NATIONAL
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- Advanced practice provider demand driving revamped pay structures
- AHA, West Health launch $12M tech accelerator for hospitals
- AHA Statement on House Ways and Means Affordability Hearing with Hospital CEOs
- AHA urges HRSA to act as Eli Lilly threatens 340B discounts over claims data submission policy
- AHA warns of Chinese cyber actors using covert networks
- AHA warns TEFCA updates could pose privacy risks
- Are Community Benefits from Your Health System or Hospital Adequately Recognized?
- Big companies position themselves for payday from $50B federal rural health fund
- Bipartisan House bill targets MA prior authorization, denial practices: 5 notes
- CMS may have improperly paid $2.26M for virtual services: Audit
- Congress grills hospital CEOs over costs
- Conservative think tank Paragon Health calls its shots on hospital policy reform
- DOJ increasingly investigating health systems, claiming anticompetitive contracts
- Federal policy fuels physician career regrets, survey finds
- From compliance to calling: Why we chose DNV and ISO 9001
- FTC files suit over telemarketing scheme selling fake PPO insurance
- Health system governance is falling behind: 8 things to know
- Hospital CEOs defend charging patients more at facilities
- How a single word could determine the future of 340B
- How health systems are redesigning care teams — and what’s working
- HRSA wants a 340B rebate pilot. Here’s what the industry thinks
- Lawmakers introduce bill to expand mental health clinics
- Lawmakers claim hospitals ‘more lucrative’ than Disney: How CommonSpirit, HCA, NewYork-Presbyterian and ECU Health CEOs responded
- Medical Device Maker Medtronic Announces Data Breach
- OCR Fines Four Regulated Entities for HIPAA Violations That Led to Ransomware Attacks
- On Capitol Hill, health system CEOs agree to ‘rational reworking’ of site-neutral payments
- Providers push back on 340B rebate model
- Residency fill rates worsen for primary care: 20 stats to know
- The healthcare worker saving $12k per patient
- Trump administration appeals ruling that blocked RFK Jr.’s vaccine overhaul
- US drug shortages trending upward in 2026
- Ways and Means Chair Hits Hospital Tax-Exempt Status: BGOV Tax
- Why more hospital systems are teaming with home health companies
- Why the FTC formed a new healthcare task force
ALABAMA
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- Alabama company to sell for $565M
- BCBS Alabama posts $3.2M loss in 2025
- Encompass Health CIO retires
- Grandview Health inks deal for majority ownership in metro health facility
- Huntsville Hospital CEO updates city council on merger with Crestwood
- Southeast Health names CFO successor
- UAB, Birmingham Heart Clinic gear up for specialty clinic opening
- Alabama Department of Corrections abruptly cancels $1 billion health care contract
- East Alabama Health looks to expand Spencer Cancer Center
- Alabama healthcare company to be acquired by Texas firm in $565 million deal
- West Alabama Women’s Center opens new health clinic in Tuscaloosa
- Former Tuscaloosa abortion clinic expands to address Alabama’s maternal health crisis
- Employees evaluated after elevator issue at Baptist Health Princeton Hospital in Birmingham
- Huntsville Hospital CEO Says Crestwood Medical Center brand and operations will remain unchanged after acquisition
ALASKA
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- Retrial of former Juneau chiropractor accused of sexual assault may move to Anchorage
- Capstone Family Medicine and Alaska Provider Network Lead First-of-Its-Kind Partnership to Transform Rural Healthcare Delivery
- From sick care to healthcare: one way rural health funding could change Alaska
- New behavioral health and substance program opens for veterans and active-duty members
- SEARHC opens long-awaited new hospital in Sitka
- Alaska Legislature advances measures to address longstanding problems in children’s psychiatric facilities
ARIZONA
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- Arizona Brain & Spine Center to close
- Advanced Spine and Pain unveils new ASC
- BCBS Arizona posts $335M loss in 2025
- Lifepoint Arizona hospital CEO heads to CHS
- St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson among eight Arizona hospitals at closure risk
- Why Banner, Penn Medicine invest in research amid funding cuts
- 6 Phoenix area hospitals considered at risk due to Medicaid cuts
- Capitol roundup: Bill would allow nursing home monitoring devices
- Families could get right to put cameras in nursing homes
- Northern Arizona Healthcare exploring ways to expand capacity at FMC during pause in plans for a new hospital campus
- Spine group to open new ASC
- Valleywise Health expands dental residency program to strengthen Arizona’s health care workforce
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas hospital to cut more services, affecting 150 roles
- Arkansas Mission of Mercy Marks 20 Years of Free Dental Care
- First-of-its-kind nursing program celebrates inaugural graduating class in Arkansas
- Rate Impasse Again Threatens to Push Conway Regional Out of Insurer’s Network
- Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace Data Show Changes in Enrollment, Plan Selection, Premiums
- Baptist Health Fort Smith announces more services ending; 150 employees impacted
- Lawmakers meet with Baptist Health officials amid Fort Smith service shutdowns
- Leaders: Baptist Health to keep Fort Smith hospital open, adjust care
- Northwest Arkansas woman turning an idea into a mission, creating a health support network for women
- Northwest Health reports on its care for Northwest Arkansas in 2025
- Report: Arkansas worst in nation on healthcare for Hispanic residents
- UAMS launches Arkansas’ first nurse-midwifery program
- University of Central Arkansas Healthcare Simulation Center receives international accreditation
CALIFORNIA
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- AI company Profluent strikes potential $2 billion deal with drugmaker Lilly
- Allina transformation chief heads to NorthBay
- California hospital names 1st chief information, digital transformation officer
- California hospital names CEO
- California system names chief quality officer
- California system taps VP of strategy
- California’s health insurance marketplace further expands AI for document verification
- Can California make single-payer healthcare happen?
