NATIONAL
- As AI advances in healthcare, industry players wrestle with its risks
- AHA Comments on FY 2024 Proposed Rule for Skilled Nursing Facilities
- AHA rebukes ‘flawed’ study on hospital finances
- AHA urges CMS to consider inflation, staffing in light of proposed inpatient rehab rule
- AHCA prepared to sue over minimum staffing mandate
- AMA, radiology groups ‘strongly oppose’ federal bill that would expand nurses’ authority
- American Hospital Association to CMS: Skilled nursing facilities are vital to healthcare — properly reimburse them
- CMS adds physician owner waiver for Stark law
- CMS Withdraws COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers
- Drugmaker Merck sues the Biden administration over Medicare’s drug price negotiations
- HHS finalizes end of COVID-19 vaccination rule for hospitals
- HHS-OIG touts investigations of fraud, but says resources are limited
- Hospitals oppose proposed changes to 340B drug discount program
- HRSA silence on 340B drug discount status worries hospitals
- Merck Files Lawsuit to Halt Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
- Nonprofit hospitals have decreased charity care spending even as operating profits, cash pools grow
- Nonprofits hospitals’ charity care shrank as operating incomes, cash reserves grew: study
- Pfizer, Moderna Sued Over MRNA Tech In COVID Vaccines
- Pharmaceutical supply chains raise data concerns as traceability law nears final step
- Physician compensation is rising but not keeping pace with inflation, MGMA survey finds
- SDOH Interventions Cost Average $60 Per Patient, Federal Aid Falls Short
- Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient’s family, declines to limit civil rights lawsuits
- Why home is becoming the future for hospitals
ALABAMA
- Local physicians offer insight on future of AI in health care
- Alabama physicians co-author study of groundbreaking TB treatment
- Community Champion: Alabama family’s personal loss drives stronger hospital care bill to protect families
- How one nurse inspired her patient to follow in her footsteps 6 years later
ALASKA
- Anchorage experiencing shortage of vital service workers
- Avian influenza has returned to Alaska, and so have health advisories
- APU receives federal grant to diversify and expand Alaska nursing
ARIZONA
- ASU’s new medical school likely to be built on one of three Phoenix biomedical campuses
- Northern Arizona Healthcare Interim CEO Josh Tinkle Placed On Administrative Leave
- Hacker accesses Arizona hospital’s network
- How Phoenix hospital development is reaching record-setting heights
- Banner Health has ratings affirmed as financial profile remains favorable
- Decades after fighting for a med school, ASU will get one. Here’s why
ARKANSAS
- Arkansas Children’s Hospital raises $5.9 million from Miracle Day
- Arkansas Hospice Takes Over LifeTouch Hospice
- Arkansas hospitals say they are struggling; report questions those claims
- Arkansas law allows physician assistants to be rendering providers for Medicaid
- Arkansas rural hospitals work to keep their doors open
- Panda Express Pledges $1.2M to Arkansas Children’s
- Records Show State Medical Board Failed to Act on Complaints Against Chairman Brian Hyatt
- South Arkansas Regional Hospital names interim leaders
- Newly-formed Arkansas hospital taps 3 interim leaders
CALIFORNIA
- Adventist agrees to take over financially ailing Bakersfield Heart Hospital
- Bill for hospital building standards could impact Central Valley
- Covenant Physician Partners Adds a New ASC in Southern California
- Define Ventures founder Lynne Chou O’Keefe talks VC funding and the future of healthcare
- East Bay drug maker Acepodia raises $100M as it preps for overseas IPO
- Fast-growing ASC chain expands Los Angeles footprint
- Fired Kaiser employee who refused COVID-19 vaccination alleges religious discrimination
- How North Bay hospitals are tackling the nursing shortage made worse by the pandemic
- Kaiser workers ask California hospital to halt surgeries over equipment contamination concerns
- Lifeforce Raises $12 Million
- Planada Medical Clinic set to reopen after several months of repairs from flooding
- Roseville-based Adventist Health reports $21 million in income for first quarter of 2023
- San Antonio Regional Hospital Buys Office Complex in Rancho Cucamonga, California for $22.2M
- Sutter Health names first chief physician executive
- Sutter Health breaks ground on California medical office building
