NATIONAL
- Health Organizations Urge HHS to Recognize MA Providers in MACRA
- AHA report: Hospitals spend almost $3 trillion, support more than 16 million jobs
- Berkshire-Amazon-JPMorgan choose healthcare CEO, announcement coming soon
- Patients face large bills as air ambulance rides proliferate
- Health IT stakeholders urge CMS to adopt 3 new remote monitoring reimbursement codes
- CMS give states Medicaid funding to combat the opioid crisis
- OIG: HIV Telemedicine Program Doesn’t Violate Anti-Kickback Laws
- Antitrust Case Before Supreme Court May Limit Physician Referrals
- HHS Chief Calls for Shift to State-Based Health Coverage Grants
- MGMA asks CMS to enforce HIPAA rules on health insurers
- Here is how all 50 states, DC rank in patient access
- Here’s AMA’s plan to fight drug shortages
- CMS postpones July hospital star ratings update
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Milford and Bridgeport Hospitals To Finally Merge: Report
- How Connecticut Children’s dramatically reduced pressure injuries
- Editorial: Hearings now on UConn health center mismanagement
- Feds OK first stage of new Connecticut hospital taxing system
- Hartford HealthCare considering other uses for Southington’s Bradley hospital
- Mass. sues Stamford’s Purdue Pharma for misleading opioid buyers
MAINE
- Mid Coast Parkview campus opens after $6.2M renovation
- MaineHealth earns strong credit ratings ahead of issuing bonds for $512M expansion
- Seacoast hospitals back acute rehab facility in York
- Calais hospital terminates management agreement with for-profit firm
- Investor ratings agencies give MaineHealth top grades
MASSACHUSETTS
- Hospital employees will appeal to RNs to accept contract offer
- Health insurance company CEO resigns, citing ‘behavior’
- Hospitals’ community spending below goal
- Massachusetts hospital tackles alert fatigue after staff overlooked patient’s deadly allergy warning
- Corner Office: Dana-Farber CEO Dr. Laurie Glimcher on the issues facing academic medical centers and the joys of being a physician-scientist
- 3 physician initiatives that drove a $56M turnaround
- sues Stamford’s Purdue Pharma for misleading opioid buyers
- Boston’s Flex Pharma slashes headcount, eyes sale after ALS drug fails
- Merger talks with Partners go on after Harvard Pilgrim CEO’s abrupt departure
- Baystate Franklin, nurses OK labor deal
- Dana-Farber’s net income spikes 56% in first half of FY 2018
NEW YORK
- WNY Medical Management receives approval to build ASC
- New York Suspends Nurse for HIPAA Violation Affecting 3K Patients
- Editorial: It’s ECMC’s turn for $10 million in state funding
- MidHudson Regional Hospital announces new director of trauma services
- NYU Langone Health tries out Amazon Business initiatives for supply purposes
- NYU Langone puts technology at center of new hospital facilities
- New York attorney general: CityMD to pay $883,000 to resolve false claims allegations
- New York nurses rally for safe staffing ratios
- Medidata expands health care reach with $195M acquisition
- Peter’s plans single president for its hospitals
- WellSpan York Hospital opens $1.6M NICU expansion
- Staten Island nurses and supporters rally for safe staffing
- NY company buys three area skilled nursing/rehab facilities
- Report: Pharma payments to docs leads to increased opioid prescriptions
- Health professionals disciplined for DWI, fraud and other offenses
- Pharmapacks raises $32.5 million
- James Hospital names Bryan O’Donovan CEO
RHODE ISLAND
- Rhode Island Hospital to invest $1M in training after 4 patient errors in 4 weeks
- I. Hospital enters consent agreement after 4 patient errors in 4 weeks
- Rhode Island leaders, nursing homes negotiate rate hike instead of $24 million payout
- South County Health President retires after 18 years
- A Decade of Surgery Problems Plague Rhode Island Hospital
- I. Senate passes plan to protect patients from surprise medical bills
- Opinion: R.I. should eliminate red tape on physicians
- EOHHS, nursing homes agree to tentative 2018 rate increases, stay suit
- Four R.I. hospitals win top stroke care honor
VERMONT
- Nurses at Vermont’s largest hospital to hold strike vote
- Eileen Whalen: UVMMC’s view on nurses’ contract negotiations
- Vermont’s new mandate: All residents must have health insurance
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Highmark’s Doctor Match website new to Delaware market
- Delaware is losing primary care doctors. This Senate bill aims to increase their pay
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Local officials, students applaud D.C. Council helipad approval
- Second Lady Karen Pence’s Visit to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC
