NATIONAL
- For CMS Head, Improving Interoperability is Personal
- CVS agrees to buy Aetna in $69 billion deal that could shake up health-care industry
- Teladoc sees more than 100% growth in health systems, hospitals
- CMS takes aim at regulatory reforms to ease provider burden
- Amazon cancels pharma license application in Maine, raising more questions about its health-care plans
- 11 of the biggest healthcare cyberattacks of 2017
- Advocate-Aurora Merger Latest in Healthcare Consolidation Trend
- Micro-hospitals: Smaller facilities with a big future
- Tech Giants Ride Data Wave Into Health-Care Market
- 8 things to know about CHIP funding right now
- Many states projected to see healthcare workforce gap through 2025: 4 things to know
- Paul Ryan says Republicans to target welfare, Medicare, Medicaid spending in 2018
- CMS releases shorter Measures Under Consideration list
- Hospitals add 2.2K jobs in November
- Moody’s: Outlook for global healthcare industry stable for 2018
- AHA: 7 ways health systems are transitioning to value-based care
- Prescription drug spending slows in 2016: 5 things to know
- What the FTC’s, DOJ’s track records in antitrust reviews could mean for CVS-Aetna deal
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Robot now performing surgeries at St. Mary’s Hospital
- St. Francis orthopedic, spine facilities join national group aligned on care protocols, cost control
- St. Mary’s gets new president; former president now Trinity Health Of New England COO
- Trinity Health Of New England taps Chad Wable as COO: 4 takeaways
MAINE
- MaineGeneral credit downgrade points to losses of physicians, money
- Moody’s lowers MaineGeneral’s credit rating, citing exodus of primary care doctors
- Second finance agency downgrades MaineGeneral credit rating
- St. Joseph to cut two dozen jobs in Bangor
- Bright named chairman of hospital board
- Coastal hospitals back MaineHealth plan for unified $2 billion network
- Maine Voices: Proposed unification of hospitals about balance sheet, not health care
- Ellsworth hospital nurses, techs vote to join union
- Maine system to cut about 24 jobs in Bangor due to billing move: 4 things to know
MASSACHUSETTS
- Mass. Medical Society drops opposition to physician assisted suicide
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute CEO Wants To Tax Biopharma To Pay For The NIH
- Why this prominent personal injury lawyer gifted Brigham and Women’s Hospital $2M
- AG Maura Healey: Maxim Healthcare reaches $14 million settlement with Mass to end improper billing investigation
- 5 Massachusetts nursing homes to close
- Spine surgery will thrive in the US healthcare system: 5 findings demonstrate why
- Judge denies union request to block mandatory flu shot policy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Hospital merger draws support; Anna Jaques affected
- More than 600 workers will be cut as Kindred facilities close in Mass.
NEW YORK
- NYC Health + Hospitals taps former Los Angeles County health IT executive Kevin Lynch as CIO
- NYPD surgeon busted in multi-million dollar health care scheme
- Sidney hospital to become branch of A.O. Fox
- Brooklyn Prosecutors Charge 20 in $146 Million Health-Care Fraud
- Local surgeons discover deficiencies in NY hospital
- Eastern Niagara Hospital plans $8 million emergency department expansion
- 70-year-old woman sues New York physician for allegedly taking Spanish language exam during operation
RHODE ISLAND
- State seeks more input on proposed Memorial Hospital closure
- Rhode Island orders hospital to stop performing surgeries
VERMONT
- Group wants clinicians on health care regulatory board
- Northwestern Medical consolidates outpatient services into new $32M building
- Vermont Hospitals push for health insurance
MID-ATLANTIC/EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- How Delaware is faring during a national shortage of OB-GYNs
- Medical Society of Delaware Partners with HealthEC To Provide Population Health Platform to Nearly 900 Physicians
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
MARYLAND
- Partnership Key To Medical Center Groundbreaking
- New hospital in Prince George’s County breaks ground
- Garrett Regional Medical Center CEO to also oversee Potomac Valley Hospital
- Meet the first company to join the Inova Health System’s new accelerator
- Bethesda ‘microlearning’ health startup Mytonomy raises $7 million
NEW JERSEY
- Pharmaceutical services company opens new operational facility in South Brunswick
- Hackensack Meridian signs on to novel cloud-based health platform
- Holy Name Medical Center exec appointed to Murphy’s transition team
- Saint Peter’s Hospital files new motion in ongoing suit against Horizon
- Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center selects permanent president: 4 takeaways
PENNSYLVANIA
- Saint Vincent Hospital appoints Randolph Levis CFO
- Unprecedented $10M Gifted To Doylestown Health
- North Philadelphia Health System CEO to resign as part of cost-cutting plan
- Highmark CEO: Everyone should have access to UPMC’s specialty hospitals
- Penn Highlands Healthcare names Tarun Ghosh CFO: 3 things to know
- UPMC Horizon to close ICU at Pennsylvania hospital
- Western Suburbs will see a Healthcare Expansion in 2018
- $10M donation: Bucks County health system receives its 2 largest gifts ever
- PCOM expanding with new out-of-state campus
- With new lease, Spark Therapeutics stays true to West Phila. roots
WEST VIRGINIA
- Daniel Dunmyer is Ohio Valley Medical Center’s new CEO: 5 notes
- WVU Hospitals will manage GMRC
- Mountaineer Health receives $3 million grant
- Eastern Panhandle hospitals expand cardiovascular services
- Princeton Community Hospital opens new orthopedic center
- Garrett Regional Medical Center CEO to also oversee Potomac Valley Hospital
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Iowa to pay $240K to settle medical malpractice lawsuit against UI
- Several Iowa EMTs sanctioned for crimes, incompetence
- Iowa hospital ER’s dealing with more and more mental health patients
- Optimae receives home health services accreditation
KANSAS
- Kansas hospital drops policy that bars employees from talking to legislators
- County approves ambulance agreement with Via Christi
MINNESOTA
- Skin care practice to pay $850,000 to settle allegations of false billing
- Study: Albert Lea hospital could be profitable
- Senior-living operator Ebenezer names next CEO
- UnitedHealth buying DaVita’s doctor group for $4.9 billion
- Mayo Albert Lea healthcare workers set strike date: 8 things to know
MISSOURI
- MU Health Care reports better-than-expected finances: 6 things to know
- KC hospital closes, leaving 115 people without jobs
- MU Health reports strong finances, proposes expansion
- Children’s Mercy seeks approval for 9-story Hospital Hill research tower
- Boehringer to expand St. Joseph operation
- Feds ask judge to impose $6.5 million punishment for Cape surgeon
- This is what a BJC takeover of Memorial Hospital could mean for you
- MU Health CEO gives update on possible merger with Boone Hospital
- Cerner’s year in review: 10 biggest stories from the EHR vendor in 2017
NEBRASKA
- Retiring Methodist CEO sees ‘a time of revolution and evolution in health care,’ calls it ‘necessary and appropriate’
- Creighton University Medical Center-Bergan Mercy donates beds to Ralston medical program
NORTH DAKOTA
SOUTH DAKOTA
- How South Dakota Got Its First New SNF in 30 Years
- Regional Health announces partnership with new support services provider
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Aurora Health Care and Advocate Health Care to merge
- University of Chicago Trauma Center completed, could open by May 1
- Siteman Cancer Center to open first Illinois location
- Memorial, BJC want to build Siteman Cancer Center in Shiloh
- Ferrell Hospital CEO named to critical access hospital board
- Mercyhealth presents preliminary hospital design to Crystal Lake officials
- In lawsuit defense, Leapfrog says hospital failed to review self-reported data
- Health payments startup gets $7.2 million
- Leapfrog: Chicago hospital’s lawsuit is ’11th hour gambit’ to change safety grade
INDIANA
- DeKalb Health Appoints Interim CEO
- Ascension launches consulting, training operation with 65 workers
- $50M hospital fuels Hendricks health care war
- Local tech firm rolls out $1M ransomware protection guarantee
- Medical Device Maker to Close Fishers Operation
- Don Brown Biotech Startup to Invest $16M
KENTUCKY
- Skilled Nursing Transactions: Kindred Continues SNF Sell-Off
- Kentucky Supreme Court Declines to Recognize New Tort of “Negligent Credentialing”
- UofL Hospital first in region to utilize latest infection-control technologies
- Virginia Commonwealth honors Georgetown Community Hospital CEO
- Norton Healthcare expanding cancer services
- Kindred reaches agreements on closings
- KentuckyOne Health parent Catholic Health Initiatives to merge
MICHIGAN
- Children’s Hospital foundation shifts strategy
- VitalCare to adopt McLaren name
- Detroit Medical Center will slash workforce under Tenet cost-cutting plan
- Priority Health’s money-saving move will be hard on some Medicaid patients
- Owner of Detroit home health agency convicted in $1.6 million health care fraud scheme
- Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital management calls core of nurse lawsuit a publicity stunt
- DMC asks for dismissal of Huron Valley nurses lawsuit
- Bellin plans to buy health system in Dickinson County, Mich.
