NATIONAL
- AMA teams up with biotech incubator to connect physicians with startups
- Amazon Alexa is luring health developers, but it will be a while before we use it to call a doctor
- Telemedicine may be leading to the overprescribing of antibiotics
- HHS to audit plans for compliance with HIPAA transactions
- It’s a Brave New World in Health Care Design Today
- Physician telehealth usage wallops early EHR adoption rates
- Physician Practice Roundup—Rankings of medical schools by U.S. News
- Physician viewpoint: EHRs still need a makeover
- Health systems get failing grade when it comes to NIST cybersecurity best practices: report
- Physician pay is highest in these 10 states
- What 25 of the biggest healthcare companies spent on lobbying in 2017
- 44% of physicians participate in fee-for-service models
- Cerner to launch EHR-agnostic tool for bundled payments
- 11 latest healthcare industry lawsuits
- 7 hospital construction projects costing $300M or more
- Healthcare jobs grow at rapid clip, but wages lag amid consolidation boom
- Change Healthcare research: 48 states now committed to value-based care and payment models
- AMA, biotech incubator focus on physician insight into health IT in new database
- Patients Turning Away From Family Doctors And To Telemedicine
- CMS Shares Strategies for Successful Collaborations Between ACOs, Nursing Homes
- Proposed bill sparks debate over physician self-referrals
- Healthcare stocks take $28B hit: 4 things to know
- Physician telehealth use up 340% since 2015, survey finds
- Safety-net hospitals fare better under new Medicare reimbursement rules
- Quarterly hospital M&A reaches lowest volume in nearly a decade
- All but 4 states using value-based payment models: report
- Physician self-referral bill draws praise, backlash from medical societies
- New CMS policy cuts readmission fines for safety-net, teaching, rural hospitals
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Greenwich Hospital Recognized For Organ Donation Efforts
- Hospital firm withstands challenges
- Report: Connecticut Inpatient Hospital Stays on Decline
- 2,500 nursing home workers vote to strike 20 nursing homes
- Yale New Haven tests driverless hospital shuttles
- CT nursing home strike could affect 3K residents
- Report: Hospital inpatient, ER visits down sharply
MAINE
- Why Maine hospitals are teaming up instead of competing
- How Maine’s hospital buddy system took shape
- The feds are making it harder for Maine’s hospitals to survive
- Another Maine hospital is trying to reinvent itself
- Dexter approves Mayo Regional’s merger with Northern Light Health
- New Bangor surgical center part of a trend offering hospitals stiff competition
- St. Joseph’s Rehabilitation and Residence unveils plans for new facility in Portland
- Telemental health comes to Maine
- Manager of Maine physical therapy practice sentenced in $175K fraud case
MASSACHUSETTS
- Harrington, Heywood to join $3B community hospital alliance
- Partners HealthCare pledges to make AI tools accessible to clinicians, researchers
- Prescription spending in MassHealth doubled over past 5 years, Massachusetts officials say
- Massachusetts ambulance services urged to launch preventive health programs that could reduce ER trips
- Massachusetts HPC appoints Emerson Hospital president to Advisory Council
- As Health Care Costs Soar, State Legislators Focus On Price-Control Techniques
- Opioid crisis in Massachusetts: Where we’ve been and where we’re going
- Biotech company Axcella Health files for IPO
- Maryland, Massachusetts statehouses press drug-pricing bills as feds founder
- Boston, Hasbro Children’s Hospitals make partnership official
- RI and Massachusetts children’s hospitals to collaborate
- Independent Massachusetts hospital systems launch Value Alliance
- 10 Massachusetts health systems launch value coalition
- Here’s How Boston Children’s Is Using Alexa’s HIPAA-Compliant Tools
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Elliot Hospital earns Level II trauma verification
- CMC files 220,000-square-foot expansion plan with city
NEW YORK
- Cityblock Health raises $65 million to bring healthcare services to underserved communities
- Providers dodge bullet on mandated staffing bill, but state will study nurse-to-patient ratios
- Mount Sinai Gets $6M for Center with New Health IT Infrastructure
- CEO discusses St. John’s Episcopal remaining one of the last independent hospitals
- Woman wins $110.6 million malpractice suit against St. Barnabas hospital
- Vermont pharmacy sues New York health care company
- Putnam Hospital Joins New Healthcare System
- Expansions coming at three rural health sites
- Outsourcing of Jordan Health billing department to be completed next month
- New York hospital deal jeopardized by insufficient state funding
- Northwell Health physician wins $1M grant for clinical decision support tool
- Rome Memorial Hospital names director of Relationship Based Care
- We have A healthcare provider shortage in Wyoming County
- White Plains Hospital to begin $272 million expansion project amid health care arms race
- NYC Health + Hospitals now live on Epic at 19 more facilities
- The 30 highest-paying healthcare jobs you can work in Upstate NY, ranked
RHODE ISLAND
- RI and Massachusetts children’s hospitals to collaborate
- R.I. Department of Health begins new opioid awareness campaign
VERMONT
- Vermont pharmacy sues New York health care company
- Grace Cottage CEO receives national leadership award
- Windsor hospital on financial roller coaster
- Advocates in Vermont battle over health record consent change
- Vermont debates making medical records open to all physicians in the state
- Vermont shows significant progress in health care reform
- Mach7 lands Sentara Healthcare contract
- SVMC and D-H partner on specialty care for pregnant women with diabetes via telemedicine
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Delaware and PA medical societies team up on value-based contracting
- Data suggests a US doctor shortage is on the horizon. What does it mean for Delaware?
