National
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- 1.4 million patients, 7 health systems caught in AI company data breach
- 4 hospital groups call for federal action as Eli Lilly strips 340B discounts
- AHA files amicus brief in case challenging HHS, CMS on provider taxes
- AMA overhauls maternity care billing codes for 2027
- Amazon One Medical faces proposed class-action lawsuit over senior care unit data breach
- CMS’ accreditation overhaul: What it means for hospitals
- DOJ announces largest healthcare fraud takedown in US history
- Eli Lilly follows through on threat to withhold 340B discounts
- Epic portal messages up 153% since 2020: Study
- Executive compensation continues to rise—and so do healthcare costs
- Federal reinterpretation of Olmstead could stunt HCBS growth in assisted living
- FTC, 4 states sue transgender medical group for allegedly false pediatric treatment claims
- Health plans challenge OIG’s MA post-acute findings
- Health services M&A is active in 2026, but uncertainty slows volume: PwC
- Hospital contract limits could save employers $45B, White House says
- Hospital margins lag as expense growth outpaces inflation: 5 notes
- How hospitals are outpacing rivals in outpatient push
- How the hospital CFO’s role is changing
- Medicare Advantage organizations are denying some post-acute care at high rates
- Medicare Advantage star ratings redo boosts Humana, Clover Health
- Patient messages to providers skyrocket since 2020: study
- Preparing for LEAD: Why post-acute visibility is the key to long-term value-based success
- Key GOP senator pitches 340B overhaul
- Senators warn RHTP may disadvantage independent rural hospitals
- Stark law’s $632 million reckoning: The 5 biggest cases in 5 years
- States surge ahead on healthcare AI regulation
- The $50B rural health transformation fund is pushing many hospitals to shrink
- The top 10 nonprofit health systems by 2025 operating revenue
- US health spending projected to hit $9T by 2034
- wRVU pay, hospital subsidies don’t constitute Stark law fraud, court rules
- Where physician assistant shortages may deepen by 2038
Alabama
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- $10 million gift launches statewide effort to expand access to care in rural Alabama
- Andrews Sports Medicine continues forward on $65M surgery center
- Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Shelby County names new CEO
- ‘I can’t tell you which way it’s going to go’: Possible July 1 closure looms for hospital amid BCBS Alabama dispute
- Baptist Medical Center South announces Level 1 Trauma Center status, first in central Alabama
- Alabama Hospital Association awards Dothan healthcare administrator
- Judge denies emergency request for Blue Cross to pay more to Jackson Hospital
- Montgomery leaders hopeful Jackson Hospital will reach a deal to stay open
Alaska
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- Chief Nursing Officer Joins Alaska Regional Hospital Leadership Team
- Regular Session Bills Enacted for Healthcare, Trawling, and Interior Design
- State advances over four hundred projects in bid for Rural Health Transformation Program funding
- Methodist Hospital nurse exec heads to Alaska Regional Hospital
- 6th state adopts ‘physician associate’ title
- 15 charged in Alaska Medicaid fraud crackdown alleging $1.83M in false billing
- Alaska overrides veto to expand pharmacist patient care role statewide
- Bill to protect youth in psychiatric hospitals dies after Dunleavy veto
Arizona
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- Arizona artificial heart maker names interim CEO as leadership shakeup continues
- Arizona behavioral health provider email breach affects 2,316
- Ascension, Intermountain among health systems joining leadership council to scale change
- Banner Health clinicians file to unionize
- Arizona Attorney General Mayes announces 42 indictments in health care fraud, abuse cases
- Banner taps longtime leader as hospital CEO
- Phoenix Children’s creates community hospitals leadership role
- Picard Medical names Richard Fang interim CEO
- Ranking Arizona: Top 10 hospitals for 2026
Arkansas
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- A New Program Aims to Fix the Costly Leak In Arkansas’ Physician Pipeline
- A Whistleblower Case Against an Arkansas Lab Ends With a $30M Settlement
- After Buying Arkansas Hospitals, Freeman Health Adopts a ‘Stabilization First’ Strategy
- AHCA School of Nursing Expands with Fort Smith Location
- Anthony Knighton Named President of Lawrence Healthcare
- Eureka Springs Hospital Was Losing Millions. Its New CEO Decided to Start Over.