- McLaren, MSU To Build New Hospital in South Lansing
- MI healthcare system to build new $450M hospital
- UPDATE: Marquette nurses take out ad in Duke Chronicle
- Trinity Health moves up sale of $889M in bonds in anticipation of tax overhaul
- Henry Ford Health data breach affecting 18K patients
- Bellin plans to buy health system in Dickinson County, Mich.
- Hospital forms joint venture with health system
- Medical firm hires COO
- Medical company making $662M acquisition
OHIO
- Ohio State University seeks proposals for new hospital tower
- Springfield nurse practitioner accused of operating clinic without license
- Dayton Children’s patients have final move into new multi-million dollar tower
- Mercy Health subsidiary Ensemble Health Partners creating 1,100 jobs in Cincinnati
- Lessons from an Ohio medical group’s RCM turnaround
- Ensemble Health Partners to create 1,100 jobs with new Ohio regional headquarters
- Longtime Akron Children’s Hospital CEO Considine writes book on leadership
- Campaign honoring Cleveland Clinic’s outgoing CEO raises $50 million
- Eardley Returning to University Hospitals as CIO
- Former Ohio nurse says it’s ‘injustice’ to fire her over not getting flu shot
- University Hospitals increases economic impact in Ohio by $3 billion
- New hospital envisioned as centerpiece of a national flagship academic medical center
- Ohio State Will Build New Hospital Tower In Wexner Medical Center Complex
- Mercy Health Toledo names new chief operating officer
- Wright-Patterson Medical Center joins Health Information Exchange
- Mount Carmel’s FY17 finances boosted by operating efficiency, turnaround of insurance subsidiary
WISCONSIN
- Aurora Health Care and Advocate Health Care to merge
- Wisconsin faces shortage of personal health care workers
- State Medicaid director Michael Heifetz resigning
- Wisconsin’s Marshfield Clinic Health System joins Hazelden Betty Ford Patient Care Network
- Pat Board takes position with Wisconsin health system
- Chilton hospital adopts new name
- Marshfield Clinic wants to borrow $200 million more
- UW Health Planning $80M In Cuts
- Aurora hospital plans in Kohler may involve street upgrades
- Expansion plans in the works for Wauwatosa’s Lutheran Home
SOUTH/SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- St. Vincent’s Opens New Outpatient Center In Trussville
- DCH Health System working to overcome nurse shortage
- Andrews Sports Medicine to open in Trussville
- Who’s Who in Birmingham Health Care? Key leaders to know in Magic City medicine
FLORIDA
- CEO of HCA-owned hospital says lower share of Medicaid revenue reflects bias against for-profits
- Orlando Health to open $30M hospital off Osceola Parkway
- Hospital District Files Countersuit Against Ex-CEO
- MRMC might not need state OK to build hospital at TimberRidge
- Broward Health counter-sues fired CEO
- AHCA suspends admissions to Altamonte Springs assisted living facility
- Florida Hospital chain to buy Bayfront Health Dade City
- Adventist Health System promotes Florida Hospital East’s chief medical officer
- Sarasota doctor agrees to pay nearly $2 million to resolve false billing claims
- Medicaid plan required to return $1.8 million to state
- Vitas agrees to record-setting settlement
- In leadership change, St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership CEO moves to hospital foundation
- Trauma Center Approved For Children’s Hospital
- Florida Hospital Apopka sets opening date
- St. Pete City Council pushes Bayfront Health debate to the deadline
- UnitedHealth buying DaVita’s doctor group, including Tampa operations, for $4.9 billion
GEORGIA
- Georgia hospital hit with $12.8 million penalty over alleged false claims, kickback allegations
- CHI Memorial to acquire Cornerstone Medical Center and former “Hutcheson on the Parkway”
- Tift Regional Health System CEO to retire in January; COO named successor
- Georgia Hospital Association sees success reducing infection rates.