- This rural California county lost its only hospital, leaving residents with dire healthcare choices
- California health system switches to Cerner EHR
- Bill for hospital building standards could impact Central Valley
- California Senate passes $25 minimum wage for health care workers
- San Benito County leaders seek partnership between Hazel Hawkins Hospital and Salinas Valley Health
- California health leaders advocate for stronger healthcare data sharing infrastructure
COLORADO
- 2 health systems sponsor NBA finals competitors
- Colorado hospitals will have to hand over more financial information under two new laws
- Colorado physician sentenced to 2+ years for stealing $250K in COVID-19 relief funds
- Colorado Ranks 3rd Nationally for Senior Health Outcomes
- Colorado Springs hospitals waive personal costs for Club Q victims
- DOI investigation on behavioral health services results in $115K restitution for Colorado consumers
- For Older Coloradans, Caregiver Numbers Are Falling Short of Caregiving Demand
- New HealthOne CEO revealed
- Too big, too fast: Friday Health Plans says it will ‘wind down’ company operations
- Colorado forges new path to lower prescription drug costs
- Colorado hospital temporarily closes birthing center
- Two Colorado Springs hospitals waive ‘out of pocket cost’ for Club Q victims
CONNECTICUT
- Amazon-owned primary health care provider opens first CT location
- CT won’t allow trade associations to offer health plans this year
- Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth to open new walk-in center in West Haven
- Hospital staffing proposal gets overhaul in state budget
- Lamont, CT hospitals reach deal to lower health care costs
- Day Kimball’s cash on hand down almost half
- Overhaul of hospital staffing committees included in CT budget
- Medicaid reimbursement for community health workers gets OK
- Governor Lamont and Connecticut Hospital Association Announce Agreement on Health-Related Policies
- Connecticut Children’s Breaks Ground On Clinical Tower In Hartford, Conn.
- ConnectiCare names new president; interim leader Wachtelhausen to retire
- CT passes bill focused on expanding kids’ mental health services
DC
- Why D.C.’s paid leave program is seeing rising demand this year
- MedStar Health teaming up with local athletes for CPR education
- Bowser Taps San Francisco Health Official To Lead DC Health
- DC Council passed bill to require health insurers to cover fertility treatments
DELAWARE
- Delaware legislation to provide kids health care regardless of immigration status stymied
- Delaware lawmakers introduce bills to improve dementia care in long-term care facilities
- A Look Into the Mental Health Crisis in Delaware
- Delaware Department of State issues temporary order making Xylazine a controlled substance
FLORIDA
- 2 health systems sponsor NBA finals competitors
- AdventHealth Breaks Ground on New ER in Winter Haven
- AdventHealth cuts ribbon on new hospital’s medical office building
- AdventHealth Dedicates New Medical Office Building on Palm Coast Parkway, Ahead of Hospital
- Florida back surgeon fighting to reopen surgery center has lawsuit history
- Florida Bans Offshore Storage of Electronic Health Records
- Golisano Children’s Hospital receives $20K donation from Winn-Dixie
- HCA continental division welcomes CEO
- Leon Haley’s new replacement at UF Health leads Jacksonville area’s latest Healthful News
- See why new-to-market hospital systems and medical groups increasingly seek to gain a foothold in Florida
- Walmart Health to open 3 new health centers
- 10 best ASCs in Florida, per Leapfrog
- Florida Digestive Health Specialists to debut precancer detection test
- Florida lawmakers highlight KidCare expansion and new PBM regulations as key legislative wins
GEORGIA
- $21M Sale of Alpharetta Medical Office Building Staves Off Foreclosure
- Friday Health insurance’s lack of funds leads to Georgia takeover
- Georgia Senate to revisit certificate of need law
- Medical office building proposed at this site off Limestone Parkway in Gainesville
- Joseph’s/Candler takes on $55.5M bond debt
- Wellstar CEO Candice Saunders defends hospital closures
- Wellstar closures have driven up wait times, hospital leaders say
- Wellstar officials grilled over hospital closures
- health workforce lagging
- Medical marijuana is finally here, but many Georgia doctors shy away from it
- COVID-19 deaths sped the closure of Randolph County’s only hospital. What happens now?