- CommonSpirit, Providence, Trinity Health plan hospital sales to boost finances
- Cottage Health formalizes innovation with new leadership role
- Court throws out Anthem’s attempt to challenge No Surprises Act arbitration
- CVS taps former Sutter Health executive as security chief
- eCapital Delivers $30MM Healthcare Receivables Financing Facility to California Hospital
- HCA California system names COO
- High-flying Revolution Medicines threatens to sue a cancer drug competitor with licensed Chinese drug
- Hospital-to-housing program shows results in West Valley
- How a Silicon Valley hospital transformed stroke care from hopeless to treatable
- How Keck Medicine of USC made post-acute care a strategic engine
- Kaiser Permanente’s Downey Medical Center gets a new chief administrator – and her last name is Kaiser
- Marshall Hospital named Age-Friendly Health System
- MemorialCare CEO takes on new role; successor named
- Oroville Hospital nurses voice concern over HR-1 cuts
- Prime’s ‘revenue cycle playbook’ for hospital acquisitions
- Scanning for a $27 Billion Issue
- Scripps Health hospital tower gets $75M donation
- Sham hospice schemes are bilking Medicare — and harming California seniors
- Stanford Health Care CFO to retire, Mayo Clinic successor named
- Stanford study finds meth linked to 1 in 6 heart attacks at hospital
- UC Davis Med Center, Methodist Hospital named in national report on hospitals at risk with Medicaid cuts
- Valley Children’s spent $107M on new land. Investment will pay for care, hospital says
- WellSpace hires former Western Health executive Stephanie Madsen as CFO amid expansion push
- Judge extends order requiring California children’s hospital to continue gender-affirming care
- Drug discount program is a lifeline for California’s most vulnerable
- California lawmakers seeking protections for patients in ICE custody
- California Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria’s Bill, an Updated Distressed Hospital Loan Program with New Funding to Prevent Hospitals from Closing, Passes Assembly Health Committee
- Prevention pays off: Better health, lower costs for families in California
- Plans to fix gaps in Newsom’s mental health court reopen divisions over involuntary care
- Nurses are setting rules about AI in their contracts
COLORADO
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- Denver Health ended up on a list of at-risk hospitals — but it’s not as bad off as you might think
- HCA Colorado hospital taps new assistant CFO
- Kaiser Permanente names new Colorado medical group leader amid expansion
- UCHealth’s mobile stroke units bring hospital level care to patients
- Colorado records 17th measles case with an unvaccinated child in the Leadville area
- Colorado hospital launches new program for assault survivors
- Affordable housing campus in Denver’s Uptown rises ahead of schedule
CONNECTICUT
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- Baystate to acquire Trinity Health hospital
- Connecticut fines 5 insurers over alleged mental health parity violations
- Hartford Hospital plans $950M patient tower
- ‘If we don’t change, change will change us’: How 5 systems are rethinking care models
- Lamont’s vaccine bill expanding state authority gets final passage
- Stamford-based Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, set to shut down as CT expects $64M windfall
- UConn Health signs letter of intent for 2 hospitals
- Wallingford, Branford rehab facility fight spotlights needs of aging CT population
- Will this be the year CT lawmakers curb private equity in health care?
- CT hospital’s $950M tower is a whopper, ‘most advanced’ in nation. What it will look like and when.
- Face the Facts: Paul Kidwell with the CT Hospital Association discusses hospital stability
- Prevention pays off: Better health, lower costs for families in Connecticut
- Bristol Hospital aims to finalize UConn deal by January
- Hartford HealthCare’s 2026 Black & Red raises $4M to support community health initiatives
DC
DELAWARE
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- Bayhealth leaders share vision to expand access in Sussex County
- Beebe taps longtime nonprofit leader Sheila Bravo as chief philanthropy officer
- ChristianaCare to build $58.1M health campus
- Delaware Cancer Consortium marks decline in Delaware cancer deaths
- Delaware lawmakers ease regulations on hospital purchases
- Delaware physician to pay $180K to settle fraud allegations
- For Delawareans facing cancer, world-class care is close to home
- D.C.’s Mary’s Center pauses planned sale of Adams Morgan headquarters
- Delaware revenue officials to vote on health care spending goals
- Benchmarks to control hospital costs increase for 2027
FLORIDA
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- $231M HCA Florida hospital to open in May
- AdventHealth taps division CFO of strategy and growth
- Birthday cards are just the start: Inside AdventHealth’s hospitality strategy
- Broward Health breaks ground on 127K-square-foot outpatient center
- Encompass Florida rehabilitation hospital taps CEO
- How the Nicklaus Children’s-Broward Health pediatric ecosystem is faring 60 days in
- Jacksonville hospital becomes first in market to deploy AI system for heart arrhythmia
- Medical firm invests $1M to expand clinic, add up to 25 jobs
- Moffitt Cancer Center taps VP of payer strategies
- Naples hospital gets new flood barrier system for hurricane season
- HCA Florida Gainesville Hospital hosts community celebration as official opening date nears
- Nurse groped sedated patient at Florida hospital, deputies say
- Cyberattacks Announced by Florida Physician Specialists & Mile Bluff Medical Center
- Will Florida Blue and these two Broward hospitals make a deal? What we know
- HCA Florida Westside Hospital Celebrates Opening of Advanced Neurointerventional Suite
- HCA Healthcare plans major expansion at Miami-Dade hospital
GEORGIA
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- Metro Atlanta woman sues hospital, doctor after routine robotic surgery leads to months in ICU
- Northside Hospital Atlanta launches $46M expansion project for emergency department