- Grady Health System gets $50 million gift
- Children’s promises $20M in improvements to Brookhaven
- Lee Co. Hospital CEO attempted to acquire Phoebe North
- Trauma Center Approved For Children’s Hospital
MISSISSIPPI
- UMMC breaks ground for $180 million Children’s Hospital Expansion
- Methodist Rehab’s new Ridgeland office part of neighborly trend
- Ellis Named New Merit Health Rankin’s CNO
NORTH CAROLINA
- Blue Ridge Health is expanding
- Cardinal executive severance packages could pay for thousands of additional behavioral health services
- 9 Questions About The Cardinal Saga Answered
- Blue Cross, Mission reach agreement
- What Happens After a Rural NC Health Clinic Closes?
- Commissioners chide hospital for spending
- Another hospital war brews as Rex Healthcare tries to block WakeMed’s Cary expansion
- Big pharma to lay off 50, close Charlotte facility
- Ahead of reverse merger closing, Raleigh company raises $1.45M
- Seqirus readies for $9M expansion project in Holly Springs
- Big apple-based biotech’s new gene therapy subsidiary inks UNC licensing deals
- Why Duke University is building a massive new nursing facility
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Trident Health Care plans to construct 140-bed hospital
- County Council set to vote on $1.5 billion debt refinancing for GHS-Palmetto Health
- Lexington Medical Center opens new family practice in Gilbert
TENNESSEE
- Healthcare Realty in $300M debt sale
- CEO of HCA-owned hospital says lower share of Medicaid revenue reflects bias against for-profits
- Ardent recruits CHS VP to be CMO
- LHC Group and Erlanger Health System Finalize Joint Venture Agreement
- CHS strikes a deal to sell another hospital
SOUTH-CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARIZONA
- Questions linger why Phoenix Children’s Hospital was dropped from ACA coverage
- Phoenix Hospital Threatens Legal Action Over Similar Name
LOUISIANA
- Ochsner continues talks on hospital partnership
- Ochsner in talks about possibly taking over management of 2 University Health hospitals
- LHC Group and Erlanger Health System Finalize Joint Venture Agreement
- Louisiana spent $718,000 on dead Medicaid patients: audit
- Abraham asks Edwards for assurances for North Louisiana medical school
- Louisiana Medicaid program running under-budget this year
OKLAHOMA
- Health Care Authority reduces reimbursement rates for providers
- Oklahoma City health care provider accused of running Medicaid scam from counseling business
TEXAS
- First Baby Born in US From Woman With Uterus Transplant in Texas
- $374 Million Home Health Care Fraud Case Concludes
- Dallas hospital pays $7.5M settlement in alleged kickback scheme
- Texas Medical Board Adopts New Telemedicine Policy
- SA biotech gains critical entry into European market
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
IDAHO
- EIRMC announces new CEO
- Idaho board mulling funding boost for medical residencies
- Idaho women’s clinic affiliates with Bingham Memorial Hospital, includes Skyline Surgery Center: 5 key notes
OREGON
- Debate heats up surrounding Oregon Meas. 101 on hospital, healthcare provider tax
- 18 Oregon business people, including health care execs, to watch in ’18
- OHA’s $74M Medicaid problem decreases upon closer look
WASHINGTON
- Hospital Gets Washington State’s Largest Medical Center Rooftop Solar Array
- Three Seattle-Based Healthcare Organizations Launch Precision Medicine Institute
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Whistle-blower: California managed-care company improperly denied care to thousands
- Scripps nixes hospital CEO positions and $30M in services
- Los Angeles hospital closes, lays off all 638 employees
- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital doubles in size
- Former head of IT accused of stealing $800k from California health clinics
- 4 questions with Stanford Health Care’s revenue cycle leader
- CHI Health parent to merge with San Francisco company
- California Health Care Foundation invests $700,000 in partnership between Sutter and Quartet
- Large Marin senior community hires CEO
- East Bay drug maker cuts roster by 40%, looks to move HQ out of state
- How one California ‘miracle’ hospital survived a night amid wildfires
- Developing leadership at every level: 4 questions with Scripps Health CEO Chris Van Gorder
- Adventist Health drops out of running to operate California hospital
COLORADO
- Denver’s DaVita selling its physician network for $4.9 billion
- UnitedHealth to buy DaVita clinics for $4.9 billion
- CHI Health parent to merge with San Francisco company
- DaVita is selling underperforming managed-care unit for $4.9 billion
- SCL Health taps Cleveland Clinic exec as new chief medical informatics officer
HAWAII
UTAH
