke’s playbook for building a ‘future-ready’ pharmacy model
- Caldwell family speaks out against Medicaid therapy changes for their child with Autism
- Idaho to receive $930 million in federal funds to improve rural health care access
- North Idaho sees increasing numbers of flu, RSV cases
ILLINOIS
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- 2026 begins with 4 hospital M&A deals
- 3 behavioral health executive moves to know
- Alexian Brothers labor and delivery unit shuts down
- Carle Health names service area president
- Cityblock Health and Meridian Health Plan of Illinois partner on Medicaid
- Erlanger taps SVP of revenue cycle from CommonSpirit
- Flu Hospitalizations In Chicago Hit 3-Year High
- Health care data breach affects 600,000 patients, Illinois agency says
- Illinois Awarded $193M to Expand Healthcare Access in Rural Areas
- Illinois hospital joins Mercyhealth; CEO, CFO depart
- Illinois system adopts AI tools to cut radiology turnaround times
- Meet the new CFO for HSHS Central Illinois Market
- Mercyhealth and FHN join forces to strengthen local health care
- New Illinois law requires first responders to report overdoses
- New Illinois laws for 2026: Major changes for healthcare, insurance, drug costs and more
- OrthoMidwest adds 3rd division with 16 surgeons
- Rush University System for Health, Amazon One Medical partner
- SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital Among Nation’s Top Performing Hospitals for Treatment of Heart Attack Patients
- Union raises alarm over ER wait times, staffing at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
- Illinois Maternal Mortality Report Finds Rise in Pregnancy-Related Deaths
- OSF chief development officer to retire
INDIANA
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- Beacon hospital completes expansion
- Evansville org receives approval for initiative to boost health care access for nonprofits
- Indiana attorney general sues Lilly over insulin prices
- IU Health chief marketing officer retires
- Indiana hospital names 10th CEO in organization’s history
- Lilly to acquire California-based biopharma company in $1.2B deal
- Ortho NorthEast opens 9K-square-foot MOB
- The level sets OrthoIndy’s CEO strives to achieve
- How $200M will transform rural health care in Indiana
- Hospital launches community health survey
- ‘We’ve hired more nurses, opened more beds, yet we’re still drowning’: Indiana hospitals starting to struggle as flu cases rise
- IU Health Foundation Receives $500,000 Gift to Support Team Member Wellness
- Indiana bill to protect patients from unauthorized exams during sedation advances
- State senator files bill to create state oversight office for mental health facilities
- Pharmaceutical company planning to employ 300 workers in Greenfield
IOWA
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- 2026 begins with 4 hospital M&A deals
- Hospital-based nursing home cited for resident death
- Iowa Hawkeyes’ bowl win results in donation to children’s hospital
- Iowa hospital affiliates with South Dakota system
- Mercy Medical Center makes history with new breast cancer surgery technology
- Mercy Medical Center performs first surgery with new breast cancer detection device
- UI Health Care performs nation’s first biodegradable pancreatic stent procedure
- Fire at nursing home sparked by police chief’s cigarette, security video shows
- Hawarden hospital affiliates with Avera
- Mercy Medical first to use MarginProbe 2
- Spiking flu cases causing pause in Des Moines elective surgeries
- What a $209 million federal boost means for rural hospitals and what’s still at risk in these communities
KANSAS
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- Derby’s Rock Regional Hospital tells employees it will close Wednesday morning
- Kansas hospital abruptly closes
- Kansas system names CFO to succeed longtime leader
- Why 30 hospitals in Kansas and 12 in Missouri are at risk of closure
- Excellence in Health Care: January 2026
- How the closure of Rock Regional could have implications for healthcare across Kansas
- Rock Regional Hospital tells employees it will close Wednesday
- Southeast Kansas health centers unite for improved care
- Western Kansas hospital opens new building, hopes to expand services
- Why costs for temp staff ballooned by $55.4M at 2 Kansas hospitals
KENTUCKY
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- Advocates hope Kentucky Rural Health funds bring change
- Baptist Health pharmacy braces for tech, policy shifts
- CommonSpirit hospital taps new president
- Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center earns prestigious national ECMO award
- Kentucky hospital expands diagnostic imaging services
- Marcus & Millichap closes $18.6 million sale of medical office building in Wichita
- New health-related laws went into effect January 1
- UK HealthCare highlights 18 months of UK St. Claire integration, expanding care and workforce
- Beshear unveils Kentucky budget with new spending on pre-K, housing, health care
- Most Kentucky counties have no nurse trained to examine, treat sexual assault victims
- State budget, health care top priorities for Kentucky lawmakers during 2026 legislative session
- Kentucky gets nearly $213M for healthcare
- Deal to sell embattled Kentucky addiction treatment provider falls through
- Kentucky lawmaker files bill aiming to protect reproductive health care privacy
- UK first in nation to treat small cell lung cancer patient with new immunotherapy
- Proposed Kentucky bill would prevent criminalization of seeking out-of-state abortion services
LOUISIANA
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- Ochsner launches program to cut GLP-1 costs
- FMOL Health, Orion Laboratories enter joint venture
- How Louisiana plans to spend $208 million in federal funds on rural health care
- Inside the battle for the future of addiction medicine : Shots
- Louisiana health notes: A new Livingston Parish hospital, $50K for psychosis care and more.