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- D.C. public hospital will require $40 million taxpayer bailout
- 3 Deaths Raise Questions About DC VA Medical Center Following Up With Patients After Discharge
MARYLAND
- Newly wed Bon Secours Mercy Health posts income drop 4 months in
- Baltimore mayor quits hospital system board over book sales
- Maryland, Massachusetts statehouses press drug-pricing bills as feds founder
- MedStar Health Agrees To $35M Settlement
- Johns Hopkins Medicine selects chief marketing and communications officer
- Maryland medical group settles false billing allegations
- UMMS board member says his resignation has nothing to do with Mayor Pugh
- Telemedicine, teleophthalmology programs in action at Johns Hopkins
NEW JERSEY
- Has nurse staffing in New Jersey really improved? | Opinion
- New Jersey becomes eighth state to legalize medically assisted suicide
- RWJBarnabas Health brings pediatric pain management program to West Coast
- Autism rate rises 43 percent in New Jersey, study finds
- Are more long-term facilities needed for New Jersey’s sickest kids?
- Disclosure law improves nurse staffing ratios in New Jersey
PENNSYLVANIA
- Crozer-Keystone parent gets credit downgrade
- Highmark lays off 240 workers, with central Pa. operation taking big hit
- Butler Memorial, nurses agree to 3-year pact
- A significant doctor shortage is expected by 2030, especially among general practitioners
- Judgment against Ellwood City hospital still active in court
- UPMC, Pennsylvania AG head to state’s highest court over consent decree
- Judgment against Ellwood City Medical Center still active in Lawrence County Court
- Union accuses Pennsylvania system of retaliation against nurses
- Highmark Health subsidiary lays off 239 employees — more than half in Pittsburgh
- Ellwood City Council votes next month on hospital district
- UPMC workers say debt to their employer an example of hospital system exploiting tax-exempt status
- Uniontown Hospital delays $32 million campus upgrade as it struggles with UPMC’s departure
- Jefferson, Prepared Health form digital health partnership to track post-acute care
- Hospital postpones $32M upgrade after UPMC ‘divorce’
- Pennsylvania high court takes UPMC-Highmark insurance case
- Uniontown Hospital in flux as it moves on from UPMC, toward WVU Health System
- Pennsylvania hospital, nurses trade unfair labor complaints
- Here’s how Penn Medicine is addressing innovation
VIRGINIA
WEST VIRGINIA
- Raleigh County hospitals dispute addition of emergency cardiology services
- Raleigh General Hospital now offering surgical weight loss
- WVU Medicine set to add 5th hospital in 2 years
- Uniontown Hospital in flux as it moves on from UPMC, toward WVU Health System
- West Virginia University Health System plans another hospital acquisition
- Alecto Healthcare exploring partnerships for Ohio Valley hospitals
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- University of Iowa paid $4 million to keep contractor off pharmacy building project
- Iowa Specialty Hospitals and Clinics facility in Garner slated to open in July
KANSAS
- Allegations of fraud, stolen records swirl in legal fight over Kan. hospital
- Feds give KU Hospital its first 5-star rating, but a JoCo hospital gets first 1-star
- Judge keeps Hillsboro Hospital out of Empower’s hands
- Attempt to move bankruptcy case out of state denied
- Three area hospitals score 5 stars from Medicare, two end up on opposite end
MINNESOTA
- U of M Health Lakes Cancer Center in Wyoming earns national accolades for breast cancer care
- University of Minnesota study finds rural, minority health gap
- Pipestone County Medical Center CFO to retire
- Essentia Health appoints new COO
- Essentia Health to acquire 2 Minnesota pharmacies
- Kraus-Anderson renovating critical-access hospital in Minnesota
- Minnesota health system to roll out Epic EHR
MISSOURI
- Judge dismisses Hospital Partners lawsuit against Missouri auditor, county hospital board
- Ascension makes another executive change, appoints new CEO of international unit
- Missouri hospital tries to regain Medicare funding after owner enters bankruptcy
- Truman Medical in Kansas City Receives $10 Million Donation
NEBRASKA
- Bryan celebrates its first year of digital medical records
- Nebraska Medicaid expansion plan draws lawmaker scrutiny
- Nebraska children’s hospital CEO named in more than a dozen lawsuits
- CHI Health Schuyler receives sizable grant
- Sidney Regional Medical updates internet to fiber: eliminates downtime, adds telehealth
- Chase County residents to vote on $20.5M hospital proposal
NORTH DAKOTA
