NATIONAL
- Could Patient Privacy Awareness Drive Health IT Innovation in 2020?
- How tech will transform the healthcare workplace by 2050: 3 predictions
- Physicians will keep fighting on these 6 key issues in 2020
- How healthcare will change in 2020
- Health Plans Struggle with HIPAA Compliance, Unprepared for Audit
- AHA files another challenge to CMS site neutral payment policy
- GAO report hits lax oversight of 340B drug program
- Hospital groups sue HHS, seek to block site-neutral pay cuts
- ‘Concierge’ Medicine Gets More Affordable But Is Still Not Widespread
- Health IT to lead 2020 deals as hospital activity slows, KPMG says
- Hospitals file new lawsuit to halt 2020 site-neutral payment cuts
- HHS Reveals Draft of 5-Year ‘Strategic Health IT Plan’
- Pharma execs pitch ideas at #JPM20 to lower drug costs. None of them include dropping their own prices
- New AMA hub connects doctors with early-stage healthcare startups, investors
- Teladoc to buy enterprise telehealth solutions provider InTouch Health in $600M deal
- Major reformations of the last decade that will shape US healthcare in 2020
- State-by-state breakdown of 120 rural hospital closures
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
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- ‘I do this with a heavy heart’: Bankruptcy judge orders closure of Connecticut nursing home following financial troubles
- Racial disparities persist in Connecticut health care, two groups find
- New health tracker ‘illuminated a need’ at CT hospitals
- Bridgeport Manor operator pleads guilty to embezzlement
- New London Hospital gets new CEO
MAINE
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- Physician group plans ownership transfer for orthopedic ASC
- Maine receiving more than $5 million to help addicted expecting mothers
- 20 on ’20: A view of Maine’s health care, from the street level
- N.H. doctor convicted of sexually assaulting a patient surrenders his Maine medical license
- Penobscot Pediatrics recognized by Let’s Go! for helping kids make healthy choices
MASSACHUSETTS
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- Flu causes ‘concerning’ ED crowding at Brigham and Women’s
- Framingham’s Definitive Healthcare expands its data business by acquiring PatientFinder
- Definitive Healthcare buys Florida analytics firm
- Partners HealthCare expects to spend $6.1B in next five years on expansions
- At major San Francisco conference, it’s Mass General Brigham, not Partners
- Partners’ growth in outpatient services drives higher spending
- Health Policy Commission identifies 3 troubling cost trends
- Northampton hospital workers ratify new contract
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- 2 New Hampshire health systems file for merger
- $130 million Dartmouth-Hitchcock expansion wins OK in Lebanon
- More psychiatric beds means fewer people waiting in ERs
- Will you be covered? Patients snared in negotiations
- Partners to meet with New Hampshire regulators over Exeter acquisition
- New Hampshire college expands nursing program
NEW YORK
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- No easy fix for nursing home staff shortage
- NYU Langone Health Adds Three New Practices To Its Growing Ambulatory Care Network
- University of Rochester, Jones Memorial cancer center in Olean under review
- NY telehealth giant Teladoc grows with $600M acquisition
- Upper Allegheny Health System head Tim Finan looks back on tenure
- Valley Health System taps Mount Sinai spinoff to prescribe digital therapeutics
- New healthcare program to offer coverage to uninsured Brooklynites
- New York health system alerts patients of phishing attack
- Mount Vernon Hospital closure: What to know about opposition, Montefiore money, investments
- Cuomo Announces NY Will Provide Puerto Rico Mental Health Professionals, Help For Power System
- New York safety-net hospital getting consultant to avoid ‘fiscal crisis’
- New York hospital system seeking state OK to close Irving campus
RHODE ISLAND
VERMONT
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- OneCare to seek nonprofit status in order to receive $5.7 million from Vermont
- Program Launches to Assist Rural Residents in Vermont
- UVM Medical Center will reopen Fanny Allen operating rooms
- Vermont children face ‘heartbreaking’ delays for dental care, pediatric dentist says
- Medical coverage changes at the Pines Rehab and Health
MID-ATLANTIC/EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
NEW JERSEY
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- Hackensack University Medical Center First Hospital in New Jersey to Implement C-SATS – an AI-Powered Surgical Training Platform
- Lawsuit alleges New Jersey nursing home’s negligence led to patient death
- Valley Health System Becomes First Health System in New Jersey to Prescribe Enterprise-wide Digital Therapeutics
- Patient falls from New Jersey hospital’s 6th floor window, survives
