NATIONAL
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- 41% of rural hospitals in red ahead of Medicaid policy shift
- 2 senior HHS leaders to exit roles
- 5 CMS moves shaping the ASC industry
- Change Healthcare breach: The cyberattack’s impact 2 years later
- Federal judge strikes down FTC rule expanding premerger reporting requirements
- Health systems must connect with patients in more meaningful ways
- Health systems to expand telehealth after 2-year Medicare extension
- HHS releases RFI on new 340B rebate model
- HHS seeks feedback on 340B rebate model
- Hospitals’ operations wrap 2025 on solid footing, face payer mix, bad debt headwinds for 2026
- Independent physician associations gain momentum: 5 notes
- More than 20 health systems launch specialty care coalition to expand rural access
- Proposed CMS Rule Upholds Exclusion of Nursing Home Custodial Care From Essential Benefits
- The hospital of the future should look very different
ALABAMA
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- Alabama eyes ED physician staff-level transparency requirement
- Alabama health system launches new brand identity
- Alabama physician practice to close after 32 years
- Bham medical device entity names new C-suite exec
- Local medical device company names board chairman
- Alabama State Health Officer: ‘Fully expect’ to see measles in the state
- Bill would boost healthcare access across Alabama, advocates say
ALASKA
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- Alaska Bill to let parents surrender newborns in ‘baby boxes’ gains traction
- Alaska drug overdose deaths drop, though less dramatically than national plunge
- Alaska FD team targets repeat 911 calls with outreach program
- Alaska Medical Board joins pro-lifers in opposing bill that could vastly expand abortion
- Anchorage’s growing mobile health programs take pressure off first responders
- HCA Alaska Hospital taps 4 new leaders
- State seeks proposals as it races to spend $272M in federal money on rural health care
ARIZONA
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- Banner Health adds 49 robotic surgery systems
- Heart and Vascular Center of Arizona opens 3rd practice
- Mayo Clinic joins mass litigation alleging ‘price-fixing cartels’
- New Arizona rehab hospital taps director
- Here are the 9 safest hospitals in Arizona
- Arizona family sues hospital, says staff ‘Ubered’ sick son to sidewalk where he died
- Judge orders takeover of health care operations in Arizona prisons after years of poor care
- Families file lawsuit over Arizona Medicaid to keep autism coverage
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas Children’s Reports Record Revenue
- Arkansas Children’s Set to Open First Phase of $371M Expansion
- Baxter Health rolls out dementia doll therapy
- OrthoArkansas Breaks Ground on New Surgery Center
- Stephens Family Makes $1.5M Donation to Arkansas Children’s
- The Letter That Changed Everything for Arkansas Children’s
- Arkansas’ U.S. House primary challengers focus on education, health care, cost of living
- New nonprofit offers mental health lifeline for Northeast Arkansas farmers
CALIFORNIA
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- 1,200 MarinHealth workers to strike: 6 things to know
- 4 health systems adopt AI contract intelligence platform
- A California county’s only hospital cleared a federal hurdle, but it still needs millions to reopen
- Adventist Health to bring primary care residency program to Tehachapi in 2028
- California hospital taps new CFO
- California judge orders Rady Children’s Hospital to provide child sex changes after doctors stop practice
- California Passes $90 Million Funding Bill for Planned Parenthood
- California sends $90 million to Planned Parenthood
- California: Thousands of nurses, health care workers remain on strike
- Cedars-Sinai expands digital Parkinson’s care with app
- Central Maine Healthcare joins Prime
- CommonSpirit California CFO transitions to new regional role
- Global Medical Response expands lease at McClellan Park
- Inside Prime’s ‘market cluster’ playbook for M&A
- Kaiser Permanente appoints president of Northern California Region
- Kaiser Permanente says 40% of striking workers are back at work
- Kaiser pharmacy workers end 3-day strike
- Kaiser strike hits fourth week as 31,000 workers demand higher pay and better staffing
- Kaiser Workers Say Patients Deserve Better Mental Health Care After $31M Settlement
- Lyme disease tore at his family. Now he’s heading an influential foundation funding research to combat the illness
- McCarthy tops out $3.7B California healthcare tower
- National Nurses United coordinates protests over ICE
- Nurses, health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center to hold one day strike
- Over 1,000 MarinHealth workers to strike over healthcare benefits
- Palomar Health CEO extends tenure with voluntary pay cut
- Prime Healthcare pits two virtual sitter vendors against one another – who won?
