NATIONAL
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- AHA responds to House request for information on modernizing MACRA
- AMA ‘disappointed’ in MedPAC for backing off deeper Medicare pay reform
- Amazon One Medical launches AI assistant
- Behavioral health trends reshaping essential hospitals
- CMS pain procedure reimbursement policy draws pushback
- Congress eyes tackling healthcare consolidation
- Congress unveils bipartisan health bill, funding deal
- Federal health IT committee to resume after yearlong hiatus
- FTC, Cigna weigh insulin settlement
- Genesis Health approved to sell nursing home in $1 billion bankruptcy deal
- HFMA launches effort to boost industry’s bottom line
- Hospital M&A declined in 2025 amid policy uncertainty, financial stress: report
- Hospital mergers hit 15-year low
- How CMS’ rural hospital program got providers out of the red
- Meijer expands health services with virtual care launch
- Pharmacy groups back PBM reforms in spending package
- Provider associations urge CMS to clarify acceptable violence prevention signage for EDs
- Quality measure for post-acute advance care planning killed, for now
- Ransomware Attacks Increased by 58% in 2025
- Senate committee advances rural hospital cybersecurity workforce bill
- Systems in limbo amid H-1B visa uncertainty
- Telehealth, hospital-at-home set to receive multiyear extensions in recent funding proposal
- The new health care normal: Virtual primary care that works
- Trump pitches healthcare policy outline aimed at lowering costs: 3 takeaways
- Uncertainty, financial distress dominated hospital M&A in 2025
- Why 46M breached data records counts as progress for healthcare
- Why physicians could face heightened FCA scrutiny in 2026
ALABAMA
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- CHS signs $450M hospital sale to Huntsville Hospital Health System
- Huntsville Hospital Health System to acquire Crestwood Medical Center in $450 million deal
- Medical waste facility planned for Birmingham neighborhood
- Shelton State nursing students to begin apprenticeship at west Alabama rural hospital
- Mental health grant cuts—and prompt reversal—sow confusion in Alabama
- Alabama ranks at the bottom in the nation for mental health care, kids suffer the impacts
- Alabama’s robotic ultrasound plan raises concerns from OB-GYNs
- Alabama 12th worst state for healthcare access, study shows
- AL hospital avoids mass layoff after last-minute deal with new company
ALASKA
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- Alaska kicks off billion-dollar effort to ‘transform’ rural health care
- Alaska’s first on-site addiction treatment for those who overdose launches with pilot programs
- Medical Center seeks final approval for MRI
- Alzheimer’s advocates urge lawmakers to prioritize support for aging Alaskans
- PACS Group Announces the Acquisition of Three Post-Acute Operations and the Real Estate of Four Facilities
ARIZONA
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- Banner Health’s $750M Scottsdale hospital project faces delay as planning vote postponed
- Panel postpones vote on 300-bed Banner Health hospital
- Phoenix Fire captain opens 6 teen mental health facilities while battling blazes
- Sonora Quest Laboratories CEO David Dexter to retire after 26 years at the helm
- Arizona lawmaker proposes non-nurse midwife reforms after home-birth tragedies
- Flagstaff Medical Center earns Infant Safe Sleep Hospital Certification from Cribs for Kids
- Here are the 9 safest hospitals in Arizona
- Millions in mental health funding for Indigenous communities restored
- Phoenix-area hospitals overrun with seasonal flu, respiratory cases surge
- Specialized air crew in Arizona delivers lifesaving care for moms, newborns
- Who’s Who in Arizona Healthcare for 2026
- Senate panel advances bills requiring Arizona hospitals to protect workers from radiation
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas hospital to file for bankruptcy
- Arkansas Hospice Agencies Prepare for Rising Demand
- Bentonville Startups Reshape Addiction Therapy With Wearables and Apps
- Craig Wilson of ACHI Sees Data and Partnerships Driving Arkansas Health Forward
- Hospital owed vendor more than $200K before firing CFO
- Two Closed Hospitals, Two Different Paths for Their Foundations
- UAMS Receives $3.5M from CDC to Improve Colorectal Screening
- Arkansas Hospitals Warn Visa Fee Could Worsen Staffing Crisis
- Arkansas system opens hand and wrist center
- Chance Flight Led to Key Breakthrough for Bentonville Startup
- Expert warns of worsening rural healthcare in Arkansas during Rotary Club talk
- Jeremy Powell Named CTO at Arkansas Heart Hospital
- Jonesboro health system continues to expand Medicaid program for high-risk pregnancies
- New Arkansas law to make weight-loss surgery affordable gets mixed reviews
- Nursing home owner pardoned by Trump released from Arkansas prison
- South Arkansas College Receives $1.5M for Nursing Program
CALIFORNIA
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- 31,000 Kaiser workers issue open-ended strike notice: 5 things to know
- Adventist Health taps 2 presidents to lead Southern California operations
- Anthem Blue Cross, Montage hospital still in contract talks
- ‘As baffling as it is irresponsible’: California hospitals slam behavioral health staffing proposal
- California hospital CEO to retire
- Astronauts taken to Scripps Memorial after ISS return
- California bill aims to ban AI from playing therapist
- California hospital to cut 265 jobs, affecting nurses and managers
- California hospitals slam behavioral health staffing proposal
- Cedars-Sinai to build drug safety AI tool
- DISC Surgery Center at Tarzana opens
