NATIONAL
- 9 digital healthcare execs discuss importance of interpersonal interactions between providers, patients
- 6 health system execs on supply chain challenges, advice to peers
- 6 must-know coding updates in 2020
- ACR ‘alarmed’ by number of small practices included in CMS’ new mandatory payment model
- CHIME names 2020 ‘Most Wired’ hospitals
- Citing COVID-19, providers push back on CMS payment rule rate cuts, telehealth rollback in 2021
- CMS seeks to ease COVID staff testing burden on rural operators
- DOJ charges 345 people involve in more than $6 billion healthcare fraud
- HHS threatens to withhold funding from hospitals that fail to report COVID-19 data
- Hospital groups demand CMS halt expansion of certain physician-owned hospitals in payment rule
- How 3 health systems are using data analytics to respond to the challenges of COVID-19
- Medical supply chain shortages led to deadly consequences
- ONC Awards $2.7M to Projects to Advancing Healthcare Data Sharing
- Only three US states are reporting declines in new coronavirus cases
- OSHA fines 28 US hospitals, nursing homes for COVID-19 safety violations
- The big opportunities for ASCs today: 2 physician perspectives
- Value-based Care After COVID-19: What Healthcare Leaders Need to Know
- Verma doubles down on supporting Medicaid work requirements as enrollment swells
- Lyft to integrate with Epic, enabling ride scheduling within EHR workflow
- OCR Settles Eighth Investigation in HIPAA Right of Access Initiative
- Covid-19, Subway Stops And Health Equity: How Digital Health Platforms Help Reduce Disparities In Care
- COVID-19 may be speeding up hospital M&A, analysis finds
ALABAMA
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- Alabama Hospitals Open for Visitors Once More
- BIO Alabama: Science on front line in fight against COVID-19
- COVID-19 hospitalizations ticking up in several Alabama hospitals
- Special unit to treat nursing home patients with COVID-19 opens in Alabama
- UB awarded grant to help pharmacies build community health worker programs
ALASKA
- Alaska case count hits new high, but hospitals aren’t sounding alarms
- Alaska coronavirus Q&A: How can active cases be declining in the state if daily counts remain high?
- Alaska Hospitals Lack ICU Resources to Cope With COVID Surge
- City officials weigh in on Anchorage’s recent COVID-19 spike
- Official: Alaska hospitals have capacity for virus patients
- Official: Alaska hospitals reaching coronavirus space limits
- Upcoming end to Alaska’s disaster declaration has hospitals concerned
ARIZONA
- Arizona county officials consider rescinding virus emergency
- Biggest ‘Right to Access Records’ Penalty Announced
- Epic EHR installed at 29-site Arizona urgent care network
- WMC now affiliated with Arizona-based Banner Health
- Wyoming Medical Center finalizes affiliation with Arizona-based Banner Health
- Banner Health to roll out mobile wayfinding app: 4 details
- OCR settles HIPAA Right of Access case with Dignity Health for $160K
- Praising Arizona: Quick public health action stopped summer coronavirus surge, CDC says
- Amid rise in cases, CDC study shows masks cut Arizona COVID-19 cases by 75%
- Globe nursing home sees COVID-19 outbreak, 35 infected
- Arizona reports 355 new COVID-19 cases, 1 death and relatively stable hospital numbers
- Proposition 449 asks Maricopa County voters to continue Valleywise Health funding
- Avera, UPMC Among Health Systems Getting USDA Telemedicine Grants
ARKANSAS
- Program chooses 5 health startups
- ICU bed availability drops 10% in Arkansas as virus continues spreading
- Arkansas expands nursing home visitation, logs highest number of virus hospitalizations
- NEA healthcare systems coping with COVID-19 strain
- Arkansas governor says hospitalizations from COVID-19 too high, despite decline in cases
- Supreme Court scrutinizes Arkansas law that regulates PBM payments to pharmacies
- Ozark Health CEO discusses hospital, tax extension
- Settlement approved in Faulkner County nursing home scandal case; details kept confidential
CALIFORNIA
- California Bill Gives Nurse Practitioners Green Light To Work Independently
