NATIONAL
- Here’s 26 facts you might not know about how hospitals operated 100 years ago
- HHS may make changes to Stark Law, anti-kickback rules: 5 details
- More states exit Healthcare.gov to run their own insurance marketplaces
- The key to streamlined care transitions? Interfacility relationships, according to 2 health IT experts
- MGMA 2019: Making the jump from physician to physician-leader
- State laws trying to force drug price transparency come up short, study says
- Boston named top US hospital city, Raleigh dead last
- ‘Revenue cycle is a team sport’ — 3 plays to get on the winning side of CMS’ price transparency rule
- Hospital Giant Sutter Health Agrees To Settlement In Big Antitrust Fight
- AHA rallies against CMS proposal to allow cardiac, total knee surgeries in ASCs
- How 340B works with Medicaid in every state
- Hospitals race to save patients — and the planet
- Private equity pushes into healthcare: 6 latest deals
- What Banking Can Teach Health Care About Handling Customer Data
- Proposed Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Reforms Aim To Facilitate Value-Based Care
- 3 areas of the Stark overhaul likely to give providers compliance headaches
- From ‘dating sites’ to AI-powered symptom checkers: How hospitals are competing for volume
- HHS backs emergency physician-focused Medicare alternative payment model
- Here are all the areas in health care Amazon could look to expand to, according to one analyst
- US ‘medical tourists’ seek cheap health care abroad
- Seeking a Cure: The Quest to Save Rural Hospitals
- Walmart Opens Its First In-Store Health Center: An Interesting Avenue for Growth
- Hospital Merger, Acquisition Activity Steady With 71 Deals So Far
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
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- In health care, it’s all about access
- Connecticut Children’s adds pediatrics practice off I-84 in Danbury
- For Better Health: Connecticut Children’s Exec Explains Why Specialty Hospital Is Expanding Locally
- Access Health seeks to reinvent lagging small-biz insurance exchange
- Norwalk Community Health Center Celebrates 20 Years
MAINE
MASSACHUSETTS
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- York Hospital stays independent amid consolidations
- World’s first virtual hospital provides care to patients at home
- Boston named top US hospital city, Raleigh dead last
- Study: Boston hospitals are best in United States, second-best in world
- Baystate Health eliminates 20 jobs at Noble Hospital in Westfield; nurses union plans protest
- Doctors, hospitals criticize new regulations for surgeries and other practices
- SimplyVital Health receives grant to study integrating blockchains
- Council Approves Ambulatory Surgery Center At Lawrence Memorial
- Newton-Wellesley Hospital CEO steps down to join Boston Scientific
- Health-care pioneer Harris Berman to retire as dean of Tufts University School of Medicine
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW YORK
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- Nursing homes say New York’s Medicaid re-calculation will cost them $246 million
- State: Patient advocates in short supply at long-term care facilities
- See what Bankers Healthcare Group’s new HQ near Syracuse Inner Harbor will look like
- Worries Grow Over Medicaid Overruns In New York
- Plan to close Mount Vernon Hospital criticized by politicians, unions
- Pharmacist sues New York hospital, says she was fired after reporting misconduct
RHODE ISLAND
VERMONT
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- OneCare Vermont selected for National Multi-Site Demonstration for Advancing Integrated Care Models
- OneCare Vermont selected for national multi-site demonstration for advancing integrated care models for people with complex needs
- New London Hospital expands services to include Dartmouth-Hitchcock Orthopaedics
- President of Vermont hospital resigns after plagiarism allegations
- NMC plans emergency dept. renovation
- Rutland Regional’s ‘Imagine a Healthy Heart’ campaign reaches goal
- Efficiency Vermont names NMC employee Energy Champion
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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- Roger Hebden Named Chief Executive Officer of Livanta LLC
- MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital Celebrates 10 Years as MedStar Health
- Md. hospital officials call on legislators for more help reducing admissions
- Global Healthcare Giant JNJ Tapped for Next Phase of DC’s Redevelopment Plans
- Viela Bio strikes deal to get rare disease drug to global market
- RegenxBio gets positive interim data for eye disease treatment
- Lawmakers Eye Massachusetts Model for Md. Health Care System
NEW JERSEY
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- Curavi Health expands partnership in New Jersey
- Hackensack Meridian Health plans acquisition of Englewood Health
- New Jersey tax credits turned a Camden office complex into a lucrative investment. Now the feds and state AG are investigating.