- Genesis Health approved to sell nursing home in $1 billion bankruptcy deal
- California Insurance Mandates Equal Access To IVF
- Closed California hospital could get 2nd chance
- Deadly, drug-resistant fungus spreads in California
- General Catalyst backs pediatric startup
- Kaiser nurses plan open-ended strike across California and Hawaii starting Monday
- Kaiser Permanente touts ‘historic’ wage offer, responds to open-ended strike notice
- Kaiser Permanente in Fresno opens newly expanded emergency department
- Kaiser taps new government relations leader
- Nurse awarded $41M in wrongful termination lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente
- One Community Health faces lawsuit over cyberattack that allegedly exposed patient data
- Prime to acquire 9th Illinois hospital
- Prime taps regional CEO
- Rady Children’s Hospital to end gender-affirming care amid federal funding threats
- Sacramento approves over $1.3B in building permits for Kaiser’s Railyards hospital campus
- Sierra Vista hospital set for $220 million expansion
- Sutter Health breaks ground on $380M cancer center
- Sutter Health taps leader for out-of-state mergers, joint ventures
- Sutter Health to analyze 740K patient images with AI
- SVH Interview: Kelley Kaiser President & CEO, Sonoma Valley Hospital
- USC Norris’ new chief of operations: ‘Lead with vulnerability and humility’
- North Bay Kaiser Permanente workers to join tens of thousands of colleagues in systemwide strike Jan. 26
- Parallel Health Now In-Network with Aetna in California, Expanding Access to its Groundbreaking Microbiome Dermatology™
- Rural Healthcare Symposium aims to make healthcare accessible to all in California
- Struggling California hospital in talks with county for ED takeover, $1M loan
COLORADO
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- Denver-area execs indicted on federal charges alleging massive health care fraud
- Kaiser names SVP of national health plan markets
- Kaiser taps new vice president of M&A
- Colorado families navigate uncertainty after hospitals suspend gender-affirming care
- 2 former Colorado medical executives indicted in $873M health care fraud scheme
- Colorado Gov. Polis touches on familiar themes of housing, health care in speech to lawmakers
- Did Colorado just have its worst week for flu hospitalizations?
- Colorado to pay $6.1 million over attempt to ban abortion pill “reversal”
- Colorado Medicaid driver fraud cost $25 million — and state blocked payments worth nearly as much, officials say
CONNECTICUT
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- Connecticut becomes 1st state to publicly report ED boarding data
- Connecticut Children’s names chief physician
- CT official: $70M in health care subsidies coming, despite delays
- Prospect Medical bankruptcy dispute puts CT hospitals at risk of supply disruptions, attorney says
- Public ED boarding dashboard launches in Connecticut
- $115M in health care subsidies coming, despite delays
- ‘Battery’ Led To $32M Yale Hospital Verdict, Parents Say
- Blood supplies are running low in Connecticut
- ConnectiCare issues continue after promised correction
- Ex-Med Spa Workers Say Poaching Claims Can’t Stay In Conn.
- Nurse arrested after surveillance video showed him allegedly assaulting a child with disabilities
- Yale New Haven Health doctor warns about treatment resistant fungus
DC
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- DC hospital CEO resigns less than 1 year after facility opened
- MedStar DC nurses file complaint with DC attorney general over wage‑violation claims
- CEO of Cedar Hill Hospital to resign less than a year after facility opened in DC’s Ward 8
- D.C’s residents feel the effects of diminishing access to health care
- Nurses at MedStar Washington Hospital Center allege wage theft
DELAWARE
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- Bayhealth names Mac Marlow chief digital and information officer
- ChristianaCare expands chief strategy officer’s role
- Delaware nurses, educators sound the alarm over federal loan limits
- Delaware preps for influx of $157M in fed funding for rural health care
- Holistic approach needed to address pediatric care gaps in rural Delaware
- Legislators seek revisions to the Delaware Hospital Cost Review Board
- New hospital review board bill moves out of Senate committee
- Bill to revamp Delaware’s hospital oversight board passes Senate
- Delaware joins lawsuit against HHS to fight transgender discrimination
- Delaware nurses, educators sound the alarm over federal loan limits
- Lewes oncologist arrested on 25 child pornography charges
- Technology Helps Streamline Cancer Diagnoses in Delaware
FLORIDA
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- 5 new Florida ASCs
- 5 ophthalmology practices pay nearly $6M for false claims allegations
- A hospital with no patients: Baptist Health opens new professional development center
- AdventHealth Florida hospital promotes COO to CEO
- Cancer vaccine research progresses in South Florida despite looming NIH budget reductions
- Clay County eye practice pays $2.1M to settle kickback claim, DOJ says
- Covenant Metabolic Specialists opens third clinic in Riverview
- Florida systems launch $350M women, children’s health project
- HCA to have 81 freestanding EDs in Florida by end of Q1
- Holy Cross taps 2 new cardiothoracic surgery leaders
- Jupiter Medical Center completes $135 million expansion
- Jupiter Medical Center alerts patients to Cerner data breach affecting personal health records
- Lee Health expands Cape Coral Hospital’s emergency department
- Lee Health can enroll 1,500 heart failure patients in new clinic
- Medical office development at Broward Health moves forward with $130M loan