- California nurses at 2 health systems begin 5-day strikes
- Here are four ways California can improve our health data challenges
- Investors extracted $400M from hospital chain that couldn’t afford supplies
- Los Angeles hospital can force Anthem to cover ER visits, court rules
- Nurse says she was suspended for reporting False Claims Act violations
COLORADO
- 2 alternate care sites to be deconstructed, Colorado Convention Center field hospital stays for now
- COVID-19 hospitalizations increasing in Colorado
- Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital hires new CEO
- Hospitalization Uptick ‘A Concerning Trend’ For Colorado Health Experts
- Landlord petitions to force ASC into bankruptcy
- Nursing homes are now facing a new challenge related to the pandemic: staying open
- UCHealth celebrates release of 2,000th COVID patient
CONNECTICUT
- Attorney General Tong Announces $300,000 False Claims Settlement
- Colchester nursing home to be cited for infection control deficiencies
- Connecticut Nursing Home Hit By Second Outbreak; 57 Positive Tests
- Nearly 60% of patients at Connecticut nursing home test positive for COVID-19
- Hartford HealthCare nurses set Oct. 13 strike date
- Connecticut hospital faces $13,500 in federal fines over allegations it provided inadequate protection to workers exposed to COVID-19 patients
- Hartford HealthCare challenges federal fines at Natchaug Hospital
- Eastern CT Hospitals Restricting Visitors Due to COVID-19 Outbreak
- Lawrence + Memorial Hospital to test 80 workers amid COVID-19 outbreak
DC
- DC reports highest single-day rise in coronavirus cases since June
- Latest coronavirus test results in DC, Maryland and Virginia
- Loudoun hospital appoints new chief amid expansion
- MedStar Health relied on existing technology to rapidly scale its telehealth program
DELAWARE
- Delaware philanthropists donate $300K for stroke patient care
- Delaware sees spike in COVID-19 cases, but no additional restrictions
- Delaware to use new COVID-19 positivity reporting method to make state more comparable with neighbors
- Delaware’s COVID case numbers still rising, long-term care facility outbreaks continue
FLORIDA
- AdventHealth acquires Tampa women’s health care services company
- Area Nursing Homes Fined for Failing to Report COVID-19 Data
- CHS divests Florida hospital, plans to sell 2 others in Tennessee
- Class settlement in Mayo Clinic balance billing suit gets preliminary approval
- Florida Hospital Association names new CEO
- Inside a Florida hospital, coronavirus cases wane as strained staff brace for a fall surge
- Lee Health to freeze pay for 13,500 employees
- Memorial Healthcare System requiring employees to get flu shot
- New CEO hired for Venice Regional Bayfront Health
- New Florida Cancer Specialists CEO talks pandemic cancer care, growing its workforce
- Orlando Health finalizes deal for St. Pete’s Bayfront hospital, and the new CEO shares future plans
- Panama City hospitals to keep precautionary COVID-19 measures in place ‘indefinitely’
- Tampa Bay hospitals put innovation first in breast cancer treatment
- Tampa General Hospital expands to Palm Beach County to lure patients
- Tampa General Hospital will be the Florida Senate’s coronavirus safety consultant
- Venice Regional Bayfront Health Names Kelly Enriquez CEO
GEORGIA
- Georgia hospital employee framed in HIPAA violation scheme
- Gov. Kemp extends public health state of emergency to November 9
- More than 40 charged for defrauding millions from SC, Georgia healthcare programs
- Northside Hospital and Urgent Care Group Expand Partnership
- Rural hospitals under pressure to adopt reforms
- Some Georgia hospitals keep pandemic information to themselves
- Some Georgia Hospitals Are Reporting A Rise In Trauma Cases
HAWAII
- New Leadership Faces Challenges At Queen’s Health Systems
- Second family files suit against Avalon Health Care for deadly COVID outbreak
IDAHO
- Boise’s Intermountain Hospital unaffected by cyberattack on parent company
- BVA sells Saltzer Health chain to Intermountain Health
- Idaho Falls health care facility had to call COVID-positive staff to work. Is that OK?
