NATIONAL
- The doctor will see you now (no matter what time it is)
- Pharmacy deserts are a growing problem
- A look at the different ways in which HIPAA is enforced
- Amazon Care: 5 things to know about Amazon’s new virtual medical clinic
- How HHS is innovating data aggregation and visualization to boost pop health
- How compensation has changed for employed vs. independent physicians
- Judge rules against site-neutral payment policy & more
- Walmart unveils plan to build healthcare workforce
- FDA tries to spur patient shaping of clinical trial design with draft guidance
- Majority of hospital data breaches expose sensitive financial info
- Doctor Bot: How artificial intelligence is already changing healthcare, and what’s coming next
- CMS to increase ASC oversight after report notes common quality issue
- CMS not appropriately tracking quality measure spending, objectives, GAO finds
- 700,000 Patients Affected by August Healthcare Breaches
- On same day of hospital concentration study, AMA says payers are the ones with less competition
- CIOs express hope, concern for proposed interoperability rule
- Emergency care providers mobilize as Congress explores surprise billing
- Congress considers California’s surprise-billing solution
- CMS finalizes rule detailing Oct. 1 cuts to Medicaid DSH payments
- CMS takes input on changes to hospital star ratings
- AMA recognizes 22 healthcare organizations for physician burnout efforts
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Connecticut nursing home fined for cocaine use: officials
- Nursing Home In Enfield Fined For Violations
- VA hospital director in NH to oversee Connecticut VA system
- Hartford HealthCare brings in Israeli med-tech start-ups to pitch partnerships
- CT moves closer to health care ‘excellence’ referral network
MAINE
- Presque Isle hospital goes national for ER physician staffing
- Maine’s largest private employer now offers paid parental leave
- DHHS commissioner: Maine’s mental health system needs work – and it’s already begun
- St. Mary’s Health System appoints René Dumont first chief patient experience officer
- Maine Woman Receives More Than 500 Letters From Health Care Firm
MASSACHUSETTS
- Behind the scenes at Humana’s new digital health unit in Boston
- How Massachusetts Built A Booming Biotech Ecosystem
- Partners HealthCare has a question for employees: What should its new name be?
- Rally in Holyoke to Keep Behavioral Health Care Local, Protest Baystate Health Closure Plan
- Bayer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital open joint lab for research of new treatments for chronic lung diseases
- Cape Cod Healthcare vision takes shape
- Mass. General’s plan to buy N.H. hospital held up by AG
- Southcoast Health, Blue Cross at odds over payment rates
- Mass General ordered to release report on concurrent surgeries
- Cape Cod Healthcare breaks ground on $180M tower
- 3 top execs out at Boston biotech
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- VA hospital director in NH to oversee Connecticut VA system
- Mass. General’s plan to buy N.H. hospital held up by AG
- New Hampshire AG blocks Partners acquisition over antitrust concerns
- Partners’ plan to buy New Hampshire hospital blocked by AG
NEW YORK
- NYU Langone took a page from other industries’ playbooks to improve care. Here’s how
- How NYU Langone Health improved operations using a tactic from Amazon, Google
- To improve patient safety, Northwell now using UV technology at Northern Westchester, Staten Island University hospitals to disinfect ORs
- Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital achieves nation’s highest overall quality rating in cardiac surgery
- Brooks in ‘waiting’ mode before build
- City hospitals struggle as spending skyrockets
- NYU Langone Health implements randomized quality tests
- South Nassau Communities Hospital is renamed Mount Sinai South Nassau
- North Shore names new hospital president
- New York HIE regulators issue info request for medical records aggregation software
- Mount Sinai creates BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute
RHODE ISLAND
- Governor takes issue with health care system’s CEO demands
- Care New England wanted to bring Partners HealthCare back to negotiating table
VERMONT
- Porter Medical Center president under investigation for plagiarism
- Littleton Regional Healthcare partners with Dartmouth-Hitchcock to provide neonatal care via telemedicine
- Study finds lack of social needs screening at health care facilities