- Louisiana to receive $208M for rural health care
MAINE
MARYLAND
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- CEO of local public company to step down after nearly 10 years
- Hopkins spinout backed by over $300M closes Baltimore office
- Maryland system names CFO, SVP of quality and patient safety
- Maryland’s health care reimbursement system gets massive overhaul
- Plans for 100 townhomes, medical offices up for Frederick Planning Commission review
- TidalHealth taps CFO
- Why Luminis Health’s COO sees readmissions as an upstream problem
- Flu cases surge in Maryland, hospital ERs overwhelmed
- Gov. Wes Moore bill would let Maryland bypass federal vaccine schedule
MASSACHUSETTS
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- 2026 begins with 4 hospital M&A deals
- Boston Children’s Hospital, AWS develop ‘clinical doppelgangers’
- Charles River Labs CEO to retire in 2026 after 30+ years at the helm
- Court strikes down NIH’s unilateral cap on research overhead, protecting billions in university funding
- Covenant Health alerts more patients in breach
- Fallon Health merges with Mass General Brigham as health plans face financial pressure
- Former Mass General Brigham CEO dies
- Massachusetts hospital becomes a UMass Memorial campus
- NIH funding cuts in Mass. totaled $125M in 2025, less than predicted
- Aktis Oncology looks to raise $200M in first Massachusetts IPO of 2026
- DPH finds Saint Vincent back in compliance following staffing investigation
- Eight months after UMass Chan layoffs, NIH to review delayed funding applications
- Eli Lilly, Nimbus to develop oral obesity drug in $1.3B deal
- Fallon Health extends corporate sponsorship of WooSox
- Former 2seventy bio CEO starts new Boston biotech with $50M
- Gilead commercial head Sandrine Piret-Gerard exits for Argenx
- MA nursing staff levels improve, but 1 in 10 jobs still vacant
- Massachusetts biotechs announce $780M in funding before JPM conference
- Milford Regional Physician Group joins UMass Memorial Health
- Some Mass. hospitals at capacity as flu surges; and, remembering Stuart Altman
- State receives $162M from feds for rural health
- Stock up at Ironwood Pharmaceuticals; biotech cuts price of Linzess
MICHIGAN
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- Bridge Michigan investigation: Aging in Michigan comes with challenges, few solutions
- Bronson plans $15M overhaul at Paw Paw hospital as ER visits surge
- Corewell Health, Quest Diagnostics form joint venture
- Health systems near finish line on projects to grow new care capacity
- Michigan sits on $35M fund to improve nursing homes. It’s largely unused
- MSU Health Care to adopt Epic through Henry Ford partnership
- Priority Health completes Wisconsin deal to grow regional reach
- Trinity taps new service area CFO
- Michigan doctors say these 5 changes are coming to health care in 2026
- Feds award Michigan $173M to boost rural health amid Medicaid cuts
- Michigan ‘a pretty sick state’ amid surge of ‘super flu,’ COVID cases
- Influenza wallops Michigan and hospitals feel the pinch
MINNESOTA
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- Encore Medical takes first step to become Minnesota’s next publicly traded company
- Mayo launches EHR-based AI cancer tool
- Optum begins Minnesota Medicaid audit
- Adult immigrants in Minnesota lost access to state-funded health care on Jan. 1
- Advocates demand change at HCMC after ICE guarded patient’s bedside
- Feds award MN $193M for first year of rural health investments
- Hidden revenue makes Minnesota nursing home finances hard to judge
- ICE agents shackled patient to bed at HCMC, advocacy group says
- ICE entered Minneapolis hospital without warrant, handcuffed patient to bed, community organizers say
- Mayo Clinic anesthesiologist to receive national pain medicine award
- Mayo Clinic digital health vice chair stepping down
- Minneapolis leaders decry ICE activity at hospital
- Minnesota hospital security guard’s killing a ‘sad reminder’ of ER violence
- Minnesota nursing home workers will have to wait for raises
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
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- Ascension taps new payer revenue strategy leader
- Mercy names new CFO
- Missouri wins $216 million federal grant to close rural health gap, but Medicaid cuts loom
- More services at Central Missouri hospital fall victim to economic pressures
- MO lawmakers hope 2026 is the year to boost maternal and infant health