MARYLAND
- UM Shore Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at Chestertown sold
- Maryland all-payer model expands to include outpatient services
- Maxim Healthcare goes shopping for a new procurement platform
- Here’s why a Maryland health care company chose the Triad for its next ACO
- GBMC readies to open $2.4 million NICU, raising final funds
- Maryland: The first state CMS will hold fully at risk for total healthcare costs
NEW JERSEY
- 6 things you should know about the recent changes to New Jersey’s laws regulating ambulatory surgery centers and surgical practices
- Paterson hospital’s opioid program goes national
- Saint Clare’s signs on to Brighton’s Create platform
- New Jersey-based Hospital Chains In A Move To Get Merged
- 2 N.J. hospital systems are about to get a lot bigger
- Jersey Shore hospital celebrates new $256M facility, consolidating smaller practices in 10-story tower
- New Jersey freezes hospital charity care payments
PENNSYLVANIA
- State Senate bill aims to boost payments to EMS services
- The lone creative CEO in healthcare wants company: Dr. Stephen Klasko on the industry’s underrated skill
- Geisinger CEO Will Not Join Amazon/Berkshire/JP Morgan Chase Healthcare Initiative
- House action possible on bill limiting punitive damages against nursing homes to 2.5 times compensatory award
- Francis nursing home made sky-high profits. Then it was sanctioned for neglect
- Geisinger’s revenue, operating income up in first 9 months of FY 18
- Coordinated Health names new president, chief operating officer
- Local officials tour energy-efficient Hershey Medical Center
- SEIU announces labor deal for 1,600 workers at Allegheny General Hospital
- How Penn Medicine looks at telehealth from the patient perspective
- bill aims to boost payments to EMS services
- Christopher’s Hospital for Children promotes CFO to interim CEO
- Penn Highlands welcomes Qaderi to management post
VIRGINIA
- Virginia Medicaid expansion boosts credit profiles for healthcare systems
- How the University of Virginia delivered telehealth to Ebola-stricken Africa
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Anthony Regional Hospital, McFarland Clinic link up to offer orthopedic services
- New Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Keeps Families Close
- State’s First Free-Standing Rehabilitation Hospital Opens in Clive
- UnityPoint-Des Moines promotes one of its own to CEO
- U of Iowa Health Care asks board for $7.5M to exit alliance, dissolve ACO
- Luke’s to expand spine care, establish rehab center with $25M Bloch donation
- Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa CEO to depart for new role with parent network
- Carthage hospital forms affiliation with UnityPoint Health
KANSAS
- KU Opens New Hospital in Overland Park
- Medical Debt Is ‘Financially Crippling’ Families In Kansas And Missouri
- U of Kansas Health System opens $100M hospital
- Kansas hospital loses Medicare billing privileges, may be forced to close
- University Of Kansas Health System’s Newest Hospital Opens Monday In Overland Park
- Virginia passed Medicaid expansion. Could Kansas finally do the same?
- NY company buys three area skilled nursing/rehab facilities
- City approves IRB financing for Wesley renovation project
- Hospital facing loss of federal money asked nurses to falsify records, inspectors say
MINNESOTA
- Mayo Clinic pulls off 25k-user Epic go-live: 3 questions with the consulting firm that helped them do it
- Minnesota’s hospital germ fighters report progress
- Minnesota county trying new strategies to prevent opioid abuse
- Luke’s Health Care System CEO to retire next year
- Mayo Clinic attempts to block IRS from questioning CEO
MISSOURI
- MU Health Care exceeds revenue expectations but seeks improvements
- University Hospital in space crunch
- Medical Debt Is ‘Financially Crippling’ Families In Kansas And Missouri
- Major cancer treatment center coming to south St. Louis County
- NY company buys three area skilled nursing/rehab facilities
- Saint Francis Healthcare boosting minimum wage in July
NEBRASKA
- Plans announced to merge CHI Good Samaritan Health Clinic with Kearney Clinic
- Judge dismisses parts of woman’s lawsuit against Lincoln Regional Center, but part still can go forward
- Nebraska agencies relay lifesaving drug to Colorado hospital
- Crowd gathers to hear about new hospital plans
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Sanford Health expands midwifery services to Dakota Dunes
- Rapid City Regional Health losing $1 million a week
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- SSM Health St. Mary’s Hosptial-Centralia selects new president
- Effingham Health System receives special designation for stroke care