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- University of Chicago Receives $9.1M to Provide Holistic Trauma Care
- Illinois gets additional $15 million to fight opioid epidemic
- St. Elizabeth’s Hospital breaks ground on new cancer care center in O’Fallon
- Pipeline Health accused of defying court order to keep Illinois hospital open
- Suburban Chicago hospital ordered to restore services
- Interim CEO of HSHS St. John’s named to permanent post
- Hospital Sisters Health System Illinois exec takes reins of Springfield hospital
- Illinois hospital pivots to orthopedics, spine
- OSF HealthCare top-ranked health care employer in Illinois by Forbes
- Judge orders Illinois hospital to restore services or face fines
INDIANA
- Area roundup: IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital to offer help with advance directives
- Porter Regional Hospital Earns Blue Distinction Centers+ Designation for Cardiac Care
- Integrated Healthcare a Boon for Employees, and Employers
- New Telehealth Clinic Opens in Bloomfield
- Lawsuit Challenges Indiana’s Ban on Telemedicine for Eye Exams
- IU Health Extends Behavioral Health Support Statewide
- IU Health plans to add 2 clinics in city
- Spero to Open Jeffersonville Clinic
- Zotec Partners Announces New Carmel HQ, 300 Jobs
KENTUCKY
- Kentucky appeals ruling on Medicaid work requirements
- Kentucky, North Dakota Join Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
- Clark Regional Medical Center names new CEO
- Kentucky county to pay $253K over claims of false billing
- Jewish Hospital celebrates 55 years of organ transplantation
- Louisville doctor indicted on Medicaid fraud charges in biggest sweep in US history
- Louisville health care company gets $100 million investment, new CEO and new name
MICHIGAN
- 4 in Michigan charged in $9M Medicare fraud scheme
- Mercy Health St. Mary’s taps new president
- New medical hub celebrates grand opening in Burton
- McLaren receives honor from Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health
- DMC Harper Hospital avoids Medicare aid cutoff
- West Michigan’s first Psychiatric Urgent Care Center opens
- U of Michigan startup analyzes patients’ medical images to help pinpoint treatments
OHIO
- Newly wed Bon Secours Mercy Health posts income drop 4 months in
- Akron Children’s Hospital receives national nursing award for diversity program
- As MetroHealth prepares to break ground on new hospital, here’s a look back at its history
- How Nationwide Children’s quietly became a leader in gene therapy
- MetroHealth breaks ground on new ‘hospital in a park’
- Mount Carmel to open $361M hospital April 28
- Cincinnati Children’s Jumps Onto Teladoc’s DTC Telehealth Platform
- MetroHealth breaks ground on 264-bed Cleveland hospital
- Ohio may increase hospital oversight after Mount Carmel patient deaths
- Ohio requires ASCs to inform patients about palliative care
- State considers new hospital regulations in wake of allegations against former Mt. Carmel doctor
- How a health system successfully integrated pharmacy services with patient care teams
WISCONSIN
- Wisconsin Granted Permission to Withdraw from Affordable Care Act Lawsuit
- ‘We need to grow again’: Columbus Community Hospital plans second expansion in recent years
- Froedtert South hires doctor accused of performing unnecessary surgery despite state investigation
- Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Milwaukee opens $5.2 million hybrid operating room
- Madison health tech startup Redox raises $33M
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- Alabama behavioral health group sees continued growth
- North AL doctors caught up in federal opioid sweep
FLORIDA
- Baptist Health selects Texas health care administrator new CEO
- Judge says no to area hospital’s bankruptcy
- SantaFe HealthCare Announces Lawrence Schreiber as President and CEO
- Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital receives $5M grant for infant and maternal care
- Pensacola takes first step to create special tax on hospitals to access federal funds for indigent care
- Florida House approves drug imports from Canada
- Regional General Hospital in Williston’s management pays off massive federal debt
- Telehealth market taking shape in Florida Legislature
- Sarasota Memorial Hospital breaks ground on oncology tower
- New ER entrance, rooms open at ORMC
- State-of-the-Art Hospital Planned for Palmetto Bay
- Many assisted living facilities lack generators as hurricane season nears
GEORGIA
- Piedmont Healthcare names Michael Burnett new Athens Regional CEO
- Emory, Hazelden Betty Ford in talks about plan to fight opioid crisis
MISSISSIPPI
- No, they’re not crazy. But they did just buy a bankrupt hospital in rural Mississippi.