- New Ascension CEO puts access, modernization in spotlight
- Why 30 hospitals in Kansas and 12 in Missouri are at risk of closure
- Flu cases surge to 5-year high in Jackson County, Missouri
- Planned Parenthood closes a Missouri facility and shifts entirely to telehealth
- ‘Significant increase’ in reported flu cases in Kansas City, Missouri
- Federal funding uncertainty puts Missouri senior services at risk as deadline approaches
MONTANA
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- Montana Set to Receive $233 Million Through Federal Rural Healthcare Program
- Alaska, Montana, Oklahoma crack top five in first rural hospital funding allocation
- How new federal funding could impact Montana’s most rural medical facilities
- Union of American Physicians and Dentists holds Logan Health town hall
NEBRASKA
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- Children’s Nebraska rewrites the pediatric behavioral health playbook
- Clarkson offers NU its half of Nebraska Medicine, properties for $800 million
- Methodist Fremont Health names chief medical officer
- Nebraska Medicine opposes Board of Regents’ state takeover
- New Nebraska proposal could change who gets addiction help – and how often
- Oshkosh hospital will convert to Rural Emergency Hospital model, preserving EMS care in the area
- Nebraska hospital names chief medical officer
- Nebraska Medicine opposes university’s $800M plan to assume sole governance
- New Nebraska proposal could change who gets addiction help
- New Omaha mental health center offers 24/7 support for children
NEVADA
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- 3 recent orthopedic data breaches
- Dignity Health brings more primary care doctors to the growing Las Vegas Valley
- HCA Nevada hospital taps new CEO
- Nevada in bottom 10 of rural hospital funding allocations
- Renown Health taps VP of revenue cycle
- Nevada Donor Network achieves record-breaking year for organ transplants
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
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- Blackbird Health opens first South Jersey clinic as part of regional expansion
- New Jersey eliminates $86 million in medical debt
- New Jersey health system poised to acquire hospital
- New Jersey system to join RWJBarnabas
- Pennsylvania provider expands to New Jersey with pediatric mental health clinic
- Pinnacle Treatment Centers taps new CEO
- RWJBarnabas Health signs deal to acquire Englewood Health
- RWJBarnabas taps Mount Sinai executive as hospital CEO
- South Jersey health care underwent some of these major shakeups in ’25
- State Health Board Clears Hospital Relocation to Tinton Falls, with Conditions
NEW MEXICO
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- New Mexico secures $211 Million for rural hospitals
- New laws enacted in New Mexico in 2026
- New Mexico Health Care Affordability Fund helping residents
- New Mexico ‘imposter nurse’ takes plea deal in identity fraud and medical care case
- New Mexico OB/GYNs struggle under weight of malpractice insurance cost
- New Mexico offering $1M in grants to strengthen primary care workforce
NEW YORK
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- 9,000 Mount Sinai physicians exit Anthem network
- 20,000 nurses at 12 New York City hospitals give strike notice
- Kaleida Health considers naming rights as $223M hospital project advances
- Mount Sinai launches AI platform for clinical trial matching
- Mount Sinai’s pharmacy goes ‘digital-first’
- New York mandates hospital violence prevention plans
- New York reports record-breaking number of flu hospitalizations in a single week
- Nurses at 7 New York hospitals reach tentative deals, cancel strike notice: 7 notes
- NYU Langone adopts crypto donation platform
- NYU Langone hospital names chief medical officer
- Who’s buying physician practices? A 5-deal breakdown
- New York health commissioner reacts to highest weekly flu hospitalizations on record
- New York hospital appoints chief nurse
- New York State Nurses Association issues strike notice to 12 NYC hospitals
- NewYork-Presbyterian launches women’s health program with $20M gift
- Nurses across five city hospitals prepare to strike
- Nurses at 15 hospitals in NYC and Long Island deliver 10-day strike notices amid contract negotiations
- NYC Health and Hospitals faces more uninsured patients, less federal aid
- Progress made, but 16,700 NY nurses still eye Jan. 12 strike