- Idaho sees decrease in COVID-19 cases, deaths in long-term care facilities
- Idaho’s daily average of new COVID-19 cases nearing 500 — a mark last seen in July
- Sale falls through for physician-owned hospital in Idaho
ILLINOIS
- A New York Hospital Executive Has Been Chosen To Lead The Cook County Health System
- Activists once again call for Mercy Hospital to remain open
- Advocate Aurora, Beaumont call off merger following COVID-19, doctor pushback
- Advocate Aurora drops plans to merge with Michigan’s largest health provider
- Advocate Aurora and Beaumont Health cite different reasons for nixing merger talks
- Anderson Surgery Center completed in Illinois
- COVID-19 drags CommonSpirit into red for first full fiscal year
- Illinois hospital opens endoscopy center as part of $50M+ expansion
- Madison County nursing home reports remarkable turnaround after state health investigation
- New York hospital exec named CEO of Chicago’s public health system
- Paris, Illinois, hospital celebrating 50 years
INDIANA
- Anthem settles 2015 cyberattack for $39.5M: 6 details
- BioCrossroads Honors ‘Father of Echocardiography’
- CEO: New Crown Point Hospital ‘A Big Step Up’
- Investment to Spur South Bend Company’s Expansion
- Pharma Startup Awarded $1.5M for Manufacturing Tech
- Pharmacy Provider Opens Indy Hub
- Unity Healthcare Names COO
IOWA
- More COVID-19 patients than ever are in Iowa hospitals
- Hospital system to pay Iowa $38,895 after 2014 data breach exposes patient information
- COVID-19 hospitalizations are surging in Iowa, but Gov. Kim Reynolds says hospitals can handle the load
- Care facility fined $20,500 for handling of resident care during coronavirus pandemic
- Iowa agency keeps secret the number of COVID-19 staff deaths in nursing homes
- For Iowa hospitals, the bills are on their way, as pandemic costs deal a major blow to budgets
- Mount Carmel expands Medicare Advantage plan to Iowa
- Citing COVID-19 financial impact, Mercy Iowa City to close inpatient mental health unit
- Iowa City hospital to lay off 29 in wake of pandemic
- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics translators eliminate language barriers, improve patient care
KANSAS
- 4 Kansas physicians resign from hospital over CEO salary, medical interaction concerns
- State council extends COVID-19 emergency order with little fuss
- Physicians resign from Kansas hospital amid concerns with CEO
- AdventHealth to open 85-bed Kansas hospital in 2021
- Kansas nursing homes to benefit from increase in coronavirus tests
- Kansas to get 870,000 rapid tests from feds, governor says
- Kansas Counties Receive Federal Telemedicine Investment
- Kansas COVID-19 hospitalizations spike; emergency extended
- Doctors in rural Kansas call for healthcare system CEO to resign
- Saint Luke’s Health System closing two community hospitals in Overland Park
KENTUCKY
- COVID-19 Hospitalizations Increasing In Kentucky
- Gov. Beshear expects Kentucky to set weekly COVID-19 case record this week
- Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital unveils new surgical robot
- Kentucky governor relaunches healthcare program with expanded mission
- Kentucky nursing homes see rise in COVID-19 cases
- Kentucky relaunches Kynect web portal for one-stop access to health care
- Kindred Healthcare could shrink with pending deal with Select Rehabilitation
- Kindred Healthcare selling its contract rehabilitation services business
- KY Governor Extends Executive Order Requiring Face Coverings
- Select Rehabilitation to Acquire RehabCare From Kindred Healthcare
LOUISIANA
- 7-hospital system merges with Ochsner
- Louisiana parishes no longer getting COVID-19 patient names
- LCMC Health acquires 420-bed hospital
- Ochsner Health completes deal to bring Lafayette General Health into the fold
- ‘Lives Will Be Lost’: New Health Department COVID-19 Lead Warns Against Ending State Restrictions
- State drafts plan for future vaccine distribution
- As he departs, Louisiana’s coronavirus expert Alex Billioux voices fear of fresh outbreak
- Lyft teams up with Epic to let hospitals schedule rides for patients from medical records system
- State to loosen nursing home visitation, announces Halloween guidance
- Experimental COVID treatment given to President Trump being studied in New Orleans
- Singing River, Ochsner owners take over Gulfport hospital