- UAMS to begin operating Bryant hospital
- Drive time to Arkansas hospitals for labor and delivery getting longer, report shows
- Freeman Health System leaders stress community, improving care as they rebrand four Northwest Arkansas facilities
- New campus in Fort Smith aims to help address nursing shortage in Arkansas
- UAMS, Arkansas Heart Hospital leaders speak on future of Encore Medical Center
- UAMS Gets $2.9M to Study Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
California
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- Inaugural CEO of DC hospital heads to Dignity Health
- Kaiser Permanente looks to bring additional services to Folsom with new proposal
- Showdown between Cigna, UC Health and One Medical threatens patients, employers
- Why Kaiser, UPMC, Northwell are crossing state lines in 2026
- AI can detect sudden cardiac death risk better than standard measures
- Amazon One Medical faces proposed class-action lawsuit over senior care unit data breach
- Assort Health scores $120M series C to scale voice AI agent platform for healthcare
- Blue Shield of California fined over denying payments for newborn care
- California hospice providers laud state’s newly proposed emergency regulations
- California hospital names interim CEO
- Digital extortion group threatens to leak data from One Medical senior health unit
- Dignity Health Mercy Hospital of Folsom earns National environmental award
- DOJ Charges LA Hospice Operators With Fraud. Tangipa Wants CA Apology to Nick Shirley
- El Camino Health Proposes $1 Billion All-electric Hospital In Los Gatos, California
- Fresno’s Community Health System and Blue Shield end stalemate, reach new agreement
- Medi-Cal Doula Benefit Plagued By Delayed Payments And Denials
- Oracle Health to bring AI to the operating room
- Sharp HealthCare COO to retire
- UCLA Health names new CIO
Colorado
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- Denver Health posts strong 2025 finances, but hospital faces losses with Medicaid changes
- Robotic pet program brings joy to dementia patients at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital
- Selectis Health to be acquired by Black Pearl
- Colorado won federal approval for its plan to import prescription drugs from Canada. Now comes the hard part.
- Children’s Hospital Courage Classic takes cyclists through Colorado’s Rocky Mountains
- Rural healthcare funding from Big Beautiful Bill Act hits Colorado
Connecticut
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- CT Children’s receives second $1M gift from foundation board member
- Lamont wants to charge companies with employees on Medicaid
- Middletown man pleads guilty to $1.9M in Medicare fraud
- Trump issues warning to CT hospitals. Why it could cost some millions.
- AI is reshaping home healthcare across Connecticut
- Branford medical lab agrees to pay $145K to settle allegations of Medicaid fraud, feds say
- CT reaches settlement with mental health provider over unapproved Branford facility
- CVS Health Foundation invests $1 million in Hartford nonprofits tackling community health needs
- Doc’s Defamation Claim Against Cigna Barred By ERISA
- Family Centers Celebrates Expansion of The Mark Family Dental Health Center
- Public hearing set on CT Children’s plan to close satellite unit in Waterbury
- Shoreline Medical Center dedicates pavilion to Essex philanthropists
- Stamford woman participates in groundbreaking procedure to repair leaky heart valve
Delaware
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- CEO addresses ‘top questions’ after deadly shooting at Wilmington Hospital
- Wilmington Hospital shooting suspect left shift after disagreement, then came back armed: AG
- ChristianaCare expands weapons screening after hospital shooting
- Former ChristianaCare intern indicted on multiple charges after allegedly shooting 2 co-workers, 1 fatally
- Lewes resident tied to Delaware case in national health care fraud takedown
District of Columbia
Florida
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- AdventHealth Carrollwood’s next chapter: More beds, surgeries and growth with $214M six-story tower
- Ascension Florida system taps CEO
- Ascension St. Vincent’s taps new CEO
- Baptist Health Care to go live on Epic in 2028
- Florida ASC pays to settle ADA violation allegations
- Florida launches probe into CVS for alleged anticompetitive pharmacy practices
- Healthcare firm files Chapter 11 with $93M in debts
- Holy Cross Health taps new COO from HCA hospital
- Home care provider to close South Florida locations, lay off more than 170 employees
- Long-term specialty care provider appoints North Florida CEO
- Longtime Florida nonprofit leader takes helm of Pine Castle in Jacksonville
- New Baptist Health medical campus in SilverLeaf to open Tuesday
- Rockledge hospital demolition advances as city weighs future redevelopment
- School Board approves property sale to Broward Health
- Tenet regional CFO joins HCA
- Ex-South Florida hospital CEO accused of funneling $14M for ‘lavish lifestyle’
Georgia
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- Emory, Yale, Mayo Clinic among CURE Childhood Cancer grant recipients
- Georgia doctor accused in $4 million Medicaid fraud case
- Kaiser Permanente opens Fischer Crossings medical center
