NATIONAL
- HHS launches payment model for ambulance providers
- Medicare ambulance rides may no longer end up at ER
- Healthcare billing fraud: 8 latest settlements
- 3 revenue cycle leaders on their hospital’s biggest concern now that standard charges are public
- 4 strategies for keeping your millennial healthcare workers
- Rural hospitals face widespread closures
- CMS can terminate private Medicare plans with poor Star Ratings again
- How CMS’ newest innovation model will change telehealth payments
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Middlesex Hospital opens orthopedic operating center
- Yale New Haven becomes first in CT to perform pediatric heart transplants
- Middlesex Hospital rebrands itself to show variety of services
- Lamont’s health budget vs Connecticut hospitals
- Lamont budget increases CT hospital tax
MAINE
- Central Maine Health responds to Pondicherry Group’s report
- 5 Maine hospitals among 25 nationwide receiving federal help
- Former South Portland Wendy’s to house medical clinic
- MaineHealth’s CIO named among Top 100 health care IT executives
MASSACHUSETTS
- Dozens of nurses licenses suspended, revoked in western Massachusetts
- Partners-CNE deal won’t get thorough review in Massachusetts
- Mayo Regional Hospital wins national award for remote, technical assistance
- New England Baptist Hospital to launch campaign to attract more low-income patients
- Partners HealthCare names Klibanski as interim CEO
- HopeHealth to end pediatric palliative, hospice care on Cape Cod
- Beacon Health Options Names Susan Coakley as New Northeast Market President
- Cambridge Health Alliance names CIO
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- NH Senate panel weighs competing association health plan bills
- Changes coming to Medicaid in New Hampshire
NEW YORK
- MVHS making progress toward hospital merger, groundbreaking
- Hospital for Special Surgery dedicates new complex joint reconstruction center
- Noyes Health to use $2M in state grants to expand imaging, mental health services in Dansville, Avon
- The future of care is virtual, Mount Sinai Health System CMIO says
- New York physician pleads guilty to accepting kickbacks from Insys
- NYC Health + Hospitals celebrates diversity of patient care
- New York hospital ICU chief: Complaints about problem physician ‘fell on deaf ears’
- The TCU at St. Joseph’s hospital is suspending admissions
- Longtime area physician named Chief Medical Officer of Glens Falls Hospital
- Kaleida Health announces three leadership promotions
- New York pharmaceutical firm files for bankruptcy protection
RHODE ISLAND
- Roger Williams Medical Center Opens New $15M Emergency Room
- E. Medical Innovation Center expands to new Providence site
- Hasbro Children’s Hospital receives $103K from Spirit Halloween
VERMONT
- Hospital audit finds fault, but no missing funds
- UVM Med Center’s emergency room crunch puts strains on patient care
- Company brings telemedicine to mental health care
- Vermont hospital’s emergency department surge prompts complaint of negligent patient care
- Troubled Vermont hospital announces major restructuring
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Wilmington medical center CFO: ‘Sloppy work’ led to major financial losses
- New service calculates cost of nursing vacancies
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Washington, DC’s $1.3B of medical construction led US
- DC ranks third in drug overdose deaths in America, DC Council discusses plans to prevent more
- Brutal Southeast DC hospital attack prompts call for change
MARYLAND
- Johns Hopkins Hospital retaliated against 2 unionizing nurses, complaint says
- Data show improvements in hospital quality, safety in Maryland
- Supreme Court denies Maryland’s bid to revive law on price gouging
- AFL-CIO protests Johns Hopkins Bayview’s planned $469M expansion
- Bon Secours joins effort to build, sustain affordable housing projects
- Maryland knocks down barriers for 2-OR surgery centers
- Medical software company executive to become Baltimore’s next health commissioner
NEW JERSEY
- Hospital Alliance of New Jersey CEO: State needs to reduce federal charity care cuts
- University Hospital announces innovative community health program
- Pernix Therapeutics files for bankruptcy, blames generic competition
PENNSYLVANIA
- Settlement Over False Medicare Claims At Lower Bucks Hospital Announced
- WVU Medicine taking big step into Western Pa.