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Advocate Health names chief academic officer
- Atrium Health expands efforts linking housing and health
- Atrium Health’s Meaningful Medicine program transforms access to care, expands economic mobility through early career opportunities
- Columbus Regional adds another Spivey Road property
- Compass Surgical names CEO
- Duke LifePoint names chief nurse for 2 hospitals
- Durham drugmaker grows portfolio with acquisition
- FirstHealth of the Carolinas taps CFO
- North Carolina gets $213 million boost for rural healthcare under new federal program
- North Carolina’s $10.8 Billion Life Sciences Boom Is Reshaping Research Triangle Industrial Real Estate
- Novant Health names new chief legal officer
- Who’s buying physician practices? A 5-deal breakdown
- Built by peers, backed by the state: Inside North Carolina’s expanding peer support network
- Flu cases surge in NC, straining hospitals and increasing death toll to 39
- UNC Health joins other NC healthcare providers in implementing visitor restrictions amid flu surge
- Flu deaths rise in North Carolina as measles outbreak grows in South Carolina
- 3 behavioral health executive moves to know
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- $7.3B TRICARE contract extension impacts thousands in Dayton region
- Akron Children’s buys large office building in Rocky River
- Bon Secours Mercy Health back in black in Q3
- Cleveland Clinic study ties shared governance to higher nurse satisfaction
- Enable Injections raises $30M in midst of $120M manufacturing push
- Memorial Health CEO to retire
- Ohio hospital acquires OB/GYN group
- Ohio State primary care clinicians join Mercy Health ACO
- Ohio surgical hospital partners with Mercy Health
- TriHealth and UnitedHealthcare reach deal hours before deadline affecting 80,000 patients
- What culture means to OhioHealth’s CHRO
- Who’s buying physician practices? A 5-deal breakdown
- DeWine announces Ohio’s Rural Health Transformation Program award
- Some Ohio cities rank high on study comparing health care spending
- Ohio flu hospitalizations doubled in last week of 2025
- Ohio cities rank among the most medically expensive, analysis finds
OKLAHOMA
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- Oklahoma hospital taps new CFO
- Oklahoma Proton Center featured in award-winning documentary
- Oklahoma to receive $223 million for rural health care
- 3 Oklahoma ophthalmology practices acquired
- Cherokee Nation leaders propose $30M nursing school partnership with OU
- Grants boost rural health care in Oklahoma
OREGON
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- 3 recent orthopedic data breaches
- Feds award Oregon $197 million for rural health care as state grapples with billions in cuts
- Legacy clinicians in Portland ratify union contract after monthlong strike
- Legacy Health advance practice providers ratify contract following strike
- OHSU outlines scenarios for closing primate research center
- Striking Legacy providers reach second tentative agreement with hospital system
- Oregon Health Plan to remain in network at Salem Health in 2026
- Oregon unemployment rate stayed at 5.2% in November as health care boom continues
- Oregon’s slow but steady progress adding drug treatment beds is at risk
- Flu cases are surging across the U.S. Here’s what OHA says about Oregon
- Susan Sauder named Providence Southern Oregon CEO
- Former Asante nurse sues health care system, alleging discrimination and retaliation
PENNSYLVANIA
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- 2025 in Review: 2 new hospitals, 2 multi-floor expansions highlight health care construction projects
- 3rd person dies from Bristol nursing home explosion, police say
- AHN’s CEO predicts the biggest challenges in health care in 2026
- Blackbird Health opens first South Jersey mental health clinic
- Children’s Institute CEO brings vision for family-centered care (Newly Minted)
- ‘Devastated’: Thousands of employees were laid off from Pa. hospitals, offices, more
- Douglas Day takes helm at St. Barnabas Health System as William Day retires after 58 years
- Encompass Health names CEO for Glen Mills rehab hospital set to open in spring
- Former Jefferson Health, Providence CEOs join AmplifyMD
- Geisinger venture capital arm names new vice president
- Guthrie expands hospital president’s role
- Highmark Health waives out-of-pocket costs for diagnostic mammograms and MRIs