- Report: Georgia board that regulates doctors still fails to protect patients
- Helping an Atlanta hospital foundation tell its story and improve community health
HAWAII
- Health Care Roundtable 2023: A check-up on Hawaii hospital systems
- Native Hawaiian health summit draws hundreds to UH West Oʻahu
IDAHO
- Idaho hospitals still recovering from cyberattack
- Idaho’s physician shortage is here. Here’s what we can do about it.
- Mountain View Hospital, Idaho Falls Community Hospital recovering from cyberattack
- Primary Health expanding pediatrics to Canyon County
- Rural healthcare grants awarded to 16 seek to attract and retain providers
- New data reveals obesity and accessing health as hardships in Idaho’s Hispanic community
ILLINOIS
- 1 year later: How CommonSpirit is organizing outcome-based healthcare in underserved communities nationwide
- Hamilton Memorial Hospital gets nearly $900,000 grant, dedicates isolation patient rooms
- Illinois regulating license plate readers for healthcare privacy
- Illinois hospital gets new chief nursing officer
- Illinois hospital appoints CEO, COO
- Patients can stay home with pets, loved ones at Illinois’ largest hospital-at-home program
- Specialty Physicians of Illinois Opens Same-Day Cardiology Clinic
- Palos Hospital Discharge Lounge provides smoother transition home
- Illinois health system awards $200K in inaugural innovation grants
INDIANA
- Cardiologist must pay $2.6M for negligence
- Health leader talks Indiana’s low health care ranking, new system
- Judge grants class action for RFRA-based lawsuit against Indiana abortion ban
- Lutheran Hospital to end heart transplant, inpatient burn services
- New CEO of Majestic Care On Setting Lofty Goals, High Turnover, Punitive Regulation for SNFs
- Supreme Court affirms nursing home patient’s right to sue in case with Hoosier roots
- The Christ Hospital’s collaboration with Indiana hospital improves heart attack outcomes
- ‘Phenomenal starting point’: Indiana takes first steps to expand mental health treatment
- Damar opens primary care clinic in underserved Indy area
- Parkview Health pediatric innovation competition breeds industry development
IOWA
- 28,000 Clarke County Hospital Patients Affected by April Cyberattack
- Iowa nursing homes continue to lack enough workers
- Iowa’s nursing home worker shortage is double the national average
- Luke’s receives Magnet redesignation for a fourth time
- University of Iowa pursuing $250M ‘health sciences’ building
- Patient data erased, compromised in Iowa health system breach
- U of Iowa Health to vote on new $249M health sciences building amid construction boom
- UnityPoint-affiliated hospital taps CEO
- Iowa hospital CEO leaves for Minnesota system
- Via Health Services answers the call for long-term memory care needs
- Memorial Hermann, UnityPoint Health join $25M round for data analytics company
- U of Iowa adds new biometric authentication tools to Epic
KANSAS
- Ascension workers authorize strike in Kansas
- Centrus Health lands clients like Nebraska Furniture Mart with its health insurance alternative
- New Directions Behavioral Health takes on new name, adds two to its C-suite roster
- New geriatric behavioral hospital nears opening in northwest Wichita
- Oak Street Health announces opening of its first clinic in Kansas
- Francis union nurses vote to authorize strike to move for safer staffing
- Take a deeper dive into the masterplan for a south Wichita behavioral health campus
- Work begins on new $30M Wesley rehab hospital in Wichita
- New alliance formed to bid Kansas Medicaid contract
- Kansas abortion providers sue to block 24-hour waiting period, among key restrictions
- Fire causes evacuation at south central Kansas nursing home
KENTUCKY
- Clark Regional Hospital announces expansion
- Cumberland Bariatric Institute unveils new name and brand
- Hosparus Health acquires Baptist Health Deaconess Hospice
- Leapfrog Group ranks 61 acute-care KY hospitals; St. Elizabeth Healthcare-Ft. Thomas among 4 getting As
- Kentucky’s nursing workforce looks fairly stable, says new survey by state Board of Nursing