- Roxborough Memorial Owners To Pay For False Medicare Claims
- proposal to change medical malpractice lawsuit rules put on hold to allow study
- New Gateway Health CEO puts focus on ‘social determinants’ of poor health
- Jefferson Health reports success 2 years into GE partnership
- Holy Redeemer Health System opens Northampton outpatient center
- 150 people lose jobs as UPMC Pinnacle hospital closes in Lancaster
- Ellwood hospital workers worried facing tax problems
- Charitable enough? UPMC case highlights increased scrutiny of nonprofit hospitals
- Penn health system faces lawsuit from employee allegedly fired during cancer treatment
- Department of Health highlights 2018 Nursing Home Inspection and Sanction Information
- Penn State Health St. Joseph’s CFO on advocating for herself
- Pennsylvania hospital shortchanges workers’ paychecks
- $1.8M investment: Montco health system makes bigger push into Bucks
- Butler, Clarion Health Systems To Combine
- Jefferson gets $20M to launch first-of-its kind academic department
- More than 30 laid off across Olean General Hospital, Bradford Regional Medical Center
VIRGINIA
- Virginia hospital sees profits climb after LifePoint deal
- Fauquier Hospital’s profit tripled in four years
- Foundation launches health partnership
- Sentara Healthcare drops opposition to open-heart-surgery center
WEST VIRGINIA
- WVU Medicine taking big step into Western Pa.
- WVU Medicine East names Kerns chief financial officer
- Ohio Valley Medical Center, East Ohio Regional Hospital: Meet Us Halfway on Bills
- Work continues on new WVU Medicine Children’s tower
- Former hospital analyst sentenced for 3 months
- Logan Regional Medical Center selects permanent CEO
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Iowa City hospital workers union says buses to distant parking lots weren’t provided during snowstorm
- UIHC’s new AirCare plane can fly patients 700 miles
- UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital receives $4.5 million gift
- Auditor raises concerns on travel expenses at Iowa hospital
- Ex-CEO, exec misused $256K+ in Iowa hospital funds, state audit finds
KANSAS
- Kansas hospital abruptly closes
- Russell Regional Hospital ousts CEO
- Kansas Medicaid full of problems, but contractor says it shouldn’t take all the blame
- Kansas hospital reaches out to shuttered hospital’s displaced employees
- Hospital may close if court doesn’t award full control to new management group
MINNESOTA
- New brain cancer treatment at the University of Minnesota
- Minnesota hospital alerts 2,000 patients of phishing scheme
- Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz aims to invest in education, health care, communities
- HCMC, North Memorial consider an alliance
- Mayo Clinic reports ‘a very good’ 2018, despite Epic costs
- HCMC, North Memorial may team up or even merge
- Doctors are excited for new virtual exam room coming to Winona Health
MISSOURI
- Black River Medical Center teams up with Saint Francis Health Care System
- Missouri hospital suspends operations in another blow to former North K.C. chain Andy Marso
- After nearly 10 years, Cortex CEO to leave innovation district
- Clinical trial at metro hospital might have saved man from heart failure
- Two regional hospitals named to top rural hospitals list
- Advocacy groups in Jefferson City, Mexico split on MU Health/SSM deal
- Two Area Hospitals Receive National Ranking
- Northern Missouri hospital voluntarily suspends license for three months
- Officials say St. Mary’s Hospital gives MU Health Care room to grow
- Missoula health care execs get $1.2M in venture capital for tech startup to better prepare patients
- Ascension’s operating revenue climbs $1.3B in first half of FY 2019
- I-70 Community Hospital services to be suspended for 90 days
- Sweet Springs hospital suspends license
- The owner of Regional General loses another hospital
- MU Health Care continues SSM acquisition talks with care
- Missouri, Tennessee hospitals suspend service
- Troubled NKC hospital operator sells management contracts to Miami company
- SSM Health steps into the future with robotic surgery
- Mercy Health posts $57M net loss in 1st half of fiscal year