- Metro Atlanta family sues Grady EMS for millions, saying delayed response led to teen’s death
- New hospital could be coming to southwest Atlanta, proposal shows
- New pediatric primary care will save parents from long drives in Atlanta
- Out-of-hospital experience: Kaiser Permanente home care treats sepsis
- Atrium files plans for first major Atlanta hospital
Hawaii
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- Hawaii nonprofit marks 15 years of bringing healthcare, housing to most vulnerable
- Sodexo exits two Honolulu hospitals as healthcare system brings food services in-house
- Hawaii Fast-Tracks Rookie Therapists With New Provisional Licenses
- Two in Hawaii charged in nationwide health care fraud, opioid crackdown
- University of Hawaii to Build Data Center for Healthcare
- Whistleblower: Abbott Laboratories and Hawaiian provider colluded to use more medical devices
Idaho
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- As Portneuf and Regence continue negotiations, CEO and spokesperson detail their contract breakdown
- Idaho has second-lowest error rate in nation for SNAP payments
- Idaho woman accused of posing as nurse to obtain jobs at healthcare facilities
- ‘Miracle baby,’ Idaho hospital’s youngest preemie to ever survive celebrates 1st birthday
- New Idaho Falls hospice brings dignity, family-centered care to end-of-life patients
- Saint Alphonsus Health System begins 260,000-square-foot Nampa expansion
- St. Luke’s sues former state contractor over fraud, forgery claims
Illinois
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- Advocate Health Care Breaks Ground On Replacement Advocate Trinity Hospital In Chicago
- Former OSF leaders sue hospital over neurosurgery safety concerns
- How employer-education partnerships are closing Chicago’s behavioral health workforce gap
- Illinois behavioral health CEO charged in $75M Medicaid fraud case
- Illinois hospitals owe the state more than $700M, sparking questions and calls for change
- Memorial Health names chief nursing executive
- Nurses vote to form union at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital following one-day strike
- Pritzker signs bill protecting medical records for abortion patients in Illinois
- Rush CEO to step down, take health equity mission to national stage
- AbbVie expands immunology pipeline with $10.9B acquisition
- At 87, Wheaton woman becomes oldest known female in Illinois to get kidney transplant
- Duly Becomes First Ambulatory Surgery Center in Illinois to Offer Da Vinci 5 Surgical Robot
- Former UI Health resident claims discrimination, retaliation in federal complaint
- HFS Awards New HealthChoice Illinois Medicaid Managed Care Contracts
- HSHS hospital taps first chief administrative officer
- Illinois Attorney General charges Bloomington man with healthcare fraud
- Illinois enacts law shielding abortion records from out-of-state entities
- Illinois Expands Pharmacist‑Provided Contraception Under New Statewide Order
- Libertyville Chiropractor Convicted In $600K Health Care Fraud Scheme
- Memorial Health launches $300K effort for mobile health program
- OSF Saint Anthony’s opening second clinic in Wood River in August
- Walgreens joins Medicare GLP-1 Bridge program
- Whistleblower: Abbott Laboratories and Hawaiian provider colluded to use more medical devices
- Workers plan to strike at 6 Illinois Prime Healthcare hospitals
Indiana
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- Arrive AI expanding autonomous deliveries at Hancock Health
- Ascension St. Vincent set to lose in-network status with UnitedHealthcare without new contract
- Commentary: Checking out Indiana’s revamped health price platform
- Elevance Health tops $1B in affordable housing investments
- Eli Lilly suspends access to drug discounts for some hospitals
- Franciscan Alliance CEO to retire
- Hospitals work to curb workplace violence
- Indiana looks to artificial intelligence to root out Medicaid fraud
- Indiana mental health center expands service area
- Indiana Takes On Powerful Hospitals by Capping Prices They Charge Employers
- National pediatric physician shortage threatens Indiana’s children, amplifies need to recruit top talent
- Parkview Health continues fast pace of growth with hospital acquisitions, affiliations
- Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center Announces Expansion of Services
- Columbus Regional Health transforms former mall into wellness center
- Columbus Regional Health’s Anthony Pope named ‘Caregiver of Year’
Iowa
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- 13 Iowa hospitals gets $50M to expand physician residencies
- Fired nursing home whistleblower drops lawsuit against former employer
- Gov. Reynolds announces grants to boost rural health care
- Iowa adds 128 residencies as $88M flows to rural healthcare
- Iowa 1st to fully allocate year 1 rural health funds
- Iowa health systems add organ donor registration to MyChart patient portals
- $1M gift to create youth, young adult cancer program at John Stoddard Cancer Center
- Caravel Autism Health opens new clinic in Altoona
- Iowa critical access hospital names CFO
- MercyOne House of Mercy partners with Safe Babies Court
- Polk County forms cross-sector cancer coalition
- The Iowa Clinic plans West Des Moines expansion