- Hardtner Medical Center’s $30,000 donation supports CLTCC Rod Brady Practical Nursing Program
MAINE
- Madison nursing home’s corrective plan for coronavirus outbreak fails approval requirements, state says
- Maine nursing home’s corrective plan for coronavirus outbreak rejected by state
- Maine may require all health care workers to get flu shots
- ‘We’re in this until we win this’: How MaineHealth quickly changed marketing campaigns to coincide with the pandemic
- COVID-19 cases are rising in Maine and New Hampshire
- Monitoring, talking about mental health in the workplace during COVID-19
- Maine sees spike in COVID-19 cases as bars prepare to open next month
- Avera, UPMC Among Health Systems Getting USDA Telemedicine Grants
MARYLAND
- Adventist HealthCare unveils plans to create a health destination at National Harbor, increasing access to advanced ambulatory care
- Hogan: Indoor nursing home visitation can begin immediately in Maryland
- How Maryland’s Total Cost Of Care Model Has Helped Hospitals Manage The COVID-19 Stress Test
- It’s Halftime in the Fight Against COVID: Maryland hospitals aren’t taking their eye off the ball and you shouldn’t either
- Latest coronavirus test results in DC, Maryland and Virginia
- Life Sciences Go Viral in Maryland
- Walter Reed medical center: Inside the storied hospital where Trump is being treated
MASSACHUSETTS
- Two charged in Massachusetts nursing home catastrophe that left 76 veterans dead from COVID-19
- Wellforce names new CIO, chief digital officer
- COVID-19 cluster at Brigham and Women’s tops 50 cases; hospital cites inconsistent PPE use
- Where Mass General Brigham plans to invest for innovation amid the pandemic
- Mass. updates nursing home COVID guidelines
- Massachusetts to require flu vaccine for nursing home staff by end of 2020
- With COVID-19 uptick in Massachusetts, Brigham and Women’s Hospital launches 10,000-person research study to predict early warning signs of a surge
- Massachusetts reports 454 new COVID cases, 8 deaths as state mandates flu shots for nursing home workers
- Massachusetts hospital bans visitors amid COVID-19 cluster
- Sepsis rates fall when nurses have fewer patients, study finds
- ‘We need to keep everything local’: Nurses decry cutbacks at Baystate Noble Hospital in Westfield
MICHIGAN
- Advocate Aurora, Beaumont call off merger following COVID-19, doctor pushback
- Advocate Aurora and Beaumont Health cite different reasons for nixing merger talks
- Advocate Aurora drops plans to merge with Michigan’s largest health provider
- Beaumont gears up for COVID-19 vaccine, orders 2 million syringes
- Hospitalizations for COVID are up in Northern Michigan, Munson says
- Metro Health launches robot technology for early diagnosis of lung cancer
- Michigan coronavirus cases up to 127,516; Death toll now at 6,801
- Michigan’s coronavirus numbers are creeping up. Is it the start of a fall surge?
- Michigan health department issues emergency order following Supreme Court ruling
- Michigan Health Director invokes COVID-19 Emergency Order
- Trinity Health to close Michigan hospital ER
MINNESOTA
- Avera reps: Health system has capacity for COVID-19 patients
- Fairview Health to close 16 clinics, cut 900 jobs
- Former Mayo Clinic employee wrongly viewed 1,600+ patients’ info
- M Health Fairview to lay off 900, close hospital ED
- Minnesota briefs: New $50 million hospital, clinic set to open in Crookston
- Allina Health technical workers go on strike
- Records of more than 1,600 Mayo Clinic patients accessed in breach
- Fairview cuts include Bethesda, St. Joseph’s hospitals; 900 jobs to be lost
- 2 St. Paul hospitals to close, psychiatric beds reduced in Fairview’s shakeup
- Madison Healthcare Services undertaking $15 million project on its western Minnesota campus
- Allina Health COO promoted to president
- Minnesota adds new COVID-19 hospital data; 8 new deaths, 1,276 new cases
- Mayo Clinic Health System announces transition of Blooming Prairie, Kenyon
- U of Minnesota develops AI-powered EHR tool to detect COVID-19 in chest X-rays: 4 details
- Medicare shift could force changes for 10,000 in Minnesota
- M Health Fairview to close 5 pharmacies, cites COVID-19 losses
MISSISSIPPI
- For-profit nursing homes in Mississippi had 3 times more COVID-19 deaths, analysis shows
- HCA sells hospital, exits Mississippi
- UMMC receives $1.6 million for COVID-19 community study
MISSOURI