- Nursing fundamentals boost patient experience at Ascension hospital
- Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital eyes expansion as it marks 5 years of growth
- Plans filed for two-story medical building in South Tampa
- Reflecting on a year of impact: Lee Health’s 1st-year post-conversion
- South Florida cancer care expansions add $550 million in new facilities to close treatment gaps
- Tampa General, Mass General Brigham to create ambulatory network serving three Florida counties
- TGH secures $1 million gift from Gonzmart family to expand cancer program
- UF Health appoints inaugural CNO
- Florida to cut $120 million from AIDS drug assistance program
GEORGIA
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- Emory rejuvenates brand: 7 things to know
- Georgia issues $25 million in fines against health insurance companies
- Grady’s new South Fulton Emergency Center on track for Fall opening
- Piedmont Augusta names CFO
- Summit Spine & Joint Centers acquires pain practice, ASC
- Georgia Health Clinic Meets Growing Demand for Care, Medications
- Georgia governor, legislature signal health care isn’t priority as federal aid losses mount
- Something Good: South Georgia Medical Center barista recognized as Health System Hero
- How Georgia’s HIN is transforming behavioral healthcare delivery
- Advocates rally for more maternal health funding, support at Georgia State Capitol
HAWAII
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- Kaiser Permanente touts ‘historic’ wage offer, responds to open-ended strike notice
- Kaiser Permanente Hawaii honors MLK with annual Day of Service
- Hawaii birth rate drops 20% over the past decade
- Hawaii lawmakers target nurse staffing ratios ahead of legislative session
- Hawaii’s physician workforce on life support with hundreds of doctors needed
- Kaiser nurses plan open-ended strike across California and Hawaii starting Monday
- ‘Too good to be true’: Providers, insurers weigh in on potential Hawaii Pacific Health, HMSA affiliation
IDAHO
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- 3 Idaho companies top list employees say they trust during AI boom
- As doctors leave Idaho, new report highlights economic and rural impact
- Blue Cross of Idaho makes ‘organizational changes,’ affecting under 90 roles
- Educational and medical partnership to research health needs of Idahoans
- Idaho governor won’t support Medicaid expansion repeal
- Idaho needs 1,400 more medical professionals just to catch up to national average
- Idaho’s health and welfare committees tapped to cut Medicaid
- Idaho’s shrinking maternal care options worsen with looming Medicaid cuts, report warns
- Kootenai Health opens new pharmacy in Post Falls
- PACS Group Announces the Acquisition of Three Post-Acute Operations and the Real Estate of Four Facilities
ILLINOIS
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- Franciscan Health to open freestanding ED next to ASC joint venture in ‘growing market’
- Hospital in Chicago suburb aims to build $99 million cancer center
- Illinois faces federal defunding for state law requiring abortion referrals
- Illinois settles for $10 million following a patient suicide at a state mental health center
- Northwestern Medicine raises operating margin to 5.4% in Q1
- OSF HealthCare names new system president
- Peoria nursing home fined $25K for failing to prevent woman’s injury
- Prime to acquire 9th Illinois hospital
- SSM Health strengthens Behavioral Health Services with new provider
- UChicago Medicine, Ralph Lauren partner on cancer center
- Case of Legionnaires’ disease confirmed at state-operated developmental center
- Federal funding to expand Mendota Health Center services
- Latest federal funding threat targets Illinois’ abortion referral law
- Lifepoint Rehabilitation partners on inpatient facility
- UChicago Medicine’s ‘clinical trial’ marketing strategy sparks big ROI
INDIANA
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- Ascension St. Vincent Noblesville Cuts Ribbon
- Centerstone appoints new Indiana market CEO
- Crossroads Health Ventures fund secures $21M to support life sciences startups
- Eskenazi Health Foundation names new CEO
- Hospital, provider groups cheer Indiana bill targeting Elevance’s out-of-network penalties
- Indianapolis startup Ahimsa growing on the national stage
- Labcorp planning to relocate lab hub to 50-acre campus in Brownsburg
- Medical debt in Indiana: Hoosiers push legislation to protect wages and homes
- OrthoIndy names CIO
- Parkview Health revamps internal audit to accelerate growth
- Indiana rural health care crisis is front and center for state
- Statehouse rally urges lawmakers to fix ‘healthcare affordability crisis’ in Indiana
- Indiana has a nursing shortage—this bill would make it easier to train more of them
- SB 189 targets unfair insurer practices in Indiana health care
- Braun announces launch of Crossroads Health Ventures
- Indiana pharmacist charged in ‘astronomical’ drug theft case still holds ‘free and clear’ license
- Southern Indiana school district raises thousands for Riley Children’s Hospital
- Reid Health Blue Brigade Gifts $210,000 to Support Patient Care
IOWA
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- Coralville plastic surgeon charged with incompetence
- Iowa Heart Center sold for $36.7M
- Iowa’s only current free-standing birthing center opens in Adel after summer bill
- Mercy Medical Center first in Iowa to use advanced breast cancer surgery technology
- St. Luke’s adds cryobiopsy technology for lung cancer diagnoses
- When ‘normal’ is 99% full: UnityPoint responds to flu capacity strain
- Board alleges Iowa nurse’s actions may have harmed patients