- Northside Hospital Gwinnett to open new Lawrenceville tower amid rising demand
- Shriners Children’s to open $153M facility at Science Square Labs
- Who wants to buy a bankrupted cancer treatment center? Emory does
- Georgia ranks near bottom for Hispanic health care — here’s why
- Georgia public health board goes seventh straight month without meeting
- East Georgia Regional Medical Center reports on its care for Bulloch County and Southeast Georgia in 2025
- Georgia requires mental health coverage ‘parity’ but new ranking shows spotty compliance by health plans
- Georgia expands mental health care efforts
- Georgia governor candidate tied to Jackson Hospital bankruptcy fight
HAWAII
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- As state, Maui Health decide future of damaged Kula Hospital, another long-term care facility nears capacity
- DOH detected Mpox in Oahu wastewater sample
- Hawaii rehab hospital taps Medline as prime vendor
- Helmsley Trust grants $10.2M to Kuakini for diagnostic services
- Phase one of renovations underway at Hilo Memorial Hospital
- Victoria Hanes takes reins as new CEO of HICHC
- A federal program has helped Native Hawaiian medical students for 35 years. It’s now being sued for discrimination
IDAHO
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- CEI launches dental hygiene degree program in Idaho Falls to address workforce shortage
- Idaho hospital creates COO-CNO role
- Idaho lawmakers get first look at federal rural health program
- Idaho system expands sexual assault care via telehealth partnership
- Nearly $200M federal rural health grant in limbo in Idaho Legislature
- Neonatal care expanding at Pocatello’s Portneuf Medical Center and beyond
- Valor Health achieves Level IV Trauma Center Designation
ILLINOIS
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- 1 officer dead, another injured in Chicago hospital shooting
- $12 million verdict exposes loophole in Illinois nursing home laws
- Chicago hospital shooting: Suspect in custody kills officer, critically injures another, police say
- Chicago invests $16.2 million to expand mental health services, launch street psychology pilot program
- CommonSpirit, Providence, Trinity Health plan hospital sales to boost finances
- GE HealthCare imaging CEO steps down amid mixed earnings results
- Health Care Service Corp. posts $1.9B loss in 2025
- Illinois bills could help fund safety-net hospitals
- Lawmakers claim hospitals ‘more lucrative’ than Disney: How CommonSpirit, HCA, NewYork-Presbyterian and ECU Health CEOs responded
- Lawsuit accuses shuttered hospital CEO of ‘financial mismanagement,’ ‘misappropriating’ state funds
- Molina puts $100K into Lurie student mental health initiative
- Northwestern opens $15M endoscopy center
- Private equity dismantled West Suburban Medical Center and other area hospitals
- RISE Behavioral Health and Wellness closing after 50 years in Douglas County
- Southern Illinois Healthcare Enterprises Pixel Settlement Approved
- SSM Health addresses growing physician shortage
- State fines Galesburg nursing home $50K over missed medications, neglect
- UChicago Medicine to roll out systemwide digital platform
INDIANA
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- ‘A milestone moment’: Deaconess announces $150 million cancer center
- AHA urges HRSA to act as Eli Lilly threatens 340B discounts over claims data submission policy
- Baptist Health Floyd names new chief medical officer
- Central Indiana excelling in life sciences, but it needs a brand, speakers say
- Complex process leads to a new drug’s identity
- Deaconess to Close MOB 5 Lab for Renovations, Services Relocated Nearby
- Hendricks Regional Health expands oncology services in Brownsburg
- Indiana hospital systems meet benchmark on direct-to-employer health care deals
- Indiana Orthopedic Institute turns to AI to streamline surgery process for patients
- IU Health improves Q1 operating margin to -0.6%
- Lilly acquiring cancer-drug firm Ajax Therapeutics in deal worth up to $2.3B
- Lilly signs $2.25B deal with California-based AI firm to develop genetic medicine
- Parkview Health breaks ground for new Marion facility
- Ossium Health aims to revolutionize role of bone marrow banks
- Parkview Health to open orthopedic MOB
- How Reid Health uses AI to save time, improve retention and elevate patient experience
- What 3 healthcare CEOs reconsidered — and what changed their thinking
- Direct-to-employer contracting is Indiana’s next frontier for affordable healthcare
- Hope, healing through harmony | ‘Parkinson’s Choir’ at IU Health helps patients slow symptoms
- Franciscan to establish medical school in northwest Indiana
- Judge dismisses Indiana family’s case against DCS, Riley doctors
- Indiana to sunset HIV outreach program amid federal funding cuts
- Broken pipe floods IU Health hospital; patients moved
- PE-Backed Provider Acquires Niche Indiana Behavioral Health Center
IOWA
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- Healthy Hometowns Project awards $12 million grant for University of Iowa rural healthcare projects
- Iowa Medical Society honors 9 with awards at President’s Dinner
- Iowa Medical Society installs new board, names Lillian Erdahl president
- Mercy Medical Center agrees to $14.8 million payment for violating OIG civil penalties law
- MercyOne to close two South Des Moines clinics, citing expected Medicaid cuts
- Report: Hawarden Nursing Home Cited for 24 Violations; State Fine Totals $500
- St. Luke’s foundation offering rural health care grants
- UI Health Care plans $24M expansion of N. Liberty hospital
- University of Iowa to expand support of rural health care through Iowa HHS’ Healthy Hometowns Initiative
- 2026-27 Iowa Medical Society president, board members announced
- Accused in wrongful death lawsuit, surgeon now faces disciplinary charges
- After being fired from four hospitals, nurse was hired by Shenandoah hospital
- Family sues state over Medicaid payment cuts for ‘medically necessary services’
- Medical spa’s physician assistant is sanctioned by licensing board
