NATIONAL
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- 5 new things to know about the No Surprises Act: GAO report
- Amazon expands Health AI beyond the One Medical platform
- Amazon launches health AI agent on its website, expands free virtual care to 200M Prime members
- Big Pharma Gets Win in RFK Jr. Vaccine Pause, Unsure If It Lasts
- Bipartisan bill introduced to exempt healthcare workers from $100K H-1B visa fee
- CMS moves forward with 3rd round of Medicare drug negotiations
- CMS nursing home staffing campaign more than doubles to $200M
- CMS wants seniors to use AI for care navigation
- Dealmaking, regulatory scrutiny expected to ramp up: law firms
- Decision in whistleblower case could put False Claims Act’s fate in Supreme Court’s hands
- Epic, health systems file agreement to bar GuardDog from health data networks
- Federal judge halts $600M health grant cuts to Democratic states
- HHS plans $200M cancer vaccine initiative: Wall Street Journal
- HHS probes 13 states over abortion coverage
- HHS watchdog flags antipsychotic misuse in nursing homes
- HIPAA Was Built For An Analog Era, Healthcare AI Has Outgrown It
- Hospitals explore how digital technology can transform the operating room
- Hospitals Face Increased Costs of Caring for Patients
- House hearing dissects healthcare’s cost problem: 8 takeaways
- How rural hospital CEOs are navigating new healthcare laws in 2026
- How Stark law becomes an ‘insurmountable barrier’ to patient care
- Is Stark law ‘antiquated’ in the new age of medicine?
- Joining up with an ACO? 3 things that physicians should know
- Judge blocks RFK Jr. from scaling back childhood vaccine recommendations
- Leapfrog temporarily limits hospital grades to survey participants after court ruling
- ‘Medical conscience’ bills would let providers refuse more health care
- Microsoft Copilot Health Centralizes Personal Medical Records
- Moving closer to permanent telehealth reform | HIMSS 2026
- Nearly half of healthcare workers report low safety culture: Press Ganey
- Physician specialties receiving the most payments from AI device companies
- Physicians still waiting for CMS clarity on anti-workplace violence signs
- Stryker cyberattack tied to Iran: 10 updates
- Stryker cyberattack delays surgeries; feds urge tighter cybersecurity
- What health systems learned from the Stryker cyberattack
- White House moves to temper HHS before midterms: WSJ
ALABAMA
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- 24th state joins PA licensure compact
- 3 Alabama cities rank among the most overweight in the US, says WalletHub
- Alabama bill would boost ambulance reimbursements, aiming to protect rural EMS services
- Alabama House committee passes bill to help rural ambulance services
- BCBS Alabama estimated to have received at least $7M in MA overpayments: OIG
- CHS Alabama hospital CEO heads to Florida
- Forager pushes past lawsuit, closes nine-figure deal
- Treatment provider to open $2.2M addiction facility for men
- UAB Medicine affiliate names new CEO
- UAB Medicine flagship facility makes national size ranking
- University of Alabama to double nursing enrollment amid statewide shortage
ALASKA
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- A bill to simplify nurse licensing is tangled in Alaska politics, putting rural health funding at risk
- Anchorage doctor sentenced in multi-million-dollar health care and tax fraud case
- Local organizations rush for large state pot before deadline
- Alaska’s Eye-Popping Healthcare Costs – Planning For Higher Medical Expenses
- Doyon selects regional healthcare leader as its next CEO
ARIZONA
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- Arizona cardiology group pays $4.75M to settle false claims allegations
- Banner posts $444M operating gain, grows revenue to $16B — 7 things to know
- Council OKs NAH applying for a cancer center grant
- Arizona Republicans stuff vetoed proposals into a must-pass agency extension bill
- Bill bans doctors, hospitals from denying care over vaccine status
- Former CEO Peter Fine returns to Banner University Medical Center
- Leaders Tour Future Site of New Gallup Indian Medical Center
- Proposed ballot measure on medical mandates is a threat to Arizona public health, expert says
ARKANSAS
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- Arkansas hospital lays off clinical staff
- Arkansas regional hospital taps chief medical officer
- Baptist Health to acquire South Arkansas Regional Hospital in El Dorado
- Arkansas has no specific directive to notify patients when medical providers undergo scrutiny
- Former Bookkeeper Indicted for Stealing $964K From Dental Firm
- Frank Hickingbotham, GPS Dental Honored at 38th Arkansas Business of the Year Awards
- Northwest Arkansas woman pleads guilty to working as a nurse under a false license
- Philander Smith Receives $7M to Strengthen Health and Science Programs
- Propelled from grief to action: Death of his father drives pop-up Little Rock clinic creator
- UAMS partners with local food pantries in Food Is Medicine program
- UAMS Researcher Awarded $3.6M to Study Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
CALIFORNIA
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- 56 CA Hospitals Ranked In Top 10% For Patient Safety: See How Yours Ranks
- 600 workers reach labor deal with Kaiser
- 23,000 Kaiser nurses to join mental health workers’ strike
- $15M gift launches nursing school at Cal State Monterey Bay
- A California building where 89 hospices are registered pulled into national fight over fraud
- Allina Health acquisition by California’s Sutter raises union concerns over contracts, pensions
- Archer Property Partners Acquires MemorialCare-Anchored Orange County Medical Office Portfolio in Off-Market Deal
- Baja California’s Mental Health Model Gains National Recognition
- Blue Shield’s statewide layoffs include El Dorado Hills, Rancho Cordova