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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- New health system forms in Maryland
- U of Maryland Medical Center downsizes scope of outpatient tower
- Maryland health system to cut 83 jobs
- 3 ASCs expanding in Michigan, Maryland & Indiana
- Johns Hopkins medical school cuts ties with ICE
- Johns Hopkins Medicine unveiling new building with surgery center
- What a Johns Hopkins surgeon learned from researching US hospital billing practices
- Maryland insurers must follow new data breach rules
- What a Johns Hopkins surgeon learned from researching US hospital billing practices
NEW JERSEY
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- HMH launches nation’s first ever urgent care center with behavior health services
- Lehigh Valley Health to acquire Coordinated Health
- Patient tower at Jefferson Washington Twp. Hospital to be named for Silvestri
- Atlantic Health System Celebrated for its “Best Practices”
- St. Joseph’s Health and Hackensack Meridian Health Announce Clinical and Strategic Partnership
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Health Department takes tougher stance on nursing home regulation
- Drexel, Tower to buy St. Christopher’s Hospital for $50M
- Philadelphia pharmacy allegedly submitted $1M in false claims
- Sale Of St. Christopher’s Hospital For Children Approved By US Bankruptcy Court
- It’s time for big data to get smaller, says Penn Medicine associate VP of applications for information services
- Lehigh Valley Health to acquire Coordinated Health
- Philadelphia hospital receives 2 takeover bids
- Pennsylvania surgical practice joins UPMC, relocates practice
- Pennsylvania hospital blames delinquent electric bill on its own trouble collecting debt
- St. Christopher’s Hospital CEO leaving for a new job
- Dr. Shelly Buck named president of Riddle Hospital
VIRGINIA
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- After rural hospital’s closure, county seeks other options
- Arlington Hospital Begins Massive $250M Expansion: Report
- Virginia health system launches Medicare Advantage plan
- Looking back on 25 years at Augusta Medical Center
- Virginia rolling out new mental health transportation services
- Optima Health to take majority stake in Virginia Premier
- Henrico Doctors’ Hospital receives Level II Trauma Center verification
WEST VIRGINIA
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- Raleigh General offers new parents a few perks
- WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center’s new neurosurgery iSuite
- Fairmont Regional Medical Center official responds to layoffs
- Mon Health enters affiliation agreement with Grafton City Hospital
- West Virginia hospital lays off 25 employees
- Mon Health helps West Virginia community hospital stay afloat
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Busch Light-Children’s Hospital campaign now pushing for $2 million raised
- How big is MercyOne anyway?
- Iowa children’s hospital launches tablet-based remote monitoring program
- Researchers with University of Iowa Health Care receive grant to study suicide prevention
KANSAS
- Oklahoma home-based primary care company enters Wichita market with purchase
- Kansas hospital receives $4M gift for surgical expansion
- Sunderland Foundation pledges millions for Olathe Medical Center expansion
- Provision Healthcare to open new proton therapy center in Kansas
MINNESOTA
- Mayo Clinic wins top award again for high-quality patient care
- Hospitals credited for flu shot records
- 43 Minnesota hospitals recognized for high employee flu shot rates
- Granite Falls Health selects Avera
- Nurses ratify contract with St. Luke’s
- Essentia Health Vision Northland breaks ground in Duluth
- Mayo Clinic joins $20M funding for startup fighting heart disease with AI
- Allina Health MyChart glitch sent false alerts to thousands of patients
- St. Luke’s nurses call off strike
MISSOURI
- Jefferson City remains in the dark about St. Mary’s sale
- Missouri nursing home paid female nurse less than male peers, EEOC claims
- The collapse of a hospital empire — and towns left in the wreckage
- How SSM Health is unifying its internal and external identity
- Ascension bundles post-acute care services
- What being a chief revenue officer entails: Freeman Health System’s Kevin Gaudette on his new role
- $3 million grant to target maternal, infant health
- Federal opioid response money in Missouri: What is it doing in Columbia and across the state?