- Board: Iowa transplant surgeon poses ‘immediate danger’ to public
- Board sanctions pharmacists accused of fraudulent acts or theft
- When ‘normal’ is 99% full: UnityPoint responds to flu capacity strain
KANSAS
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- Bankruptcy judge issues decision in case between Rock Regional Hospital, Equity Bank
- Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine names new dean following leadership turnover
- Kansas hospital names CEO
- Kansas hospital names interim CEO
- Moran says appropriations bill includes $36M more for KU Cancer Center
- NueHealth inks 4 ASC partnerships
- Prime taps regional CEO
- HaysMed faces economic pressures, operating at a loss
- Kansas governor’s budget highlights education, mental health care, water and state employee raises
- KansasCOM names Eric Gish as dean amid leadership expansion
- Kerry Noble named new CEO at Great Bend Regional Hospital
- Newman Regional Health rolls out upgraded patient portal
- Why 30 hospitals in Kansas and 12 in Missouri are at risk of closure
KENTUCKY
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- 4 Lifepoint Kentucky hospitals unify as regional system
- 6 health bills on the move in first 2 weeks of legislative session, many more filed
- Americana clinic to double in size with $800K city investment
- Caring Senior Service opens first Kentucky location in Louisville
- Kentucky’s first medical cannabis processing facility is now operating in Dayton
- Lawsuit claims Addiction Recovery Care in ‘desperate straits,’ owes feds $28M
- Markey Cancer Center treats 1st patient in U.S. with new lung cancer therapy
- ‘Our Healthy Kentucky Home’ initiative focuses on children with special health care needs
- Six health bills are on the move in first two weeks of legislative session, many more filed
- UK Transplant Center celebrates another record year of life-saving transplants
- Kentucky health officials report state’s first measles case of 2026
- LifeSkills receives certification to expand mental health services across Kentucky
- Central Kentucky healthcare leaders announce CenterPointe Health
- KY bill to let pharmacists get Medicaid reimbursement clears Senate
- ARH cuts ribbon on first lifestyle medicine clinic in Kentucky
LOUISIANA
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- Louisiana hospital group, physician face Stark law, false claims allegation
- Louisiana system taps chief human resource officer
- $5M university expansion, new tropical disease vaccine, more
- LCMC Health using AI software without patient consent
- Louisiana Blue names head of largest regional office
- Louisiana hospital implements AI-powered technology to support AFib treatment
- Louisiana starts to wind down UnitedHealthcare’s Medicaid contract covering 330,000 people
- New Orleans East Hospital Launches Book Vending Machine
- New priorities at LDH
- NOLA nurse deported by ICE shares her story; saying goodbye to health care reporter Rosemary Westwood
- Ochsner Health appoints new COO, and more
MAINE
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- Another Maine physician practice closes
- Castine group will try to open direct primary care clinic after Northern Light departure
- Demand for direct primary health care on the rise in Maine
- Nurses rally for safer staffing at Eastern Maine Medical Center amid contract talks
- Sweetser to build Maine’s first psychiatric residential treatment facility for youth
MARYLAND
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- CVS Health, U of Maryland partner on AI, pharmacy workforce growth
- Innovations Surgery Center Becomes First Ambulatory Surgery Center in Mid-Atlantic Region to Offer Robotic-Assisted Gynecologic Surgery
- New medical and professional offices moving forward in northern Frederick
- What a longtime Johns Hopkins leader is bringing to LifeBridge Health’s next chapter
- State turns to private insurers to help fund shift to new hospital rate-setting framework
- 41 flu deaths reported in Maryland so far this season amid spike in respiratory illnesses
- Health Officials Report Improvement On Lengthy ER Stays, But Lawmakers Want To See More Done
- New caucus created to push priorities of rural Marylanders
- Gov. Moore announces $164M to address flu, other respiratory illness surge in Maryland
MASSACHUSETTS
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- On the South Shore, health system adopts ‘spy movie’ machine learning and other new technology
- Tampa General, Mass General Brigham to create ambulatory network serving three Florida counties
- Waters faces shareholder suits as $17.5B BD merger approaches completion
- After JPM, biotech industry shows signs of recovery after downturn
- Boston Scientific makes $14.5B acquisition and 2 more supply chain updates
- CEO, COO of Milford life sciences firm step down
- Curia Global to shut down Burlington location, lay off 81
- Fallon CEO: Company not looking to downsize after Mass General Brigham merger
- Following shutdown attempt, Job Corps in Devens calls for new applicants
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute expands to Seaport
- Heywood Healthcare chief medical officer to retire
- Hudson pharma acquired by global investment firm
- Massachusetts nursing shortage could worsen with loan caps
- Massachusetts residents describe a brutal flu season as experts urge vigilance
- Takeda to cut 243 jobs as it prepares for loss of Trintellix exclusivity
- Velsera names new CEO
MICHIGAN
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- Bronson Healthcare-backed housing project picks up $4M in state, local funding
- Corewell Health plans major expansion at Butterworth campus downtown
- McLaren hospital names CNO