- UnityPoint cut maternal sepsis deaths to 0 with Epic care path
Kansas
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- Kansas is getting federal funds to ‘transform’ rural hospitals. Here’s how it’s being used
- Newton Medical Center, other rural Kansas hospitals form network to combat rising costs
- Rural, independent Kansas hospitals launch clinically integrated network
- Federal Approval Boosts Medicaid Funding for Kansas Rural Hospitals, Adding Millions in Support
- Kansas nurses rank near the bottom for pay
- Senator Marshall Announces Award of $79 Million in Rural Health Grants
Kentucky
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- Louisville healthcare companies charged in federal fraud crackdown, DOJ says
- Signature-backed VitalLink plans national push
- UofL, Kosair for Kids open expanded rehab facility
- Many Kentucky providers serving vulnerable patients brace for 4% Medicaid rate cut
- Families plead with KY leaders: ‘Work together to find a solution’ and keep Lee Clinic open
- When health crises strike, Ronald McDonald House Louisville makes a way for Kentucky families
- Patients ‘ripped away’ from needed care amid Kentucky budget feud
- Louisville doctor, nurse and nonprofit founder charged in federal health care fraud crackdown
Louisiana
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- Louisiana opens applications for rural health providers to get funding
- Ochsner physician joins Hyro as 1st clinical AI VP
- Louisiana hospital taps HCA medical staff president as chief medical officer
- Metairie patient reaches sickle cell cure milestone
- New Angel’s Law driven by a mother who knows infant loss
- New Orleans East Hospital breaks ground on $10 million inpatient behavioral health unit
- New Orleans hospital destroyed by Katrina to be reborn as a science hub
- North Oaks Adds 16 Physicians to Residency Program
- Nurse practitioner sentenced for $12M Medicare fraud
- Planned Parenthood will return to Louisiana with in-person facility in New Orleans
- Tulane takes lead role in $500M Charity Hospital redevelopment
- Tulane to convert hospital closed after Katrina to innovation, research hub
- Tulane to take over renovation of former Charity Hospital
- Two charged in Louisiana in connection with health care fraud cases
Maine
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- 3 takeaways from Maine’s bid to not lose $190M in federal rural health funding
- New inpatient rehab hospital coming to Bangor: What you need to know
- Bangor native to lead rehabilitation hospital set to open in October
- DHHS to consider MaineCare oversight changes amid fraud concerns
- Hospital must pay $23M jury verdict after radiologist misses spinal cord injury on CT
- Jury Awards $23 Million To Paralyzed Madawaska Man, Ruling Northern Light Health Negligent
- Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center rolls out mobile simulation training ambulance
Maryland
Massachusetts
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- 50+ automations save Boston Children’s 30K hours
- Australian biotech sets up U.S. headquarters and manufacturing facility in Massachusetts
- Baystate Health cuts admin roles amid $60M budget shortfall
- Cape Cod Healthcare receives largest-ever gift from Suffolk CEO
- Dana-Farber posts 3% operating margin in H1
- Mass General Brigham appoints director of AI literacy
- Mass General Brigham building mobile hospital vans to bring care to rural communities
- Massachusetts finalizes new assisted living regulations with industry praising collaborative process
- Massachusetts task force calls for eminent domain takeover of unfinished Steward hospital
- AbbVie to acquire Waltham biotech Apogee for $10.9B
- Boston Children’s launches neurologic drug research program
- Mass General Brigham launches mobile hospital van for rural care
- Millions in medical debt erased for 140,000 Massachusetts residents
- New medical providers join Southcoast Health
- New rules coming to assisted living residences
- Novartis signs $1.9B-deal with Boston biotech Antares Therapeutics
- “People are going to lose their lives”: Methuen, Massachusetts maternity ward closing earlier than expected
- Primary care push could spur disruptive health care spending shift
- Remix Therapeutics secures $100M, merges with Passage
- Tough tech companies take up growing share of Boston’s empty lab space
Michigan
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- BCBS Michigan to overhaul how supervised providers get reimbursed
- House Speaker Introduces Hospital Cost Review Board and New Health Tax
- How MyMichigan Health turned a specialist call gap into a recruiting edge
- Michigan bill would cut hospital prices by 10% and ‘exacerbate’ affordability challenges: MHA
- Michigan Capital Network funds autism treatment tied to gut health
- Michigan hospital closes despite federal lifeline
- Michigan hospitals denounce legislation to cap prices, limit mergers
- MyMichigan Health to build medical office facility in Standish
- New surgery center coming to downtown Lansing
- Sturgis Hospital closure fuels fears for rural care in Michigan
- UM Health-Sparrow breaks ground on new surgery center in Lansing
- Why nearly 72,000 Michiganders are getting their medical debt erased
- Elizabeth Hertel stepping down as director of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