- More Iowa nursing homes are cited, but not penalized, for too few staff
- Polk County, CDC Foundation partner on overdose prevention
- One Day for DMU raises more than $222,000
KANSAS
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- Ascension files $15.5M in building permits on two projects, including a new ER
- Jury awards $7.65 million in deadly KU Med infection case
- KU Medical Center to receive $5M to build Kansas Brain Health Assessment Network
- Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center to sell Ashley Clinic to Chanute’s NMRMC
- Via Christi plans to open free-standing ER near 21st and 127th in Wichita
- Wesley Healthcare files plans for Woodlawn ER remodel
KENTUCKY
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- 8 health systems with boosted outlooks
- 2 Markey researchers awarded $1.9M to study treatment-resistant prostate, triple-negative breast cancers
- Baptist Health Floyd names new chief medical officer
- Humana adds health care investor to board
- Humana posts $1.2B Q1 profit amid star ratings headwinds
- New report finds that LOUMED generates $1.5B in payroll
- Norton Leatherman Spine surgeon makes history with first use of new robot
- Saint Joseph Health sites in Ky adding CommonSpirit to their names
- Tennessee dental school to open clinic in Kentucky
- Report: Kentuckians of color continue to have worse health outcomes than white neighbors
- Kentucky joins UnitedHealthcare rural hospital support program
- Med Center Health unveils south-central Kentucky’s first combined emergency room and urgent care
- Western Ky. pharmacist sentenced to prison in $2M health care fraud scheme
LOUISIANA
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- FMOL Health 1st to deploy Epic AI charting tool in EDs
- Louisiana warns about unlicensed health insurers
- This Ascension hospital is launching a new foundation
- First Louisiana patient home from sickle cell gene therapy
- For New Orleans East Hospital CEO, Community Is the Patient
- Louisiana DCFS concerns: Report reveals new fatality data, foster care children held in hospitals
- Louisiana health system rebrands
- New Orleans East Hospital Invites The Public To First Fridays
MAINE
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- Andwell Health Partners and Hospice of Southern Maine Announce Merger
- Lewiston’s Central Maine Healthcare to lay off 38 IT workers
- Maine doulas look to expand accessibility as awareness grows
- Maine hospital promotes dual CFO-COO to CEO
- Registered nurses, allies to demand Maine Health cancel contract with Palantir Technologies
MARYLAND
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- As Trump eases medical cannabis restrictions, will Maryland benefit?
- Comptroller report reveals steep challenges facing Maryland’s healthcare industry
- 2 Maryland residents have confirmed cases of measles, officials say
- 5 MD Hospitals Could Face Closure After Federal Medicaid Cuts: Report
- OSFM: Arson investigation underway at Springfield Hospital Center in Sykesville
- ‘Dangerous’ winter weather broke Maryland records for cold-related deaths, ER visits
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Baystate to acquire Trinity Health hospital
- Beth Israel Lahey Health names network president
- Beth Israel Lahey Health rolls out AI scribe systemwide
- Covenant Health taps new CFO
- Dana-Farber to borrow $1.3B for new cancer hospital, other investments
- Eye Practice and Physician Owner Agree to Pay $415,000 to Resolve Allegations of False Claims to Medicare
- Mass General Brigham hospital taps chief nursing officer
- Mass General Brigham secures $865.5M for cancer, cardiovascular complex
- Moody’s downgrades Dana-Farber’s rating amid $1.7B hospital project
- Thermo Fisher CEO says onshoring push will bring a ‘tailwind’ for the Waltham company
- Tufts Medical Center expands liver transplants with new living donor program
- Tufts nurses signal no confidence in OR manager
- AMCs face a once-in-a-century strategic pivot: Viewpoint
- Avalyn Pharma IPO aims to raise $200 million on Nasdaq
- BMC South workers rescind strike notice
- Chiesi Group to acquire KalVista Pharmaceuticals for $1.9B
- Eli Lilly buys Cambridge biotech Ajax for up to $2.3 billion
- Former Beth Israel Lahey SVP of revenue cycle named CEO of medical billing company
- Massachusetts cardiology group joins UMass division
- Thermo Fisher divests microbiology business to European PE firm
- Thermo Fisher opens bioprocess design center in Plainville
- Three Massachusetts biotechs aim to raise $600M in IPOs this week
- Tufts nurses say shortstaffing in operating rooms is ‘dangerous’
MICHIGAN
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- In their words: How Michigan governor candidates would fix health care
- Michigan Medicine’s 1st CDIO aims to be a ‘humble facilitator’
- Michigan rehab hospital creates nursing pipeline
- Michigan Health System Reports Reduced Caregiver Strain Through Toolkit Pilot
- Bridge Listens: How Michigan’s next governor would fix health care
- As Michigan preps for new Medicaid requirements, leaders and advocates push for dedicated funding
- Lyme disease cases in Michigan rise 168% over 5 years, health officials report
- Nursing home critics demand Michigan lawmakers protect residents
- Michigan Senate bill would require insurance to cover IVF and IUI fertility treatments
- Trinity Health Livingston Hospital Opens In Brighton, Michigan
MINNESOTA
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- $700M bill to stabilize HCMC, other hospitals passes Senate, faces uphill battle in House
- Allina Health cybersecurity chief joins Baylor Scott & White
- Children’s Minnesota Names John Harding as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
- Community Impact of Minnesota Hospitals Tops $6.5 Billion
- Gov. Walz signs “Happy Hour for Seniors” bill into law
- HealthPartners hires UnitedHealth executive as CFO, releases 2025 results
- HealthPartners’ trade-offs: ‘Short-term financial decisions to serve patients long term’
- Inside Mayo Clinic’s program to help digital healthcare startups
- Hennepin Healthcare placed on “red alert” by national nurses’ union amid federal funding cuts