- Michigan medical center adds radiology services
- Telehealth doesn’t lead to ‘runaway utilization’: Michigan Medicine study
- Trinity Health taps UMMS leader as chief nurse
- Trinity Health to cut 10.5% of billing jobs nationally
- Advanced practice providers at University of Michigan Health-Sparrow vote to unionize
- Planned Parenthood offers vasectomies in Michigan as abortion access drops
- Nessel issues health care fraud charges against former Oxford Recovery Center CEO
- Affordability, rural health care among 2026 priorities for House, Speaker Hall says
MINNESOTA
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- Baylor College of Medicine names University of Minnesota dean as new CEO
- Hennepin Healthcare cites $50M cost gap amid fiscal ‘crisis’
- How Twin Cities Orthopedics’ new CEO is closing the clinic–C-suite gap
- Mayo Clinic appoints revenue cycle chair
- Mayo Clinic backs digital health startup in $13M investment
- Mayo Clinic Platform names chief medical officer
- Minnesota health care owner charged with yearslong Medicaid scam topping $3M
- Twin Cities Orthopedics names 1st physician CEO
- BCBS of Minnesota names 2 executives
- Congress grills UnitedHealth CEO on denials, insurance costs
- Court upholds $30,000 cost condition for nurse’s relicensing
- Doctors in Minnesota decry fear and chaos amid Trump administration’s immigration crackdown
- Fewer Minnesotans have opted for MNsure health insurance this year
- HCMC aims to cut $50 million in costs amid ‘dire’ financials
- Inside Minnesota Hospitals, ICE Agents Unnerve Staff
- Lawmakers, health care workers call for change after ICE visits in Minnesota hospitals
- Medtronic to invest up to $90 million in Anteris Technologies
- Minnesota health care leaders face funding cuts, workforce gaps
- Optum: 3 notable drugs nearing approval
- UnitedHealthcare, SSM ink multi-year contract
- University of Minnesota medical school dean leaving for Baylor post
MISSISSIPPI
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- 5 Mississippi hospitals near Epic go-live
- Federal Cuts Test Mississippi’s Health Care System
- Midwives Challenge Miss. Practice Limits In Antitrust Suit
- Mississippi Blood Services needs donors before winter storm
- Mississippi’s health report card highlights room for improvement in infant mortality, obesity
MISSOURI
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- Ascension taps VP of national net revenue
- Children’s Mercy pilots app to cut down on nonclinical tasks for nurses
- How Ascension’s Eduardo Conrado sees Amsurg deal reshaping care
- Missouri AG sues major pharmacy benefit managers, drugmakers over alleged insulin price manipulation
- Missouri ASC sells in 10-year leaseback deal
- Missouri becomes latest plaintiff in lawsuits against PBMs, drug companies over skyrocketing insulin prices
- Missouri lawmakers seek to make restrictions on transgender health care, athletes permanent
- Prime taps regional CEO
- SSM Health and United Healthcare reach multi-year agreement
- St. Louis hospital delays, transfers surgeries amid equipment issue
- Missouri health workers on edge after federal addiction funding pulled, returned
- Missouri’s new approach to rural health looks to CMH as example
- Why 30 hospitals in Kansas and 12 in Missouri are at risk of closure
- Abortion safety takes center stage as Missouri trial enters second week
- Missouri House hears bills to permanently extend restrictions on transgender people
- Missouri cannabis advocates celebrate clarification on medical patients’ rights
MONTANA
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- Curry Health Center accepts insurance in the new year
- Dahl Memorial seeking community input for future healthcare planning
- Everything you need to know about Montana’s rural health windfall
- Fraudulent health care scheme stopped in Montana
- Logan Health Providers Vote in Favor of a Union
- Rural ambulance funding program in jeopardy
- Rural Health Transformation Program Set To Kick Off In Bozeman
NEBRASKA
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- Nebraska Medicine sues to block university’s $800M takeover
- Children’s Nebraska names new CIO
- Nebraska lawmaker introduces bill requiring legislative approval for university hospital deals
- Nebraska regents change Nebraska Medicine board after lawsuit
- NU, Clarkson replace nearly all Nebraska Medicine board members in escalating ownership fight
- NU Regents, Clarkson change Nebraska Medicine board following lawsuit
- U of Nebraska OKs $800M takeover of Nebraska Medicine
- UNMC appoints 2 anesthesiology leaders
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- Flu cases surge in New Hampshire as Dartmouth reports spike in cases
- Lawmaker wants to end hepatitis B vaccine requirement to align NH with Kennedy’s CDC
- NH rural health care faces challenges despite new grant
- Southern New Hampshire Medical Center recognized as state’s only 5-time ‘Magnet’ designated hospital
NEW JERSEY
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- Inspira names president and COO
- Monmouth Medical move secures up to $400M in Aspire tax credits
- N.J. nursing home owners sued for pocketing millions in Medicaid money
- NJ rewrites license rules for outpatient treatment centers
- N.J. senior living facility just landed major piece of $48M refinancing deal
- Nursing Home Owners Sued Over Alleged $124M Medicaid Misuse in Two Nursing Homes
- Virtua Health becomes first in region to offer robotic-assisted spine surgery
- Virtua Health debuts robotic spine surgery with GPS tech
- CentraState Healthcare System Names New Board of Trustees Officers and Members
- In J&J talc litigation, N.J. court-appointed official recommends allowing expert testimony