- Louisville hospital designated as Kentucky’s first ‘verified burn center’
- Nine CHI Saint Joseph Health foundations, facilities and services awarded $900,000
- Spalding University School of Nursing receives record investment
- University of Louisville lands $6.1M in Covid-related research grants
- Where Humana landed on this year’s Fortune 500 list
- Former Kentucky nurse sentenced to 5 years in patient’s death
- Hospital introduces new private rooms to community
- ‘Better off today’: Kentucky’s health commissioner assesses the state’s post-emergency public health system
- Kentucky nurses data: Fewer than 10% are looking to retire in next five years
LOUISIANA
- Louisiana’s trans healthcare bill gets revived
- Metairie hospital getting $14.1 million in work on intensive care units
- Nursing home with history of problems once again under microscope after resident dies
- Spending bills advanced in Louisiana include $311M in hospital funding
- US representatives ask for layoff data from Ochsner
- Louisiana hospital reshuffles C-suite as new CEO takes helm
- LSU Health Shreveport names new CIO
- Children’s Hospital New Orleans names COO
- Medicaid navigators gear up as state eligibility checks begin
MAINE
- Maine considers ending COVID vaccine mandate for health workers
- Maine lawmakers kill bill that would have allowed hospitals to rehire unvaccinated workers
- House Dems Vote Against Letting Healthcare Workers Who Refused COVID-19 Jabs Return to Jobs
- Nurse staffing bill threatens access to quality healthcare
- Key takeaways from the Mainebiz Health Care Forum
- Waterville hospital collaborates to introduce new training center for health care workers
MARYLAND
- Maryland rehab hospital names CEO
- Novavax strikes 3-year deal with Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute
- University of Maryland Capital Region Health prepares to open Prince George’s County medical center
- Women’s Health Center Opening In The Abortion Desert Of Western Maryland
- Lawsuit accuses Maryland of ‘warehousing’ foster children with behavioral health issues in hospitals
- Prince George’s County Medical Center Opens In Laurel
- UM Shore Medical Center at Easton placed on lockdown
MASSACHUSETTS
- Cancer firm lays off ‘substantially all’ of its staff, including C-suite
- Faced with drug shortages, Tufts Medical steps up compounding efforts
- Here’s how much Boston’s life sciences industry has grown since 2018
- In leadership shakeup, Heywood Healthcare replaces 12-year CEO with two co-CEOs
- Leominster Hospital plans to shut down maternity unit, despite opposition
- Long-term optimism, but short-term worry among Mass. biotech VCs
- Mass General Brigham residents and fellows vote to unionize
- has failed to conduct full inspections of some nursing homes for years, 25 Investigates finds
- regulators see billions in ‘excessive’ health care spending
- Nursing union protests Cambridge Health Alliance layoffs, says it will worsen workforce shortages
- The area’s largest life sciences employer, Takeda keeps reinventing itself
- Big Pharma keeps on coming to Boston: ‘That’s where the action is’
- Nurses speak out on plans for nurse educator layoffs at Cambridge Health Alliance
- Where Boston Children’s sees opportunity for ChatGPT
- Massachusetts hospital to expand maternity services as another closes
- Massachusetts medical group files for bankruptcy
- After abruptly shutting its practices last week, Compass Medical files for bankruptcy
- Shuttered Massachusetts medical group owes $16M to Steward
MICHIGAN
- Ascension St. John Hospital Health Center opens in Chesterfield Township
- Aside from cancer drugs, West Michigan hospitals face other ‘constant, ongoing’ shortages
- Bill would ensure copay assistance counts toward deductibles, out-of-pocket maximums
- DMC settles federal kickback allegations with $29.7 million payment
- Investigation: Some Michigan Hospitals Made Lots Of Money In Covid
- Marshfield Medical Center-Dickinson begins construction on Regional Cancer Center
- Michigan’s nonprofit hospitals get big tax breaks. They don’t always give much in return.