- RWJBarnabas Health names new senior VP
- Valley Health partners with Rx.Health on prescribing app
- Clara Maass Medical Center names chief nursing officer
- New Jersey court upholds False Claims Act settlement despite defendants’ protests
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Philadelphia hospital opens outpatient care center
- Upper Allegheny Health System CEO Timothy Finan to retire in July
- Allegheny Health Network finalizes affiliation pact with Grove City hospital
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia considers adding beds to new inpatient hospital in King of Prussia
- St. Luke’s Anderson Campus Opens New Women & Babies Pavilion
- Hidden camera found in employee bathroom at Pennsylvania hospital
- Pa. is paying hospitals to get patients into opioid treatment after overdosing — and it’s working
- What hospitals can learn from a Philadelphia hospital closure
- Penn Medicine’s new sponsorship with Flyers, Wells Fargo Center goes beyond signage
- AHN acquires Grove City Medical Center
- James Kanuch named CFO of new Allegheny Health Network hospital
- Proposed False Claims Act could affect providers outside of Medicaid system, group says
- Main Line Health adopts orphaned Hahnemann urology residency program
- Welltower, Jefferson Health JV Would Integrate Health System with Senior Housing
- Jefferson pursues sale of some of its health care real estate holdings
- Partnership gives Guthrie heart patients access to Temple transplant surgeons
- UPMC Enterprises commits $1 billion to life science investments
- Pennsylvania hospital prepared to join WVU Medicine
- 32 things to know about CHS, Tenet, HCA and UHS
- Allegheny County Medical Society steps up focus on supporting independent doctors
VIRGINIA
WEST VIRGINIA
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- Thomas Health System to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Thomas Health board of directors vote to seek Chapter 11 protection
- Uniontown Hospital announces intent to join WVU Medicine
- West Virginia hospital group eyes bankruptcy, not closing
- WVU Medicine adding pediatrics in Greene, Uniontown Hospital to system
- WVU Medicine to Take Ownership Of Wetzel County Hospital
- First Thomas Health bankruptcy hearing set for this week
- Pennsylvania hospital prepared to join WVU Medicine
- 20 employees furloughed at bankrupt West Virginia hospital
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
KANSAS
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- Prime Healthcare names regional CEO of 4 area hospitals
- Company closes Boonville hospital with short notice
- State settles two cases alleging ‘medical negligence’ at UIHC for a total of $7 million
- Iowa Specialty Hospital expands Fort Dodge clinic
- Virus Causing Iowa Hospital to Cancel All January Maternity Tours
MINNESOTA
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- Mayo Clinic launches data analytics initiative for drug discovery
- St. Luke’s announces executive appointments
- Clinic closings will worsen Minn. shortage of geriatric specialists
- Minnesota nonprofit hospitals in tug-of-war with insurers over efforts to rein in costs
- Schafer: For Mayo and other nonprofits, operating in the black is about survival, not greed
- Record pace of drug approvals prompts cheers from patients, warnings from advocates
- Minneapolis VA cited after another suicide of veteran
- In rural Minnesota, a scarcity of beds for people in crisis
- HealthPartners subsidiary releases ACO results
MISSOURI
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- Prime Healthcare names regional CEO of 4 area hospitals
- St. Louis behavioral health services provider names new CEO
- ‘Concierge’ Medicine Gets More Affordable But Is Still Not Widespread
- SSM Health and Strive Health partner to transform kidney care
- Company closes Boonville hospital with short notice
- Outspoken critic of Missouri’s response to opioid epidemic fired after speaking out
- Technology + Health Care: How the industry is changing
- Prime Healthcare fills regional CEO’s seat after 7-month vacancy
- Advanced ICU Care Announces Second Tele-ICU Launch within HSHS Health System
NEBRASKA
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- UNMC creates new division for Allergy and Immunology
- Nebraska Medicaid head steps down as state expands coverage
- UNMC sets another record for research funding at just over $138 million
- Nebraska hospital relocating surgery center as part of $6M project
- Nebraska Medicaid expansion plan would rein in state costs; critics say it cuts coverage, benefits
- ‘If you don’t use it, you lose it’: Methodist Hospital unit focuses on keeping older patients active
NORTH DAKOTA
SOUTH DAKOTA
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- Sanford Health expanding efforts to bring genomic insights into primary care
- Regional Health set to become Monument Health, join Mayo Clinic Care Network