- New Children’s Minnesota COO lays out priority list
- Stanford Health Care CFO to retire, Mayo Clinic successor named
- Allina taps president for 2 hospitals
- In Minnesota’s group home industry, 50 deaths but few consequences
- Mayo Clinic: Remote patient monitoring can detect transplant complications
- Mental illness advocate says maltreatment in group homes needs stronger punishment
- Minnesota ranks among top health systems, but stark racial disparities remain
- Minnesota Senate approves funding to rescue Hennepin Healthcare from closure
- Minnesota Senate passes $150 million in aid for Hennepin Healthcare
- Some Minnesota insurers are limiting home care nursing coverage. A Rochester lawmaker wants to stop that
- UnitedHealth completes sale of UK business to TPG
- ‘We want to be known as your best partner’: UnitedHealthcare leaders talk provider tensions, prior auth cuts
MISSISSIPPI
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- 2 hospitals file for bankruptcy as they await buyers
- $13 million investment going to youth mental health services in Mississippi, governor says
- Biloxi Free Health Clinic Fights to Stay Open Amid Rising Costs
- Gov. Reeves announces office, website for $206M rural health initiative
- Mississippi insurance commissioner moves toward exchange for short-term policies
- Mississippi lab temporarily outsources some public health testing services
- Mississippi launches new rural healthcare initiative statewide
- Mississippi Opens Rural Health Transformation Office, Launches Website
- Mississippi ranks last in U.S. on healthcare outcomes and disparities
- Mississippi treatment center sees 35% rise in alcohol admissions
- Mississippi’s health system performs poorly across racial groups
- Reeves establishes Mississippi office for Rural Health Transformation Program funds
- Over $10.5 million in Mississippi taxpayer funds spent on healthcare for illegal immigrants, report says
- ‘How Did We Get Here?’: Greenwood Community Grapples With Hospital Teetering on the Edge of Closure
- Baptist introduces next-generation surgical robot
- Report: Mississippi’s health system performs poorly across racial groups
- New state-of-the-art radiation oncology systems offer advanced cancer care at UMMC
MISSOURI
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- 2 hospitals file for bankruptcy as they await buyers
- Centene swings to $1.5B profit despite losing 2 million Marketplace enrollees
- Charter sues Express Scripts over millions in unpaid drug rebate payments
- Children’s Mercy Hospital unveils plans to add $1 billion tower
- Columbia physician charged with multiple counts of fraud and prescribing drugs illegally
- Orthopedic group sues former physician for $317K in unpaid settlement installments
- Practice management firm says former St. Louis Cardinals orthopedic surgeon owes over $317K
- What’s new with Ascension?
- Missouri Heart Center to close; Boone Health establishes new cardiology center
- Sen. Hawley calls for end to federal funding for Missouri reproductive health nonprofit
- Behavioral health centers across mid-Missouri will rebrand to ‘Centerstone’
- SSM Health, Saint Louis University partner on RN-to-BSN program
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
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- Another state pulls back on managed care for some nursing home patients
- CHI Health lights up red for Nurses Week
- Mom who sued the State of Nebraska in home birth case delivers baby
- Nebraska to become 1st state to implement Medicaid work requirement
- Rural Nebraska Dialysis Unit Closes Despite the State’s $219M in Rural Health Funding
- Trump’s Medicaid Work Mandate Debuting in Nebraska to Much Dismay
NEVADA
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- Hantavirus case confirmed in Quad-County region near Carson City
- Health officials investigate cases of Legionnaires’ disease at Las Vegas Strip resort
- Kids try out medical robots at Southern Hills hospital showcase
- Nevada AG charges 2 in Sun Valley in $2M Medicaid fraud case
- Sunrise Hospital awarded for cardiovascular nursing teams
- UNLV Nursing Program Earns National Praise for Senior Care Initiative
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- $1 billion over 5 years: Director of NH’s new rural health program rolls out goals for federal funds
- Bill would make it felony in New Hampshire to assault emergency department personnel
- Exeter Hospital patients say care declined after merger. CEO says ‘we’ve made mistakes’
- Lawsuit over NH’s management of home and community-based care program heads to trial
- Potential national implications loom as judge sends New Hampshire Medicaid HCBS case to trial
- Why One CMO Says Design Rather Than Volume Is the Problem in Rural Healthcare
NEW JERSEY
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- 8 health systems with boosted outlooks
- CareWell Health Announces Appointment of Assad Akhter as Vice President of Public Affairs
- Court unanimously sides with faith-based pregnancy centers in litigation dispute with New Jersey
- Hackensack Meridian Health, Amazon One Medical open 3rd primary care office
- Hackensack Meridian Health Opens First-of-Its-Kind Wellness Center at NJ Transit Metropark Station
- ‘If we don’t change, change will change us’: How 5 systems are rethinking care models
- New $225M North Jersey cancer center set to open as hospitals compete
- New Capital Health Specialty Practice Provides Virtual Care for Patients with Liver Disease
- New Jersey ASC performs robotic spine surgery first
- New Jersey system taps new vice president of financial planning and analysis
- NJ Nursing Home Claims Medicaid Quality Score Cut Without Appeal
- Virtua Health eliminates 15K excess hospital days with Microsoft AI
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- 8 health systems with boosted outlooks
- Buffalo doctor talks future of health care as he takes helm of AMA
- Burke Rehab names VP of development
- Healthcare organizations team up to tackle staffing shortages
- How many nursing home incidents are going unreported?