NEBRASKA
- Like a dating app, CHI Health’s new website matches patients with doctors who fit their needs
- Nebraska nursing, assisted living facilities in jeopardy
- Timetable still unclear for expanding Medicaid in Nebraska
- Law enforcement skipping bills for medical care, says Nebraska Hospital Association
- Nursing home closing in southern Nebraska
NORTH DAKOTA
- Sanford Health launches Child Life program in Bismarck
- North Dakota officials appeal judge’s ruling on air ambulance bills
- BCBS of North Dakota fires back at patients in air ambulance lawsuit
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Black Hills foundation gives $100K to help Red Cross buy new emergency response vehicle
- South Dakota hospital installs Medtronic’s robotic spine surgery platform
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Pipeline Health Begins Process to Close Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park
- Illinois hospitals end merger talks
- OSF HealthCare to raise its minimum wage by $2 an hour
- HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital selects new CEO
- Effingham woman named president of Greenville hospital
- Community Leaders To Protest Closure Of Westlake Hospital
- New owner to close Westlake Hospital
- IL Review Board releases report on QMG’s proposed surgery center
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital becomes the first Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department in Illinois
- Illinois can’t stop hospital from closing
- Rush University Medical Center Associate CMO Dr. Brian Stein’s top piece of advice? Avoid flawed data
- Amita Health Adventist Medical Center Hinsdale CEO abruptly resigns
- Kelly Sager to serve as HSHS Holy Family Hospital CEO
INDIANA
- Porter Health Care System patients could get up to $5K from cyberattack settlement
- 3 revenue cycle leaders on their hospital’s biggest concern now that standard charges are public
- Madison Community Health Merges with Meridian
- Lutheran Health’s parent reports $788 million loss
- Floyd Memorial Foundation Begins Chapel Campaign
- Lilly Completes $8B Acquisition
KENTUCKY
- Passport Health sues Kentucky over Medicaid rate cuts
- Wendell Foster CEO named chairperson for LeadingAge Kentucky committee
- UofL Health names new chief financial officer
- Nonprofit sues Kentucky over Medicaid reimbursement rates
- Report: Kentucky middlemen reap $123 million from Medicaid at pharmacies’ expense
- UofL Hospital Performing New Aneurysm Treatment
- UofL confirms it is seeking partner to buy Jewish Hospital, other assets
- U of L won’t buy KentuckyOne assets, seeks partner in takeover bid
- What to know about U of L’s play to purchase Jewish Hospital
- KY Health System Launches Epic EHR Tool to Cut Patient Delays
- U of L launches search for partner to help buy Jewish Hospital
- He wants more care staff in Kentucky nursing homes, which are among nation’s worst
- Oral arguments scheduled in lawsuit challenging Kentucky’s Medicaid overhaul
- Louisville primary/urgent care center opening second location
- Baptist Health Lexington uses EHR tool to avoid patient delays
MICHIGAN
- Senior Services of Southwest Michigan names new CEO
- Laws, Regulations, and Guidelines Governing Research Animal Care and Use in India
- Michigan patient recruiter pleads guilty in $1.2 million kickback scheme
- Beaumont’s revenues up, but net income falls 55% in FY 2018
- Ascension Michigan COO Jean Meyer: Meeting women’s healthcare needs requires internal and external transformation
- Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital receives Level IV Trauma designation
- State ups designation of Bronson South Haven Hospital
- Patient recruiter pleads guilty to $1.2M kickback scheme
OHIO
- Norwalk Fisher-Titus Medical Center announces new heart and vascular capabilities
- Summa Health launches $75 million fundraising campaign to support patient care, clinical excellence
- Ohio health system launches aging institute
- Fairfield Medical Center posts $22.6M operating loss from medical records overhaul
- Local hospitals ranked among tops in the nation. What does that mean for patients?