- Butte County DA seeks changes to California mental health diversion law after Chico cases
- Cal State Monterey Bay receives $15M gift to launch nursing school
- California-Based Health Insurance Company To Layoff 69 Employees Across Multiple Locations
- California Dental Care Provider Announces Data Breach
- Cedars-Sinai buys retail complex ‘in prime location’ for $270M — 4 things to know
- Cottage Health appoints 1st innovation chief
- Geisinger Health wants relief from financial condition on merger into Risant Health in 2024
- Habitat Health and Kaiser Permanente Open South L.A. PACE Center in Compton
- Hoag Orthopedic Institute reaches 300,000 procedures
- Kaiser Permanente taps finance leader from Sutter Health
- MemorialCare sells 3 California medical office buildings
- Prime Healthcare’s 2 criteria for acquiring hospitals
- Rady Children’s partners with NHL team on fundraising week
- Reckoning with state and federal cuts, Los Angeles safety-net clinics push for a new tax
- Stanford Health Care leader to advise agentic AI startup
- Sutter Health, Allina Health take first step toward combining
- The essential role of a health plan in Los Angeles
- U of California Health creates leadership role for partnerships
- UC Davis Health pilots AI scribe training for emergency medicine residents
- UC San Diego Health cuts call times 25% with Amazon Connect Health
- Why Sutter Health, Allina Health want to become one system
- Desert Oasis Healthcare Placed in the Top Tier of California Medical Groups with Coveted 4.5-Star Recognition
- How Sutter, Allina finances compare pre-merger
- Nvidia expands healthcare AI models
- Premise Health completes merger with California firm
- Southern states target Bay Area doctor in legal battles over abortion
- Thousands of Kaiser nurses to join Northern California strike this week over AI
- UC Davis Health named Center for Comprehensive MS Care
COLORADO
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- After hospital pushback, Colorado lawmakers reject residency funding cuts
- Colorado hospital extends Epic EHR to rural peer
- Colorado hospital worker accused of stealing pain medicine prescribed to 100+ patients
- Colorado lawmakers reject cuts to program that helps hospitals train new doctors
- Colorado Legislature passes bill aimed an increasing vaccine access for children
- Community Hospital to partner with Montrose Regional Health
- Denver Health backs Children’s Hospital Colorado in gender-affirming care lawsuit
- Denver Health program empowers girls to pursue male-dominated careers in orthopedics and surgery
- Denver ranks among top U.S. metros for outpatient surgery centers
- Health Wave Pays $63.7M for Denver-Area Sr. Care Facility
- New coalition calls on Colorado’s next governor to make youth mental health top priority
- Rising insurance premiums, uninsured rates push health systems to expand support
CONNECTICUT
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- Connecticut hospital CEO exits after 1 year
- CT lawmakers debate uncompensated care fund as hospital CEO pay goes up
- Families working to relocate relatives after Connecticut officials order closure of Windsor Locks health center
- Family of slain Bridgeport man sues rehab facility that discharged patient accused of fatal beating
- Hartford-Area Hospital Gets Major Grant For Hypertension Care
- Hospital for Special Care, CEO part ways after a year; Ricci named interim leader
- How 3 hospitals are bringing nurses back to the bedside
- Lawmakers consider bill to expand vaccine access, allow state to purchase directly from drug companies
- Lawsuit: Young man’s care in hospital ICU was overseen by remote doctor before death
- UConn Health bond sale to back acquired hospital, capital improvements
- UConn prices $582M bond deal to fund projects, Waterbury Hospital acquisition
- Yale New Haven Health names new CFO
- Connecticut recovers $43 million in Medicaid fraud payments
- CT DSS orders patients transferred out of Windsor Locks nursing home over safety concerns
- CT hospitals are struggling under financial strain. ‘We cannot continue to do more with less’
- Marlborough nursing home worker struck an 85-year-old patient in the head, police say
- New Pediatric Healthcare Facility Opens In Trumbull
- Proposed legislation would require insurance of cold cap cancer treatment in Connecticut
- Young man’s care in hospital ICU was overseen by remote doctor before death
DC
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- Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center receives Immediate Jeopardy Citation
- Elevance names president for Washington, DC Medicaid plan
- Geisinger Health wants relief from financial condition on merger into Risant Health in 2024
- Wellpoint D.C. taps new president as predecessor moves to corporate role
- Whitman-Walker Health System fills out Southeast D.C. hub, secures funding to resume research lab project
DELAWARE
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- “A tremendously precarious position” : Primary care investment bill heard by Senate committee
- ‘Blank check’: Delaware bill would cap the state’s inflated hospital prices
- ChristianaCare research advances new approaches to diagnosing and treating lung disease
- Delaware lawmakers target health care costs with SB1
- Delaware Senate Bill 1 sparks debate over healthcare costs, jobs and patient care
- Delaware Senate Passes Bill To Let Terminally Ill Patients Use Medical Marijuana In Hospitals
- Doctor, policy analysts say SB1 expands state control over Delaware healthcare system.
- Encompass Health announces plans to build a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Bear, Delaware
- Get Involved: Hospital cost fight to resume; Sussex charter to learn its fate
- ChristianaCare receives slightly lower bond rating
- Critics argue that SB1 legislation adds oversight of insurers after last year’s oversight of the hospital budget failed.