- Providence Cedars-Sinai nurses plan 5-day strike
- Scripps Health posts 4.1% operating margin in Q1
- Seton Medical Center nurses call off strike after tentative agreement
- Shuttered Northern California hospital getting a lifeline from Congress
- Strike at Kaiser Permanente enters third week
- Sutter Health CEO says system may expand beyond California amid consolidation wave
- UC Davis Health tops off $3.74B California Tower, shifts to interior work
- Sutter eyes SacRT surplus properties for Midtown growth, McKinney says
- UC Davis Health tops off $3.74B California Tower, shifts to interior work
- Ultragenyx to cut 130 jobs following failed rare-disease drug trial
- USC Keck and Norris nurses to strike for 7 days
COLORADO
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- Colorado attorney general sues Trump administration over cuts to public health funding
- Judge denies request to force Children’s Hospital to resume gender-affirming care for transgender youth
- Colorado looks to join WHO Global Outbreak Network
- Neighbor recalls Colorado man involved in clinic shooting, says he was frustrated over declining health
- This Colorado hospital ranked among the top 50 in the US
- Colorado Medicaid spending doubled over the past decade, study finds
CONNECTICUT
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- 2 Connecticut cities accuse PBMs, drugmakers of ‘insulin pricing scheme’
- A CT man has a life-altering disease. Now, he’s the first in a clinical trial seeking a breakthrough
- Connecticut governor pitches state-backed health plan, ICHRA perk for small employers
- CT behavioral health clinician sentenced for submitting false Medicaid claims. She paid back $55K
- Frontline fatigue: Connecticut nurses facing burnout, workplace violence and staffing shortages
- Griffin Health Offers Free Diabetes Self-Management Program
- Hartford Hospital buying spree continues with $4M purchase of gas station
- Lamont pushes health care affordability as costs climb for Connecticut residents
- Major advancement in cardiovascular care arrives in Connecticut
- State launches new tool to improve race, ethnicity data in health care
- UConn Health’s Ophthalmology Chief Joins Statewide Society Leadership
- Woman receives diagnosis, heart transplant from Hartford HealthCare doctors
DC
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- Cedar Hill hospital hires new nursing chief amid leadership turnover, community claims of ‘dysfunction’
- DC hospital names chief nursing officer
- ER slated for D.C.’s Fletcher-Johnson school campus won’t deliver this year as planned
- GW Hospital purchases land in Northeast DC
- Unity Health Care taking over two Ascension-run D.C. primary care practices
DELAWARE
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- ChristianaCare, Bayhealth and PCOM Announce Delaware Collaborative Clinical Campus
- ChristianaCare plans $65M health campus, outpatient center
- Encore Healthcare buys three Wilmington facilities for $42.1M
- New ChristianaCare collab aims to tackle health care gaps in lower Delaware
- New collaboration to bring Philly med students to Kent, Sussex counties
FLORIDA
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- AdventHealth Florida hospital taps new CFO
- Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola named 5th in the nation among cardiovascular hospitals
- BayCare rolls out 4th harm-reduction vending machine
- BayCare names chief information security officer
- Broward’s two public hospital systems face legislative setback
- HCA opens 2nd freestanding ER in Florida county
- Humana approaches $1B acquisition of Florida primary care company: Bloomberg
- Humana closes on acquisition of MaxHealth primary care clinics
- Inno roundup: CAMLS third in world to install this GE HealthCare system
- Innovative cancer treatment center files for bankruptcy, owing millions to Emory Healthcare
- Mayo Clinic joins mass litigation alleging ‘price-fixing cartels’
- Moffitt Cancer Center to build first Polk County facility with 2029 opening
- Orlando Health opens Institute Square medical campus in downtown St. Pete
- Tampa General has 61 AI applications with little appetite for pilots
- Tampa General’s M&A playbook and why ‘deeper’ partnerships beat bigger footprints
- The team effort behind Moffitt’s operating margin growth
- Town sells land to out-of-state biomedical company for new facility
- Wolfson Children’s specialty care to be staffed by Nemours physicians
GEORGIA
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- Atlanta hospital secures naming rights for world’s largest 10K
- Atlanta practice to pay $2.18M in false claims settlement
- Georgia hospital reports 2025 hacking incident
- Insurer Off The Hook For $2M Nursing Home Judgment
- Physician-owned practice faces data breach affecting 626,000 patients
- Wellstar names chief strategy and growth officer
- Georgia lawmakers consider first steps to streamline public health system
- Wellstar Golisano Children’s Hospital of Georgia gets donation of $200K
HAWAII
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- Army Medics Train Maritime Casualty Evacuation Off Coast of Hawaii
- EXCLUSIVE: Clash of Hawaiʻi’s Healthcare Titans: Leaders Disagree on Best Path Forward