- J&J grows MedTech sales, eyes robotic system launch
- Largest Dental Condo in New Jersey Snags $5 Million Sale Price
- Legislation Signed Protecting Vaccine Access in New Jersey
- Murphy’s final medical debt relief round brings total to $1.5B
- New Jersey’s Emerging Medtech Ecosystem Showcased Through Edge Medical Ventures Event at Liberty Science Center
- New Jersey hops on the medical psilocybin therapy train
- RWJBarnabas building 3-story health facility in Monmouth
- Rutgers Helps Track New Jersey’s Legislative Progress in Advancing Maternal and Infant Health
NEW MEXICO
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- Lawmakers look to close gap on physician shortages in New Mexico
- Physician-first culture drives workforce wins at New Mexico hospital
- Two-thirds of New Mexico doctors considering leaving the state, report finds
- 5 hot-button topics to watch in this year’s New Mexico Legislative session
- Another fight brewing over medical malpractice reform in New Mexico
- New Mexico health officials urge flu vaccinations as cases climb
- Picuris Medical Center offers full-service clinic
- ‘Super Flu’: How University of New Mexico hospital handles rising cases
NEW YORK
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- New York City hospital campus to add affordable housing
- New York hospital names chief nursing executive
- North Star to reduce over 100 positions, including management
- Northwell opens $5M multispecialty center
- NYC Health + Hospitals growth chief joins AI startup Akido Labs
- NYC Health + Hospitals names long-term care facility CEO
- Rochester systems, Hillside partner on transitional youth care program
- UR Medicine rebuilds MRI scanners to cut emissions, boost capacity
- Dr. Anne Marie McDonald named chief nursing executive at Hospital for Special Surgery
- New York safety-net hospital receives $109M in state funding
- Nurses describe escalating tension as NYC strike continues
- Nurses restart contract talks with another major hospital system on 5th day of strike
- NYC nurses say wealthy hospitals are creating untenable work conditions
- NYPD detectives disrespected by NYU Langone Health staff in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn after going for treatment
- Where negotiations stand in the New York City nurses strike
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Atrium Health leader reflects on building Levine Children’s Hospital into national contender
- Cone Health opens phase one of The Resurgent, bringing expanded care to East Greensboro
- Cone Health taps pharmacy exec with prior Geisinger leadership
- Cone Health uses Epic to fast-track disability benefit claims
- Duke LifePoint hospital in North Carolina names COO
- Fast-growing North Carolina firms to merge
- More health services coming to booming Wake County town
- North Carolina company gifts $25M for children’s hospital
- North Carolina MOB purchased for $17M
- North Carolina’s CON controversy: A timeline
- UNC Health embeds mental health services in primary care clinic
- UNC Health Wayne names CMO, CNO
- North Carolina begins planning for $1B rural health initiative
- How North Carolina erased medical debt for 2.5 million people
- North Carolina faces severe mental health provider shortage in rural areas
- More Measles cases are popping up in North Carolina. Here’s where the state is tracking them
- N.C. Children’s receives $25 million from Coca-Cola Consolidated
- Federal health insurance enrollment drops 22% in North Carolina
NORTH DAKOTA
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- Bill to save Elgin hospital among 7 late additions to special session
- Board of Pharmacy Specialties awards Essentia hospital
- Rural hospital on the verge of shutting down could be saved by lawmaker’s bill
- Sanford Health reopens MRI center
- Altru Health, CommonSpirit begin talks for Altru to take over three more hospitals, including Bismarck
- Bill giving pharmacists ability to prescribe some medications advances in ND special session
- Devils Lake community celebrates Altru acquisition of hospital; transition official March 1
- Gov. Armstrong urges lawmakers to stay focused on rural health care as North Dakota session opens
- Health care providers see grant bill as a way to expand services in North Dakota
- Health workforce woes cited as federal spending plan moves ahead in North Dakota
- Legislative committee endorses lifeline for North Dakota hospital in danger of closing
- North Dakota lawmakers advance rural health policy bills in special session
- North Dakota Legislature prepares to spend $400M during rural health special session
- What to know about North Dakota’s special legislative session
OHIO
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- Amazon One Medical, Cleveland Clinic open new primary care office in Shaker Heights
- Business Courier names its 2026 Health Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award winner
- Cleveland Clinic seeks level 1 trauma center status
- Dayton commission reviews options for new public hospital in West Dayton
- Dayton voters passed levy for new hospital: City considers next steps
- Kettering Health, Ohio University expand affiliation: 4 notes
- Mason stroke rehab center using VR technology plans national expansion
- MetroHealth pushes back on Cleveland Clinic’s level 1 trauma center plan
- Nationwide Children’s names new VP of innovation
- Nearly all residents out of problematic nursing home after OH Attorney General asked for shutdown
- Ohio physician sentenced in $14.5M fraud scheme
- Ohio Valley Surgical Hospital joins Mercy Health network in Springfield partnership
- Ohio got $202 million from feds for rural health care. Is it enough?