- Delaware emerges as a test bed for the future of AI in health care
- Delaware Health Advocates Push for Stronger Healthcare Workforce
- Delaware holds hearing on hotly contested primary care reform bill
FLORIDA
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- 1 in 5 outpatient surgery centers in Florida rated among ‘Best’ by U.S. News
- 2 Florida MOBs sell for $13M
- A COO at 35, Orlando Health hospital leader embraces these 5 leadership habits
- AdventHealth’s operating margin holds steady at 11.6% in 2025
- AdventHealth taps CEO for newly formed region
- Ascension Sacred Heart offers free mammograms to uninsured women
- Baptist Health Foundation Receives $1 Million Grant from Ocean Reef Community Foundation to Benefit Baptist Health Homestead Hospital
- BayCare plans freestanding ED in former CVS
- Borland Groover, USPI partner on GI ASC
- CHS Alabama hospital CEO heads to Florida
- Developer moves forward with Broward project with $97 million loan
- Former CEO of 5 Florida hospitals sued over bank account control
- GuideWell and Florida Blue VP: Well-being strategies must shift across generations
- HCA hospital taps new vice president of HR
- Hospital Sues Patient Who Refuses to Leave Her Room Months After Discharge
- Jacksonville air ambulance startup quickly finds success, looks to expand range
- Memorial Hospital renovations cross $20M threshold
- Montana to enact Medicaid work requirements in July, Florida inches closer
- Moody’s upgrades Tampa General’s credit rating
- MultiCare Health System partners with hellocare.ai as enterprise-wide platform for virtual care
- Nemours doubles pediatric care-at-home program across 5 states
- Orlando provider acquires Atlanta medical practice
- Rehab hospital proposed in Palm Beach County
- Sarasota healthtech startup lands credibility boost from Mayo Clinic
- Six years Later: Lee Health CEO reflects on COVID-19’s lasting impact
- Skanska tops out $435M Florida hospital project
- St. Augustine ambulatory surgery center opens
- Tampa Bay research institutions received millions in NIH grants in 2025
- Tampa General 1st to deploy Epic’s ‘Ask Art’ tool
- Trump administration widens Medicaid fraud crackdown to Florida, calling it a ‘hotspot’
- UF Health opens 24K-square-foot orthopedic surgical center
- UHS Florida hospital CEO resigns
- Viewpoint: Jacksonville healthcare M&A defies national slowdown trend
- We turned off the phones and our practice got busier
GEORGIA
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- $900M proposal to build new hospital aims to address South Fulton’s healthcare desert
- Atlanta-based AI company is reshaping rural healthcare
- Aveanna Health acquires physician group
- Fulton County leaders consider $900M plan to build new hospital
- Georgia lawmakers move to limit AI’s role in health insurance denials
- Grady CEO to retire as $1B medical campus clears hurdle
- Grady plans $1 billion medical campus in Union City
- How three health care leaders are advancing senior care across metro Atlanta
- How to heal Buckhead’s largest office complex? Perhaps a medical makeover.
- Major leadership change underway at Grady Health System
- Orlando provider acquires Atlanta medical practice
- Piedmont, Encompass tap CEO for planned Georgia hospital
- Police Escorted Doulas Out of Atlanta Hospital During Black Mother’s Labor
- Why is Georgia unnecessarily restricting access to cancer care?
HAWAII
IDAHO
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- Idaho committee rejects bill to repeal childhood vaccine requirements
- Idaho M.D. accused of COVID falsehoods gets leadership role in doctors group
- Idaho Senate to consider $22M in budget cuts to Medicaid disability service
- Nearly $200M federal rural health grant in limbo in Idaho Legislature
- New Idaho law expands breast cancer screening coverage for high-risk women
- The clock is ticking for Idaho’s rural hospitals
- Federal rural health grant remains in limbo
- Free health care expands access for families through Genesis Community Health
- Idaho bill that would cut $21.8 million in Medicaid funding for disability services put on pause
- Idaho Medicaid disability budget cuts shelved in Senate committee
- Idahoans are forced to suffer in silence when clinicians aren’t allowed to testify on bill
ILLINOIS
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- 1 CFO’s unconventional path from rental cars to healthcare
- BCBS Illinois to tighten E/M billing rules
- CommonSpirit Health Patients Affected by Vendor Data Breach
- Endeavor Health chief marketing officer to depart
- How 3 hospitals are bringing nurses back to the bedside
- IL bill could require insurance coverage for preventative heart scans
- Illinois bill takes aim at AI-driven downcoding
- Illinois hospital taps chief nurse
- Lienholder begins foreclosure process on Vista Medical Center in Waukegan as hospital faces over $2M in unpaid taxes
- Lurie Children’s reveals Downers Grove hospital site
- Major employer is taking over Illinois hospital. Here are the details
- Northwestern Medicine expands clinical space at outpatient center
- OSF HealthCare hospital to transition to Epic
- OSF HealthCare uses text outreach after ED visits — and sees 33% engagement
- OSF HealthCare uses digital therapeutics to create a digital path to care
- OSF Saint Katharine introducing new electronic medical records system April 1
- Southern Illinois Healthcare Launches “FindHelp” Resource
- Taylorville Memorial Hospital names Aaron Puchbauer as new CEO
- The latest on Lurie Children’s proposed Downers Grove hospital
- 3 health systems back tech startup in $28M investment
- 8 Chicago-area hospitals could leave Blue Cross Blue Shield Illinois’ network this summer
- Baxter CFO to exit, interim leader named
- Blessing emergency center nurse earns national certification
- Chicago City Council makes big move in support of Medicare for All
- Federal judge halts Trump administration’s health care funding cuts to Illinois, for now
- Hospital owner plans to build new $231M replacement facility
- Illinois Considers Reversing Ban on Nonclinician-Owned Autism Clinics
- Northwestern adds 5 startups to health innovation program
- Prime Healthcare’s hospitals could soon be out-of-network for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois members