- GMH partners with Hawai’i Pacific University
- Hale Makua plans $160M health care complex, housing project on Maui
- Hawai‘i Pacific Health, HMSA partnership plans proceeding
- HPU gets $10M toward building health care workforce in rural areas
- Kaiser Permanente nurses strike enters fourth week
- Kaiser strike hits fourth week as 31,000 workers demand higher pay and better staffing
- Sexually transmitted infections more common in Hawaii than the flu
IDAHO
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- As Teton Valley grows, surgeon turns to private practice
- Community Family Clinic to soon offer dental services in Blackfoot
- Health care bills progressing through Idaho Legislature as tough debates on budget and other issues loom
- How health care providers are addressing patient care in Idaho
- ICE’s parent agency leased office in building owned by Idaho’s largest health system
- Idaho doctors defend medical training program after outside group raises concerns
- Idaho weighs tying Medicaid prior authorization exemptions for rural medical training
- Mobile medicine and treatment on the go in the Gem State
- Portneuf Health opens new urgent care in Chubbuck
- Saint Alphonsus looks to N. Meridian for large complex, will more than double Nampa hospital
- Saint Alphonsus announces plans to more than double size of Nampa hospital
- St. Luke’s confirms DHS is leasing an office space in Meridian
- St. Luke’s Boise campus expansion takes shape
- Utah, Idaho universities to build regional medical education program
- ‘We are to bone’: Idaho Health and Welfare budget cuts may endanger state’s crisis system
- What’s new for the buildings where health care happens in Idaho
ILLINOIS
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- 4 health systems adopt AI contract intelligence platform
- Audit of Waterloo nursing home finds billing misuse, manipulation
- CommonSpirit expands AI into financial operations
- CommonSpirit posts break-even margin in Q2
- CommonSpirit’s volume gains, efficiency initiatives fuel ‘noticeable’ quarterly performance bump
- HSHS back in the black in H1
- Horizon Health Emergency Department Pursues Pediatric Care Designation
- Humana commits $1.7M to Illinois behavioral health initiatives
- Illinois erases $1.1 billion in medical debt for residents
- Illinois health departments face $100M funding cut by Trump admin
- Illinois reports first measles case of 2026
- Inside Rush’s systemwide push to standardize nursing
- Judge blocks Trump admin from blocking $600M in health care for Illinois, 3 other states
- Northwestern hospital doubles capacity with $389M expansion
- Northwestern Medicine partners to scale AI startups
- Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital Unveils Major Expansion, Doubles Capacity
- OSF Healthcare breaks ground on new medical office in Brimfield
- Silver Cross Hospital names chief nurse
- SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital Implements New Technology in Region to Improve Heart Attack Response Times
- UChicago Medicine names Medical Center president
- Walgreens to cut 628 jobs
INDIANA
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- Bedside Bike creators hope to help hospital patients stay mobile
- How supply chain discipline is fueling pharmacy growth at IU Health
- Indiana hospital group launches campaign ‘to expose abusive insurer practices’
- Indiana physician owner sentenced for $50M fraud scheme
- Plainfield Fire Territory launches prehospital blood transfusion program
- Westfield-based company receives expedited FDA review for insulin-delivery device
- Indiana hospitals face $1B loss; delivery departments closing amid low reimbursement rates
- ‘We don’t see the savings’: Indiana Medicaid restructuring bill draws pushback
- Memorial Hospital of South Bend Recognized as Top Cardiovascular Hospital
- Child well-being rating improves for Indiana, but some trends remain ‘worse’
IOWA
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- Bankruptcy judge denies MercyOne request to dismiss Mercy Iowa City complaint
- Delta Dental of Iowa launches $2 million loan fund to support dental practice ownership
- Iowa hospital CEO to retire after 32 years
- ORA Orthopedics opens $50M outpatient surgical center
- Ottumwa Regional Health Center gets new MRI machine
- State opens applications for $8 million health care workforce incentive program
- UI researchers create tools for cancer tracking in different states
- University of Iowa researchers create tools for cancer tracking in different states
- University of Iowa Health Care, medical college eyeing $32 million in upgrades
KANSAS
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- 3 systems partner to launch precision medicine platform
- Kansas bill proposes licensing system for anesthesiologist assistants
- Kansas bill suggests mandatory hospital financial screenings
- Kansas cardiology ASC real estate acquired
- Kansas county withdraws hospital lease termination notice, commits to keeping it open
- Kansas hospital names new CIO
- Kansas system names 2 C-suite leaders
- Pair of Ascension Via Christi leadership changes follow CEO exit
- Wichita medical credentialing firm makes acquisition to reach Kansas City market