- Jefferson Health lawsuit alleges top pharmacy and drug companies conspired to raise insulin prices
- Lawsuit filed after Bucks County rehab center explosion kills 3, injures about 20
- Main Line Health taps Atlantic Health chief strategy officer
- Nemours to launch maternal fetal health institute, providing alternative to CHOP
- New Adagio Health CEO takes over at pivotal moment for women’s health
- New Children’s Institute CEO brings vision for expanded access, family-centered care
- New mental health crisis center to open in Montgomery County
- Penn Medicine doubles operating income in Q1
- Pennsylvania gets $193M federal grant for rural health care
- Pennsylvania hospital to end labor and delivery services
- Pennsylvania provider expands to New Jersey with pediatric mental health clinic
- Pennsylvania to receive $193M in federal funding to improve rural health care access
- Philadelphia VC firm creates obesity drug startup, raises $159.8M Series A
- ‘This is more than an expansion’: UPMC bolsters women’s services at recently acquired system
- UHS extends CEO’s term through 2028
- UPMC Magee-Womens expands services to Washington hospital as part of $300M investment
- Why (and how) Jefferson Health is expanding its nurse ‘SEAL team’
- Why Geisinger went biosimilar-1st across its pharmacy portfolio
- New Temple and ChristianaCare hospitals top 2025 health care projects
- XyloCor Therapeutics CEO Al Gianchetti departs for Nuevocor
RHODE ISLAND
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- 3 recent orthopedic data breaches
- Care New England names hospital president, COO
- Court strikes down NIH’s unilateral cap on research overhead, protecting billions in university funding
- Who’s buying physician practices? A 5-deal breakdown
- BayCoast Bank provides $6K grant for Seekonk Fire Department EMS equipment upgrades
- Brown Health appoints Ventetuolo as head of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine
- Deficit projection narrows, but fiscal risk factors loom over General Assembly session
- Delta Dental of Rhode Island names new general counsel
- Holiday Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center enters contract with N.J. consulting service
- R.I.-based health care provider elected to National Certification Corp. board
- RIDOH, DEM conclude cyanobacteria monitoring for season
- Southcoast Health names Imran new head of cardiac MRI
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Baxter, MUSC Health enter nurse-focused partnership
- Flu deaths rise in North Carolina as measles outbreak grows in South Carolina
- MUSC names Pete Hull chief communications officer
- MUSC Health names new marketing chief
- Prisma Health CIO retires
- S.C. flu spread among worst in U.S. entering 2026, data shows
- Health officials warn of severe flu season as new strain spreads in South Carolina
- Sherman College promotes chiropractic educator to VP role
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- How Sanford Health CEO Bill Gassen is tackling Medicare Advantage
- Iowa hospital affiliates with South Dakota system
- Sanford Health announces new executive leadership appointments
- Sanford Health CEO: Time to ‘scale innovation’ with new leadership structure
- Sanford Health taps new chief transformation officer
- Sanford opens South Dakota’s first pediatric emergency department in Sioux Falls
- State facilitates $200 million in bonds for Monument Health amid Sanford’s expansion into Rapid City
- A portion of USD Sanford School of Medicine is moving to Sioux Falls
- Federal government awards $189 million to South Dakota from new rural health fund
TENNESSEE
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- Ascension Saint Thomas taps 5 new leaders
- Erlanger taps SVP of revenue cycle from CommonSpirit
- Flu surge pushes hospitals as season shows no signs of slowing
- Gauge Capital acquires stake in Reliable Medical, plans next phase of expansion
- HCA appoints chief operating officer for digital transformation
- HCA faces mounting opposition in multistate expansion
- Nashville Health Care Council announces 2026 class of fellows
- Startup Whitecoat Learning Platform strikes two major deals
- Tennessee hospital taps president, chief administrative officer
- Vanderbilt Health is bringing LifeFlight back under its wing
- Vanderbilt hospital taps chief nursing officer
- Vitruvian Health fights HCA expansion in Tennessee
- Who’s buying physician practices? A 5-deal breakdown