- Illinois Medical District sells off 26 acres of commercial property
- MDH hires interim CEO, discusses future options
- Moore pegged as new executive VP at Illinois senior care provider
- Expanding telehealth proposed in Illinois
- Ingalls Hospital president to retire
- Central Indiana Orthopedics moves forward with $13M medical office
- HSHS chain and hospital workers near $62 million settlement in pension suit
- Illinois Supreme Court to decide challenge to hospital tax exemption law
- Carthage hospital forms affiliation with UnityPoint Health
- McDonough District Hospital hires interim CEO
- Northwestern, Centegra ink definitive agreement to merge
INDIANA
- Hospital leaderboards, ranking Indiana’s best hospitals
- New rehab hospital planned for Mishawaka by Edison Lakes
- Indiana health system’s contract with Anthem set to expire amid tensions over ER policy
- At Franciscan Health, an Analytics-Driven Initiative is Improving Patient Care and Reducing Costs
- CHS on pace to make $500M capital investment in Indiana hospital network
- Indiana startup raises $2.5M to launch medication-reminder tech product
- Golden Living Earns 13 of the 26 AHCA/NCAL Bronze Quality Awards Announced for Indiana’s Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Indiana Health Group doubles patient volumes with electronic forms tool
- Opioid Symposiums to Tackle ‘Pervasive’ Problem
- Cook Medical Poised to Purchase High-Profile NC Property
- IU Health starts construction of $400M hospital, academic complex
KENTUCKY
- Signature Healthcare to pay more than $30 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations
- Humana faces anti-kickback, False Claims Act suit over diabetes testing equipment
- FRMC among state’s best hospitals in patient safety
- Hardin Memorial breaks ground on LaRue County medical facility
- Mayor says Pineville hospital owes two years of taxes; CEO responds
- Federal Judge Will Hear Kentucky’s Medicaid Lawsuit On Friday
- HHS wants Kindred dual-eligible case dismissed
- Humana executive offloads over $7M in stock as price soars
- FBI raids Louisville-area doctors’ offices
MICHIGAN
- Ascension Michigan rebrands more hospitals amid clinical integration project
- Class-action suit accuses Trinity Health of cheating workers out of overtime pay
- City approves free Medical Mile bus route
OHIO
- Mercy Health launches brain tumor center
- Settlement reached in legal battle between two rival Akron hospitals; terms are confidential
- Wexner Medical Center has 5-year plan to add 500 faculty members
- Ohio hospitals are facing a ban on nurse overtime — here’s how it could affect patients
- Elizabeth builds surgery training center in joint venture with OrthoCincy
- University Hospitals launches bundled payment program with Walmart
- Ohio State Wexner Medical Center to add inpatient hospice services
- UH Conneaut to add cancer center
- Summa Health names Keith Coleman senior vice president, CFO
- Ohio cancels $1.1 billion Medicaid cut to hospitals
- Dayton hospital cuts ER wait times
- UC Health nurses tell new boss: Patient safety is on the line
- $10M chronic care center in Centerville breaks ground
- Cardinal Health sells majority stake in IT firm NaviHealth
- Premier sets closing date for Atrium Medical Center ER in Mason
- OhioHealth CEO retiring; new leader named
- Physician group opens two new practices in Dayton area
- ProMedica hospital to cut ICU bed count in half
- Cincinnati hospital nurses warn new CNO of staffing crisis, patient safety concerns
WISCONSIN
- Advocate Aurora plans $250 million health care development in Mount Pleasant
- Marshfield Clinic officials are inviting the public Thursday to see new hospital and cancer center
- Wausau health care company breaks ground for new building
- Stevens Point celebrates new Aspirus Emergency Department ahead of June 20 opening
- Beaver Dam Hospital announces intent to affiliate with Marshfield Clinic Health System
- Report: Wisconsin’s bioscience industry employment growth outpaces nation
- Froedtert & MCW opening health clinic for LGBTQ patients
- How Advocate Health’s expertise could reverberate into Aurora’s Wisconsin business
- Froedtert, Children’s hospitals to buy their real estate from Milwaukee County
- Milwaukee Regional Medical Center reaches agreement with county to purchase land
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- 60-bed Alabama hospital avoids closure
- Alabama state lawmaker arrested over alleged Medicare reimbursement scheme
- Urgent Care for Children to open in Trussville
- Champion Sports Medicine renews lease at St. Vincent’s, expands services
FLORIDA
- Chief executive officer of Sacred Heart Health System named