- Nurses at New Jersey hospital gave Benadryl to patients to make them sleepy, lighten workload: lawsuit
- Englewood Health, one of last independents in region, to merge with Hackensack Meridian
- State rejects Horizon BCBS plan to shift oversight of chiropractors
- South Jersey hospital becomes Cleveland Clinic heart care affiliate
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Attorney: Pa. hospital knew there was a problem and still accepted patients
- Dying patient was in ER for hours, hospital delayed reporting death, officials say
- Uniontown Hospital doctor came into emergency medicine in its infancy
- Penn Medicine, Mercy Health to establish heart surgery program in Delaware County
- Philly health department website exposed names of thousands of people with hepatitis
- Pennsylvania hospitals struggle under demand for mental health beds
- City Councilwoman introduces bill to ‘prevent the next Hahnemann’
- Wayne biopharma sells rosacea therapy in deal that could bring in $55M
- ER patient dies after being left unattended for more than an hour at hospital
- No new trial for Lehigh Valley Hospital after $2.4M verdict for former patient
- Curavi Health expands partnership in New Jersey
- Pennsylvania health system launches Apple Health Records
- Geisinger and Penn State Health announce letter of intent for Holy Spirit to join Penn State Health
- $48M Penn Medicine proton therapy center coming to Lancaster
VIRGINIA
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- Centra Health resumes billing after 3-month EHR shutdown, offers patients discounts
- Plan to add slots in nursing school amid state shortage
- UVa ‘looking at all options’ to lower healthcare costs, will not halt all suits
- UVA physician uses virtual reality to fast track availability of thyroid treatment
WEST VIRGINIA
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
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- Northwestern Iowa otolaryngologist agrees to pay $1M to resolve Medicaid False Claims allegations
- University of Iowa Health Care dialysis deal off, per patient letter
- Carson King hands $3 million to University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital
- Home health cares in Iowa, South Dakota ordered to pay
KANSAS
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- Overland Park surgeon, hospital, settle lawsuit alleging sexual harassment of women
- Big gift funds health initiative
- Health Insurers Have To Give Back $1.4 Billion, And Kansans Get The Fattest Checks
- Lawsuit, arrest, jail: How one city in Kansas handles medical debt scofflaws
- Mission Health Formally Takes Over 15 Skyline Skilled Nursing Facilities, Ending Receivership in Kansas
MINNESOTA
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- How Mayo Clinic Got Buy-In for a Plan to Reduce Hospital Stays
- IRS appeals Mayo Clinic court decision
- Gathering boosts Minnesota’s reputation for health and wellness leadership
- Mayo Clinic innovation leader Dr. Douglas Wood: ‘There is no innovation without action’
- Medicare health plans adding more counties in Minnesota, U.S.
- Minnesota IT Services received award for medical disaster response app
MISSOURI
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- SSM Health CIO Sony Jacob: How to tackle healthcare’s wicked problems
- College of Engineering alumnus donates $6 million gift for development of NextGen Precision Health Institute
- Hospital could be headed to healthcare desert in north St. Louis
- How a childhood illness inspired Dr. Abdelmoity from Children’s Mercy to tackle epilepsy in Missouri
- New Hannibal Clinic location aims to address rural healthcare issues
- Livongo teams up with BCBS of Kansas City
- CEO says Missouri hospital has raised half of $3M tax bill
- Western Missouri Medical Center taps Renee Twenter as COO
- Missouri provider looks to replicate Gary’s ‘rapid access’ mental treatment center
NEBRASKA
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- Kearney CCC students show area hospitals how their programs prepare them for long-term care
- As Drug Overdoses Increase, Rural Nebraska Lacks Adequate Treatment
- Hospital says national nursing shortage has impacts in Nebraska
- Undergraduate students explore health careers at UNMC
- Local senator continues to advocate for Blue Hill nursing facility
NORTH DAKOTA
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- Could delivery drones soon be buzzing over a Sanford hospital near you?