INDIANA
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- Anthem Indiana’s new leader: Designated orthopedic network ‘just the first lever we’ll be pulling’
- Anthem invests $100K to support women’s health in Indiana
- Deaconess Health reports data breach tied to vendor
- Departure of 3 Baptist Health Floyd doctors a ‘personnel matter,’ hospital says
- Indiana plans to cut Medicaid coverage of drugs through federal program
- Indiana to move long-term nursing home residents out of Medicaid managed care
- Indianapolis health provider warns Medicaid change could impact low-income patients
- IU Health filings show profits even as Indiana hospitals warn of strain
- Lilly spending $1.8B to update Indianapolis manufacturing operations
- Planned Parenthood closing 2 Indy clinics, citing loss of federal money
- Ruling lifts Indiana’s near-total abortion ban for some with religious objections
- State scraps managed care for Medicaid’s LTC patients
IOWA
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- Iowa nursing homes’ staffing violations outpace neighboring states
- See how UI Health Care’s Project Art soothes patients in Iowa City
- AI in the doctor’s office reduces burnout, increases connection
- Iowa nursing homes accused of abuse added to federal list of worst facilities
- Mercy, St. Luke’s reinstate mask rules for Cedar Rapids hospitals
- Midwives step up after rural hospitals close birthing centers
- Three Iowa dentists receive loan repayment awards from FIND Project
- UI Health Care performs its first robotic living donor nephrectomy
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
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- Baptist Health pharmacy leader joins Prisma
- Baptist Health, NOVO creating 150+ jobs with new facility
- Deaconess patients’ sensitive data stolen in vendor breach
- Family Health Centers names new CEO as longtime leader Bart Irwin prepares to retire
- Health bills’ status in week 10 of the ’26 legislative session; here’s what moved last week
- Hoxworth Blood Center issues urgent call for Type O+/- and platelet donors as blood usage surges at local hospitals
- How BrightSpring’s CEO is growing home care after a $238M deal
- Kentucky pharmacy, pharmacist sanctioned after errors hospitalize 3 children
- Ky adds 3 medical marijuana cultivators and 1 new dispensary
- Local nonprofits awarded $138,500 in grants thanks to Saint Joseph
- Medical professionals in Appalachia discuss rural healthcare shortage
- New community health clinic will bring free primary care to Northern Kentucky
- Northern Kentucky-based behavioral health group to open first Louisville office
- T.J. Regional Health named one of Kentucky’s Best Places to Work
LOUISIANA
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- 62-physician practice in Louisiana acquired
- LCMC Health raises systemwide minimum wage
- Louisiana hospital opens $3M interventional radiology suite
- Ochsner to raise minimum wage
- Louisiana bill targets AI use in health insurance coverage decisions
- Louisiana hospitals launch program to support pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders
- Louisiana lawmakers call for more oversight, but not closure of Children and Family Services
- State health officials want to shift $6.5 million to expand mental health crisis response
- Which Louisiana hospitals have the longest ER wait times in Louisiana? See the data.
MAINE
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- Democrats push through last-minute health care amendment, scrapping cost caps
- Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor receives strike notice from nurses’ union
- Gubernatorial candidates to hold forum on ‘future of Maine’s health care system’
- Independent candidate for Maine governor Rick Bennett offers health care affordability plan
- Legislature poised to vote on massive bills to offset federal cuts to SNAP, health care
- Limiting what Maine hospitals can charge offers relief from rising health care costs
- MaineHealth expands its free CNA training program
- Midcoast Maine Community Action to open Rockport WIC Clinic at MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital
- Nurses plan strike at Northern Light Eastern Maine
- The Knox Clinic begins construction on the Bok Building, marking a major milestone in its 26-year commitment to accessible care
- UNE and Tufts medical students learn firsthand the challenges, rewards of rural health care
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Dana-Farber boosts operating margin to 8.4% in Q1
- Healthcare costs blow past state benchmark for fourth straight year
- Mass General Brigham receives $50M for cancer research
- Mass General Brigham hospital taps chief nursing officer
- Massachusetts system opens retail pharmacy
- Northeast Orthopaedic Alliance names CEO
- Aldeyra Therapeutics stock drops 70% after third FDA rejection
- Biotech Bicycle Therapeutics axes 86 jobs; halts cancer drug work
- Branches of Marlboro names new executive director
- Crossbow Therapeutics raises $77M for cancer drug trials
- Insulet to spend up to $40M on Omnipod 5 pod recall
- Legislature looking to trim Healey’s $400M research proposal for hospitals, universities
- Lifeward shareholders approve sale of up to 50% of company
- Triveni Bio leases top floor at 100 Forge in Watertown
- UMass Chan receives $800K for ALS research
- UMass Memorial promotes 2 hospital executives
- VentureWell to exit ARPA-H Investor Catalyst Hub management
MICHIGAN
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- 10K nurses at Southeast Michigan hospitals vote to authorize strike
- Corewell Health posts $1.3B profit amid investment windfall
- Henry Ford Health operating margin falls as JV drives revenue growth
- How Bronson Healthcare increased financial assistance, Medicaid applications
- How nursing backgrounds shaped 2 revenue cycle leaders
- Judge forces trial in False Claims case targeting SNFist practice
- Medical resident’s lawsuit wins $10 million from Genesys Hospital
- Michigan hospital to pay $30K in disability discrimination suit
- Michigan can ease doctor shortage by raising pay for primary care, group says