- Michigan hospitals could lose tax exemption if they don’t cut pricing
- Whitmer names Amy Epkey as Michigan health acting director as Elizabeth Hertel steps down
- DaVita Dialysis center in Novi closes after patient found dead following treatment, illness reports
- University of Michigan to consider dissolving Sparrow Health System corporate entity
Minnesota
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- Feds warn 18 Minnesota hospitals found noncompliant with price transparency rules
- Mayo joins federal program to bring AI-guided procedures to rural patients
- 20 startups join Mayo Clinic’s digital health accelerator
- A year after promising ‘change and reform,’ UnitedHealth opens its doors
- CentraCare now in compliance following federal warning on price disclosure
- Frustrated rural hospitals in Minnesota are still waiting on federal funding
- Health insurers propose high rate hikes for 2027 Minnesota plans
- Nursing graduates enter workforce shortage approaching 30,000 in Minnesota
- Optum Behavioral Health names chief medical officer
- Optum prepares to sell some New York specialties
- Optum Rx taps CEO for specialty, frontier and home delivery
- Physicians open ophthalmic ASC in Minnesota
- Progress being made on Minnesota nursing shortage
- Sanford Bemidji Medical Center Receives National Recognition
Mississippi
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- Struggling Mississippi hospital gets OK for new owner
- UMMC takeover of Greenwood Leflore Hospital clears hurdle amid funding dispute
- HRSA Program Seeks to Bolster Health Networks in Mississippi Delta
- Mississippi doctor develops new class of imaging dyes to see tumors in real time
- Mississippi lawmakers uneasy about transparency around money for Rural Health Transformation Program
Missouri
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- $2B turnaround and Ascension isn’t slowing down
- Ascension, Intermountain among health systems joining leadership council to scale change
- CoxHealth cuts 53 revenue cycle roles as technology automates tasks
- DOL Files Suit Against Missouri Nursing Home for Wage Violations
- Federal labor officials sue Festus senior care facility over unpaid overtime
- Mental health practice opens 5,300-square-foot St. Charles office after $375K property buy
- Missouri governor responds after judge strikes down most abortion restrictions
- Parkland Health Center President Named to National Rural Health Care Leaders List
- SSM Health to pay $1M after pharmacy employees allegedly waived patient copays
- Saint Luke’s Plaza emergency room predicts 20% more daily visits during World Cup
- What separates Ascension’s ASC playbook from for-profit competitors
- Missouri health department transfers $71.9 million in marijuana funds
- Missouri hospital treats liver cancer with bubbles, sound waves that ‘liquefy’ tumors
- Hope may be on the horizon for northwest Missouri’s rural mental health access
- New Boone Health cardiology clinic operations are steady
- Missouri county rolls out first of 3 healthcare vending machines
Montana
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- St. Vincent accepts $5M donation as construction of new Billings hospital continues
- Three Montana women charged in Medicaid fraud cases totaling over $1.3 million
- Billings Clinic earns fifth Magnet designation as nursing shortage continues nationwide
- CommonSpirit hospital leader headed to Logan Health
- Community Medical Center earns national recognition for stroke care
- Montana DOJ uncovers over $1M in fraudulent Medicaid claims
Nebraska
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- CHI Health to open Nebraska orthopedic center
- Hospital partnership gives UNK students an inside look at rural healthcare
- Not a hospital, not a hotel: Inside Nebraska’s quarantine unit
- H. Dele Davies Appointed Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center
- UNMC hantavirus operation wraps up, team ready if Ebola outbreak calls
Nevada
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- Carson Valley Health sets a new standard for rural healthcare
- Kaiser, Renown each eyeing new medical facilities in Reno-Sparks
- Nevada gets its 1st anesthesiologist assistant program at new Henderson campus
- Pause of new hospice facilities, home-care providers, takes effect in Nevada
- Southern Nevada Forensic Psychiatric Hospital Begins Construction In Las Vegas
- $906M Medicare Fraud: Nevada Nurse Indicted for Bilking Taxpayers with Fake Grafts on Hospice Patients
- Nevada hospice providers push for stronger oversight as state pauses new licenses amid fraud concerns
- Nevada pausing licensing for state hospice, home health providers
- Northern Nevada HOPES expands mental health services
- Sierra Medical Center achieves Level III NICU designation
- UNLV’s medical school campus hits major environmental milestone
New Hampshire
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- Dartmouth Health posts -4.8% operating margin in Q2
- Dartmouth Health Receives $10 Million Gift to Expand Hospital-Level Care into Patients’ Homes
- Dartmouth Health reports $63.5 million deficit over 6 months
- New Hampshire system names new chief strategy officer
- Southern New Hampshire Health Opens First Retail Pharmacy At Nashua Medical Center