- Merit Health Central appoints COO
NORTH CAROLINA
- Atrium Health, Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest University intend to merge
- HCA agrees with $646.5M final assessment on newly taxable Mission Health properties
- N.C.’s path to Medicaid managed care gets complicated
- CarolinaEast named one of top 200 US hospitals
- FirstHealth of the Carolinas names Mickey W. Foster new CEO
- Duke Lifepoint, United Healthcare Reach Doctor Services Deal
- Update: After dispute, HCA agrees to $647M county tax assessment on Mission Health property
- Harris Regional and Swain Community hospitals reach new agreement with UnitedHealthcare
- NC State Treasurer defends health care proposal
- Planning for UNC Health Care’s New Eastowne Campus
- Atrium Health selects new chief learning officer
- More than a medical school: health care giants Atrium Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health want to consolidate
- Health-care roundup: Atrium, Novant projects given go-ahead by NC regulators
SOUTH CAROLINA
- 50 years after landmark Charleston hospital strike, leaders say the fight isn’t over
- South Carolina hospitals taking precaution after two active shooter cases
- Eye Health America acquires 6th eye practice, ASC in South Carolina
- Palmetto Health alerts 23,000 patients of phishing attack
- MUSC receives $3.6M to launch national telehealth research network
- Aiken Regional Medical Centers receives Zero Harm Award
- Patients can message radiologists through the EHR with MUSC developed tool
TENNESSEE
- HCA agrees with $646.5M final assessment on newly taxable Mission Health properties
- THA president and CEO Craig Becker announces retirement
- Tennessee House advances bill seeking to overhaul Medicaid
- Activist investor targets HCA: 5 things to know
- AG Slatery accuses Franklin health care firm of fraud, seeks max penalty
- CEO of Tennessee hospital industry group announces retirement
- Tennessee Attorney General’s office accuses a Franklin health care clinic of fraud
- Federal lawsuit filed against Ballad Health, ETSU Physicians
- Tennessee healthcare providers busted in opioid takedown
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- White River Health System names 4 new leaders, including CIO, chief quality officer
- Small Hospital Finalist: St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center
- Small Hospital Finalist: Arkansas Heart Hospital
ARIZONA
- Dignity Health in top 5% of hospitals
- Phoenix hospital reopens
- Maryvale hospital reopens in West Valley after $68M renovation
- Meridian completes Grunow Memorial Medical Center renovation
- Arizona health care bills update
- Banner Desert Medical Center CEO to oversee new Arizona hospital
- 90-bed Destiny Springs behavioral hospital opens in Surprise
- Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association Names Ann-Marie Alameddin New President & CEO
LOUISIANA
- CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier CEO announces departure
- Expanding LSU Health New Orleans network could transform cancer treatments, state-wide
- Ochsner Health Network in Louisiana Earns $40M in Commercial Quality-Based Payments
- Children’s Hospital forms pediatric care partnership
- New strategy to battle opioid crisis in Southeast Louisiana
- How Children’s Hospital New Orleans, Our Lady of the Lake are teaming up for better cardiac care
- Louisiana could ban most new freestanding emergency rooms
NEW MEXICO
- Albuquerque hospital patient steals ambulance, returns after crashing it, police say
- New Mexico in top 10 of expected doctor shortage
- How New Mexico is faring as it rethinks care delivery
- Report: New Mexico facing serious doctor shortage
- Heart Hospital surgeons working on ‘cutting-edge’ procedure
OKLAHOMA
- Southwestern Medical Center announces new CEO
- Oklahoma judge, not jury, to decide case against drugmakers
- Hillcrest Medical Center appoints CEO
- Two Oklahoma Hospitals Fought Off Deadly Fungal ‘Superbug’
TEXAS
- McKesson Has a New CEO
- Las Palmas hospital opens $63M maternity addition; L&F adds El Paso Brewing to portfolio
- 5 Houston biotech companies taking health care to new levels
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas to open 10 medical centers
- Three San Antonio hospitals penalized for patient safety, infections
- North Texas Home to the Fortune’s Top Two Employers in Healthcare
- MD Anderson appeals $4.3M HIPAA penalty
- Steward Health Care acquires Big Spring hospital
- Quorum divests Texas hospital
- Texas hospital opens $63M maternity unit amid national trend of closures