- Michigan psychiatric hospital in Northville Twp. to open in October
- Michigan Senate passes medical debt bills
- Michigan’s Corewell Health East nurses vote to authorize strike
- MSU Health Care’s CMO on the biggest barrier to sustained quality improvement
- Pine Rest opens Michigan’s first pediatric mental health center
- Priority Health HMO loses money again as drug costs surge
- Trinity Health Medical Center Brighton To Open In Brighton, Michigan
- Trinity Health notifies patients of potential data exposure tied to Health Gorilla
- University of Michigan Health unveils sculpture honoring COVID-19 health care workers
MINNESOTA
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- Community benefit report highlights Essentia Health’s commitment to underserved populations
- Minnesota lawmakers seek access to Optum’s unredacted Medicaid report
- Minnesota nursing homes may soon serve alcohol without license
- Private equity firms could face high barriers to investing in Minnesota assisted living communities
- State’s long-term care providers sue over workforce board’s ‘unchecked power,’ constitutionality
- Sutter Health, Allina Health take first step toward combining
- Sutter Health’s acquisition of Allina Health raises concerns over costs, jobs, and patient care for some
- Why Sutter Health, Allina Health want to become one system
- Allina Health to join Sutter Health in $26B proposed transaction
- Financial support sought to address nursing workforce needs across Minnesota
- Former state health commissioner appointed to role supporting Minnesota hospitals
- Hennepin Healthcare officials warn lawmakers it could close in 2026 without tax boost
- How Minnesota healthcare leaders are responding to threats over withholding Medicaid funds
- How Sutter, Allina finances compare pre-merger
- Judge orders UnitedHealth to hand over documents in AI coverage denial case
- Nursing homes sue over “unchecked power” of Minnesota board setting minimum wages
- What comes next for Optum’s care delivery business, per its CEO
MISSISSIPPI
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- Carleton Place & District Memorial Hospital earns national accreditation for heart imaging services
- Judge grants Mississippi hospital pause on Medicaid debt repayment
- Lawmakers send bill to the governor to help rural hospitals open new services
- Memorial Hospital Gulfport receives level 1 stroke center designation
- Mississippi health leaders urge more colon cancer screening as state leads nation in deaths
- Mississippi system launches revamped leadership structure
- Mississippi to loosen CON for some hospitals
- Ochsner Medical Center – Baton Rouge ranked among leading medical facilities around the world
- University of Mississippi Medical Center restores operations after ransomware attack
- Experts say many pregnant women in Mississippi do not realize they already qualify for this Medicaid program
- Memorial Hospital adds Ion robot to detect, treat lung cancer earlier
- Mississippi Medicaid expansion efforts stall again despite potential benefits
- UMMC assistant vice chancellor for research recognized for community-engaged public health leadership
MISSOURI
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- 5 patient safety achievements at Ascension
- 2 Missouri physicians face false claims complaint over electric stimulation billing
- A Missouri program reimagines rural hospitals as the central hub for more than health care
- Blue KC sets closing date for affiliation with national insurer
- Children’s Mercy licenses new treatment for dystonia, Parkinson’s
- Fitch downgrades Missouri system’s credit rating
- HCA hospital in Missouri names CEO
- Highmark-BCBS Kansas City affiliation green-lit by Missouri regulators
- Hospital owner plans to build new $231M replacement facility
- In Missouri and Kansas, NIH research grants slipped in 2025
- Missouri system taps vice president of HR
- Missouri’s First Nurse Senator Leads Push to Expand Prescribing Authority
- St. Louis Children’s taps chief medical officer
MONTANA
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- Becker’s Healthcare Recognizes Sanford Bismarck’s Justin Reisenauer, M.D., as a Top Chief Medical Officer
- Bozeman Health expansion to increase capacity as population grows
- DPHHS reports $34.4 million shortfall in interim budget committee
- Hospital breaks ground on emergency room, ICU expansion
- Medicaid eligibility rule changes will take effect July 1, state health officials say
- Montana starts resource mobilization for emergency medical services
- Montana to enact Medicaid work requirements in July, Florida inches closer
- Providence Montana chief executive to step down
- St. James Hospital in Butte receives re-accreditation affirming cardiac care standards
- Bozeman Health seeking public input on community health needs
- Gallatin Behavioral Health Coalition report highlights expanded crisis, treatment services
- Greater Valley Health Center names Adam Naumann as new CEO
- Influenza death count increases to 20 in Montana
- Sheridan Memorial Hospital Advances Care & Access
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
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- Las Vegas healthcare revamp cuts wait times, visits
- Southern Nevada forum discusses healthcare in valley, focuses on funding for residencies
- A Nevada-based startup is delivering prescription drugs to older adults and beyond
- Boulder City Hospital designation and services set to change
- Man’s skin cancer diagnosis highlights Southern Nevada’s primary care shortage
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- Dartmouth Health adopts Team Birth to improve patient care and communication
- Dartmouth Health expands addiction treatment program in New Hampshire
- Dartmouth Health taps CFO for flagship hospital
- Executive Council approves first contracts for NH rural health program after calls for scrutiny
- Inside CMC’s Emergency Department: Where calm leadership is reshaping care
- NH Executive Council approves $640M in federal funds for GO-NORTH rural health initiative
- Senate tables bill to limit hospital executive compensation in Coos
- $773M for NH rural health care contracts tabled
- Catholic Medical Center’s behavioral health closure raises questions