- Ascension exec makes Forbes ’50 most influential chief marketing officers’ list
- Atchison Hospital announces new name to unify multiple locations
- Missouri governor orders external review of state’s veteran homes regarding COVID-19 operations after 4 deaths
- SSM Health eyes expansion with $1.1M property buy
- SSM Health unveils newly-redesigned Family Birthplace in Lake Saint Louis
- Missouri hospital’s quest to become independent delayed amid pandemic
- Missouri County Uses CARES Act Funding for School Telehealth Project
- Missouri hospitals, labs brace for flu, COVID-19 collision
- Missouri reports 26 new COVID-19 deaths as statewide hospitalizations increase
- Rise In COVID-19 Hospitalizations In Missouri Driven By Rural Areas
- SSM Health’s Focus Is On COVID-19, Cancer Care And The Pandemic’s ‘Downstream Effects’
- Go-ahead given for socially distanced nursing home visits: Limited indoor visits now allowed in St. Louis County long-term care facilities
MONTANA
- Billings health system walks back red, ‘critical’ designation for hospital resources
- COVID-19 increases strain resources at Montana hospitals
- Hundreds of Montana health care providers again ask for help flattening curve
- Kalispell Regional Healthcare: Nurses union negotiations pick up steam
- Montana health information exchange to launch later in year
- Montana health official: COVID spike ‘dramatic,’ concerning
- Montana hits new daily coronavirus record
- Montana reports 501 COVID-19 cases in new daily record
- Montana to post COVID hospital capacity as resources thin and cases surge
- South Big Horn County Hospital pursuing affiliation with Billings Clinic
- St. Patrick Hospital set to open clinical decision unit
NEBRASKA
- ‘Kind of my dream job’: 20-year-old learning to manage CHI Health Good Samaritan’s 9,000+ medical devices
- UNMC receives $180,000 grant to participate in national virus data-sharing
- Nebraska hospital going live this month on Epic EHR: 4 details
- COVID-19 outbreak reported at nursing facility in Wayne, Neb
- Nebraska experiences a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations this past weekend
- CHI Health breaks down Nebraska’s hospital occupancy rate
- UNMC/Nebraska Medicine release statement on COVID-19 increase
- UNMC experts warn of COVID-19 impact on children after 6-year-old dies
- Nebraska hospitals say they can handle surge in virus cases
- Health experts express concerns as Nebraska hospital capacity reaches 85 percent
- Higher COVID-19 numbers prompt Nebraska health experts to emphasize safety measures
NEVADA
- Cano Health Inaugurates First Medical Center In Las Vegas On Saturday, October 10
- Nevada Halts Use of Rapid Coronavirus Tests in Nursing Homes, Citing Inaccuracies
- New 40-acre medical campus coming to Henderson
- Valley Health System hospitals work to restore hacked computers
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- COVID-19 cases are rising in Maine and New Hampshire
- Comment Being Accepted on Hospital Sale Proceeds, Foundation
- Rural Health Center Waiting To See If ‘Survival’ Help Will Come
- Health Officials: 500 Active Cases Of COVID-19 In New Hampshire
- NH health providers aim to increase flu vaccination rates
- State Criticized for Low Medicaid Payments To Nursing Homes
- Long-term Care Ombudsman to Resume Facility Visits
- NH has 2 new nursing home outbreaks
NEW JERSEY
- Almost 60% of New Jersey hospitals are operating in the red
- Epic Systems Inks First Urology Client for EHR Implementation
- New Jersey hospital paid ransomware gang $670K to prevent data leak
- New Jersey hospitals are a microcosm of potential COVID-19 financial impact
- New Jersey hospitals report ‘historic’ financial impact from COVID-19
- New Jersey’s underlying conditions behind its highest COVID death rate
- NJ hospital finances hit historically hard by COVID-19, report finds
- OSHA fines 14 NJ hospitals, nursing homes for lack of PPE and other failures during COVID
NEW MEXICO
- New Mexico hospital to open Oct. 8
- New Mexico nursing homes receive first round of rapid COVID-19 tests
- New Mexico taking precautions against COVID-19 in nursing homes
- New Mexico Reports 487 COVID-19 Cases Over Weekend
- Las Cruces nursing facility has 8th virus death; state hits 30,000 cases
- New Mexico Governor: “We Can Not Allow Another Wave”
NEW YORK
- Chittenango nursing home fined $8,000 by the NYS Department of Health