- New, 96-bed psychiatric hospital to meet ‘growing’ behavioral health need
- New $14.6M senior living facility proposed in Portage
- Nonprofit pays off $25M in medical debt in Muskegon
- Refined plans raise cost of Pine Rest pediatric center to $86M
- See Michigan hospitals’ pandemic profits, buoyed by COVID-relief funds
- SpendMend acquires California firm that helps hospitals with vendor rebates
- Trinity Health joint venture breaks ground on $46M psychiatric hospital project
- Michigan hospital lockdown lifted
- University of Michigan Mott Children’s Hospital debuts new iPad program for patients
- Michigan hospital leaders plan campaign to recruit, retain more workers
- Lack of staff in Michigan hospitals: What happened and why people are leaving
- Michigan Hospital Undergoing First Name Change in 100 Years
MINNESOTA
- Allina Health not alone in refusing treatment for indebted patients, Lown Institute says
- Attorney general urges Minnesotans hurt by hospital debt collection to contact his office
- Do Allina Health’s alleged billing practices violate MN law? The attorney general is looking into it
- Google Cloud, Mayo Clinic make generative AI play
- How Allina Health is rethinking supply chain spend
- Iowa hospital CEO leaves for Minnesota system
- Mayo Clinic announces plan to renovate, expand downtown campus
- ‘Mayo is wrong’: Minnesota senator speaks out on dead staffing bill
- Sanford Health pulls back involvement on Rail Corridor Development Plan
- UnitedHealth offers $3.2B to lure Amedisys away from Option Care merger
- Optum makes surprise $3.2B bid for home healthcare provider
- M Health Fairview adopts patient hand off tool to improve safety
- ‘We should not participate in gathering data for UnitedHealthcare’: Why 1 gastroenterologist opposes UHC’s new GI advanced notification plan
- New Mayo facilities to use data from patient’s wearables
- How Mayo Clinic is becoming the ‘hospital of the future’
- 4 investments from Mayo
- Health AI Partnership with Kaiser, Mayo, Hackensack seeks input from clinicians
MISSISSIPPI
- Baptist’s new connectivity platform speeds up patient after care access
- Dominic lays off 5.5% of its workforce, halts mental health services
- Mississippi health system deploys cloud-based workforce app
- How Mississippi is stopping scope of practice expansion with Katherine Gantz Pannel, DO
- ‘We have been struggling.’ As Mississippi’s health care crisis worsens, health department funding lags
- ‘We need to call her out’: Protesters seek to hold UMMC’s Woodward accountable for closing LGBTQ+ clinic
- Merit Health River Region earns C Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade for Spring 2023
MISSOURI
- Area hospital CEOs see Saint Luke’s/BJC HealthCare deal driven by economics
- Health Care, Senior Housing Industry Veteran Joins Ascension Living as CEO
- Missouri Hospital Association report shows need for more nurses
- SSM Heath becomes latest St. Louis-area health system to provide free gun locks
- Unprecedented BJC, Saint Luke’s tie-up highlights leverage worries, costs to consumers
- Washington system taps CEO from Ascension hospitals
- 17% of staff nursing jobs remain vacant in Missouri, report finds
- Hospital association president: Missouri’s health care staffing shortages will improve
- BJC and St. Luke’s hospital merger could create $10 billion giant
- Vacancies and turnover still high at Missouri hospitals
- Pandemic pressures have eased, but Missouri hospitals still can’t find enough nurses, techs or staff
MONTANA
- Missoula’s St. Patrick Hospital named top 25 hospitals in country
- Missoula nurses protest patient ratio plan
- Bill to provide $300 million to state mental health services gets signed
- New brain-scan technology at Montana hospital helps woman overcome aneurysms
- Alluvion Health rolls out new mobile medical clinic
NEBRASKA
- 89% employee engagement: How this Nebraska hospital fosters an enthusiastic workforce
- New emergency department at Avera St. Anthony’s Hospital to open June 6
- Rural Nebraska Faces Outsized Impact of Governor’s Budget Vetoes
- Nebraska hospital extends EHR partnership
NEVADA
- HCA system agrees to raises in new contract for Las Vegas workers
- Las Vegas healthcare workers win tentative agreement ensuring retention, recruitment, recognition of staff
- Nursing union sees pay raises in new contract with Sunrise Health system
- Nevada officials question Friday Health Plan’s financials
- Why over 2,800 Nevadans might soon need new health insurance
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- How NH’s next state budget could affect funding for housing, healthcare and more
- Nursing home hit with $150K fine after COVID-positive employee returns too soon
- Dartmouth Hitchcock names chief nursing officer
- Dartmouth Hitchcock to get $2M AI center
- How Dartmouth Health handles violence toward staff
NEW JERSEY
- A NJ hospital mandated flu shots. Workers charged discrimination. The hospital will pay
- Major South Jersey health systems’ operating margins fell last year, latest audits show
- New health care center opens at Plainfield’s old Muhlenberg Hospital
- Lee Named President of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
- 6 best hospitals in New Jersey for outpatient hip, knee replacements
- 14 vital cancer drugs are in short supply. It’s reached a ‘crisis level’ in N.J.