- Texas Senate passes legislation to prevent surprise medical bills with arbitration, mediation
- CEO of Texas health insurer abruptly resigns
- Dallas-launched health tech firm keeps Austin’s hot streak going with $50M in backing
- Walt Disney Company launches $100M initiative at Texas Children’s Hospital
- Surprise Billing Legislation Passes Texas Senate with Arbitration Provision
- Baylor Scott & White Health appoints CFO
- Meet Baylor Scott and White Health System’s New Chief Financial Officer
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Alaska could be the first state to implement Medicaid block grant system
- Assembly approves sale of Sitka Community Hospital
- Alaska city and regional group agree to hospital purchase
- Alaska labor union sues to block privatization of hospital
- Woodin resigns as South Peninsula Hospital CEO
IDAHO
- EIRMC opens the first burn care center in Idaho
- St. Luke’s to open new cancer treatment center in Nampa: ‘We will be more accessible’ for patients in Canyon County
- CEO reflects on health care’s shifts
- Idaho governor signs bill expanding Medicaid coverage
- St. Joe’s nurses agree to join union
- Idaho nurses vote to unionize
- Riverton group moves closer to building new hospital as SageWest announces new CEO for embattled facilities
MONTANA
- New Kalispell Regional Medical Center CEO aims to build “culture of trust” after lawsuits
- Lawmakers advance bill to study Montana’s response to mental illness
- Montana Senate sends Medicaid expansion bill back to House
OREGON
- CMS Needs to Address Gaps in Federal Oversight of Nursing Home Abuse Investigations That Persisted in Oregon for at Least 15 Years
- Lay-Offs at Legacy Hospitals in Portland Oregon
- Health care advocate plugs solutions to combat rising costs
- Boarded In The ER: Oregon’s Mental Health Crisis
- Leading Northwest Health Systems Partner To Increase Access To Health Care
WASHINGTON
- Nursing matters: Can local programs help fill the Yakima nursing gap?
- Leading Northwest Health Systems Partner To Increase Access To Health Care
- Washington state moves closer to a crackdown on vaccine exemptions
- Seattle-based heart monitor maker Bardy Diagnostics raises $35.5M
- Inslee Signs Measure to Codify Some Health Care Rules
- How a new UW teaching hospital might help Washington state’s mental-health crisis
WYOMING
- Wyoming Medical Center considering affiliating with life-minded organizations
- New robot helps knee surgeons
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Sutter Health, affiliates to pay back $30M for Medicare Advantage overpayments
- RWJBarnabas Health brings pediatric pain management program to West Coast
- New Health Data Policies and Incentives Coming for California Healthcare
- Kaiser Permanente named in Baltimore mayor’s book-sale scandal
- Rady Children’s Hospital adopts new opioid-free pain relief program
- California’s vast health care industry requires growing workforce pipeline
- Calif. hospital CEO seeks Adventist, CommonSpirit, Sutter as possible transaction partners
COLORADO
- Summit County’s Peak Health Alliance hires Tamara Drangstveit as executive director
- Patients scrambling after learning about impending closure of Senior Care of Colorado clinics
- Colorado’s health-care goal: Better outcomes at lower costs
- Construction finished on Children’s Hospital
- Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs opening soon in Briargate
- Arrest made following threats against a Colorado hospital
- After 400 layoffs, Kaiser Permanente Colorado in talks with labor unions over workforce needs
- Children’s Hospital Colorado facility in northern Colorado Springs nears completion
- Construction Underway on New Downtown Denver Health Urgent Care
- UnitedHealth: DaVita Medical Deal ‘Progressing’ On Path To Close
- Colorado bill to address high cost of health care advances
- VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System opens spinal cord injury and disorder unit
HAWAII
- UH Cancer Center, HMSA collaborate to fight breast cancer
- Hawaii bill reveals rift between midwife practitioner groups
- Wahiawa General Hospital celebrates 75 years
- Hawaii lawmakers push to reduce number of unnecessary hospital visits from homeless
NEVADA
- Emergency room off Las Vegas Strip makes waves with new business model
- Nevada bill seeks to protect health care workers from on-the-job violence
- Health care R&D growing in Las Vegas, but more needed
- Las Vegas hospital doesn’t contract with any payers
- Nevada’s doctor shortage: Here’s one fix
UTAH