- Dartmouth Health to open new addiction treatment center in Claremont
- House passes bill to protect pregnancy resource centers
- La Clinica opens new mobile health center on wheels, serving Jackson County
- NH to issue $641M in first contracts for rural health initiative
- Peterborough residents tour proposed Bold Steps clinic site
- St. Teresa Rehabilitation & Nursing Center earns National Customer Experience Award
NEW JERSEY
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- 14 NJ Hospitals Ranked In Top 10% For Patient Safety
- AristaCare at Parkside Earns Heart Failure Certification from the American Heart Association
- Gov. Sherrill aims to fund home nurse visits for newborns, moms in all 21 counties
- Hospital In North Jersey To Close For Good On Saturday
- Jersey City files emergency court injunction to stop Heights hospital closure
- Jersey City hospital closure leads to calls for state intervention
- Jersey City hospital closes despite fierce local opposition
- New Jersey governor floats fining employers with workers on Medicaid
- New Jersey medical center launches physician-led medical group
- New Jersey system partners with health center ahead of ED closure
- Prime New Jersey hospital taps chief nurse
- Protests and arrests ahead of planned Jersey City ER shutdown
- RWJBarnabas New Jersey hospital taps new COO
- About 200 South Jersey healthcare workers vote to unionize
- ADHD patients in N.J. will soon have a harder time getting Adderall and Ritalin
- Autumn Lake Healthcare Expands Specialty Care Programs to Meet Growing Needs of New Jersey’s Aging Population
- New Jersey Has Half the Psychiatrists Needed as Medicaid Cuts Loom
- New Jersey Joins Multi-State Effort Opposing Proposed Federal Health Insurance Rules
- NJ lawmakers urged to shine light on nursing home ownership
- Protests and arrests ahead of planned Jersey City ER shutdown
- Rowan, Holy Name launch dual-enrollment nursing program
- Rowan, Virtua open biomedical research center in South Jersey
- RWJBarnabas Health Names Francis J. Giantomasi to the Board of Trustees
- RWJBarnabas, Partners Hold Groundbreaking for South Ward Wellness Center
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
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- Data breach at NYC Health + Hospitals partner exposes info of 5,086 patients
- ECMC promotes from within for new CEO
- Erie County Medical Center Corp. names new CEO
- Health plan subsidiary grows revenue to $500 million
- Hospital for Special Surgery by the numbers
- How nursing backgrounds shaped 2 revenue cycle leaders
- How NYU Langone built 1 of the nation’s fastest-growing GI divisions
- How NYU Langone turned a struggling Brooklyn hospital into a quality leader
- ‘I feel so much better’: NYC Health + Hospitals expands lifestyle medicine program
- Installing ‘granny cams’ in Long Island nursing homes. What does the law say?
- Long Island Plastic Surgical Group Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over BlackCat Ransomware Attack
- Memorial Sloan Kettering appoints CFO
- Montefiore’s White Plains Hospital to expand outpatient footprint with cardiac extension clinic
- Mount Sinai reaches for the mic amid Anthem dispute fallout
- New York neurosurgeon barred from administering pediatric vaccines
- North Star seeks state’s help for payroll
- NYC Health + Hospitals names chief nurse of Bronx hospitals
- NYU Langone opens imaging center in Long Island
- Rochester Regional Health launches student loan support program
- Violations at Long Island nursing homes, including assaults, prompt more than $500,000 in fines
- Buffalo’s medical device industry facing a funding gap
- Maimonides’ merger with H+H can proceed for now, state judge rules
- Mount Sinai study: Multi-agent AI handles heavy clinical workloads better
- Mount Sinai taps AI platform to identify cost savings
- NY Gov. Kathy Hochul funnels grants to medication abortion providers
- RelianceRx projects revenue to top $500M amid ongoing expansion
- U at Buffalo develops AI detector for fake radiology reports
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Brody family gifts ECU $10M to expand medical school scholarships
- Cape Fear Valley Health announces relocation of Diagnostic Center
- Details emerge on Mission Hospital’s immediate jeopardy response: 8 things to know
- Dr. David Zaas named CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
- Duke to boost local hiring to 80% under $203M plan
- ECU Health battles major insurers over cost of care
- ECU Health secures approval for $138M expansion of Greenville hospital
- Lawmakers hear how rural women face risks to give birth
- NC mental health bed registry gets hourly updates, 988 integration
- North Carolina system names president
- North Carolina system to start going out of network with UnitedHealthcare in April
- Novant competes with Atrium for hospital beds in two fast-growing Charlotte counties
- Novant Health hires veteran surgeon to launch robotic heart program in Charlotte
- Two Triad surgery centers earn high performing status from U.S. News & World Report
- UNC Health Pardee Cuts Ribbon On Pardee BlueMD MOB In Brevard, North Carolina
- Work begins on three-tiered plan for State Health Plan
NORTH DAKOTA
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- Becker’s Healthcare Recognizes Sanford Bismarck’s Justin Reisenauer, M.D., as a Top Chief Medical Officer
- First round of rural health funding available for critical access hospitals in North Dakota
- Rural North Dakota health care facilities gearing up for funding boost
- Sanford, Essentia working to close North Dakota’s mental health provider gap
- Trinity Health moves clinical, admin services out of hospital following review
- Measles outbreak surges in North Dakota, putting immunocompromised in danger
- North Dakota’s rural health system ‘under growing strain’
- Sanford Hospital in Fargo opens new pre-admissions unit
OHIO
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- AFRL, UC Health open most advanced military trauma simulation center through $10M investment
- Bon Secours Mercy leads $7M investment in workforce startup
- Central Ohio’s hospital systems are on a building spree. Is it good for patients?