- Good Sam focused on transition nine months into Sanford merger
- South Dakota among top for nursing home care, study says
- Sanford Health considering drone delivery for supplies
- Home health cares in Iowa, South Dakota ordered to pay
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Rush Oak Park Hospital unveils new $30 million emergency department
- Elmhurst Hospital earns national recognition for spine surgery
- Advocate Aurora Invests in People, Infrastructure for ACO Success
- Little Company of Mary, OSF finalize merger terms
- Lawmakers urge Illinois attorney general to investigate MetroSouth hospital closing
- Expanded health care services coming to Marion, Illinois
- New Lenox Approves Silver Cross Neonatal ICU Addition
INDIANA
- Contract negotiations between Indiana hospital, Anthem stall
- American Health Network breaks ground on New Albany medical building
- LifeNet Health Investing $18M In Indiana Biologics Facility
- Indiana hospital system notifies patients after data breach
- Indiana health system breaks ground on facility with spine, orthopedics
- Indiana’s not-for-profit hospitals committed to improving public health
- Larwill Medical Device Maker to Expand, Add Jobs
- New Telehealth Clinic in Vincennes
- Biomedical Firm to Expand in Plainfield
KENTUCKY
- LHC Group finalizes joint venture agreement with Louisville’s Norton Healthcare
- Judges skeptical of Medicaid work requirements in appeals hearing on Kentucky, Arkansas programs
- Anderson named chief nursing officer at FRMC
- Norton Healthcare donates $5M to Louisville Urban League
- Local hospital CEO to leave his role in November
- Feds say Kentucky to spend $272 million on Matt Bevin’s Medicaid changes in two years
- UofL Hospital introduces first of its kind immunotherapy cancer treatment to Kentucky
- Kentucky hospital gets $1M donation for immunotherapy cancer program
- U of Louisville has $379M backup plan if it can’t buy Jewish Hospital
- UofL has a $379M Plan B if Jewish Hospital doesn’t work out
- Humana director exits to avoid appearance of conflict of interest
- Second lawsuit filed against Oldham County nursing home alleging abuse
MICHIGAN
- Medical provider resolves fraud allegations, pays $600k to federal government
- MDHHS holding community meetings to inform public about upcoming work requirements for Healthy Michigan Plan
- Helen Newberry Joy Hospital names Wendy Rautio CFO
- MI Medicaid Plans to Cut PBMs and Use Fee for Service Drug Payments
- Sparrow Health System Unveils Portland Expansion Plans
- Michigan family left scrambling after Phoenix hospital takes back offer to take in teen on life support
- Ascension St. Mary’s Hospital Preps Expansion
- New CEO named at UP Health System-Marquette
- Detroit Medical Center names Dr. Audrey Gregory president
- Michigan is facing a shortage of primary care doctors. Where does that leave patients?