New Jersey
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- Hackensack Meridian moves to acquire Hunterdon Health
- Hackensack Meridian to upgrade pediatric behavioral health tech
- Inspira Health nearly erases its financial losses as Medicaid program boosts revenue
- Nine N.J. hospitals earn highest national recognition for LGBTQ+ inclusive care
- NJ Life Sciences Report Highlights Sector Growth and Global Competitiveness
- Report: NJ expands life sciences leadership
- A $225 million cancer center just opened in N.J. to give patients a seamless experience
- Christian Health President and CEO Appointed to New Jersey Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission
- Cooper’s New $300M Blackwood Campus Follows Medical Malls Trend
- Doc’s Defamation Claim Against Cigna Barred By ERISA
- Hudson County Judge Vacates TRO in Heights University Hospital Closure Review
- New Rutgers program aims to study the female brain
- North Jersey cancer patients no longer need to leave the state for top care
- Overlook Medical Center becomes first in New Jersey to use advanced tumor imaging system
- Steel Beam Ceremony Marks Progress on $500 Million Expansion of Camden’s Virtua Lourdes Hospital
- Valley Health System names Puneeta Sharma as VP CMO
New Mexico
New York
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- Albany Med Health System eyes affiliation with Ellis Medicine
- Ellis Medicine has a new suitor after St. Peter’s merger plans dropped
- Ellis Medicine, St. Peter’s end merger talks
- Memorial Sloan Kettering breaks ground on $2.3B cancer center
- New York system invests $17.5M in orthopedic expansion
- New York system to close orthopedic group, ASC
- NYU Langone, Mount Sinai patient records temporarily shielded from Justice Department
- Why Kaiser, UPMC, Northwell are crossing state lines in 2026
- Health professionals push for balanced approach as GLP-1 demand surges
- Mount Sinai to centralize oversight of its growing AI portfolio
- New York delegation calls on CMS to halt Medicare home health payment cuts
- Nurses at Alice Hyde hospital in Malone approve new four-year contract
- Optum prepares to sell some New York specialties
- UnitedHealth’s Optum moves to sell some NY specialty practices
North Carolina
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- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist to compete with Novant, Cone for Forsyth County hospital beds
- Chris Bowe takes helm of Novant’s Charlotte region, bringing 30 years of healthcare experience
- Duke Health eyes $32M Garner expansion as demand for care soars
- Duke Health, Texas Health Resources partner with clinical AI company
- Fiercely independent since its founding, WakeMed now says it needs to merge. But some public officials aren’t convinced.
- Morrisville company to lay off 108, end product development
- New details revealed for UNC Health’s $853M Wilmington hospital
- Novant applies for $100M Buncombe County expansion after gaining foothold in Asheville
- Novant Health appoints value intelligence leader
- Novant Health names chief information security officer
- Novant Health to compete with Cone for open hospital beds in Forsyth County
- Researchers at UNC’s Institute for Trauma Recovery are testing whether improving sleep quality can reduce post-traumatic stress disorder
- Senate advances bill limiting AI in healthcare billing
- Trillium Health commits $10M to Peacehaven’s integrated community in Whitsett
- UNC Health files application for proposed Wilmington hospital
- UNC seeks 92-bed Asheville hospital after losing 2025 bid
North Dakota
Ohio
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- Akron Children’s adds 24/7 text-based mental health support
- Cleveland Clinic’s $15B revenue cycle and the ‘unsustainable’ problem it hopes to solve
- Dayton Children’s launches fund for literacy program as local kindergarten readiness lags
- Mount Carmel closing Franklinton ER, opening same-day clinic in historic campus
- OhioHealth agrees to void contracts that allegedly punished payers for including competitors in-network
- OhioHealth settles disputed payer contract terms with DOJ
- Ohio system to close freestanding ED, open primary care hub
- OU Health names Dr. Javier Villanueva-Meyer radiology chair
- Whole Health Matters: Cincinnati Children’s exec Bryan Hamilton celebrates Flying Pig, joy of running
- Ohio State, Temple lead health systems in social responsibility
- Delaware pushes back on OhioHealth plan to shutter maternity service
- Elevance Health to exit small-group ACA market in 1 state
Oklahoma
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- Ascension Oklahoma facility seeks rural emergency hospital status
- Mercy opens $52M digestive health institute in Oklahoma City
- Office Visit: Big Pharma wants to gut the lifeline keeping Oklahoma’s hospitals open
- Oklahoma ACA insurer Mending to end health plans after this year
- Oklahoma payer, Mending partner on ACA direct primary care plans
- Oklahoma rehab hospital taps medical leader
- Oklahoma releases grant application to expand doulas program
- SSM Health St. Anthony first in Oklahoma to perform robotic cardiac surgery
- Three Oklahomans charged in healthcare fraud-related cases totaling nearly $30 million
- CommunityCare, Mending partner on Oklahoma ACA Marketplace plans