- Color to Collaborate with Sanford Health, Expand Northshore Partnership
- LifeScape to build new facility at USD Discovery District
- Sanford International generates $140,000 for local charities
- South Dakota State Rep Proposes Bill to Criminalize Gender-Transition Surgeries on Children
- Creating green solutions to Dakota’s healthcare challenge
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Illinois eye ASC plans ownership change pursuant to merger
- NorthShore University HealthSystem buys Chicago hospital
- Advocate BroMenn Sold To Carle
- Advocate Bromenn and Eureka Hospital acquired by Carle Health
- UIC proposes $191M outpatient care center in Chicago
- 8 ER physicians quit Chicago hospital
- Chicago hospitals ready for uptick in marijuana-related ER visits
- Advocate Aurora Health moves to double revenue in 5 years
- How Advocate Health Care is driving better outcomes with a focus on social determinants of health
- Advocate to close 7 Walgreens clinics in suburban Chicago, prompting allegations of unfair labor practices
- Willowbrook Memory Care recognized for improving quality of care
INDIANA
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- Indiana Doctor, Siblings Accused of Medicare Fraud
- Park Center to buy Lafayette Medical Center
- Tim Tarnowski rejoins IU Health as CIO
- IU Health develops app to help physicians search patient data
- IU Health Names Senior VP
- New hospital to expand existing clinic’s offerings
- Parkview Health to Invest in New Facilities
- New Trial Ordered in Cook Medical Lawsuit
- Highpoint Health laid off or reduced the hours of 80 workers today
KENTUCKY
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- U of L lowers request for state loan on Jewish Hospital acquisition to $35 million
- Med Center seeks dismissal of Greenview’s ambulance plan
- Mary & Elizabeth Hospital names new chief administrative officer
- U of L says it needs $35 million — rather than $50 million — from state to prop up struggling health facilities
- U of Louisville lowers state loan request to finance Jewish Hospital
- Court combines hospital chain’s 11 bankruptcy cases
- Andy Beshear picks nursing home exec as watchdog of troubled nursing home industry
- Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital names Brian Springate COO
- Signature Healthcare exec selected as inspector general for Kentucky’s nursing home industry
- Baptist Healthcare buys Jeffersontown building for $15M — here’s what it’s planning
- Louisville health tech company acquired by Florida firm
- Louisville Metro Government opens 2nd Wellness Center
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- Memorial Healthcare expands neurological treatment to mid-Michigan
- Inside Michigan’s $17.5M Grant To Fight The Opioid Epidemic
- Michigan Medicine leader tapped as president of Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital
- Business manager of shuttered Kalamazoo OB-GYN pleads guilty to health care fraud
- Spectrum Health Ludington birthing center unveils multi-million dollar expansion
- Head of Alma, Mt. Pleasant health provider assumes Clare duties
- Beaumont Health Reclaims Pediatric Hospice Program
- Ex-Sioux City plastic surgeon pleads not guilty to federal fraud charges
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- OptumRX says Ohio didn’t play fair in drug-pricing negotiations
- Ohio’s Hospice opens $10M care center
- Okapi Medical Names CEO
- Nationwide Children’s, a gene therapy leader, launches manufacturing spinout
- Dayton Children’s Hospital buys more property near health campus
- How Cleveland Clinic manages its medical waste
- Welltower, Jefferson Health JV Would Integrate Health System with Senior Housing
- Greater Cincinnati hospital lays off dozens, reduces hours for other workers
- Nursing home calls strain Ohio city’s EMS capacity
- Bon Secours Mercy Health and Lirio Announce Partnership and Investment
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- UW Hospital among first centers to perform new kind of heart transplant
- New Prevea Menomonie Health Center to open next week providing urgent care, expanded services
- Advocate Aurora Health moves to double revenue in 5 years
- Payroll exec allegedly embezzled $476,000 from home care facility in Glendale
- Certified nurse-midwives lead collaborative care model as solution to obstetrician shortage
SOUTH/SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
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- Florida ranks 28th in health care affordability scorecard
- Florida health systems open $152M jointly owned hospital
- Unified Women’s Healthcare Acquires Lucina Health
- Orlando VA Medical Center names new top executive
- Disgruntled patient makes bomb threat to Florida hospital for 2nd time
- Florida hospitals face $70.4M drop in Medicaid funding
- Orlando Health acquires local orthopedic firm, to build $250 million downtown hospital
- Ronald Bierman is Florida hospital’s new president
- Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital hit with another wrongful death lawsuit
- Fishermen’s Community Hospital Sets Sights On Winter 2020 Opening
- New “Go-To” Hospital in Sarasota County Coming Soon
- New medical office opens in Fort Walton Beach
- Definitive Healthcare buys Florida analytics firm
- Sebastian River Medical Center Announces New President
- Tampa General Hospital Names Mark Runyon New Chief Financial Officer
- Orange Park Medical Center reaches another milestone in $126M expansion
GEORGIA
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- Hamilton Medical Center to add open heart surgery program
- Georgia hospital CEO Dan Jones resigns
- Developers Tapped to Build New Surgery Center in Atlanta
- Reduced Capacity At Grady Memorial Hospital Ripples Through Region’s Medical System
- Cartersville native appointed Baptist Village president/CEO
- Georgia launches new healthcare database for consumers
- Columbus hospital now run jointly by Emory, LifePoint Health
- State auditors examine Georgia hospitals’ expenses on lobbying
- Flood Damaged Atlanta Hospital Under Renovation Through Oct.
- Grady Hospital expects to operate at reduced capacity for much of 2020
- Georgia family stuck with $325K medical bill, health plan provider refuses to pay
- Georgia lawmakers hopeful to end surprise medical billing
- Georgia Senate introduces Health Care Bill
- Hospital campus selling at auction in North Georgia
MISSISSIPPI
NORTH CAROLINA
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- Hospital names VP of nursing
- Ballad expands services to North Carolina
- Halifax Regional becomes Vidant North
- Atrium hospital billed North Carolina woman 18 months after visit
- North Carolina health system building $35M medical office building with ASC
- WakeMed Health & Hospitals Selects Health Catalyst to Transform Healthcare Delivery through Centralized Data and Analytics
- Regional hospitals look back on 2019 growth
- Lawsuit challenging medical regulation encounters setback
- More patients, parking and jobs coming to UNC hospital campus in Hillsborough
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- South Carolina hospital escapes suit over physician’s lack of adequate insurance
- Clemson and MUSC Work to Improve Health in Rural Communities
- MUSC rolls out virtual care app for South Carolina state employees
- Midwives in S.C. rally for equal hospital access for their mothers
- South Carolina health system lays off 327 employees
TENNESSEE
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- Ardent Health withdraws IPO, faces class-action complaint
- Michigan Medicine leader tapped as president of Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital
- Ballad expands services to North Carolina
- Midstate doctor faces federal charges connected to $7 million healthcare fraud conspiracy
- Hospital changes are affecting patient drive times
- Surgery Partners promotes COO to top job
- CHS shares spike on 2020 guidance preview
- 32 things to know about CHS, Tenet, HCA and UHS
- Ballad Health to build new urgent care in Kingsport
- Two Nashville health care giants team up on virtual reality program
- Tennessee provider alerts 13,000 patients of data breach
SOUTH-CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
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- Baptist Health, UAMS open new program to expand 120 medical resident slots
- Partnership between Baptist Health and UAMS aims to combat physician shortage
- UAMS study finds raising opioid dosage increases risks, ineffective for pain
- 2 Arkansas men charged in scheme to defraud military insurer
- Hospital bankruptcies leave sick and injured nowhere to go
- Northwest Health’s Cindy Ruffing named HR Professional of the Year
ARIZONA
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- BCBS of Arizona acquires Steward Health Choice Arizona
- Arizona agency names 44 others tied to alleged exam, billing fraud
- Hacienda HealthCare will keep Medicaid contract, settlement says
- Sinema secures $5.4 million for North Country Healthcare
- Renovated Phoenix VA mental health care units safer, more welcoming
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital expands East Valley footprint with Specialty Clinics building at Mercy Gilbert
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital opens specialty clinic in Gilbert
- Phoenix Children’s Is the First-Ever Health System in the U.S to Use Medtronic Stealth Autoguide™ Cranial Robotic Guidance Platform for Neurosurgery
LOUISIANA
NEW MEXICO
OKLAHOMA
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- Oklahoma hospital names Kevin O’Brien CEO
- Oklahoma Attorney General taking on opioid distributors in new lawsuit
- Angi Mohr tapped as president of Oklahoma hospital
- State Rep. McEntire addresses surprise medical billing
- Tulsa diabetes advocate: ‘People are dying because they can’t afford their insulin.’