- TriHealth pulled cardiac surgery from Good Samaritan. Now doctors worry hospital’s in danger
- Ohio State plans new outpatient center in Dublin to improve access to care
- 3 revenue cycle leaders on their hospital’s biggest concern now that standard charges are public
- One of Cincinnati’s fastest-growing private firms makes another acquisition
- OH Hospital Points to EHR Implementation for $22.6M in Losses
- Ohio State’s Wexner Medical plans outpatient campus across from OhioHealth Dublin Methodist
- Ohio hospital, doctor face 3 new lawsuits over drug doses, deaths
- Ohio AG seeks $16M repayment from Optum for drug overcharges
- UA healthcare data startup acquired by longtime Cleveland-area collaborator
- UC Medical Center chief exits
- Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center names Aetna executive health chancellor
- Summa Health’s chief anesthesiologist wants to eliminate opiates from surgeries
- Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center welcomes interim president
WISCONSIN
- Doctors leave ThedaCare to form independent cardiology clinic in Grand Chute
- Froedtert becomes the second hospital in the U.S. to use a new device in the war against cancer
- Wellspring of Milwaukee nursing home to close
- Inception Health drives innovation at Froedtert
- Four area hospitals named among nation’s 250 best
- Aspirus Named “Best 50” Supply Chain by GHX
- Report: Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin to cost more than $1 billion per year
- Medicaid Pressures, Worker Shortages Lead to SNF Closure Wave in Wisconsin
- Marshfield Clinic to Use Remote Monitoring Platform for CHF Patients
- Marshfield Clinic launches tablet-based telehealth program
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
FLORIDA
- Surgery Partners opens Florida ASC
- Florida pharmacy, owners to pay $775K to settle false claims allegations
- Las Encinas CEO Tapped for Florida Hospital Top Post
- Florida bill mandating ASC patient-safety survey moves forward
- Florida hospital to save $20M through AI-enabled clinical variation
- Florida lawmakers take up nurse practitioner bill
- After All Children’s deaths, proposal aims to catch heart surgery problems
- Jacksonville hospital first, only hospital in Northeast Florida to provide pharmacy kiosk system
- Miami-Dade faces lawsuit over ‘kidnapping’ of baby from Baptist Hospital in tribal case
- Sarasota pharmacy pays $775,000 to settle kickback claims
- Miami Medical Clinic Owner Pleads Guilty In $3.7 Million Fraud
- Florida bill aims to make children in the hospital safer
- 3 Questions with Janice Benggio, Senior PMO Analyst, Broward Health
GEORGIA
- Lee hospital application timeline changes
- James Andrews’ Georgia practice backs state CON repeal
- CON battle heats up General Assembly
- 7 of America’s best hospitals are in Georgia, according to a new report
- Emory gets $65 million donation for new health facility
- New hospital planned in North Georgia as one reopens temporarily to protect state certificate
- 3 things to know about Atlanta Outpatient Surgery Center’s quality initiatives
- Lawmakers want limits on profits allowed in rural hospital program
- North Georgia HealthCare Center in Ringgold celebrates 10 years
- Controversial legislation could dramatically transform health care in Georgia
- Lawmakers want limits on profits allowed in rural hospital program
- Hundreds of patient records found burning across from Atlanta hospital
- Medical school pushes plan for more doctors in rural Georgia
- Georgia hospitals’ unity fractures on big-ticket legislative battle
- Georgia seeks health insurance waiver
- Pediatric hospital opens in Georgia
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta among 3 Georgia companies on Fortune’s 100 best places to work
- Medicare payment dispute imperils Georgia hospital with FDR legacy
MISSISSIPPI
- Greater Meridian Health Clinic expands community services
- Squeezed out? Why rural hospitals are vulnerable to service reductions, closings.