- Insight surrenders hospital license: ODH
- In Ohio, 75 out of 88 counties are mental health shortage areas, according to new study
- $245,000 to go toward improving maternal, infant health outcomes in Ohio
OKLAHOMA
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- Tampa capital fuels $43.1M rehab facility expansion
- Advocates say grants aren’t’ enough for Medicaid in rural OK hospitals
- Cherokee Nation and OU partner to launch $30M nursing school
- New OU nursing satellite campus to open in Tahlequah in 2027
- Oklahoma Democrat offers bill to axe credit score from premium calculation
- Oklahoma lawmaker proposes blood bank for vaccine-free blood
OREGON
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- A shortage in specialty care sends Clark County patients to Portland
- Oregon puts $25M toward maternity care
- Oregon system, hospital sign agreement to partner
- OHSU settles lawsuit alleging disproportionate treatment of employees of color
- Salem Health, Santiam Hospital will seek state approval for merger
- Sen. Wyden outlines woes of health care in Oregon during Eugene visit
- Study Again Gives Oregon a Middling Health Ranking
- For-profit telehealth company wants Oregon to fund unlicensed behavioral health for low-income youth
- Oregon invests $25M to enhance local maternity hospital services
- Oregon Medical Group, Trillium yet to reach agreement in Medicaid transition
PENNSYLVANIA
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- 14 Pennsylvania hospitals could close in 5 years: Analysis
- Allegheny Health hospital opens $6.2M rehab unit
- BriaCell raises $30M amid signs of thaw in biotech funding
- Bucks County nursing home had record of safety violations before deadly explosion killed 3
- California firm wins $1B bid for Chester County’s Genesis HealthCare, report says
- CHOP partners with autism care provider to open 5 centers, add 300 jobs
- Entrepreneur donates $30M to 3 Pennsylvania systems
- Firm closes on CCMC, intends to restore hospital, emergency services
- First Look: Allegheny Valley Hospital’s new inpatient rehab center
- Geisinger hospital workers approve labor deal
- Hillandale Farms family gives $53.5M more to Pitt musculoskeletal research center
- Hospital association warns of widespread closures across Pennsylvania as margins turn negative
- Jared Isaacman gives $30M to three Pennsylvania hospitals including UPMC Children’s Heart Institute
- Jefferson Health turns to AI to address a persistent gap in cancer care
- New Crozer-Chester Medical Center owners plan to reopen ‘right-sized’ hospital
- Pennsylvania hospital to reopen with ‘operational discipline’ under new ownership
- Philadelphia-area nursing homes have amassed $5.3 million in fines since 2023 for safety violations
- Philadelphia cancer therapy developer raises $30M amid signs of thaw in biotech funding
- Riddle Hospital gets $4M to help with surge in demand following Crozer Health shutdown
- Rural health care becoming more urgent
- Taylor Hospital investors set to purchase shuttered Springfield Hospital for $1M
- Toetal Solutions seeks buyer following FDA approval of its medical device
- Up to 14 Pennsylvania hospitals face closure risk, report warns
- UPMC Magee nurses begin first contract talks with demands for more staff, higher pay
- UPMC Passavant adds $10M cancer treatment technology
- University of Pittsburgh earns $53.5M orthopedic gift
- WellSpan tops 1M users on patient portal
- Main Line Health gets $4M grant to boost Riddle Hospital staffing
- NASA boss Jared Isaacman gifts $20M to CHOP
- Pennsylvania hospital ends 24-hour anesthesia
RHODE ISLAND
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- Brown University Health adds Barrington walk-in clinic as part of ambulatory growth strategy
- Centurion asks for $18 million from state to help acquire Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals
- Centurion misses deadline to purchase Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals
- R.I. weighing options for Prospect hospitals after nonprofit buyer misses deadline
- R.I.’s hospital crisis could deepen
- Roger Williams, Fatima buyer asks RI to put $18 million behind hospital sale
- Sale of 2 Prospect Rhode Island hospitals falls through
- Behavioral health providers detail whirlwind 48 hours as federal grant funding is cut then restored
- Care New England updates branding with new logo
- CNE leadership: Primary care access, intra-system expansion top of mind
- Fit for a swing
- NEMIC receives $100K van Beuren Charitable Foundation grant
- New ‘Express Care’ clinic bridges mental health gap
- Transfer of Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals to state ownership set for Jan. 30
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- How Tidelands Health built a high school-to-healthcare career pipeline
- MetroHealth AI chief named head of digital at virtual care company
- MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital to name first Children’s Miracle Network champion
- ‘The worst part of the ED experience’ — and how MUSC is fixing it
- Top-tier cancer hospital expected to add to MUSC Health’s growing debt
- USC taps Prisma Health as partner for new $30M brain health center
- With 600+ measles cases, South Carolina has largest outbreak in US
- Another state debates noncompete ban
- Some contracts require doctors who quit to stop practicing nearby. SC bill would ban that.