- CNY nursing home fined for providing coronavirus care without gloves and protection
- Gov. Cuomo denies causing nursing home deaths
- Lawsuit over COVID nursing home death numbers tries to force the issue
- Raleigh native named to lead roles at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Cornell University
- New York hospital exec named CEO of Chicago’s public health system
- Northwell Joins in Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis
- 2 New York health systems explore merger
- ‘It never happened’: Cuomo denies causing 6,500 nursing home deaths
- Hours of 69 workers cut in Upstate New York hospital restructuring
- New York rolls out new COVID-19 contact tracing app that doesn’t track location
- RIT, URMC receive grant to study benefits of AI-enabled toilet seat technology
- Nursing homes fined throughout NY state after inspections revealed deficiencies
- NYU researchers develop AI tool that predicts COVID-19 patient outcomes with 90% precision
- Mount Sinai names new dean of AI, human health: 5 things to know
- A New York Hospital Executive Has Been Chosen To Lead The Cook County Health System
NORTH CAROLINA
- Construction begins on $90M critical-care tower at CaroMont Regional Medical Center in Gastonia
- Is innovation an activity or impact? Atrium’s innovation chief on driving organizational culture
- NC reports highest single-day increase in cases since mid-July as key metrics trend upward
- New Hanover County commissioners OK sale of the county hospital
- Novant Health CEO Carl Armato on next steps in New Hanover, UNC Health partnership
- Novant Health’s $5.3B deal for North Carolina hospital approved
- Raleigh native named to lead roles at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Cornell University
- Salisbury nursing home on federal list due to ‘serious quality issues’
- Triad medical space is going up fast and selling at a premium. Here’s why.
NORTH DAKOTA
- Essentia Health receives prestigious cardiology award
- North Dakota nursing home suffers 8 virus deaths, including one worker
- Sanford Health prepared for increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations
- ND reports youngest COVID-19 death, record number of active cases
- New records set in 3 coronavirus categories in North Dakota; hospital leader discusses capacity
- The Virus Surges in North Dakota, Filling Hospitals and Testing Attitudes
- Bismarck hospitals clarify New York Times article
- North Dakota nursing home suffers 8 virus deaths, including 1 worker
- North Dakota reports 24 new COVID-19 deaths, a one-day reporting record
- Tensions rise as virus cases surge in Wisconsin, Dakotas
OHIO
- Akron Children’s expanding GI services through $7.5M medical center development
- Behavioral healthcare provider to launch second Dayton-area location
- Dayton-area healthcare provider developing new medical suite to enhance service offerings
- Governor Mike DeWine: Coronavirus hospitalizations trending upward in Ohio
- Kettering closes surgery center at Ohio hospital, promises to build new facility
- Mercy Health, Ohio State open transplant clinic in Cincinnati
- Mercy Health to buy 63 acres from Kent State Trumbull for health care campus
- Ohio House bill would allow nursing home visits during COVID-19 emergency
- OSU Wexner, Adena expand affiliation
- Premier Health workforce reduction could affect up to 260 jobs
- Rural Ohio seeing spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations, but not Meigs County
OKLAHOMA
- Are Oklahoma hospitals nearing ICU capacity due to COVID-19?
- Record-breaking number of Oklahomans hospitalized because of COVID-19
- New restrictions possible in Oklahoma County if virus surge worsens
- Oklahoma’s COVID-19 rankings improve, but White House task force says there have been ‘many preventable deaths’
- Record numbers of COVID-19 patients hospitalized two weeks after Oklahoma declined to renew overflow contracts
- State cites 45 long-term care facilities for violations during pandemic
OREGON
- Oregon hospital employees balk at state’s internal COVID-19 contact-tracing policy recommendation
- Oregon hospital halts most internal coronavirus tracking, upsetting employees left in dark about potential exposure
- Oregon hospital terminates 2 employees over ‘computer crimes’ and theft
- Oregon’s COVID-19 testing capacity just doubled. Here’s how it could help.