- Eight Oklahoma hospitals warned over price transparency; Here’s who’s on the list
- OU Health names Dr. Javier Villanueva-Meyer radiology chair
- Patients, families worried as Ascension St. John seeks to change Nowata hospital designation
Oregon
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- OHSU sues OPB in fight over records tied to former health CEO’s firing
- OHSU swings from $71M operating loss to $65M gain through Q3
- Oregon hospital opens retail pharmacy
- Oregon giving out $37 million to preserve rural maternity care. Hospitals still worry about closures
- Oregon prosecutors urge state to fix mental health system
- Oregon State Hospital back in compliance after 2 years
- Oregon system cuts 45 leadership roles
- Portland-area biotech receives $100M investment led by Eli Lilly
- Portland birthing center closes after nearly 30 years, leaving midwives unpaid
- Washington lawmakers eye corporate medicine ban after Oregon’s PeaceHealth test
Pennsylvania
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- $39.3M ARPA-H grant awarded to team that includes CMU, Pitt, UPMC, MWRI
- Cardiology group picks Chester County for its first surgery center
- CHOP CEO Madeline Bell to retire Oct. 1
- First Look: Allegheny General Hospital completes $19 million cardiac lab expansion
- Grand View projects 50% loss reduction in first year with St. Luke’s
- OIG flags Pennsylvania behavioral insurer for faulty prior auth denials
- Penn Medicine crisis center cuts psychiatric ED consults 80% in 6 months
- Penn State Health names 1st VP of primary care service line
- Pennsylvania cardiology group opens new $8.2M ASC
- Pennsylvania dental group settles patient coverage lawsuit for $1M
- Pennsylvania hospital challenges loss of Medicare hospital designation
- Pennsylvania independent practice acquired by MSO
- Pennsylvania physicians push back on consolidation with first-ever independent practice summit
- Primary care medics: Lessons from the military might help close healthcare gaps in rural Pa.
- UPMC begins using blood test that detects traumatic brain injury without CT scan
- Why Kaiser, UPMC, Northwell are crossing state lines in 2026
- Another hospital, other medical-related projects in the works in central Pa.
- CMU-led team wins $39.3M ARPA-H grant for fetal monitoring
- Health insurer CEOs could face criminal liability for denials that lead to injury, death under Pennsylvania bill
- Nearly 1,200 Jefferson Einstein nurses secure new 3-year contract
- One Pennsylvania holds health care rally outside former CCMC
- Passage Bio to merge with Remix Therapeutics in reverse deal
- Penn State telehealth program expands sexual assault care
- Pennsylvania fares well in think tank’s top hospital list
- Pennsylvania hospital names chief medical officer
- Pitt researchers validate iSTAT TBI test for traumatic brain injury
- Report finds many Pennsylvania patients struggle to find costs of hospital medical services
- St Luke’s Grand View projects 50% loss reduction
- UPMC hospital opens $8M interventional radiology suite
Rhode Island
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- Kent Hospital’s $81M expansion targets areas of demand
- ‘We’re not ready’: Care New England CDIO’s 3-to-5 year warning on AI
- Benchmark director receives innovation award for dementia care
- CVS enters GLP-1 market with direct-to-consumer weight-loss program
- Hospital executives sound alarm after lawmakers reject larger Medicaid funding increase
- RI community donates $10.5K to Glasgow charity
- Rhode Island passes ambient AI scribe opt-out law
- R.I.’s FY 27 budget overhauls determination of need laws
- Saint Anne’s Hospital donates trauma bags to Somerset police
- State budget funds behavioral health training for out-of-school program staffs
- Surgical technologist pilot turned apprenticeship helping hospitals fill vacancies
South Carolina
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- A physician’s plan to bring back practice autonomy to South Carolina
- Cigna, MUSC contract talks stall, risking Lowcountry families’ hospital coverage
- McLeod Regional unveils pediatric EmPATH unit
- MUSC Health and Cigna extend current contract through August amid negotiations
- MUSC opens emergency-urgent care hybrid in Lower Richland, a first of its kind for SC
- MUSC opens state’s 1st hybrid ED-urgent care
- The $111M physician acquisition that ended South Carolina’s independent medicine era
- Prisma Health Northeast Medical Park, Columbia, South Carolina: Photo Tour
South Dakota
Tennessee
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- Baptist Memorial cuts length of stay 14%, doubles transfer volume
- HCA Healthcare’s Chief Clinical Officer Michael Cuffe is stepping down
- HCA sells 31 home health, hospice agencies
- HCA’s chief clinical officer to exit after 4 years
- HCA’s TriStar Division wins appeal to build $18M freestanding ER in Lebanon
- Lifepoint Health taps new chief people officer
- Metro is choosing a CEO for Nashville’s struggling safety-net hospital this week
- Middle Tennessee physicians charged with healthcare fraud in $6.5B national crackdown
- Nashville General Hospital Leaders Eye Interim CEO Veronica Elders for Permanent Job
- Rural Tennessee needs family doctors. Can $200,000 lure them to the state’s small towns?