- How Northwell’s CEO spots a future leader
- ‘If we don’t change, change will change us’: How 5 systems are rethinking care models
- Inside Mount Sinai’s communications strategy during a nursing strike
- Lawmakers claim hospitals ‘more lucrative’ than Disney: How CommonSpirit, HCA, NewYork-Presbyterian and ECU Health CEOs responded
- Mount Sinai back in the black in 2025: 6 things to know
- New York-Presbyterian CEO defends prices amid DOJ suit
- Northwell posts 1.2% operating margin in 2025: 6 things to know
- NYC Health + Hospitals launches avian flu preparedness program
- UVM Health lays off staff at New York hospitals
- What 3 healthcare CEOs reconsidered — and what changed their thinking
- AMCs face a once-in-a-century strategic pivot: Viewpoint
- Buffalo health systems collaborate to address staffing shortages
- Catholic Health hospital taps chief nursing officer
- Dr. Willie Underwood talks AMA presidency, health care challenges
- Improving maternal and infant health is the goal of new program at a Long Island hospital
- Kathy Hochul announces funding for new psych beds
- NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue adds CT scanner to ED
- NY hospital head explains rising costs to Congress: Blame basically everything
- Weill Cornell study points to new IBD treatment strategy
NORTH CAROLINA
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- After Asheville hospital rejected, UNC Health charts $23M expansion near Hickory
- As children’s hospital moves forward, Duke and UNC battle for beds in Durham
- Behavioral health urgent care set to open in Robeson County
- ECU Health CEO testifies before U.S. House committee, discusses rural health care challenges
- Lawmakers claim hospitals ‘more lucrative’ than Disney: How CommonSpirit, HCA, NewYork-Presbyterian and ECU Health CEOs responded
- Medicaid funding package for 3 million in NC set for final vote
- North Carolina system taps CFO
- Novant Health partners with LA mental health provider to open midtown Charlotte clinic
- UNC Health Pardee marks opening of Brevard campus with open house
- Wilmington Health breaks ground on Midtown II medical office building
- NC moves to rein in soaring autism therapy costs amid fraud concerns
- North Carolina General Assembly gives final approval to $319M in Medicaid funding
- New research on psychedelics could have big impact on mental health patients in North Carolina
- NC sees health gains, but racial gap in infant deaths remains
- Public hospital, private talks: Atrium board schedules four-hour closed session
- $6.4M boosts rural health training, expands MAHEC fellowships and launches WCU clinic
- AdventHealth, UNC Health appeal decision allowing Mission and Novant to expand in Buncombe
- North Carolina state health plan to issue 2nd RFP in administrator search
- BCBS North Carolina posts $497M loss in 2025
- University of North Carolina to launch rural family medicine, surgery residency program
NORTH DAKOTA
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- CommonSpirit, Providence, Trinity Health plan hospital sales to boost finances
- Drugmakers Win Bid to Block North Dakota 340B Pharmacy Law
- Health care worker numbers rising in North Dakota
- Next round of federal rural health grants to promote fitness, community gardens
- North Dakota HHS announces new hires for rural health program
- North Dakota medication access law unconstitutional, judge says
- North Dakota opens $3.6M in grants for schools, cities, nonprofits to boost health
- Federal judge permanently blocks North Dakota 340B drug law
OHIO
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- Agilon Health names Tim O’Rourke as CEO
- ‘Catastrophic’ | Ohio mental health providers sound alarm over CareSource Medicaid payment clawbacks
- Cincinnati Children’s site targets summer reopening after shutdown, repairs
- CommonSpirit, Providence, Trinity Health plan hospital sales to boost finances
- Company expands further into Dayton area with new in-home care training center
- Kroger Wellness Festival leaves Cincinnati for 2026, shifts to other cities
- Medpace Holdings stock plummets after earnings release
- Medpace president to resign after 18 years with Cincinnati public company
- DOJ sues OhioHealth over alleged anticompetitive hospital contracts
- Report shows Ohio trending in wrong direction for adult mental health
- East Ohio Regional Hospital heading to auction
- CareSource clawing back overpayments to some behavioral health providers
- How gubernatorial frontrunners want to fix Ohio’s mental health crisis
- Ohio hospital launches outpatient neurology clinic
- Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital workers upset over staffing levels, wages
- BVH Named #1 In Surgical Care In Ohio By Website
OKLAHOMA
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- How Tulsa is tapping opioid settlement funds for housing, treatment and hope
- Integris cuts reflect national trend, impacts concentrate in rural areas
- Mercy named top maternity hospital in Oklahoma by Newsweek
- SSM Health creating solar field at St. Anthony Hospital-Shawnee campus
- As Oklahoma’s rural hospitals face crumbling revenue, lenders must decide
- OU Health, OKCPS launch healthcare mentorship program
- Saint Francis Health System connects with students to grow IT workforce
OREGON
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- ClearShare Health ordered to halt operations in Oregon after investigation
- Kaiser Permanente Breaks Ground On Hospital Tower at Sunnyside Medical Center
- Nurses plead with OHSU leaders to address ER overcrowding
- OHSU Knight Cancer Institute lays off 59
- OHSU President Elnahal outlines strategic priorities after $133M loss last year
- Oregon declares health share company an unlicensed insurer, orders it to cease operations
- Oregon’s law to stop corporate control of medicine faces first major legal test
- Oregon gave millions in erroneous benefits for state health plan, audit says
- Emergency Physicians v. PeaceHealth trial underway in Eugene federal court
- Asante waiting on OHA approval to buy Surgery Center of Southern Oregon