PENNSYLVANIA
- Contract expires on more than 200 Mercy Fitzgerald hospital nurses
- Geisinger attracts more consumers after deploying provider search and scheduling tech
- Hershey Medical Center: Celebrating 50 years of people helping people
- Gov. Wolf announces plan to reform health care throughout Pennsylvania
- Large Pennsylvania health care company hit by malware attack
- Ransomware hits clinical trials software company
- Report: Milton nursing home failed to ensure ‘adequate hydration’ in patient who later died
- UHS brings hospitals back online after 8-day outage
- UPMC Children’s Hospital expanding in central Pennsylvania
- UPMC says it can’t be sued for fraud over ads
- Wolf Unveils New Healthcare Ideas For Pennsylvania
RHODE ISLAND
- State looks to ‘restructure’ Eleanor Slater Hospital, move patients
- Bannister Nursing Home caregivers begin 3-day strike to demand safe staffing and better wages
- RI reports 182 new COVID-19 cases, 1 more death as hospitalizations continue to climb
- New recovery program fills gap in behavioral health care
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Baptist hospital says doctors alleging ‘abysmal’ care are more worried about money
- Hospitals follow rooftops, move to suburban areas
- More than 40 charged for defrauding millions from SC, Georgia healthcare programs
- Percent positive test rate in SC hits 32%, 649 new cases
- Roper St. Francis waiting for a 2-in-1 flu and COVID-19 test
- SC doctors, nursing professor charged as part of federal investigation into Medicare fraud
- South Carolina hospital buys land for expansion
- South Carolina hospital fires back at physicians claiming ‘abysmal’ care
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Avera reps: Health system has capacity for COVID-19 patients
- Capacity for COVID-19 patients at Sanford Health
- Sanford Health names 3 finalists for $1M Lorraine Cross Award for medical breakthroughs
- Sanford Health on hospital capacity, morale, and field hospitals
- South Dakota sets new COVID-19 records, hospitals add beds
- South Dakota posts all-time highs for deaths, active cases
- 10 more die from COVID-19 as hospitalizations continue to increase
- Rural South Dakota Hospitals Dealing with COVID Crunch
- Avera, UPMC Among Health Systems Getting USDA Telemedicine Grants
- South Dakota Tribe Reports Scramble For Hospital Beds: ‘We Can’t Do Much Here’
- South Dakota lawmakers pass bill on state’s coronavirus relief funds
TENNESSEE
- 52% of residents test positive for COVID-19 at Claiborne & Hughes nursing home in Franklin
- ASC plans $12.8M relocation, build-out in Nashville
- Ascension Saint Thomas strategy chief promoted to corporate role
- Ascension Saint Thomas, Results Physiotherapy team up to expand outpatient network
- Ballad: Merger helping health care system better navigate pandemic
- Ballad Health reports sharp increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations; NETN’s positivity rate climbs
- CHS divests Florida hospital, plans to sell 2 others in Tennessee
- Coronavirus in Tennessee: State reports 1,676 new cases, 24 new deaths
- HCA eyes freestanding ED at Century Farms
- HCA plans freestanding ED, joining rival in Nashville development
- How Tenet, HCA Healthcare and Surgery Partners’ shares performed this week
- Latest Tennessee coronavirus cases by the numbers
- Shearwater Health expects to hire 1,000 nurses per year to deal with shortage
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center acquires two hospitals
TEXAS
- Houston Methodist inks digital transformation partnership with One Medical
- Houston Physicians Hospital begins 3-floor expansion
- How Tenet, HCA Healthcare and Surgery Partners’ shares performed this week
- Texas regulators approve sale of 2 CHS hospitals under COPA law
- Texas hospital CEO to depart
- How Lessons From COVID-19 Can Create Healthcare Solutions for the Future
- Dallas investors buy Las Colinas medical building
- Hendrick Health System-Abilene Regional Medical Center merger moves forward
- A Texas family sued to keep their baby on a ventilator. The hospital says the child is dead
- Avera, UPMC Among Health Systems Getting USDA Telemedicine Grants
- Families reunite in person as Texas nursing home ease visitation restrictions
- Texas’s only emergency nurse practitioner program expands to San Antonio
UTAH
- Coronavirus in Utah: 1,393 new cases — the second-highest daily count of the pandemic