OHIO
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- ER visits fall after Dayton opened clinic for employees
- Fisher-Titus and Local Surgeons Break Ground on Surgery Center in Norwalk
- University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital receives $3 million to establish Pediatric Disaster Care Center of Excellence
- Kettering Health Network starts construction on $4.5M Butler County facility
- Blanchard Valley Health System in Ohio joins Mayo Clinic Care Network
- Belpre announces plans for 50,000-square-foot nursing home
- Pipeline break near surgery center causes Ohio hospital to reschedule some surgeries
- Ohio AG Says Reported Settlements In Opioid Trial Are “Too Light”
WISCONSIN
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- Dr. Timothy Harrington: Dane County has a health care access problem
- Fresenius buys most of UW, Meriter’s Wisconsin Dialysis
- Marshfield Clinic to buy hospital in Weston, Park Falls, won’t build new hospital
- Marshfield Clinic buying St. Clare’s Hospital, won’t build new Wausau hospital
- Milwaukee company recognized for innovative use of AI, data science
- Wisconsin health system opening outpatient clinic, surgery center
- Ascension to sell 2 Wisconsin hospitals
- Advocate Aurora Invests in People, Infrastructure for ACO Success
- The nursing home funding crisis
- Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin publicly launch $225M innovation campaign
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
FLORIDA
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- HCA West Hospital names new CEO
- Venice Regional Bayfront Health appoints chief quality officer
- Florida pain clinic opening expanded Alabama clinic
- Flagler Hospital launches first telehealth clinic at Publix pharmacy
- Tampa General Hospital reveals $10M in savings
- Lockdown lifted at Florida hospital, extra security remains
- Specialists fill new center for advanced healthcare
- Top heart surgeon returns to All Children’s, 3 years after being pushed out
- Tampa General, OnMed launch telehealth station that can diagnose patients
- St. Mary’s Medical Center CEO Gabrielle Finley-Hazle resigns
- Johns Hopkins All Children’s rehires top surgeon to lead troubled heart program
GEORGIA
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- To save rural hospitals, Georgia requires classes for CEOs
- Medicare initiative aimed at reducing readmissions of discharged patients penalizes Redmond, Floyd
- Georgia health system to stop treating Anthem members as in-network
- US Surgeon General addresses the opioid crisis in middle Georgia
- Piedmont Healthcare’s CEO applauds pickiness, knocks clipboards
- Atlanta veterans hospital suspends routine surgeries amid problems
- State of Georgia OK’s Emory University Hospital Midtown’s $469M cancer tower
MISSISSIPPI
NORTH CAROLINA
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- FastMed Urgent Care to Expand into the Heart of Downtown Raleigh
- Sandhills region wins $1 million federal grant to battle opioid abuse
- Nursing home gave “poor patient care,” officials say, after dementia patient discharged to empty, locked home
- Proceeds from Mission Health sale to benefit WNC communities
- 3 North Carolina healthcare workers charged with creating fight club for dementia patients
- Doctor wants to lower MRI prices for patients; is suing to do so
- BCBS of North Carolina changes protocols after CEO scandal
- Mission Health confirms clinics are closing, employees laid off
- Wilmington could ask county to delay possible hospital sale
- Vidant, Pitt settle UNC-ECU suit over hospital board
- UNC, Vidant settle dispute over hospital board shuffle
- North Carolina ranks high nationally for LGBTQ-friendly hospitals
- Doctors seek their own practices independent of hospitals
- Boston named top US hospital city, Raleigh dead last
- Inside North Carolina‘s big effort to transform health care
- NHRMC hopes to combat shortage by raising pay for nurses
- Wilmington City Council passes resolution asking county to slow possible hospital sale
- $1 million grant awarded to fight opioid abuse
- Northern Hospital of Surry County Unveils New Name, Launches Rebranding Campaign
- The Briefcase: State regulators approve Accordius’ transfer of beds
- Chicago medical real-estate group buys seven more Forsyth properties used by Novant Health for $83.86 million
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- MUSC requests state’s permission to build and renovate facilities across SC
- Grand Strand Health pushes for SC coastal hospitals to stay open during hurricanes
- New children’s hospital at MUSC in Charleston faces construction delays
- MUSC Health files to build new ER on Johns Island
- MUSC aims to save $14M annually with high-tech supply warehouse, device-cleaning center
- Charleston hospitals at war over MUSC’s plans to build in Berkeley County
TENNESSEE
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- Greeneville Community Hospital East Deploys Telehealth ICU Platform
- Pain MD owner, employees accused of $38M health care fraud
- 4 healthcare professionals indicted on fraud charges
- UT Medical Center takes first step toward new surgery center
- LifePoint Health CEO David Dill named 2020 chairman of FAH board
- CHS to pay $22M, absorb $50M of debt in settlement