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- Sanford COO to lead health plans
- Why Sanford Health created a new tech-focused C-suite role
- After a blockbuster 2025, Sanford Health eyes future growth
- Douglas County task force remains hopeful to find solution for nursing home
- Health care in South Dakota, explained
- Legislation to help with emergency medical staffing advances to SD House
- Rural ambulance strains spur deregulation push at South Dakota Capitol
TENNESSEE
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- Acadia Healthcare CEO exits, predecessor returns to role
- Christopher Hunter out as Acadia Healthcare CEO
- CHS shed 41 hospitals since 2020
- CHS signs $450M hospital sale to Huntsville Hospital Health System
- Frist Cressey Ventures invests $12 million in company chaired by Bob Corker
- HCA Healthcare names Erica Rossitto head of nursing
- Johnson City Eye Surgery Center cuts ribbon at their new facility
- Lifepoint Rehabilitation partners on inpatient facility
- Nashville Health Care Council names first independent board, adds industry leaders
- Tennessee system taps CEO for 2 hospitals
- Tennessee systems to deepen partnership as HCA eyes growth in region
- Tennessee’s impending CON overturn, explained
- The Nashville Health Care Council Selects Monogram Health Executives to Serve on the Board of Directors, Leadership Health Care Advisory, and Council Fellows Program
- Vanderbilt Health celebrates 960 solid organ transplants in 2025
- Vanderbilt Transplant Center tops nationwide list, breaks world record
- Why HCA expanded its digital leadership
- Portion of federal rural health grant dollars for TN may depend on eliminating certificate of need
- Fungal infection spreads in two TN counties; health officials say
- Tennessee pediatrician shortage prompts new solutions for rural children’s health care
- Tennessee kids are struggling with mental health more than ever, report says
- TN bill aims to restrict AI from being used for mental health counseling
- ‘Largest investment in rural health in Tennessee’s history’ could transform medical care in Shelby County
- Erlanger, Bradley Medical Center sign letter to deepen partnership
TEXAS
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- $52 million public health lab nears finish line in Southwestern Medical District
- Baylor College of Medicine names University of Minnesota dean as new president and CEO
- Behind the deal: How MD Anderson’s partnership with Sophia Genetics advances cancer diagnosis
- Epic pushes back on Texas AG lawsuit
- Genesis Health approved to sell nursing home in $1 billion bankruptcy deal
- HCA Houston taps new vice president of HR
- Health systems serving Houston’s neediest patients are moving on despite House ACA bill
- How Memorial Hermann’s Noel Cardenas turned military experience into hospital leadership in the Bay Area
- Humana sells $11M Texas office complex
- Methodist hospital breaks ground on $146M tower
- SEC charges Dallas health care CEO with multimillion-dollar fraud
- Sidecar Health expands alternative plan offerings to new markets
- Texas A&M’s EnMed health care incubator signing up tenants rapidly, director says
- Texas multispecialty group to open 1st outpatient surgery center
- Texas orthopedic group opens 13th location
- University Health enters $50M deal to purchase medical towers next to shuttered CHRISTUS hospital
- Why Oceans Healthcare published safety and patient experience data
- Abbott expands call for stronger anti-fraud investigations to include Texas Medicaid
- Almost 800 patients have been in Texas state hospitals for more than a year
- Harris Health, Legacy leaders tackle impact from tax credit cuts
- Healthcare Briefs: UTSW Researcher Wins Japan Prize and Texas Health Opens Hybrid OR
- Lifepoint Texas hospital names COO
- Memorial Hermann’s Noel Cardenas on military-to-hospital career
- Texas ACA health insurance enrollment hits a record high despite expired subsidies and soaring premiums
- Texas Health community assessment finds transportation, connectedness as areas of need
- Texas Health opens hybrid operating room
- Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen surpasses 25 years
- Texas Republicans bash insurance companies over high healthcare costs
- Texas system opens $30M hospital in Houston
- Texicare is looking beyond ‘1-size-fits-all’ plans — but the insurer has to overcome key challenge
UTAH
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- A third of Utahns delay care, many incur debt due to medical costs, survey shows
- Salt Lake City hospital suffering from ‘critical’ blood shortage as donations drop nationwide
- University of Utah Health Plans names part-time CFO
- Utah Health Policy Project addresses expected changes to health care in Utah
- Intermountain Health will freeze pensions at end of 2026
- Manager of Sandy in-home health provider charged with Medicaid fraud
- PACS Group Announces the Acquisition of Three Post-Acute Operations and the Real Estate of Four Facilities
- Southern Utah experts speak on measles outbreak after Southwest Utah hits 151 cases
- Utah ranked healthiest state in national survey
VERMONT
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- Executive pleads guilty in $6.5M Medicare fraud case in New England, feds say
- Evelyn Herrera pleads guilty to submitting fraudulent Medicare claims in Vermont
- HCRS appoints Anne Bilodeau as CEO
- Rising health care costs strain Vermont families as lawmakers search for solutions
- UVM Medical Center ER lets you bring your own bags again with new tech
- VNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region celebrates 80 years of care
VIRGINIA
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- McLean’s Positive Development secures $45M in new funding for autism therapy expansion
- UVA Health distributed 1M prescriptions in one year after pharmacy reboot
- Centra exploring options for future of Virginia Baptist Hospital
- Home health workers, ‘backbone’ of public health work, support collective bargaining legislation
- West Virginia ranks dead last in national health study—here’s how Virginia compares
- Children’s Hospital Of Richmond At VCU Debuts New NICU In Virginia
- Gov. Spanberger’s first executive orders target Virginia affordability in health, housing
WASHINGTON
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- A rural Washington hospital’s roadmap to financial recovery
- MultiCare hospital workers begin strike: 5 things to know
- Providence eyes $2B turnaround with divestitures, strategic partnerships
- Washington state fines Kaiser health plan for mental health parity violations
- Family files lawsuit over suicide death at state hospital
- Race is on to quell WA measles outbreak
WEST VIRGINIA
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- Charleston Area Medical Center’s hospitals transition to Vandalia Health
- West Virginia court voids rule allowing optometrists to perform eyelid surgeries
- West Virginia medical leaders affirm childhood vaccine schedules following federal updates
- WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital Behavioral Health Center named Signet Health 2025 Inpatient Program of the Year
- West Virginia ranks dead last in national health study—here’s how Virginia compares
WISCONSIN
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- Children’s Wisconsin names new president and chief operating officer
- Froedtert Thedacare opens $84M Wisconsin hospital
- Froedtert ThedaCare taps new senior vice president of finance, treasury
- Lifepoint Rehabilitation partners on inpatient facility
- Marshfield Clinic region of Sanford Health unveils new look
- Marshfield Medical Center-Ladysmith awards $100K to tackle health inequities in Wisconsin
- Medical College of Wisconsin Pushes Students to Engage in Climate Activism
- Western Wisconsin lawmakers propose bill to cap insulin costs
WYOMING