NEBRASKA
- New owner announces plans to close 4 nursing homes
- New technology makes health care more convenient for Barton County residents
- Nebraska’s ‘monumental’ data project key in improving health outcomes, reducing costs, officials say
- CMS price transparency effort falls short, Nebraska hospital CFOs say
- Rural Hospitals Stagger Under ‘Unpaid Burden,’ CEO Says
NORTH DAKOTA
- North Dakota’s first stand-alone rehab hospital opens in Fargo; first 20 patients admitted for free
- Sanford shuffles management
- North Dakota’s first stand-alone rehab hospital opens
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Telehealth panel proceeds on mental health ideas for South Dakota
- South Dakota invests $1 million for prenatal care
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Nurses not allowed to return to University of Chicago Medical Center after strike
- MetroSouth Hospital stops accepting new patients
- Anderson Healthcare plans second building on Edwardsville campus
- Execs of Chicago Nursing Home Where Patient Was Bilked Fined
- Nurses returning to work after strike at Chicago hospital
- Illinois hospital stops accepting patients, faces understaffing
- Leader of record $146M nursing home mortgage default settles SEC lawsuit
- Rush President Michael Dandorph to resign
- Illinois hospital turns to virtual care for hospitalist program
INDIANA
- Community Healthcare System opens new facility in Crown Point
- Most Wired Hospitals in Indiana Ranked
- Franciscan Health Dyer rehab services celebrates renovation
- Rural Telehealth Expands to Greene County Schools
- Reid Health to Move, Expand Radiology in Connersville
- Ascension, Goodman Campbell to Expand Partnership
- D.C. Lawsuit Challenges Healthy Indiana Plan’s Work Requirement
- 3 ASCs expanding in Michigan, Maryland & Indiana
- Work Begins on Zionsville ER/Urgent Care
- Indiana hospital investing in 4 standalone ERs, urgent care centers
KENTUCKY
- Court of Appeals backs HMH sale to Baptist Health
- Humana CEO: Competition and innovation lower drug prices better than just putting a cap on them
- Kentucky Launches Telehealth Program to Help Inmates in Transition
- Anderson Healthcare plans second building on Edwardsville campus
- Former Deaconess CEO Linda White named new CEO of Henderson’s Methodist Health
- Kentucky Appeals Court Clears Way for Baptist Health, Hardin Memorial Health Deal
- A Tale of Two Hospitals; One Survived, the Other Didn’t
- Laws blocking ambulance competition in Kentucky under scrutiny
- Software issue prompts UK Healthcare to reroute EMS patients to other hospitals
- Kindred CEO to Louisville: ‘You can disrupt or be disrupted’
- Kindred’s settlement over home health wages didn’t include SNF class-action lawsuit, which may proceed, federal court rules
- LHC Group, Norton Healthcare launch joint venture
- Area hospital completes nearly $6M renovation project
- Judges reject challenge to $360M Baptist Healthcare deal
- UK Healthcare no longer rerouting patients after computer glitch
- Methodist Health taps Linda White as CEO
MICHIGAN
- Ascension Michigan at Work – Helping Create a Healthy Workplace
- U. of Michigan Will Add $920M Hospital at Campus Medical Center
- Plans call for new $920M adult hospital at University of Michigan
- UM regents approve nearly $1 billion for new hospital in Ann Arbor
- Medstar buys 52 new ambulances, takes over medical transport helicopter
- Michigan Attorney General urges protection for nursing home residents
- 3 ASCs expanding in Michigan, Maryland & Indiana
- Michigan hospital building 7 primary care sites
- Trinity Health considers $1.7B debt issuance
OHIO
- Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center Expands To Canton
- Legionnaires’ case linked to Ohio senior living facility
- Summa Health to relaunch emergency medicine residency program
- University Hospitals Health System to Deploy NextGen Population Health Platform
- Mount Carmel East president, COO dies
- Why University Hospitals launched an investment arm and how it plans to disrupt in the future
- Ohio health system to expand with 2 orthopedic, sports medicine clinics
- Ohio hospital moving outpatient, general surgery services to one location
- Mount Carmel Health System raising minimum hourly wage to $15
WISCONSIN
- Aspirus Rhinelander Clinic breaks ground on $14 million expansion
- Marshfield Clinic’s New Wausau Hospital To Add 270 Jobs
- New proposal would increase penalties for assaults on Wisconsin nurses
- MACC Fund pledges $25 million gift to Medical College of Wisconsin, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
- Four area Ascension Wisconsin hospitals post losses; Aurora hospitals up
- Marshfield Clinic system to expand Wausau presence with new hospital
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- Selma hospital, doctors to pay $1.5M to settle whistleblower lawsuit
- Alabama hospital, former executive settle false billing case
- Alabama hospital breaks ground on ASC, emergency departmen
- Leadership out at embattled central Alabama VA system, national review pending
FLORIDA
- Florida hospitals file lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, distributors
- Judge dismisses Oscar antitrust lawsuit against Florida BCBS
- In Clearwater, a state-of-the-art medical school now overlooks Tampa Bay
- It’s wait and see for hospital construction in Florida