NEW MEXICO
- Owner of Renew Health to launch telehealth company this summer
- UNMH, SRMC talk nursing shortage after COVID-19
- Case involving medically fragile children could have far-reaching impact
- Homegrown Albuquerque company Karoo Health launches digital platform for heart care
NEW YORK
- Buffalo hospitals work to complete $100M-plus in construction projects
- Guthrie Clinic to acquire Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital
- New York hospital files lawsuit over $10M loan forgiveness decision
- New York hospital leaders face $500M class-action lawsuit
- NYC Hospital Execs Hit With $500M Self-Dealing Class Action
- Radiologist reaches settlement with hospital system he claimed fired him for requesting remote work
- Rome Health drops vaccine mandate for employees
- Joe’s looks to rehire employees lost to COVID mandate
- New York City seeks to create nation’s 1st city healthcare accountability office
- Why New York (City) Hospitals Will Soon Be More Transparent About Pricing
- NYU Langone rolling out AI tool designed to predict readmissions
- Tech-focused healthcare administration company snags $20M
- Mount Sinai treats 1st patient with world’s smallest heart pump
- NewYork-Presbyterian sued after physician allegedly drugged, assaulted patient
- 63 IT job openings at Wellstar, NYU Langone and Loma Linda
- Mount Sinai’s deep learning tool unlocks ‘language’ of electrocardiograms
- Margaret Crotty elected as 1st female chair of Northwell Health board
- 11 strategies to ‘root out racism,’ per Mount Sinai diversity leaders
- At Northwell, a new chair for its board of trustees
- Northwell Holdings’ CEO on AI, economic uncertainty and investment strategy
- NYU Langone Health to commercialize biomedical discoveries
- Former Dell Medical CIO to lead digital health for IT company
- When patients feel gaslighted, it’s time to find another physician, says Northwell Health leader
- Northwell hospital unveils $92M expansion project
- New York hospital agrees to 20.5% average wage bump in contract
- New York health system names CFO as interim CEO
- State Department looks to get new EHR on heels of Northwell partnership
NORTH CAROLINA
- AdventHealth, Mission Health jockey over emergency care in western Buncombe County
- As it advances its Type 1 Diabetes treatment, vTv Therapeutics increases cash position, decreases net loss in Q1
- Atrium Health breaks ground on hospital in Cornelius
- Cone Health spinoff Fuse Oncology closes Series A funding round of almost $9 million
- Duke Health cuts 280 positions to ‘right-size’ operations
- FTC urges North Carolina legislators to drop UNC Health antitrust exemption bill
- Lack of physicians and violence in rural hospitals focus of bill in Senate
- Mission: $29M ‘stand-alone’ ER would cut wait times; monopoly?
- UNC Health’s CIO talks generative AI work with Epic and Microsoft
- Why does NC still rank among nation’s worst states for senior health?