KENTUCKY
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- CenterWell completes acquisition of MaxHealth in Florida
- Faith Community Health Network to open free health clinic in Newport, expanding pharmacy services
- Humana sells Hikes Lane medical office building for $2.5 million
- Nazareth At Home brings personalized in-home care to Louisville seniors aging in place
- Saint Joseph London joins UK specialized pediatric care net
- UK HealthCare receives $5M for outpatient cancer center
- UK HealthCare expands food as medicine initiative across Kentucky
- UK students, including NKY campus, train for collaborative health care workforce
- Woman faces charges after firing gun inside Baptist Health Louisville
- Kentucky doctors could refuse care based on their ‘conscience’ under bill passing Senate
- Kentucky Senate bill centered on health care professionals’ rights sparks long debate
- Bill filed to establish Kentucky Health Command
- Hospital patient charged after gunfire in room; incident contained, police say
LOUISIANA
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- Louisiana Hospital’s Mission Move Well emphasizes safety for patients, caregivers
- Louisiana hospitals launch Project MOM to combat overdose deaths in pregnant women
- Louisiana unveils 11-hospital maternal overdose initiative
- Obesity studies, pregnancy risks, more Louisiana health news
- Flu wave hits Louisiana, driving up emergency room visits and school absences
MAINE
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- As maternity wards close across Maine, a new bill would mandate 120-day notice
- Buyout of Central Maine Healthcare by a California charity is complete
- California acquirer completes Central Maine Healthcare deal
- Central Maine Healthcare joins Prime
- Maine considers how to untether itself from federal vaccine rollbacks
- Maine hospitals raise alarms about tax changes and funding cuts in Janet Mills’ proposed budget
- Maine lawmakers consider proposal to expand access to vaccines
- Maine sees first measles case in seven years
- Membership-based health care grows in Maine, reducing insurance claims and ER visits
- Mental healthcare advocates connect residents and lawmakers in Augusta
- More Maine patients sign up for membership-based primary care
- New bill would require Maine hospitals to give more notice before closing maternity wards
- Proposed Law Would Require Maine Hospitals to Develop Cybersecurity Intrusion Response Plans
- To stem rising health insurance premiums, Maine proposal would cap hospital prices
- Two Visions for Maine Health Care
- What Maine can learn from New Brunswick about rural maternity care [OPINION]
MARYLAND
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- For the first time, five Black surgical residents are leading the way at Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Maryland lawmakers ‘disheartened’ by persistent inequities in Black maternal health outcomes
- As state disability services face cuts, new report flags high pay and overtime at MDH
- Maryland DHS secretary Rafael López resigning, citing health-related reasons
- Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Auxilium, MBI launch life sciences startup $250K accelerator program
- Baystate Health cuts jobs
- Brigham and Women’s to phase out Dana-Farber PAs: Boston Globe
- C-suite changes continue at Charles River with new CFO, legal chief
- Charles River Labs names new CFO, legal chief
- Healthcare leaders discuss political pressures at BBJ event
- Local Sanofi chief exec Brian Foard to leave company
- Manufacturing institute moves to Bedford from Cambridge
- Mass General Brigham posts -1.4% operating margin in Q1
- Mass General Brigham earns CON approval for endoscopy ASC
- Massachusetts system cuts 117 corporate jobs
- Moderna reaches FDA compromise on flu shot application review
- Moderna remains silent on breakeven target after FDA rejects flu vaccine review
- Saint Vincent Hospital found to have violated 14 labor practices
- Stella Mental Health opens 2nd Massachusetts clinic
- Worcester picks Rhode Island official as new health commissioner
MICHIGAN
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- BAMF Health partners to launch Kansas City cancer center
- BCBS Michigan scores $147M in savings through biosimilars
- Beacon Kalamazoo nurses win 14% raise in new three-year contract
- Cancer doctor and auto dealer remembered as ‘a true visionary’
- Corewell Health nurses in Niles to vote on joining Teamsters
- Corewell Health names senior supply chain director
- How Michigan’s governor plans to secure $780M for Medicaid
- Kalamazoo nurses overwhelmingly approve new contract with Beacon Health
- McLaren acquires 11-clinic medical group
- Michigan hospital CEO takes leave
- Michigan hospital opens 12-bed autism unit
- Michigan system taps AI to flag heart disease risk
- Nonprofit health system hit by two data breaches settles class-action lawsuit for $14M
- Rural Michigan hospitals worry federal funding cuts could impact key services
- The ‘reset’ behind a Michigan hospital’s leadership transformation
- U-M to vote on new behavioral hospital, surgical center in Lansing this week