- Work begins on $15.8M parking garage for children’s hospital
- Phishing attack exposes 30,000 patients at Mississippi hospital
- Computer breach exposed patient info at Mississippi hospital
NORTH CAROLINA
- Wake Forest Baptist financial rating downgraded from stable to negative
- North Carolina hospital may close, CEO says
- Atrium Health discloses the pay raise it gave its CEO. It’s the biggest he’s received
- Health care deserts are growing in North Carolina
- Charlotte region doctors prepare to leave Novant Health two months early
- Patients worry after Haywood Regional and United Healthcare fail to reach deal
- North Carolina’s state health plan mulls reimbursement cuts
- Officials Pass Measure to OK Bankruptcy Filing for Hospital
- Mission CEO takes job with HCA
- Hospital foundations find new mission
- North Carolina hospital launches program to help malnourished patients after discharge
- Washington County Commissioners unanimously pass motion to force hospital owners to file involuntary bankruptcy
- Atrium CEO gets biggest pay boost since taking role
- Cone Health’s Q1 operating income falls 68%
SOUTH CAROLINA
- SC towns are elated MUSC is buying their hospitals, but it comes at a cost
- MUSC has taken on about $1 billion in expansion projects. Here’s how they’re affording it.
- Under-the-radar genetic center in Greenwood serves infants, patients across SC
TENNESSEE
- Nashville General Hospital opens ‘food pharmacy’
- Ballad: 150 Tri-Cities organizations form an ‘Accountable Care Community’
- Tivity Health: 4Q Earnings Snapshot
- Bank sues Tennessee hospital for $2M
- Missouri, Tennessee hospitals suspend service
- LMC among state’s hospitals recognized for decrease in hospital-acquired conditions
- Community Health Systems: 4Q Earnings Snapshot
- TriStar Health Opens Centennial Women’s Group in Brentwood
- Quorum Health shares hit all-time low
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Arkansas hospital’s power temporarily shut off due to nonpayment
- Mercy Hospital Fort Smith reviving neurosurgery program
- Northwest Health appoints CFO for 2 hospitals
- Troubled hospital may have a buyer
- Firm looks at De Queen hospital
ARIZONA
- Arizona lawmakers debate cap on children’s health program
- 300+ patients cannot access medical records from shuttered Arizona hospitals
- Q&A: Sen. Kate Brophy McGee, Chair of Arizona’s Senate Health and Human Services Committee
LOUISIANA
- Ochsner Health System becomes Walmart center of excellence for joint replacement
- Broussard-based Hulin Health opens urgent care clinic in Marksville
- Baton Rouge doctor and his medical billing supervisor plead guilty to fraudulent billing scheme
- Springhill hospital welcomes new chief executive officer
- Ochsner, Pfizer to test digital tools to ease patient participation in clinical trials
- Walmart teams up with Ochsner for joint replacement program
NEW MEXICO
OKLAHOMA
- Employees at Oklahoma hospital still waiting for paychecks as legal fight continues
- New hospital administrator touts ‘personal connection’ with hometown assignment
- Oklahoma hospital misses payroll for 3rd time
- Oklahoma doctor to pay $84,666 in alleged kickback scheme
- Oklahoma lawmakers to consider Medicaid expansion proposal
- Attorneys Reach Temporary Agreement To Keep Prague Hospital Open
- City wants control of Oklahoma hospital after employees left unpaid
- Daily on Healthcare: Oklahoma steps forward on Medicaid-like expansion
- Tulsa doctor agrees to financial settlement in Skiatook compounding pharmacy kickbacks case
- Mercy Hospital Ada names new president
TEXAS
- Texas hospital: Elevator firm will be accountable in mishap
- Some services suspended at Beaumont medical facility
- 3 revenue cycle leaders on their hospital’s biggest concern now that standard charges are public
- Doctors go on trial to defend payments for bringing lucrative surgeries to controversial Dallas hospital
- Texas Health saves $412,000 with real-time location system
- Texas Health Care Foundation Finds Its Next CIO
- Free-standing ER in McKinney renamed City Hospital Emergency Care
- Memorial Hermann CEO talks needs, new initiatives
- Cook Children’s Health Care System selects chief investment officer
- Forest Park Medical criminal kickback trial preview
- Houston health tech co. acquires Wisconsin software firm