- 12 best hospitals in North Carolina for outpatient hip, knee replacements
- After a decades-long stalemate, nurse-midwives can now practice without physician “supervision”
NORTH DAKOTA
- ‘We don’t deliver babies here’: Hospitals turn away pregnant patients
- Essentia Health visitor limit no longer enforced
- Sanford Mayville named a ‘Top Critical Access Hospital’
OHIO
- Billion-dollar health care network focused on next generation post-pandemic
- Bon Secours Mercy Health names Veronica Scott-Fulton chief nursing executive
- CareSource enters partnerships amid new expansion
- Central Ohio Primary Care hires new CFO
- Cleveland Clinic pushed to make new buildings more inviting to visitors, community
- Cleveland Clinic takes on $200M credit facility
- Developers open $12M Premier Health medical building on Brown Street
- Disease-reversal startup AndHealth makes inroads with brokers, insurers
- Eye surgeon and entrepreneur: Columbus doctor’s startups developing dry-eye, MS treatments
- Kettering Employees Give Back to the Community at Non-profit Restaurant
- Kombucha taps, not beer: Inside fast-growing telehealth startup AndHealth’s Miranova office
- Mercy Health debuts hospital police department
- Nationwide Children’s hires new CFO from out of state
- One of the region’s largest employers opens new building with local university
- The Christ Hospital’s collaboration with Indiana hospital improves heart attack outcomes
- ‘To the moon’ – Ohio State spinoff gets FDA approval for heart surgery simulation software
- University Hospitals set to open $236 million Ahuja expansion in Beachwood with emphasis on sports medicine, other outpatient care
- Parkview Health to acquire Ohio health system
OKLAHOMA
- 10 Oklahoma nursing and assisted living facilities receive national improvement awards
- Hospital in rural western Oklahoma could reopen sooner than originally thought
- Oklahoma initiatives improving mental health care, official says
- Oklahoma hospital could reopen earlier than expected
- Legacy Senior Living Center holds ribbon cutting for new OKC location
- SSM Health St. Anthony invests in MWC facility
OREGON
- 4 health systems in Oregon have lawsuit over psychiatric patients dismissed
- Norman Regional breaks ground on mental health facility
- OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute snares $1M-plus to study artificial tissues
- PeaceHealth nurses will hold picket as contract negotiations drag on
- Providence Portland, Seaside hospitals face nurse strikes
- Charles nurses in Bend begin countdown on strike
- CareOregon, SCAN health group provide $345K in medical debt relief funding
- Oregon hospital nurses avert strike with ‘historic wage increases’
- Oregon’s skin cancer rates have been dropping
- Lawmakers propose increase to Oregon Health Authority budget
- Judge orders former Oregon Gov. Brown to testify on state’s response to COVID-19 in prisons
PENNSYLVANIA
- Bill on nurse staffing ratios advances on split vote in Pa. House
- Court orders Philadelphia home care provider to pay more than $7M in back wages, damages after denying overtime to 1,230 current, former employees
- Crozer Health, Prospect unable to pay for ambulance repairs
- Doctor suing Jefferson Abington says hospital paid men more than women
- Geisinger lays off 47 amid restructuring
- How Main Line Health is taking new methods toward Neurointervention and stroke care
- Jefferson executive takes new job as senior advisor to local venture capitalist
- Pennsylvania takes step to become the second state to require nurse staffing minimums in hospitals
- Philadelphia home care provider ordered to pay more than $7 million in back wages
- Pitt, UPMC Hillman part of $50M cancer-tumor study
- Retiring HAP president reflects on 10 years of hospital consolidation in Pennsylvania, Covid’s ‘trial by fire’
- St Luke’s calls U.S. News hospital rankings ‘misguided,’ won’t participate anymore
RHODE ISLAND
- Neronha rejects initial application for Fatima, Roger Williams hospital sale
- Rhode Island health system names new CIO
- Kent Hospital Evening of Hope Raises $190K
- Lifespan event offers free cancer screenings
- Nursing homes not hopeful relief coming from state leaders
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Bon Secours taps market HR chief from Encompass Health
- ‘Important milestone.’ SRHS breaks ground on $55M Union Medical Center replacement facility
- SC health tech companies thrive amid post-COVID pressure to transform health care
- Trident Medical cuts ribbon on new mental health facility
- SC health care system offers free classes for memory health caregivers
- Second 988 call center now open in South Carolina
SOUTH DAKOTA
- ‘Doors are open’: SD Falls Community Health ready for Medicaid expansion patients
- Jeremy Cauwels, Chief Physician Officer at Sanford Health
- USD receives $3 million, five-year Department of Labor grant to train nurses
TENNESSEE
- After rumors of sale, Alive Hospice to remain a nonprofit in Nashville
- Ascension workers authorize strike in Texas
- Chattanooga businessman Barry Large may be last new Erlanger trustee before hospital goes private
- Alex Jahangir joins HealthStream’s board of directors
- Erlanger Health looks to new board member’s financial expertise as it becomes nonprofit
- Her husband caught on fire at a Nashville hospital. Her family has filed a lawsuit to find out how.