- West Michigan nurse retention at risk as pay gap widens
MINNESOTA
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- Essentia Health to build $12M ED
- Former Optum director found guilty in $1.2M fraud scheme against company
- HCMC will reduce hospital volume by limiting patient transfers from beyond Hennepin County
- How federal public health funding cuts could affect Minnesota
- ICE fears keep rural Minnesotans of color from seeking health care
- Jury shoots down Dr. Michael Joyner lawsuit against Mayo Clinic
- Mayo Clinic joins mass litigation alleging ‘price-fixing cartels’
- Mayo Clinic, other hospitals concerned UCare won’t fully repay $500m debt
- Mayo Clinic testing Israeli heat technology as cancer treatment
- Minnesota hospital to expand MRI services
- Optum launches latest AI tool to support value-based care
- Tariffs continue affecting Medtronic despite health profit and sales
- U of Minnesota Physicians taps CEO
MISSISSIPPI
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- Children’s of Mississippi aiming to address youth mental health with new adolescent acute psychiatric unit
- Cyberattack at Mississippi hospital takes EHR offline, closes clinics
- Encompass Health announces plans to build a 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Flowood, Mississippi
- Healthgrades names Mississippi hospital among 250 best in US
- Mississippi battles high STD rates despite US, state declines
- Mississippi health system sets record with Epic go-live
- Mississippi hospital to close in March
- Mississippi rolls out new OB System of Care to improve maternal outcomes
- Mississippi Senate pushes to let rural hospitals offer new services
- Mississippi’s OB System of Care to enhance maternal health
- More than half of Mississippi’s rural hospitals at risk of closure, report finds
- Prison health care reform measures clear the House
- UMMC expands surgical care access with new outpatient facility
- U of Mississippi Medical Center opens ASC
- University of Mississippi Medical Center expanding healthcare access with new Ridgeland campus
- University of Mississippi Medical Center says cyberattack will be ‘multi-day event’
MISSOURI
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- 3 systems partner to launch precision medicine platform
- Ascension posts net profit as it looks to outpatient growth
- Ascension trims losses as CEO eyes ‘more predictable’ operating model
- Fitch downgrades Missouri hospital to ‘D’ rating
- Home health company owner indicted for defrauding Medicaid of $1.5M
- Mercy recruits independent physicians for value-based health care expansion
- Owner of home health provider admits $200K fraud
- SSM Health aligns St. Louis leadership, names 3 presidents
- ‘That approach is no longer good enough’: Ascension CEO rethinks care delivery model as uninsured volumes rise
- Missouri and Kansas families pay nearly 10% of their income on employer-provided health insurance
- Missouri report finds rural veterans face urgent health gaps
- Missouri Ozarks Community Health Announces Expansion of Ava Clinic
- Missouri House unanimously passes bill removing barrier for pregnant women seeking divorce
- Missouri grant funds new rural physician training at MU Health Care clinics
MONTANA
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- Amid health care worker shortage, Montana blocks out-of-state nursing students
- Flex Family Health breaks ground on new Billings clinic
- Inside the ‘systemic’ sexual abuse reporting failure at a Helena hospital
- Lawsuit: Amid health care worker shortage, Montana blocks out-of-state nursing students
- Montana hospital continues recovery after cybersecurity incident disrupts network
- Understanding the gender divide in heart disease in Montana
NEBRASKA
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- Hospitals must transition from task-based digital tools to intelligent, agentic systems
- Nebraska has a billion-dollar opportunity to invest in rural health care. Here’s how the money will be spent
- Nebraska hospital CEO exits
- Nebraska Medicine drops lawsuit against Board of Regents after board replacement
- Nebraska Medicine takeover coming as university health systems across the US eye expansion
- Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska opens Level 4 trauma center
NEVADA
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- Community Health Alliance Nationally Recognized for Its Commitment to Improve Cardiovascular Health
- Federal staffing deficits ‘negatively affected’ Southern Nevada VA, report says
- Las Vegas hospital names COO
- Nevada Debuts Public Option Amid Tumultuous Federal Changes to Healthcare
- Nevada to get historic funding for rural health while Medicaid cuts loom
- Nevada’s $180 million rural health care plan
- Perinatal outcomes in NV suffer from too many NICUs, lack of collaboration, legislators told
- Renown Health names VP of payer contracting
- Southern Nevada Health District joins national brain health initiative
- UMC Children’s Hospital receives record-breaking Spirit Halloween donation
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- Dartmouth Health cardiologist named president elect of Association of Black Cardiologists
- Dartmouth hospital expands infectious disease care capacity