- Golisano Children’s Hospital sees growth at its Naples location
- Day 1 of Nurse Strike in California, Arizona and Florida
- Orlando Health launches electronic system to speed up newborn screening
- AdventHealth to build yet another Central Florida ER
- Orlando Health opens 6th freestanding ER, keeping pace with rivals
- Florida Children’s Hospital Facing Massive Fines Over Issues in Heart Unit
- UNF plan brings $24M ‘medical nexus’ to Palm Coast’s Town Center
- State Challenged On New Nursing Home
- Florida ASC project wraps up within $6M budget
GEORGIA
- Lawmakers look to streamline indigent health care in Georgia
- Atlanta Falcons, Emory Orthopedics partner for orthopedic clinic
- Piedmont Healthcare seeks to boost diversity and inclusion in culture of workforce
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to close satellite locations
- Atlanta-area medical office to gain surgery center
MISSISSIPPI
- ‘Hidden’ fee adds hundreds of dollars to ER bills at Biloxi hospital, lawsuit says
- Mississippi businessman Wade Walters charged in $500 million health care fraud scheme
- Merit Health hospital sued in Mississippi, accused of hiding ER facility fee from patient
- Memorial Hospital at Gulfport expands to Stone County
- ‘Hidden’ fee adds hundreds of dollars to ER bills at Biloxi hospital, lawsuit says
NORTH CAROLINA
- Hospital investing $4.4M to upgrade imaging services
- Martin General Hospital Interim CEO John Jacobson speaks on discontinuation of labor, delivery services
- Study finds long emergency room wait times in Moses Cone, other area hospitals
- Study finds long emergency department wait times in Triad hospitals
- North Carolina county to go after nearly $30M in unpaid ambulance bills
- Aetna says BCBS had unfair advantage in North Carolina Medicaid contracts
- ‘It’s been a long journey’: Mission Health’s $400 million North Tower will open in October
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina CEO resigns, interim CEO named in place
- Wake Forest Baptist Health receives $25 million grant for cancer research
- Appalachian Regional Healthcare System Opens New Pulmonology Location
- New Hanover Regional Medical Center unveils new smartphone app
- North Carolina health system unveils mobile wayfinding platform
- Duke Health launches telehealth urgent care app
- Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital appoints Preston Hammock president
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Prisma Health-Upstate president Spence Taylor steps down
- East Cooper plans $12 million move north with Berkeley County emergency department
- The South Carolina Hospital Association Announces 57 Hospitals Win 230 Zero Harm Awards in 2019
- Prisma Health-Upstate President Spence M. Taylor out as his role is eliminated
- Stolen physician notebook may have exposed information of 2,770 Prisma Health patients
TENNESSEE
- Baptist part of trial for mitral heart valve replacement
- Tennessee Attorney General addresses how the state is combating opioid crisis
- Rural ERs see fallout from national nursing shortage
- A Tale of Two Hospitals; One Survived, the Other Didn’t
- Oneida hospital employees report no pay from owner Rennova Health
- Health care system to close 1 emergency room, expand another
- Nashville health care company bought by New York private equity firm
- HCA Healthcare names Jennifer Berres chief HR officer
- Judge orders preservation of medical records from shuttered Tennessee clinics
- Methodist Le Bonheur wipes out medical debt for 6,500 patients
- Tennessee hospital halts admissions after staff doesn’t show up
- VUMC awarded $1.5M to analyze EHR data for care coordination patterns
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Jonesboro nursing home accused of not paying its employees
- City Council agrees to enter lease talks with MRMC nonprofit hospital
- Anonymous donor gives $1 million to Arkansas Children’s Hospital Jonesboro Clinic
- NW Arkansas’ Mercy Health Wraps Up Expansion Projects Totaling $180M
- Conway Regional Health breaks ground on medical office building
- Arkansas Children’s, Jefferson Regional add pediatric clinic; $250 million health campaign publicly revealed
- Jefferson Regional, Arkansas Children’s partner on new clinic
- Arkansas hospital seeks to increase Medicare reimbursement with move to nonprofit status
ARIZONA
- Nurses stage 1-day strike at 12 hospitals in 3 states including Arizona
- Day 1 of Nurse Strike in California, Arizona and Florida
- Equality Health, Signify Health launch Arizona’s 1st ‘whole health’ digital platform
- Northern Arizona Healthcare Foundation Awards
- Pop health IT helps Partners in Recovery reduce psychiatric hospital admissions by 50%
- Talas Harbor working with McSally to get TriWest status
- The Navajo Nation has a cancer clinic, a tribal first
- Thousands of Nurses Strike for More Staffing, Better Patient Ratios
- Creighton University groundbreaking marks new era of health education
- Board of Arizona safety-net hospital backtracks on CEO’s $100,000 pay hike after local paper inquires
LOUISIANA
- Nurse imposter treated 100+ patients at Louisiana nursing home, police say
- Lafayette General Health signs letter of intent to merge with Ochsner Health System
- Proposed merger would create 47-hospital network in Louisiana
- Lafayette General merger with Ochsner will bring $365 million investment to Acadiana
- Minden Medical Center selects Jim Williams as CEO