- ‘It could be detrimental’ | East Tennessee families anxious as 27,000 could lose Children’s Hospital coverage in March
- Tennessee sees ‘very high’ flu cases
- Maury Regional Health named Flagship Industry Partner
TEXAS
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- 3 behavioral health executive moves to know
- Ascension Texas, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas reach agreement
- BCBS Texas sues medical billing company, claiming No Surprises Act ‘abuse’
- Cigna, Tenet reach agreement after tense negotiations
- Houston’s health institutions prepare to deploy billions in neuroscience research funding
- Longtime Texas healthcare leader, former Parkland CEO dies
- Medical City Plano taps new CFO
- Methodist Healthcare opens its first OB-GYN clinic in North San Antonio
- MD Anderson inks partnership on AI-powered cancer diagnostics
- Memorial Hermann revenue cycle SVP retires
- Sugar Land approves first life science incentive for homegrown Hope Biosciences’ expansion
- Texas medical center opens ASC
- Texas to receive $281 million in federal funds for rural health care
- Why this ASC operator is pivoting from physician JVs to health system growth
- $3 billion dementia fund caps off brain-focused year in Houston
- Harris Health’s push to condemn Hermann Park for Ben Taub goes against agency’s own strategic plan
- Memorial Hermann revenue cycle SVP retires
- Rural Texas hospitals to receive $281.3M in federal funding
- Stem cell company Hope Biosciences to expand in Sugar Land
UTAH
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- AI begins renewing prescriptions in Utah
- Civica Rx’s low-cost insulin, biosimilar launch in US
- ‘Historic’ $195M investment set to reshape health care in rural Utah
- Utah allows AI to renew prescription drugs autonomously
- Utah measles cases rise to 156 amid ongoing national outbreak
- Utah debate over transgender treatments for minors divides policymakers, experts over state ‘systematic review’
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
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- 15 health centers sue Virginia for inadequate Medicaid reimbursements over 25 years
- HCA Healthcare’s Dominion Hospital has a new leader again, after last CEO’s quiet departure
- How Inova Health aims to reduce administrative burden
- NAPA Anesthesia expands Bon Secours partnership
- Owens & Minor rebrands after $375M sale
- Virginia hospital reopens
- Virginia system opens 5th hospital, a $300M facility
- Virginia to get $190 million in federal dollars to expand and modernize rural healthcare
- Respiratory illnesses remain high across Virginia, health officials warn
- Report shows Southside Virginia has more than 3,400 health care jobs that are unfilled
- 2026 Virginia laws bring changes to wages, social media use, health care
WASHINGTON
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- Providence commits $600M to staff pay in 2026 strategy
- Providence names chief executive for Southern Oregon
- Providence sells health IT consulting company Tegria
- WA crisis centers are in jeopardy without more funding, officials warn
- Washington crisis center funding model faces cloudy future
- Washington hospital avoids closure
- Washington to receive $181 million in federal rural health care funding
- How WA’s $181M in rural health funding stacks up with other states
- Patient at WA’s Western State Hospital dies at construction site
- What drives a ‘huge separation’ in mental healthcare
WEST VIRGINIA
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- Kesler named vice president of post-acute services
- Why integration is central to Vandalia’s financial strategy
- West Virginia awarded nearly $200M through federal Rural Health Transformation program
- West Virginia Department of Health launches new website
- How West Virginians may benefit from the rural health transformation program
WISCONSIN
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- Priority Health completes Wisconsin deal to grow regional reach
- Priority Health expands to 4th state through health plan deal
- Radke named HSHS Wisconsin Market foundation director
- Wisconsin health officials oppose CDC overhaul of child vaccine schedule
- Wisconsin receives $203 million for rural health care
- Wisconsin Medicaid expected to spend $213M over state budget
- Wisconsin Senate Committee hears arguments on hospital price transparency bill
- Lawmakers seek hospital price transparency, while hospitals say they should focus on insurers
WYOMING