- Democrats propose New Hampshire abortion and reproductive health shield law
- ‘Drain on general funds’: State spends $2 million on mental healthcare for privately insured children
- Freezing North Country hospital executives’ pay after layoffs debated
- New Hampshire House votes down anti-vaccine bill
- NH lawmakers consider shield law, repealing buffer zones and other abortion bills
- Nurse practitioner launches mobile clinic to improve access to pediatric care in NH
- Southern NH Health expands access to surgical care close to home
NEW JERSEY
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- Bergen New Bridge debuts expanded ED with 28 new beds
- Bergen New Bridge doubles ED beds, boosts behavioral health access
- Hackensack Meridian taps chief pharmacy officer
- Hackensack Meridian’s nurse vacancy rate hits 4%, millions saved in workforce stabilization
- Health Commission: Measles case confirmed in New Brunswick
- New Jersey system names AVP of denials management and revenue integrity
- NJ bill aims to protect finances of nursing home residents
- NJ’s new health commissioner praised as ‘great leader for the time’
- RWJBarnabas Health names SVP of support services
- S&P upgrades Virtua Health’s credit outlook, citing light debt and revenue growth
- Two RWJBarnabas Health Hospitals Named to Healthgrades’ Annual America’s Best Hospitals Lists
- The Valley Hospital Acquires Latest da Vinci Surgical System
- Valley Bank lends $3.5 million to refi 25,000 sq. ft. medical office building in Fair Lawn
- What to know about changes coming to Medicaid, public health in NJ
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- Albany Med CEO leans into controllable growth
- Buffalo General cuts rehab unit in half, eliminating 22 jobs
- CNAs raise concerns over conditions inside Williamsville nursing home
- Deal for WNY nursing home collapses after three-year process
- Cornell names health innovation chief, forms health tech committee
- Independent Health CFO: Affiliation was inevitable
- Judge dismisses RICO lawsuit naming orthopedic surgeons, practices
- Kaleida Health to close Pennsylvania hospital amid ongoing financial losses
- Kaleida cuts 22 jobs at Buffalo General, shrinks rehab unit
- New York health system inks Live Nation naming deal
- New York hospital to reduce rehab beds, affecting 22 employees
- New York man sentenced in $70M physician kickback scheme
- New York man to pay $17.5M for physician kickback scheme
- New York system launches health podcast
- Northwell acquires orthopedic MOB for $9.5M
- Northwell Health to cut less than 4% of IT workforce
- Northwell: Long Island RSV cases drop after vaccination rollout
- Nurses ratify contracts at Montefiore, Mount Sinai as NewYork-Presbyterian strike continues
- NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst taps chief nurse
- NYU Langone study refines cancer risk in IBD patients
- Sanofi Pasteur sues Kaleida Health over $522,155 vaccine bill
- Southtowns Radiology parent sold to national firm
- SUNY Old Westbury, Downstate expand nursing program partnership
- Why Northwell, HCA and UPMC are betting big on EHR unification
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Advocate Health invests in affordable housing initiative
- Atrium Health gains approval for $33M freestanding ER near major Winston-Salem project
- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist taps CEO
- CON regulators reject new Wake County beds, new hospital
- Dr. David Zaas steps into CEO role at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
- How OrthoCarolina is rethinking orthopedic recruitment, retention
- Medical tech company joins Atrium Health’s Pearl innovation district
- Nation’s oldest hospital to open museum
- North Carolina system names COO
- North Carolina targets PBMs under pricing law
- Novant Health denied in bid to add Triangle hospital but plans $1B expansion in Wilmington
- Novant Health to expand outpatient surgical access
- Raleigh hospital expansions top $500M
- Trinity Health in North Dakota suspends home health and hospice services
- UNC Health wins approval for $24M hybrid ER facility in town with explosive growth
- UNC Health Rockingham receives $40 million from NC CARE to strengthen rural care
- North Carolina receives $11 million for school mental health services
- Measles spreads across North Carolina with 22 reported cases
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
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- 4 health systems adopt AI contract intelligence platform
- Cleveland Clinic 1st to use new robot for prostate surgery
- College academic leader appointed board chair of Mercy Health-Springfield
- Dayton Children’s Hospital acquires practice from Mercy Health
- Kettering Health taps vice president of revenue cycle from Grady
- Mercy Health-Cincinnati names 30-year veteran to chief nursing officer role
- MetroHealth launches dyad leadership model for level 1 trauma center
- Nursing home manager accused of stealing more than $300,000 from over 50 residents
- Ohio health system spreads AI literacy to physicians
- These 5 Ohio hospitals named among 50 best in US. See the full list