- Christ Hospital Health Network expands women’s care with new Greater Cincinnati site
- Cincinnati loses another public firm as Quipt acquired in $260M deal
- Cleveland Clinic chief investment officer to exit after 10 years
- Dayton Children’s plans new therapy facility on near-campus parking lot site
- Judge dismisses religious discrimination lawsuit by PeaceHealth workers over COVID vaccine
- Ohio bill would require insurers to cover menopause treatment
- Ohio children’s hospital to build rehab center
- Officials excited about announcement of new Ohio hospital
- OhioHealth breaks ground on $226M cancer center — 5 things to know
- Ohio State Wexner’s $2 billion University Hospital tower opens
- TriHealth CEO on pending retirement: ‘It’s time to move on’
- UC Health debuts world’s most advanced military trauma simulation center
- University Hospitals plans sale-leaseback for $68.4M pathology center in Highland Hills
OKLAHOMA
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- Oklahoma hospital delays payroll
- Oklahoma reaches settlement with Script Care over pharmacy audits
- Study finds rural long-term care facilities have over $1.8 billion economic impact in Oklahoma
- Hospitals see $25K-$35K revenue boost per patient stay with OSU virtual care program
- Rural long-term care facilities have huge economic impact in Oklahoma
- Steps toward closing mental health gaps, particularly in southwest OKC
OREGON
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- A hospital on Oregon’s coast was on the brink of catastrophe until an unlikely alliance stepped up
- Canadian province poaches over 400 U.S. health workers, eyes Oregon for more
- Coos Bay hospital gets lifeline from Oregon lawmakers
- Governor asks PeaceHealth to delay contract switch: 8 things to know
- Hospital consolidation dominates Oregon health care
- Hundreds of health care workers from Washington, Oregon have immigrated to B.C. for jobs
- Legacy fired nurse over her concerns for Portland hospital’s blood supply, complaint says
- Job No. 1 for ApolloMD as it takes over PeaceHealth ERs: find doctors
- Oregon Hospital Fight Tests State’s New Anti-Private-Equity Law
- Oregon lawmakers greenlight $44M lifeline for hospital
- Oregon’s anti-consolidation bill tested by physician contract switch-up
- Tensions continue between physicians, PeaceHealth in contract deal
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Geisinger Health wants relief from financial condition on merger into Risant Health in 2024
- Highmark’s Blue KC affiliation set to close March 31
- How 3 hospitals are bringing nurses back to the bedside
- Judge approves $5M Geisinger, Microsoft data breach settlement
- Major health system opens first of 3 small-format hospitals in central Pa.
- Malvern-based Neuronetics appoints new CEO, revenue surges after acquisition
- Marathon Health to invest up to $15M opening 6 care centers in Philadelphia
- New owner looks for way to reopen Springfield Hospital, revive health care options in Delco
- New Pennsylvania Hospital Offers Care To Northern Maryland Patients
- Risant’s Geisinger asks state to relax capital requirements
- Rothman Orthopaedics to grow physician count 20%
- Universal Health Services moves to acquire physician group
- UPMC, Microsoft invest in AI medical coding startup
- UPMC records may have been allegedly improperly accessed: Epic
- WellSpan cuts 21.5% of post-acute spending with 3 changes
- WellSpan Health launches AI-powered robotic kitchen
- WVU Medicine deploys Pittsburgh-developed AI tool across 25-hospital network
- $28.5M settlement approved in class action suit against two Pa. healthcare providers
- Inovio Pharmaceuticals cuts 16% of workforce ahead of FDA decision
- Jefferson Health taps new executive vice president
- Turner goes vertical on $900M Pennsylvania hospital expansion
- UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital nurses push for smaller staffing ratios
RHODE ISLAND
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- BCBS Rhode Island reports $10M operating loss in 2025
- Brown Health posts -1.5% operating margin in Q1
- Brown University Health warns federal cuts could cost it up to $90M annually
- Rhode Island governor to embrace ‘silver loading,’ transparency amid ACA enhanced subsidy cuts
- 3 R.I. ambulatory surgery centers named high performing by U.S. News & World Report
- $7.9M awarded from environmental settlement to expand children’s dental care in Providence
- Five Questions With: Dr. Joshua C. Brown
- Mental health entrepreneur recognized with Georgetown fellowship
- RIDOH issues overdose spike alert in 5 communities under new data system
- Saint Anne’s Hospital partners with Somerset Fire Department to improve sepsis treatment
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Baptist Health pharmacy leader joins Prisma
- Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital Of Irmo Opens In South Carolina
- How Prisma Health trimmed 15 days off its breast cancer surgery timeline
- Hugh C. Tappan named 2026 chair of SC Hospital Association
- Matt Medley named CEO of MUSC Health-Orangeburg
- Measles case rate slows in South Carolina, rises in other states: 5 updates
- MUSC Health purchases Palmetto Primary Care Physicians in $111 million acquisition
- Prisma Health Expands Partnership With Minerra Health, Announces Strategic Investment to Scale Obesity Care Platform
- Prisma Health Retirement Plans Targeted in Would-be Class Suit
- SC rural hospital asks legislators to enact safety net in preparation for Medicaid cuts
- USC opens Brain Health Center for Alzheimer’s care
- MUSC Health names hospital CEO
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- CEO explains what new Regional One hospital means for area
- Former Tenet CFO joins Acadia Healthcare board
- HCA Healthcare’s top five executives get pay bump
- HCA’s CEO-to-worker pay ratio widens in 2025
- How Brookdale Senior Living CEO Nick Stengle landed his gig
- Judge rules Erlanger’s Stark law, fraud cases can proceed: 10 things to know
- New leader takes helm of major Memphis institution
- Premise Health completes merger with California firm
- Surgery Partners adds former CommonSpirit CEO to board of directors
- Surgery Partners added 700 physicians, 8 de novos in 2025
- Tennessee bill would end certificate of need rules, aiming to open more hospitals statewide
- Tennessee lawmakers skeptical over strings attached to Trump rural health grant program
- Tennessee lawmakers weigh expanding optometrists’ scope of practice
- Tennessee university opens $36M medical school campus
- TN lawmaker backpedals on bill language that could hurt Karing Hearts cath lab