- High-level nursing officer from Houston hospital joins Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
- Siloam Health names Katie Richards permanent CEO
- Upperline Health closes $58.35 million round of funding
- West Tennessee hospital to close obstetrics unit
- Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame announces 2023 inductees
- UT Health Science Center launches new mobile health unit to provide healthcare in rural areas
- Kingsport psych hospital adding 24 beds
- Premier Radiology Opens 23rd Location In Middle Tennessee, 1st in Lebanon
TEXAS
- Ascension Seton investigating website data breach
- Culture of ownership lifts quality of care at MMH
- Florida primary care provider expands into Fort Worth with acquisition
- Harris Health CEO presents $2.5B bond proposal to commissioners court, but questions remain
- HCA Houston Rehabilitation Hospital Southeast now open in Pasadena
- Houston Methodist Hospital expansion project reaches completion
- Methodist investing more than $34M to expand flagship hospital
- Texas Children’s Urgent Care Opens in Sugar Land
- Texas hospital lays off workers in 28 departments
- The List: Take a look at the top hospitals in North Texas
- ‘They don’t really know who we are’: Why Texas legislators are being hostile to ASCs
- Texas bans gender-affirming care for minors
- Memorial Hermann, UnityPoint Health join $25M round for data analytics company
- Here are the health care laws that Texas lawmakers changed
- Kelsey-Seybold Clinic Texas medical campus delayed
- SA health system investing $34M in flagship hospital as demand spikes
- Behind Texas’ ‘unfriendly legislative session’ to ASCs
- Tenet, HCA, Optum compete for market share in emerging battleground
- Ascension workers authorize strike in Texas
- Medical City Lewisville names new COO
- The 10 most, least expensive Texas hospitals to get a colonoscopy
UTAH
- Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health sign “Impact Workforce Commitment” to help build economic opportunity in local communities
- U of Utah Health’s 5 tips to attract more pharmacy techs
- Utah ASC to open new facility
- Logan Regional Hospital showcases robotic assisted surgery machine
VERMONT
- State regulators stand their ground on hospital budgets
- University of Vermont Medical Center increases credit line to $50M
- Vermont children are struggling with mental health. Could lawmakers have done more?
- Green Mountain Care Board seeks input from health care providers during listening tour
- Gifford ED provides ‘excellent care for older adults’
- OneCare wrongful termination lawsuit headed for trial
VIRGINIA
- Bon Secours opening new urgent care center in Midlothian as part of expansion
- HCA Virginia hospital names COO
- Inova Health System takes over Northern Virginia Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates
- Leidos subsidiary QTC Medical Services opens new flagship health clinic in Fairfax
- VCU Health chose a risky deal. When it failed, it cost $73 million to back out.
- Bon Secours names Harbour View Hospital president
WASHINGTON
- Acadia-owned psychiatric hospital in Washington state to close, layoff 288
- Cascade Behavioral Health Hospital in Tukwila set to close
- Local hospitals forced to start rationing medications amid shortage of cancer drugs
- No staff cuts at Spokane VA due to budget deficit, regional director says after visiting Mann-Grandstaff
- PeaceHealth hospital names chief nursing officer
- Providence rolls out virtual nursing to 8 hospitals
- Providence Swedish makes C-suite hire
- Seattle Children’s cuts 135 positions amid economic uncertainty
- Washington’s strained mental health care system prepares for another blow
- Washington system taps CEO from Ascension hospitals
WEST VIRGINIA
- Report: West Virginia faces ‘significant workforce shortages’ of health care professionals
- Feds appropriate $22 million to W.Va. for health care services
- Vandalia Health Signs LOI with Davis Health System
- Vandalia Health employees complete WVHA Hospital Leadership Academy
WISCONSIN
- UW Health announces pediatric heart transplant program
- Wisconsin Assembly bill would let pharmacists prescribe birth control
- Business Health Care Group declares success in first year of Centivo deal
- Froedtert Health affirmed at ‘AA’ ahead of ThedaCare merger
- Local Hospitals Give Little Charity Care
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