- Care Spot opens new location; Baldwin Park ER breaks ground
- Non-profit health system appoints new CEO
- Campbellton-Graceville Hospital one step closer to selling
- UF Health CEO: Hospital needs to partner with business
- Medicare delays Lee Health quality scores, including Cape Coral Hospital’s poor showing
- New Nemours CEO a self-described ‘relationship guy’
- Sacred Heart Health System gets new CEO
- U of Florida Health opening mall-based outpatient centers
- Growing medical center company acquires two Lakeland medical groups
- Two hospitals approved for Estero
- Judge Rejects Challenge To Trauma Center
GEORGIA
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta advances plan for $1.5B campus
- Report: Northeast Georgia Medical Center hospitals made $1.75 billion economic impact in 2016
- New chief medical officer at Fairview Park Hospital
- AU Medical Center one step closer to building Columbia County hospital
- Columbia County hospital battle could soon be over
- Phoebe Putney Health System CEO Joel Wernick announces retirement
- Kaiser Permanente and Emory Healthcare announce new collaboration for integrated care
- Todd Dixon to step into CEO role at Navicent Health Baldwin
MISSISSIPPI
- NMHS begins work to install new clinic record system
- North Mississippi picks Mercy Tech Services to install Epic
- Hattiesburg Clinic Center for Sleep Medicine earns reaccreditation
- Hattiesburg Clinic starts work on facilities
NORTH CAROLINA
- LifeBrite Community Hospital of Stokes asks court to dismiss countersuit
- Atrium wants to expand across NC. What that could mean for health care in Charlotte
- Atrium Plans To Spend $1 Billion On Facilities
- Hospital fight over boundaries surfaces at General Assembly
- Blue Cross accuses North Carolina hospital of overbilling by $76M
- Triad medical center plans to start construction on $31.5 million surgery center
- Telehealth Bill Gets Hung Up at Legislature
- Two organizations plan to launch an ACO in the Triad
- Judge: New trial not needed, CaroMont still owes $511,200 for pain and suffering
- Wake Forest Baptist Health-Lexington Medical Center readies to break ground on surgery center
- Mission Health officials discuss acquisition by HCA Healthcare
- Hospital fight over boundaries surfaces at General Assembly
- Cone Health announces 6 leadership changes
- Using ‘big data’ analytics to improve healthcare: Growing UNC Health Care data wranglers search for answers
- Here’s why a Maryland health care company chose the Triad for its next ACO
- Five compete to build four operating rooms in Triad county
- Med First Urgent Care and Family Practice at Wendover Commons will be complete by fall
SOUTH CAROLINA
- McLeod Health—Transforming health care in our region
- East Cooper Medical Center performs robot-navigated spine surgery
TENNESSEE
- CHS on pace to make $500M capital investment in Indiana hospital network
- How Two Nursing Home Staffers Uncovered A $230M Medicare Fraud In Columbia, Tennessee
- Fifth board member quits Nashville General Hospital, citing ‘grave concerns’
- Nashville General Hospital CEO Gets Favorable Review After Contentious Contract Extension
- Court revives $35 million False Claims Act lawsuit against Brookdale
- Nashville General Hospital CEO offered 10% incentive raises by half-empty board
- 2 groups express interest in buying Houston County Community Hospital
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center adds 37 beds, pedestrian bridge
- Ardent to refinance debt via $990M credit facilities
- Local doctors call TN’s new electronic records system “poorly designed” and “frustrating”
- Nashville health-IT firm gets new majority owners
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Arkansas state medical board member criticizes hospital decision
- Northwest Health taps Denten Park as CEO
- Medical firm settles billing-claims suit; North Little Rock facility part of Medicare case
- UAMS Names New Campus Leader, CFO for Clinical Programs
ARIZONA
- Banner Health is building a comprehensive hospital in Chandler
- Terros Health warns of patient data breach
- Banner Health to build 120-bed hospital
LOUISIANA
- Ochsner Selects ABM to Provide Environmental Services and Deliver on Patient Experience
- 14 new Louisiana healthcare laws you should know about
- Sonnier stepping down as Baton Rouge Health District executive director
- UMC’s new burn center fills three-decade need in New Orleans
NEW MEXICO
- New Mexico health exchange may get 5th insurance provider
- County narrows hospital trustee field
- Mimbres Memorial Hospital CEO suddenly departs
OKLAHOMA
- Executive Q&A with Craig W. Jones: Oklahoma hospital exec follows clear path to health care career