- Tenet regional CFO joins HCA
- YesCare Corp. shutters headquarters following bankruptcy filing
- Critics fear new Tennessee law could cut off life-saving care for immigrant children
Texas
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- A Houston drowning tests whether Texas law gives the right to deny brain death testing
- As physician AI usage increases, Harris County Medical Society focuses on educating doctors
- Austin-area hospitals denied miscarriage care despite clarification to Texas’ abortion ban, federal complaint alleges
- City of Houston, UTHealth Houston formally announce partnership to boost public health
- Drug research company to close after contamination
- Duke Health, Texas Health Resources partner with clinical AI company
- Empower Pharmacy has faced industry pressure and investigations — but CEO Shaun Noorian stressed that everything in its facility is patient-first.
- Houston Methodist lands historic $110M gift
- Houston Methodist names new tower in honor of Brockman Medical Research Foundation’s $110M gift
- Lyda Hill makes ‘seven-figure commitment’ to nonprofit cancer drug developer
- Old Macy’s comes down to make way for Children’s Health clinic at RedBird
- Texas doctor charged in $89M fraud case as administration pushes healthcare crackdown
- Texas hospitals could see billions of dollars in losses from Medicaid cuts
- UT Southwestern opens psychiatric hospital
- Children’s Health begins work on Shops at Redbird clinic
- Major employers to lose billions in Medicaid cuts
- National healthcare fraud takedown includes Houston defendants
- Rock Dental Enters Texas Market as Growth Accelerates
- San Antonio cancer research division XenoStart shutting down
- Texas cardiologist charged in $89M fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary procedures
- Texas doctors can use AI, but what does that mean?
- Texas hospital taps new COO
Utah
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- Ascension, Intermountain among health systems joining leadership council to scale change
- Park City Hospital prepares to open cancer center, expand ER and surgery services
- Utah halts new behavioral health Medicaid enrollments
- A new hospital is rising on Salt Lake County’s west side. Take a look around the site.
- Doctors warn of health risks as wildfire smoke drifts across Utah
- New Intermountain Health Study finds AI Technology is a ‘Game Changer’ in the treatment of pulmonary patients with COPD and asthma
- Utah’s ‘AI Doctor’ Prescription Pilot Spurs Oversight Concerns
- Utah’s measles outbreak is a year old. Is highly contagious disease still spreading?
- University of Utah Health operating normally as Bonneville Fire burns nearby
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
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- How the hospital CFO’s role is changing
- MultiCare CEO to retire at end of 2026, successor is named
- Nationwide DOJ health care fraud takedown includes Washington dental, home care cases
- New CommonSpirit Northwest president ushers hospital system into AI age
- UW Medicine hires Northwestern AI leader as chief data officer
- Washington lawmakers eye corporate medicine ban after Oregon’s PeaceHealth test
West Virginia
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- Improving Health Care Access In Rural Communities, This West Virginia Morning
- The ‘organic growth’ mindset on Vandalia Health’s new CEO’s mind
- DOJ Health Care Fraud Takedown includes settlements, charges in West Virginia
- State officials announce $2.4M allocated to expand worksite clinics in West Virginia
- WVU enters $7 million research agreement with Johns Hopkins University
Wisconsin
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- Michels family makes ‘catalytic’ donation to Medical College cancer center
- St. Vincent Children’s Hospital Leverages Play To Prepare Patients For Imaging Procedures In Green Bay, Wisconsin
- $10M behavioral health unit opens at Milwaukee’s St. Francis Hospital
- Baldwin woman accused of healthcare fraud in massive DOJ investigation and crackdown
- DHS celebrates 50 years of Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System
- Former Eau Claire hospital to be transformed into health, innovation district
- High costs hurt Wisconsin residents’ health, state report shows
- John Raymond Sr. steps down from helm of Medical College of Wisconsin
- New Medicaid work requirements raise concerns for Wisconsin healthcare advocates
- Shuttered Eau Claire hospital to house company using genetics to ‘build hearts’
- Union issues spark conflict between Group Health Co-op and members
Wyoming
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- Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Expands Addiction Services
- St. John’s Health plans to ‘rebadge’ 19 non-clinical employees
- Teton Behavior Therapy launches nonprofit. Questions swirl.
- Wyoming hospital to rebadge 19 revenue cycle employees
- How a critical access hospital raised its cash on hand from 3 to 25 days
- New Behavioral Health Center At Sheridan Memorial Hospital Almost Ready To Open
- The Wright Center for Community Health Tunkhannock launches dental service
- Wyoming lawmakers mull solutions to rising healthcare costs