- Vanderbilt Health leans into sports, entertainment to reach patients
- Vanderbilt Health president, CEO to retire
- Vanderbilt University Hospital placed on temporary diversion amid EHR outage
TEXAS
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- Edloe Realty buys Houston medical plaza from Transwestern, plans more deals with outside investors
- Genomic Testing Cooperative, led by ex-MD Anderson professor, expands to The Woodlands
- Oceans Behavioral Hospital debuts virtual outpatient program
- Texas hospital medical staff vote ‘no confidence’ in CEO
- Texas hospital to build $180M patient tower
- Texas sees record physician license applications
- University of Texas launches MD-MBA program in Houston as physician ownership declines
- Why UTMB’s transformation chief is resisting the urge to build
- Woman’s Hospital of Texas to add rooms, pediatric heart unit amid 50th anniversary
- 6 CFO job openings with Tenet
- Baylor Scott & White Health taps foundation president
- Harris County approves controversial Ben Taub Hospital expansion through eminent domain
- Medline breaks ground on distribution center
- Transwestern sells Greenhouse Medical Plaza to Edloe Realty
- University of Texas Medical Branch taps radiology chair
- Where Houston’s best colonoscopies, spinal surgeries are located
- Woman’s Hospital of Texas marks 50th anniversary with upgrades
UTAH
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- Cedar City celebrates major hospital expansion
- Health officials flag two Salt Lake County locations for measles exposure as cases rise
- How Huntsman Mental Health Institute is redefining behavioral health integration
- Intermountain Health adds fetal spina bifida surgery
- Intermountain Health opens ambulatory endoscopy center
- Intermountain raises operating margin to 2.8% in 2025: 5 notes
- Lawsuit filed against Ogden hospital after security guard allegedly sexually assaulted several patients
- Meals to go: How Holy Cross Hospital supports patients beyond medical treatment
- Measles spreading faster in Utah with 85 infections confirmed in past 2 weeks
- New groundbreaking in-utero procedure at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital offers hope to pregnant moms and babies with Spina Bifida before they’re born
- U of Utah institute unveils framework for ethical healthcare AI
- Utah measles outbreak speeds up but there are few changes to daily life
- Utah works to keep AI from getting ‘stuck’ in regulation, says Zachary Boyd, Ph.D., director of the state’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy
VERMONT
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- AI regulation could change Vermont’s health services
- Brattleboro hospital nurses plan strike vote after $14.5M deficit freezes pay
- Vermont’s 8-year ‘all-payer’ health care experiment sunset at the end of 2025. What did it teach us?
- Vermont lawmakers advance bills to lower health care costs
- Emmons-Abbruzzi to serve as CVHHH’s Medical Director for Home Health, Hospice, and Palliative Care
- Schaechter named Pediatrics Chair at Larner College of Medicine
VIRGINIA
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- Chesterfield to get $672M worth of hospital projects from VCU, HCA, Bon Secours after state approval
- Flu numbers rising again in Virginia
- Inova Health 1st on East Coast to add ActivL disc
- UVA Health CIO flags tech debt, IT restructuring as early priorities
- Virginia Approves $672 Million in New Hospital Capacity for Chesterfield County
- Virginia OKs new hospitals, expansions for HCA, Bon Secours, VCU Health
- Virginia joins states challenging Trump admin regulations that limit free birth control access
WASHINGTON
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- 2-month strike ends at MultiCare hospital
- Fred Hutch taps revenue cycle leader
- Hundreds of health care workers from Washington, Oregon have immigrated to B.C. for jobs
- MultiCare Health System partners with hellocare.ai as enterprise-wide platform for virtual care
- New Washington state law aims to protect access to preventative health care
- Old hospital provides new path to recovery
- Providence explores sale of health plan
- Providence Regional Medical Center Everett names new top administrator
- Puget Sound-area startups invest in the science of staying healthy
- Seattle Ranked Among Top Life Sciences Markets
- Tensions continue between physicians, PeaceHealth in contract deal
- UW Medicine taps new CFO
- Universal Health Services moves to acquire Washington physician group
- Washington hospital to close pediatric rehab clinic
WEST VIRGINIA
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- Alex Mayer resigns as head of the West Virginia Department of Human Services
- ‘Flexibility to begin’: Morrisey issues statement as $199M rural health funding clears Legislature
- How Hospital Closures Are Affecting Rural Communities
- Marshall Health Network bets on AI to modernize patient scheduling
- Morrisey blasts lawmakers’ delay on bill allocating $199.5M in health funding
- West Virginia physician sentenced for tax fraud, obstructing justice
- WVU foundation CEO to retire
- WVU Medicine deploys Pittsburgh-developed AI tool across 25-hospital network
- WVU Medicine plans $50M small-format hospital
WISCONSIN
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- Gov. Evers signs bill to expand Medicaid postpartum coverage for Wis. mothers
- Legacy Recovery Announces Open House : New Wisconsin Treatment Center Opening
- ThedaCare closing Weyauwega clinic at end of June
- UW Health seeks chief technology officer
- Wisconsin ‘Next of Kin’ bill headed to governor’s desk after Senate passage
- Epic, health systems file agreement to bar GuardDog from health data networks
- Evers signs ‘Gail’s Law’ to require coverage of preventive breast cancer screenings
- Tomah Health, Versiti asking residents to donate blood
- UW Health doctor creates adaptive crayons for people with disabilities
- Winter storm disrupts care in 2 states
- Wisconsin bill to help free up hospital beds passes, but worries disability groups
- Wisconsin postpartum Medicaid bill signed into law
WYOMING
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- Abortions in all but earliest weeks now illegal in Wyoming, as new court battle brews
- About a dozen patients turned away after last week’s abortion ban
- As Wyoming limits abortion care, providers look to out-of-state options
- Which states have the most healthcare deserts?
- Wyoming Faces A Pressing Healthcare Crisis Affecting Many
- Whooping cough cases up in Wyoming, officials warn
- Wyoming Life Flight nurses now able to perform open thoracotomies
- Wyoming’s new six-week abortion ban prompts lawsuit