- Oregon agency bars health ‘membership’ companies from doing business in the state
- PeaceHealth ER contract fight tests Oregon’s corporate medicine law in court
- OHSU turns a profit after losing millions – thanks to lucrative specialized care
- Oregon law to reduce medical debt from nonprofit hospital visits is working, study finds
- PeaceHealth ER staffing switch lawsuit lands in court
PENNSYLVANIA
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- 8 health systems with boosted outlooks
- A year of fallout from Delaware County hospital closures
- Allegheny Health Network deploys command center to manage NFL Draft patient flow
- Butler hospital techs authorize strike
- Can ambient AI work for nurses? Jefferson Health is finding out
- CommonSpirit, Providence, Trinity Health plan hospital sales to boost finances
- ‘If we don’t change, change will change us’: How 5 systems are rethinking care models
- Inside Pittsburgh’s push to make healthcare safer through simulation
- Jefferson Einstein health workers say North Philly pediatric practices closures will leave ‘a hole’ in communities
- Penn Medicine launches hospital at home
- Penn State Health taps new marketing chief
- Pennsylvania Hospital marks 275 years with new museum in historic building
- Philadelphia nurses fear proposed pediatric care changes could limit access for low-income families
- ‘Something’s got to give’: Philadelphia’s biggest health systems brace for $1.8B in Medicaid cuts
- The ‘significant opportunity’ Talkspace will bring to UHS
- Two Pittsburgh-area hospitals earn spots on Newsweek’s best maternity care list
- UHS margin rises to 11.2% in Q1: 6 things to know
- UHS-owned behavioral health facility to lay off 648 employees
- UPMC Magee Womens Hospital nurses travel to D.C. to advocate for patient care
- UPMC Washington launches neurosurgery telehealth consults
- USPI-operated ASC acquired by real estate firm
- Warrington medical office building sells to national investor for $17.25M
- Why Banner, Penn Medicine invest in research amid funding cuts
- WVU Health System recruits regional leader for physician network growth
- $58M rehabilitation hospital readies to open at site of old Concordville Inn
- Brown’s Eric Morrow named director of Lurie Autism Institute
- Butler Memorial, AHN Forbes receive maternity hospital awards
- Dana Bethune named VP of human resources at Adelphoi
- Jefferson Health lands $1.7M grant for hypertension care
- Nexgel pulls off creative Celularity deal after investor bails
- Temple, AtlantiCare plan $50M medical school campus in Atlantic City
- Temple U, AtlantiCare partner on medical school
- Temple, Penn, Jefferson brace for combined $1.8B Medicaid cuts
- UHS deployed 8 AI solutions in revenue cycle in 2025, eyes clinical operations
RHODE ISLAND
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- Care New England rolls out Butler Behavioral Health brand
- Care New England secures $215M to refinance debt and expand hospitals
- Butler Hospital rebrands as Butler Behavioral Health
- Five Questions With: Susan D’Andrea
- Looey wins 2026 R.I. Business Competition
- New tracking system gives clearer picture of overdoses in R.I.
- Rhode Island health center names CMO
- RIDOH issues overdose spike alert for Providence
- Thundermist Health Center names Gaines chief medical officer
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Duke Endowment, MUSC deliver $13M expansion to maternal health program
- MUSC Health, Cigna contract set to expire as negotiations continue
- MUSC taps investment firm to accelerate innovation efforts
- MUSC ups recruitment by 75% with family-centered approach
- Radial Expands to Seven Clinics with New Locations in Brooklyn and Spartanburg, SC
- Richland County jury finds Prisma Health negligent in medical malpractice case
- Rural healthcare access challenges in Sumter County
- McLeod hospital taps chief nurse
- Nation’s largest measles outbreak is over, SC health officials say
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- 8 health systems with boosted outlooks
- Acadia taps interim CFO amid finance chief’s departure
- Encompass Health and Cookeville Regional Medical Center announce plans to build a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Cookeville, Tennessee
- HCA Healthcare posts $19.1B in revenue after setbacks from storm, lower ER volumes
- HCA posts 12% operating margin in Q1: 8 things to know
- HCA’s strengthened revenue cycle paying dividends, CFO says
- HCA taps new senior vice president of marketing, corporate affairs
- Lawmakers claim hospitals ‘more lucrative’ than Disney: How CommonSpirit, HCA, NewYork-Presbyterian and ECU Health CEOs responded
- Lifepoint Arizona hospital CEO heads to CHS
- Tennessee dental school to open clinic in Kentucky
- Tennessee hospital, Encompass partner on rehab facility
- TriStar Centennial launches pediatric neurosurgery with first infant patient
- St. Jude CFO to step down for West Virginia role
- U.S. Attorney’s Office Reaches $300,000 False Claims Act Settlement with Clarksville Clinic Over Allegations of Improperly Coded TRICARE Claims
- Williamson Health posts update on potential sale, impact of new state law
- Tennessee court delays trial over abortion ban using new appeals law
- Brain health: Alzheimer’s 2026 new report on cognitive impairment & dementia in Tennessee
- Community Health Systems changes 2026 growth tactic amid challenging Q1
- Tennessee hospital debuts pediatric neurosurgery program
- Tennessee physicians ink partnership with Maury Regional Medical Group
TEXAS
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- 8 health systems with boosted outlooks
- $60M in federal funds approved for Texas rural hospital improvements
- Aldine ISD and Memorial Hermann open HEAL High School to train future health care workers (
- Allina Health cybersecurity chief joins Baylor Scott & White
- Ascension Dell Children’s awarded for child safety efforts
- Behavioral health facility expected to be complete in 2027
- HCA Texas system taps regional VP of HR
- Houston medical schools expand dual degrees despite flat enrollment trends nationwide. Here’s why.