- Here’s What Happened to $829M Oklahoma Was Awarded to Treat Opioid Addiction
TEXAS
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- Cynergi Health Partners’ VR tool helps patients, community hospitals
- 32 things to know about CHS, Tenet, HCA and UHS
- Frisco health care tech firm Valify sells to hospital giant HCA Healthcare
- Frisco health care startup acquired by the biggest hospital chain in the country
- HCA buys Texas company with Martin Ventures ties
- Weems to get advice from Texas A&M grant
- LifeCare Returns To Its Roots In Critical Care With New Ownership
- Valley Baptist Health System opens new micro-hospital
- A ‘Pillar of Health in SA’ Retires From Methodist Healthcare Ministries After 25 Years
- Privia Health and Children’s Health Announce Strategic Alliance
- Preparing for Special Pathogens: An IP Perspective
- Rural areas struggle with health care: Research shows towns falter when a hospital closes
- Tenet on track to meet $450M cost-cutting goal this year, CEO says
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
IDAHO
MONTANA
OREGON
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- Oregon Nurses’ Association calls for increased funding
- How Oregon’s healthiest hospitals measure up by finances and occupancy
- Salem Health CEO hops in backhoe to kick off hospital expansion
- How Oregon’s healthiest hospitals rank by finances and occupancy
- Oregon governor taps OHA chief of staff as health policy adviser
- Lawmakers Ready Bills On Prescription Drug Prices, Staffing Shortages
- New report details the high cost of regulatory compliance for hospitals
- Report finds ‘regulatory overload’ costs Oregon hospitals millions
WASHINGTON
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- Providence Health strikes labor deals at 3 Washington hospitals
- Nurses union asks judge to reconsider sudden Yakima hospital closure
- Carole Peet chosen as the new CEO of Virginia Mason Memorial
- Seattle Cancer Care Alliance names Aaron Crane executive vice president
- Providence St. Joseph Health Announces Same-Day Virtual Visits
- EvergreenHealth Names Chief Operating Officer
- Swenson Healthcare Joins Forces with Comagine Health
- Washington introduces consumer data privacy legislation
- Astria Regional’s closure leaves Yakima without open heart surgery provider
- Seattle healthcare tech company SCI Solutions acquired for $190M
- State questioned Seattle Children’s over lack of air filter in OR
WYOMING
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
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- Dignity Health unveils details of $320M California replacement hospital
- Bay Area hospital facing closure may have new buyer
- New Neurological Rehab Hospital Opens In Murrieta
- Adventist laying off 46 employees in California
- California hospital deploys overflow tent after flu cases double
- Dignity Health loses appeal of Medicaid out-of-network billing case
- At risk of closing, 127-year-old Daly City hospital may have new buyer
- Optum taps Dr. Amar Desai to lead California operations
- Sutter Health to offer patients, staffers individualized transportation options through Lyft
- Sleep apnea company pays $37.5M to settle kickback lawsuits
- California hospital CEO’s contract not renewed
COLORADO
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- Colorado Springs Children’s Hospital expanding with new clinics, additional beds
- Children’s Hospital expands to keep up with growing community
- Children’s Hospital Colorado kicks off new program focused on mental health
- Health bills on the Colorado docket this session
- ‘Get into healthcare because it’s recession proof’: Advice that pushed Children’s Hospital Colorado CIO to enter the industry
- Vail Health says no smoking in the operating room
- Colorado’s new law protecting patients from surprise medical bills is up and running
- Colorado medical center to add $75M orthopedic hospital, cancer center
- SSM Health and Strive Health partner to transform kidney care
- Estes Park Health CEO Search: Second Candidate
- Parkview Medical Center to add cancer center, orthopedic hospital
- Ron Fitch named chief administrative officer of UCHealth Pikes Peak Regional Hospital
- Colorado hospitals sue to block early collection of $40 million to lower insurance costs
- Denver releases vision for more comprehensive mental health care
HAWAII
NEVADA
UTAH