- Suit claims Middle Tennessee hospital fired nurse who was injured on the job
- Chattanoogans weigh in on TN’s health care overhaul Wednesday
- Tennessee hospital fired nurse after refusing to accommodate work injury, EEOC says
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
ARIZONA
LOUISIANA
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- BR General starting construction on new outpatient surgery center next week
- Louisiana hospital receives approval to develop outpatient surgery center
- Genetics lab to resolve kickback allegations for $42M, lose billing privileges for 25 years
- Louisiana clinic hit by ransomware attack
- Blue Cross, Blue Shield of La. announces new benefits to Medicare
NEW MEXICO
OKLAHOMA
TEXAS
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- Texas Health Mansfield’s New Chief Nursing Officer
- Why UT Southwestern and Children’s Health had to join forces: to start rowing in the same direction
- Tenet spends $630K to derail ‘Medicare for All’
- Texas This Week: 1 in 4 Texans have medical debt, according to CPPP
- Texas health system alerts entire patient database of data breach
- Major insurer could drop one of Houston’s largest health care systems from network
- Texas health system to lay off 741 employees
- US university tackles healthcare cybersecurity woes with first national program
- Texas Patients Get Bigger Bills, But No Better Care When Doctors Are Affiliated With A Hospital, Study Finds
- Feds sue Texas hospital executives over $167M loan
- Tenet Health Central Coast unifies 2 hospitals, affiliated entities under single brand
- New Medical Center Opens on North Mason Road
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
IDAHO
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- Idaho Falls Community Hospital set to open Nov. 4
- Melaleuca CEO announces proposed medical billing legislation to Idaho lawmakers
- Feds taking comments on Idaho’s Medicaid expansion ‘work requirement’ restrictions
- Saint Al’s and Life Flight applaud 10 year partnership
- St. Luke’s awarded $3.4 million for suicide study
MONTANA
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- St. James Healthcare one of nine hospitals in state to lose Medicare money
- Bozeman Health Engages Kyruus to Support its Digital Transformation and Integrate Patient Access System-wide
- MSU Indian, rural health program gets $10.7M grant
- Bozeman Business Boom: A hospital on the move
- St. Peter’s Health sees reduction in Medicare penalty
OREGON
WASHINGTON
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- Island Hospital taps Charles Hall as CEO
- Hospital District candidates lay out priorities at forum
- Unions for Sacred Heart nurses and hospital workers schedule strike votes
- Cigna-owned Express Scripts buys Seattle-area health tech startup Verity Solutions
- Bayer G4A partners with Seattle startups Litesprite and Prevencio on digital health efforts
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
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- Mercy nurse who took kickbacks for Medicare referrals pleads guilty
- California nurse pleads guilty to Medicare scheme
- Bay Area biotech unicorn suffers 5th worst Wall Street debut of year
- California’s new transparency law shows staggering rise in wholesale drug prices
- Temecula Valley Hospital is the first in California to bring applied artificial intelligence to stroke care
- California seeking better ways to use tech in healthcare
- California health system goes live on Epic
- Sutter, Kaiser among hospitals hit by Northern California blackouts
- DaVita blasts new California law to limit reimbursement rates
- Hospital Giant Sutter Health Agrees To Settlement In Big Antitrust Fight
- Cerner workers to become Adventist Health employees
- West Health Names Marie Kennedy Chief Communications Officer
COLORADO
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- Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center recognized for organ and tissue donation
- Centura physician fired after filing aid-in-dying suit, complaint says
- How hospitals can prevent employees from falling for phishing attacks, hacking scams
- How Denver Health is finding homes for patients—without ‘stranding’ them in the hospital
- Colorado unveils state-led public insurance option
- Data dive: These are Colorado’s highest-paid Medicare providers
- DaVita blasts new California law to limit reimbursement rates
- Denver Hospital Builds Affordable Housing For ‘Stranded’ Patients
- Paging Dr. Algorithm: How AI and other new tech are changing care in Colorado hospitals
- Award of Merit Health Care: Children’s Hospital of Colorado – Colorado Springs
HAWAII
NEVADA
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- Healthcare Transactions Group Arranges Sale of 160-Bed Skilled Nursing Facility in Las Vegas
- Summerlin-area land sold to health care company for $19M
- Intermountain Healthcare has bought the property for almost $19 million.
- Nevada receives below average grade for health care access, infectious diseases
- Nonprofit rates Nevada poorly for health care, diseases
- OptumCare Cancer Care adds six new health care providers
- Las Vegas psychiatric hospital has gone without water for two weeks
- Sierra Nevada Realtors donates $10K to Carson Tahoe Health Foundation
UTAH