- Proposed merger would create 33-hospital network in Louisiana
NEW MEXICO
- Presbyterian Health Plan alerts 56,000 patients of phishing attack
- Presbyterian working on new outpatient surgery centers
- University of New Mexico Studies Physician Burnout Related to Electronic Records
- U of New Mexico plans $400M medical tower
OKLAHOMA
- Johnson & Johnson appeals Oklahoma’s $572M opioid ruling
- Big goals for Oklahoma Health Department commissioner
- Oklahoma State University leverages telemedicine to treat opioid addiction
TEXAS
- Nocona General Hospital unveils newly renovated facility
- Patient says Houston clinic refuses to send her copies of medical records
- College Station Medical Center becomes College Station Hospital following acquisition by CHI St. Joseph Health
- Texas hospital exec gets 10 years in prison for $16M fraud scheme
- Texas Health Fort Worth Selected for Research to Improve Maternal Mortality
- Children’s Health chief financial officer Rich Goode resigns
- Kevin Scoggin named COO of 2 Methodist (Texas) Healthcare hospitals
- CFO of Children’s Health in Dallas steps down; 2nd finance leader to leave in a month
- Judge unseals whistleblower lawsuit seeking ‘billions’ from Covenant in alleged healthcare scheme
- St. David’s North Austin Medical Center selects Jill Leone as CFO
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Alaska Mental Health Trust begins accepting land sale bids
- $18 M in health, human services funds coming to Alaska
IDAHO
- Idaho cardiologist 1st female in world to achieve surgical milestone
- Boundary Community Hospital hires Preston Becker as CEO
- Hospital adds bone health clinic to its lineup of services (access required)
- Boundary Community Hospital announces new CEO
- Idaho to receive millions in new funding to fight opioid crisis
MONTANA
- Alluvion Health bridging the healthcare gap with rural Montana
- GI group to build $7M medical office in Montana
- Wave of Montana primary providers increase mental health care
- St. V’s to offer pediatric surgery, brings Utah specialists to Billings
OREGON
- Kaiser Permanente, union reach tentative contract agreement
- Urgent care clinic to open in October
- Patient To Sue Oregon State Hospital Over Admission Delay
- Oregon hospital selects Cerner EHR
- Portland paramedics are a small piece of the bigger Oregon overdose epidemic
WASHINGTON
- Kaiser Permanente, union reach tentative contract agreement
- Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual medical clinic for employees
- Washington state spends $62M in workplace injury claims for 1 hospital
- Molina Healthcare of Washington launches $3M innovation fund
WYOMING
- Sheridan Memorial Hospital Provides Help After Ransomware Attack
- Wyoming hospital curtails services amid hacker attack
- New pediatric specialty clinic will bring ‘world class’ children’s care to Casper
- Wyoming health system halts patient admissions after ransomware attack
- Emergency entrance at Memorial Hospital is under construction
- No patient data compromised in Wyoming health system ransomware attack
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Jury Selection To Start In California’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Sutter Health
- Day 1 of Nurse Strike in California, Arizona and Florida
- Dignity Health will pay $570,000 to settle discrimination suit filed by blind worker in Redding
- Vertical Wellness Names Chief Financial Officer
- Dignity Health agrees to $570K settlement in discrimination case
- New Stanford Hospital sits on ‘roller skates’ as part of earthquake safety
- Kaiser Permanente, unions reach agreement
- California AG criticizes proposals to ease nursing home operators’ burdens
- Why UCSF Health’s patient initiatives don’t feel like the flavor of the month
- Congress considers California’s surprise-billing solution
- Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital CEO Michael Purvis to retire next year
- Sutter Santa Rosa breaks ground on $158M expansion
- Sutter’s pricing practices under microscope in antitrust case
- Freezer malfunction at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles destroys stem cells for 56 patients
COLORADO
- Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center debuts first-of-its-kind tech
- Maintain employee productivity with on-demand, access-anywhere health care
- Colorado Canyons Hospital turning to opioid alternatives, a part of the CO ALTO project
- Kaiser Permanente, unions reach agreement
- Colorado Medical Society names Bryan Campbell new CEO
- New Colorado health care survey shows growing concern over affordability and treatment
- Kaiser Permanente Colorado, union workers poised to avoid strike thanks to tentative deal
- Health Access Survey: Coverage rates steady, but other stats look troubling
HAWAII
- US Department of Health awards $1.1M to Hawaii health centers for oral health services
- Hawaii Pacific Health names Leslie Chun as CEO of new medical group
NEVADA
- Nevada’s health exchange makes leap to own platform
- Nurses picket in union contract dispute at Reno hospital
UTAH
- Letter: Utah has great hospitals
- Intermountain Employs Blockchain, AI to Identify Waste, Lower Costs
- How Intermountain is using blockchain
- St. V’s to offer pediatric surgery, brings Utah specialists to Billings
- Ex-Utah nurse pleads guilty to infecting 7 patients with hepatitis C