- Houston Methodist ranked most innovative health system in US — here’s how its leaders define that
- How Tenet turned a hospital company into the country’s largest ASC operator: 7 things to know
- Medical real estate developer breaks ground on $16M MOB
- MD Anderson launches new center with $10M gift from Carl and Peggy Sewell
- UTHealth Houston names business affairs, strategy chief
- What 3 healthcare CEOs reconsidered — and what changed their thinking
- Why CEO of Genomics Testing Cooperative came back to Houston after leaving TMC
- Ascension Dell Children’s awarded for child safety efforts
- Bexar County scrambles after loss of Laurel Ridge psychiatric beds
- Cost Plus Drugs founder on lowering price of prescriptions – and working with Mark Cuban
- FDA OK’s Motif Neurotech’s depression-treatment device for trials
- MD Anderson appoints inaugural chief nurse executive
- Sewell Automotive leaders give $10M for new MD Anderson center
- Tenet deployed $125M on 7 ASC acquisitions in Q1, eyes more deals
- Tenet posts 24.1% margin in Q1 after Conifer deal: 6 things to know
- Texas Health brings emergency medical simulation training to Johnson County EMS
- University of Texas Medical Branch names CIO
- USPI-operated ASC acquired by real estate firm
- UTHealth Houston debuts cardiology department
- ‘We need help’: Advocates, families plead for Texas to improve capacity, access in state hospitals
- Why Genomics Testing Cooperative CEO wanted to return to Houston
- Why North Texas Hospitals Are Investing in Robotic Surgery Technology
UTAH
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- Autonomous AI renews 192 drugs in Utah pilot, exposing safety and legal gaps
- Nine Intermountain Health hospitals named to nation’s 2026 100 Top Hospitals by modern healthcare and Premier
- Should AI be allowed to renew prescriptions? Utah Medical Licensing Board urges caution
- University of Utah Health expands TeleNICU services
- Utah doctors urge extra MMR vaccine for infants after recent measles outbreak
- Utah medical board calls to suspend AI pilot for prescriptions
- Utah system expands TeleNICU to rural Mountain West
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
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- OrthoVirginia’s CEO on why independent orthopedics still win on value
- UVA Encompass Health rehab hospital names CEO
- Health care likely to remain focus of Virginia’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Board
- 10 Virginia hospitals are threatened by Medicaid cuts, report says
- Virginia lawmakers pass ‘Momnibus’ bills to improve maternal health care
- Rockbridge Area Health joins Virginia Perinatal Health Hubs
- Valley Health to expand with two new buildings
WASHINGTON
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- CommonSpirit, Providence, Trinity Health plan hospital sales to boost finances
- MultiCare to open $479M Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital May 16
- Providence launches 12 Epic AI tools
- Washington hospital restructures clinic, ends pain management services
- Washington provider cuts cancellations to 19% with scheduling model
- Expanded UW oral health training center is sending more new dentists to rural Washington
- Newport Hospital plans 3-story expansion if $51 million bond passes on August ballot
WEST VIRGINIA
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- 8 health systems with boosted outlooks
- First wave of Rural Health Transformation funding targets workforce shortages, access in West Virginia
- Governor outlines first round of Rural Health Transformation spending
- Morrisey signs rural health bill, unlocks $199M for West Virginia healthcare overhaul
- St. Jude CFO to step down for West Virginia role
- West Virginia attorney general outlines efforts to crack down on Medicaid fraud
- WV Hospital Association injects over $100,000 into political races
- WV opens application period for some Rural Health Transformation funds
- WVU Health System raises operating margin to 7.5% in 2025: 6 things to know
- WVU Health System names VP of business development
- WVU Health System recruits regional leader for physician network growth
WISCONSIN
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- Appleton clinic to pay $175,000 to settle Medicare false claim allegations
- Clinic selling electrical stimulation pain relief pays $380K to resolve fraud allegations
- Froedtert South plans four-story parking garage on hospital campus
- Kohl’s donates $1 million to Children’s Wisconsin
- Longtime Milwaukee nonprofit launches capital campaign to transform mental health space
- More than $410,000 awarded in grants to train Wisconsin healthcare workers
- SSM Health Dean Medical Group – Whitewater honored with 2026 BigShot award
- SSM Health partnering with United Stroke Alliance for Strength Over Stroke Conference
- Wisconsin hospital president to retire after 51-year career
WYOMING