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Alaska hospital to suspend all major surgeries
- Huntingburg doctor finds new frontier in Alaskan service
- Private company hired to run Alaska Psychiatric Institute has a mixed record
- Health care officials alarmed by proposed Medicaid cuts
IDAHO
- Idaho submits Medicaid expansion plan for federal review
- Luke’s Health System awards grants to Treasure Valley nonprofits
- Construction on new hospital a few weeks ahead of schedule
- New western Idaho health collaborative narrowly survives budget battle
- Idaho Falls’ newest hospital set to open in November
- Blackfoot hospital undergoes multi-million dollar expansion
MONTANA
- Looming doctor shortage a concern for rural Montana
- Kalispell Regional Healthcare hospital meets whistleblower settlement mandates
- Montana health system meets requirements in whistle-blower settlement
- Renovated St. Vincent hospital unit adds new level of care for Montana’s littlest patients
- Montana Hospital Association, rural hospitals lobby for Medicaid expansion
- Missoula health care execs get $1.2M in venture capital for tech startup to better prepare patients
OREGON
- Oregon House advances Medicaid funding protections
- Greenlick removed from chair of health care committee after ‘demeaning’ comments
- A national health care giant seeks a chunk of the Portland metro Medicaid business
- Medicaid funding package heads to Oregon Senate
- What Oregon’s Move to Redefine Data Privacy Means for PHI
- Governor’s Plan To Plug Oregon Health Care Shortfall Faces Uncertainty
WASHINGTON
- Washington state hospital’s finances spark concern in audit
- UW Medicine mistakenly exposed information on nearly 1 million patients
- Providence St. Joseph Health names chief people officer
- Washington hospital will lay off staff, freeze wages to stay afloat
- Spokane Digestive Center Goes All-In with Washington State’s New Online Healthcare Costs Comparison Tool
WYOMING
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Local hospital may benefit from Dignity merger
- Paradise hospital workers get last paychecks after Camp Fire wiped out over 1,200 jobs
- California hospital surprised by sudden utility payments
- Woman awarded $1M in discrimination lawsuit against California hospital
- California hospital system underpaid by Blue Shield for ER services, jury finds
- California payer considers bankruptcy
- Marin General CFO Jim McManus on how a ‘personal board of directors’ influences his leadership style
- Mary’s in Long Beach is owned by a new $29 billion healthcare giant. How will that impact patients?
- Oroville Hospital to use $200 million for five-story expansion
- Colorado hospital notifies patients of data breach
- Fast-growing Colorado Springs practice focuses on low-income and Medicare patients
- California hospital secures $200M in bonds for five-story medical tower
- Dignity Health reports $33M operating loss in most recent quarter
- California lawmakers seek health insurance mandate
- California proposed health-pricing transparency bill would affect Kaiser Permanente
- Providence St. Joseph Health CMIO Dr. Michael Marino on top priorities for CMIOs
COLORADO
- Centura Health buys land near InterQuest Parkway for third Colorado Springs hospital
- Expanding heart care fills an important rural void
- Mercy hospital’s parent organization part of mega merger
- CHI’s operating loss swells to $57M in Q2
- UCHealth opens new medical center in convenient Loveland location
- Centura Health Plans New Hospital In Colorado Springs
- New hospital to serve northeast Colorado Springs growth
- UCHealth Memorial Hospital North opens on Monday, with focus on women’s care
- Colorado hospital notifies patients of data breach
- Colorado nursing school to take over hospital tower
HAWAII
- Waialae-Kahala master plan updates to be discussed
- North Hawai’i Community Hospital Primary Care Department Expands
- Hawaii residents receive high ER bills amid hospital-contractor negotiations
NEVADA
UTAH
- Utah’s biggest health care network announces its change of policy on physicians recommending medical cannabis to patients
- Intermountain physicians can now recommend cannabis for patients
- Surgeon becomes first in Salt Lake to perform life-changing sleep apnea operation
- Utah hospitals add price lists online, but how useful are they?
- Intermountain makes major strides in reducing prescribed opioids