- Ohio State students, health care workers demand removal of Les Wexner’s name from campus
- Bipartisan bill aims to end health conflicts and bring down costs after years of complaints in Ohio
OKLAHOMA
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- Non-credible threat forces downtown OKC St. Anthony Hospital into lockdown
- Oklahoma Children’s Pathway to Home program teaches parents how to care for child with complex medical needs
- Oklahoma gains $202M for rural health. Here’s how it will be used
- Oklahoma mental health agency finalizes purchase of new behavioral health campus
- Oklahoma to transition to state-based ACA marketplace
- OU Health inaugural CEO to retire; COO named successor
- OU Health taps national psychiatry leader to advance behavioral health
- Saint Francis takes over Oklahoma hospital
OREGON
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- Grande Ronde Hospital’s CEO makes national leadership list
- OHSU’s $650M new cancer pavilion is set to open in April
- Proposed MultiCare, Samaritan Health merger under state review
- Sweeping Oregon health bill aims to fix everything from mushroom therapy to big hospital bills
- Patient release at Oregon State Hospital raises concern for public safety among officials
- Looking for a job in Oregon? The pickings are slim — except in health care and social services
- Oregon health officials declare measles outbreak with five confirmed cases
PENNSYLVANIA
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- AHN West Penn Hospital more than doubles ICU capacity
- Allegheny Health Network expands West Penn ICU capacity
- Cencora, Covetrus reach $3.5B animal health merger deal
- Community weighs in on proposed merger between 2 area hospital systems
- ‘Hope’: Johnson & Johnson building new Pa. facility in fight against cancer
- How WellSpan’s flexible-use ED rooms expand behavioral health capacity
- Inside Caron’s move to formalize gambling disorder treatment
- Jefferson posts $201M operating loss in H1
- Jefferson Health secures naming rights to Philadelphia Eagles facility
- Johnson & Johnson to build $1B cell therapy manufacturing plant in Montgomery County
- Kaleida Health to close Bradford Regional Medical Center
- Pennsylvania hospital to reopen after orthopedic institute fire
- Pennsylvania hospital to close, transition to outpatient care
- Why Northwell, HCA and UPMC are betting big on EHR unification
RHODE ISLAND
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- Brown Health opens primary care practice in Middletown
- McKee signs $18M state guarantee for Roger Williams and Fatima hospitals into law
- Medical device maker settles fraud case: Company to pay $112M in penalties and forfeitures
- Miriam Hospital treats patients in 2 new prostate cancer trials
- Rhode Island Hospital’s coronary unit garners excellence award for 2nd time
- RIDOH sanctions two doctors for syringe negligence, prescribing complaints
- The data that sealed this ASC’s robotics deal
- URI board of trustees supports public medical school
- Worcester picks Rhode Island official as new health commissioner
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- 4 health systems adopt AI contract intelligence platform
- AnMed Foundation gets $50K for Upstate Pre-Med Bootcamp
- CDC confirms 910 measles cases in 2026; South Carolina remains hardest hit
- MUSC Health expands virtual nursing to NICU
- MUSC Hollings researchers create AI tool to ID patients at risk of transplant complications
- MUSC launches advanced endoscopy program
- MUSC to create AI center for health innovation
- New MUSC cancer hospital will tower over downtown Charleston and could cost more than $1B
- Prisma posts 6.6% operating margin in Q1
- SC hospital for children with autism investigated for abuse, neglect, state officials say
- South Carolina psychiatric hospital investigated for abuse
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- Sanford Health Pledges $2M to Children’s Home Society’s New Rapid City Campus
- Sanford Health posts 1.8% operating margin in 2025
- South Dakota plans shift to digital medical marijuana cards
- South Dakota mental health nonprofit shuts down over financial problems
- Meet the woman shaping health and nutrition policy in South Dakota
TENNESSEE
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- Ascension Saint Thomas announces $20.6 million Fairview expansion
- Community Health Systems reveals salary for new CEO Kevin Hammons
- Community Health Systems wraps 2025 with narrow gains, flagging same-store volumes
- Fairview may get its first free-standing emergency department in newly-released $20 million plan
- Frist Cressey Ventures closes $425 million fund
- HCA ASC real estate sold
- HCA subsidiary acquires cardiothoracic, vascular physician group
- HCA’s 2025 revenue by geographic group
- Healthcare Realty Trust focuses on internal investment after $1.2 billion divestiture
- Judge rules Tenet hospital violated labor law 14 times
- Lifepoint Health taps vice president of managed care from Ardent
- Major gift backs precision therapy center at UT Health San Antonio’s brain institute
- Meharry Medical College expands into rural Tennessee to combat health care deserts
- Tennessee lawmaker files bills aimed to improve maternal health