- Personally Speaking: Craig Jones, CEO of the Oklahoma Hospitals Association
- 186 patients potentially exposed to HIV, hepatitis C at Oklahoma hospital
- State’s lawsuit against opioid manufacturing companies moves to federal court
TEXAS
- NextGen Oral Maxillofacial & Reconstructive Surgery Center now open
- Long-term care facilities face staffing crisis
- Dallas Physician Recruiter Says It’s Getting More Requests For Specialists, Less For Primary Care
- Microhospitals Spread To The Suburbs, Fueled By Growing Populations
- Vibra Rehabilitation Hospital to change ownership this summer as joint expansion effort continues
- Medical City Frisco expanding women’s services to meet community demand
- Report: $165.6 million in design errors and omissions plague new Fort Bliss hospital
- Widow wants answers after husband’s death at Baylor St. Luke’s
- The Woodlands poised as next ‘Medical Center of the north’
- How Williamson County hospitals will get more Medicaid dollars
- $10 Million Going Toward Health Services in TX
- World’s first airport emergency room opens at DFW Airport
- Tenet Hospital In Alabama Cleared By CMS After Prior Termination Notice
- Healthcare Real Estate Investment Firm Moves Into DFW
- Advocacy group claims Texoma facing nursing home workforce crisis
- Insurance limitations, lack of demand could factor in freestanding ER closures
- Anthony’s Hospital Property Under New Ownership
- Dallas-based health care company acquired by Alight Solutions
- Houston hospital patients ‘in limbo’ after heart transplant program suspended
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Rural healthcare facilities struggle paying Internet bills as FCC rate review holds up subsidies
- Providence Transitional Care Center Recognized
IDAHO
- Barbara Hocking named chief nursing officer at St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center
- Kootenai Health works to combat doctor shortage
MONTANA
- Judge temporarily blocks Montana Medicaid provider cuts
- Missoula Partnership Health Center picks up $3.9M grant
OREGON
- In a reversal, Moda loses $214M appeal against the federal government
- Oregon Hospital Pursues ‘War on Melanoma’
- Health Share could withhold full payment to transportation vendor due to problems
WASHINGTON
- Seattle Children’s Hospital launches immunotherapy collaborative to expand clinical trial access at children’s hospitals
- Providence St. Joseph finds success leveraging AI and machine learning projects
- Latest CEO at troubled Western State Hospital leaving post
- Seattle Times responds to ex-Swedish Health neurosurgeon’s defamation lawsuit
- Washington Health Alliance recognizes EvergreenHealth
- Largest medical transport non-profit in the nation celebrates 40 years in Pacific Northwest
- DSHS announces leadership updates for Western State Hospital
- Washington psychiatric hospital interim CEO departs on heels of CMS inspection
- Kaiser Permanente employees in Seattle allege union illegally charges nonmembers for organizing expenses
WYOMING
- Ivinson Memorial Hospital launches new website
- Cheyenne Regional Medical Center earns 2 awards for treatment of heart failure
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Bill to create health care price controls in California dies
- Richard J. Gannotta tapped to head UCI Health
- California hospital notifies about 45 medical technicians of possible layoffs
- Data breach at Dignity Health affected 56,000 patients, is under investigation
- Denver entrepreneur to buy bankrupt California hospital
- California’s nonprofit hospitals are providing significantly less charity care, report says
- Dirty surgical equipment at UC San Diego hospital sparked serious state response
- UCI Health drops ‘interim’ from CEO Richard Gannotta’s title
- California nurses move closer to strike
COLORADO
- How freestanding emergency rooms impact your business’ healthcare costs
- Colorado’s Tougher Breach Law: Healthcare Incidents Included
- Colorado Springs hospital projects hit key milestones
- UCHealth to open innovation lab in Catalyst HTI building in Denver’s RiNo neighborhood
- Children’s Hospital Colorado in the Springs on track for 2019 opening
- Valley View Hospital doctor implements cutting-edge surgery technology
- Colorado passes data protection law requiring breach notification within 30 days
- UCHealth to work with digital health companies to put tech into practice
- UCHealth to become big tenant in Catalyst HTI building in RiNo
- KKR buying Envision Healthcare in $9.9 billion deal
- Pueblo sues big Pharma and grocery stores in opioid racketeering case
HAWAII
NEVADA
- Hospital to add health clinic, make $4.2 million in repairs, improvements
- Jeffrey Roth named CCMS president
UTAH