- Gifts to help build model health system for children top $100 million
- Intermountain Healthcare Researchers Develop New Diagnostic Tool to Identify & Treat COVID-19 Patients at Risk of Severe Illness, Death Due to Inflammatory Disorder
- Nearly 6,000 Utah health care workers have tested positive, 4 have died with COVID-19 during pandemic
- Salt Lake City mayor wants to reinstate some coronavirus restrictions
- Utah health officials report big jump in hospitalized COVID-19 patients
VERMONT
- Northwestern Medical Center hires new CEO
- Spiro Health acquires The Medical Store
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock opening new pharmacy in Vermont
- OneCare providers earn $11.3 million in Medicare shared savings
- Vermont reports spike in new COVID cases, associated with outbreak at Champlain Orchards
- Vermont goes two months without COVID deaths
- VDH COVID-19 Update: Contact tracing explained
VIRGINIA
- Latest coronavirus test results in DC, Maryland and Virginia
- Loudoun hospital appoints new chief amid expansion
- Nathan Vooys Named CEO of HCA Healthcare’s StoneSprings Hospital Center
- New Cases Above 1,000 For Second Straight Day In Virginia
- ‘Shut it down’: Virginia hospital under investigation isn’t safe, nurse says
- Suit by hospitals over Virginia Medicaid emergency budget cuts is dismissed
- Virginia hospital names CEO, plans outpatient spine surgery center
WASHINGTON
- HCA releases revised Value-based Purchasing Roadmap
- Seattle may have lowest rate of COVID-19 cases among major U.S. cities
- Telehealth, digital health, medical tech attract funding during the pandemic
WEST VIRGINIA
- Nursing home outbreaks of COVID-19 return locally
- West Virginia Hospital Association names M. James ‘Jim’ Kaufman, PhD, president and CEO
- WVU Health System earns 2020 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired recognition
WISCONSIN
- Ascension prepared to handle patient surge, notes highest COVID volume since pandemic
- Advocate Aurora drops plans to merge with Michigan’s largest health provider
- Advocate Aurora and Beaumont Health cite different reasons for nixing merger talks
- Advocate Aurora, Beaumont call off merger following COVID-19, doctor pushback
- Ascension, Aspirus, Marshfield Clinic issue joint statement on increased COVID-19 hospitalizations
- Ascension Wisconsin expands virtual visitation to all facilities in central, northern Wis.
- DHS Secretary concerned about sick hospital staff
- Greenfield pain clinic pays $1 million in settlement with federal government over alleged kickbacks
- Health leaders expect surge in central Wisconsin COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations to continue
- Hospitals’ prices across central, northeast Wisconsin vary broadly, study shows
- Lawyers argue for, against latest Wisconsin health emergency
- Marshfield Clinic Health System: Response to Gov. Evers’ executive order
- Milwaukee business, healthcare leaders react to new Executive Order in Wisconsin
- NE Wisconsin hospitals near capacity, but might not use state alternate care facility
- Small spike in COVID-19 cases could exceed capacity of local hospitals
- ‘This increase has been exponential’: Aspirus, Marshfield Clinic hospitals see spike in COVID-19 patients
- Wisconsin activates field hospital at state fairgrounds as COVID keeps surging
- Wisconsin adds fewer than 2,000 new coronavirus cases for first time in 5 days
- Wisconsin begins looking to out-of-state health care workers to help with staffing shortages
- Wisconsin governor directs DHS to limit indoor public gatherings
- Wisconsin health care leaders sound alarm
- Wisconsin loosens restrictions for health care workers as COVID-19 continues to rise
- Wisconsin reports more than 2,700 new coronavirus cases as outbreak continues to rank among nation’s worst
- Wisconsin reports nearly 1,700 new coronavirus cases as outbreak continues to rank among nation’s worst
WYOMING
- $23.8 million hospital coming to rural Carbon County
- Teton County, Wyoming officials sound health alarms
- WMC now affiliated with Arizona-based Banner Health
- Wyoming COVID-19 hospitalizations tracks surge in cases
- Wyoming Hospital Association president: CARES Act distributions taking “way too long”
- Wyoming Medical Center finalizes affiliation with Arizona-based Banner Health
- Wyoming’s coronavirus numbers are rising at unprecedented rates. Will the curve start to flatten anytime soon?