- Why Northwell, HCA and UPMC are betting big on EHR unification
TEXAS
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- Cook Children’s Health Care names new CDIO
- Dallas anesthesia group taps CFO, COO
- HCA subsidiary acquires cardiothoracic, vascular physician group
- Healthcare billing company owner, executive plead guilty in fraud scheme
- Hospital changes hands north of Austin
- Houston Methodist rolls out Ambience Healthcare AI platform enterprisewide
- How CDC’s new vaccine guidance affects Houston health departments
- How Texas represents a paradox in Rural Health Transformation funding
- Judge rules Tenet hospital violated labor law 14 times
- Seattle health care startup acquired by Texas clinic group
- Steward trustee sues 5 payers over $57M, alleging exploitation of financial distress
- Texas Children’s Hospital allergy chief talks research, awareness
- Texas hospital taps Baylor Scott & White Health exec as chief medical officer
- Texas medical group taps new CFO
- Texas sues Children’s Health System, physician over gender care for minors
- The culture behind Memorial Hermann’s award-winning nursing units
- Vital Capital Partners buys Temple rehab hospital
- Where USPI wants to win next
UTAH
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- How Intermountain saved $1B — and why more cuts are ahead
- Intermountain Health expands care statewide to combat growing silent epidemic of arrhythmias
- Intermountain, UH join coalition boosting rural specialty care
- Pediatricians say bill denying resources to immigrants without papers would harm their patients
- R1 RCM sells 340B referral capture business
- Stalled bill allowing health care providers to deny treatment based on their beliefs will return
- Utah bill takes aim at ‘ghost’ mental health providers, long wait times
- Utah hits 272 known measles cases
- Utah, Idaho universities to build regional medical education program
VERMONT
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- Brattleboro Memorial Hospital turnaround could take 2-3 years
- Crossroads intensive transitional-aged youth outpatient program: a lifeline of hope and recovery for those with mental health needs
- Vermont man wins $1.4 million malpractice verdict against Dartmouth-Hitchcock in testicular cancer treatment
- Health commissioner provides details on Vermont’s first 2026 measles case
- ER wait times in Vermont among longest in nation, report says
VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON
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- An Eastern Washington hospital is overwhelmed with patients seeking the progressive state’s ‘charity care’ policy. They’re from across the border in Idaho
- Delayed by pandemic, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital finally nears open
- New assisted living facility planned at former Yakima Regional hospital building
- Proposed MultiCare, Samaritan Health merger under state review
- Providence, former employee reach $43M settlement over 401(k) mismanagement class action
- Seattle man arrested for destroying emergency room, attacking staff: $100K in damages
- Seattle health care startup acquired by Texas clinic group
- Washington hospitals see 43% jump in charity care spend
WEST VIRGINIA
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- West Virginia Senate approves Make West Virginia Health Act
- How telehealth is reshaping psychiatric care in rural West Virginia
- WV health department appoints Jeffries, Prasad to lead Rural Health Transformation program
- WVU hospital taps patient care exec
- WVU Medicine opens high school healthcare pathway
- WV Senate Health Committee advances ‘abortion pill reversal’ legislation
WISCONSIN
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- Ascension Wisconsin physician works to make health care accessible
- Aurora Health Care doctor delivers two generations in one family
- Cattails Cottage reopens as free housing for trauma patients, families
- Emplify Health names vice president of operational finance from Banner
- Gov. Evers: Announces Wisconsin to join growing coalition of states in joining World Health Organization Global Outbreak Alert Response Network
- How 1 hospital adopted Epic through leasing
- Marshfield Clinic opens free housing for trauma patients and families
- Marshfield Clinic to open Wisconsin Rapids hospital in March
- Rogers Behavioral Health discusses new Chippewa Falls hospital as plans move forward
- Wisconsin became a ‘biohealth tech hub’ under Biden. The hub is bustling
- Wisconsin HIE Keeps Pace With Members’ Data-Sharing Needs
WYOMING
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- Lawmakers advance bills to protect pregnancy centers, extend Medicaid coverage to birthing facilities
- Sheridan Memorial Hospital Named Top 100 Rural And Community Hospital For 2026
- St. John’s Health asking community to help fund radiation oncology
- Teton County doctors turn to concierge medicine
- Wyoming lawmakers are tackling stem cells, abortion, hospitals. Only 4 legislators are medical pros
- Wyoming legislators get serious about hospital pricing transparency
- Wyoming wants to make its five-year federal rural health funding last ‘forever’
