NATIONAL
- 4 Physician Compensation Factors to Watch
- Divided on health care, Congress backs medical research
- CMS opens data submission site for 2017 MACRA reporting
- CMS: Medicare adds 124 ACOs for 2018
- 10 of the most interesting healthcare transactions of 2017
- AMA: Physicians generate $2.3T in economic activity
- 2018 Trends: Micro-Hospitals to Gain Popularity
- Hospitals Nationally Hit Hard By Medicare’s Safety Penalties
- CMS Unveils New Voluntary Bundled Payment Model
- 5 health IT predictions for 2018: Telemedicine’s final push, EHRs remain in the legal crosshairs
- Is healthcare debt collection the ‘new’ future for hospital income?
- Healthcare becomes largest US employer: 6 takeaways
- Legislators say they are close to CHIP deal
- CMS releases guidance for Medicaid work requirements: 5 things to know
- US pharma execs expect tax overhaul to increase M&A activity for drugmakers
- Fitch finalizes new rating criteria for nonprofit hospitals
- Hospital groups to appeal lawsuit dismissal that permits $1.6B in Medicare payment cuts
- America’s Essential Hospitals seeks 2-year delay of Medicaid DSH cuts
- ONC names Kathryn Marchesini as new chief privacy officer
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Yale New Haven Hospital sees Medicare payments cut for fourth straight year
- Half Of Hospitals In Conn., Del. Hit By Medicare’s Safety Penalties
- Connecticut Health Systems Launch New Telemedicine Consult Program
- Acquired healthcare facilities firm to grow
MAINE
- Finances improve dramatically for Pen Bay/Waldo County hospitals
- Maine’s public health nursing workforce to double
MASSACHUSETTS
- Framingham radiology lab loses medical records of 9,300 people
- Massachusetts state officials review Lahey Health, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center merger deal
- Massachusetts ACO Certification Program Now Includes 17 Members
- AG to review Partners-Mass. Eye and Ear deal
- Attleboro’s Sturdy Memorial Hospital marks $2.8 million surplus
- Fallon Health names elder care exec
- General Hospital: Hospitals Nationwide Seeing IV Bag Shortage
- AG files suit alleging fraud at South Bay
- Defying Partners, Brown University announces rival bid for Care New England
- Pfizer to cut 200 jobs in Massachusetts in restructuring effort
- Berkshire Medical Center nurses to hold strike authorization vote
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Newsreel: Seacoast health centers complete merger
- H. Hospitals Sound Alarm Over Supply Shortages Tied To Hurricane Maria
NEW YORK
- City’s New Public Hospitals Chief Will Focus on Primary Care
- Crystal Run Healthcare and Montefiore Health System deal finalized despite lawsuit
- New York Attorney General Requires Operator to Open Two SNFs in Settlement
- NYU Winthrop first hospital on Long Island to make flu shot mandatory for employees
- Incoming NYC Health + Hospitals CEO to shift focus toward primary care: 4 takeaways
- Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater
- Niagara Falls Memorial unveils new cardiac-stroke care unit
- Rome Memorial Hospital names Bushnell CMO
- Manatt Health hires former Memorial Hermann CEO
- NYC halts $9.6M incentive package to move Aetna to city
- Crystal Run Healthcare sells Newburgh facility for $32.5 million
- Doctor: Crystal Run blocking path to new job
- Medina hospital names interim CEO
- Mohawk Valley Health System CEO to retire in 2019
- Orleans Community Health CEO Wendy Jacobson resigns
VERMONT
- State approves UVM Health Network’s $151M records project
- State board approves $151M Epic EHR for U of Vermont Health Network: 4 things to know
- Vermont hospitals facing IV fluid shortage
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Half Of Hospitals In Conn., Del. Hit By Medicare’s Safety Penalties
- Agreement reached between Bayhealth, AmeriHealth Caritas
- AmeriHealth Caritas Delaware, Nemours reach provider agreement
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Flu in full swing nationwide: How does DC area fare?
- Public hospital officials privately drafted plan to shut nursery and delivery rooms
MARYLAND
- Maryland-based Adfinitas Health buys stake in PA hospitalist group
- Why the NYT featured MedStar Health in its style section
- Faraaz Yousuf Named President and COO of Northwest Hospital
- Maryland Hospital Rate System Gets 1-Year Federal Extension
- Maryland seeks to turn health care mandate into down payment
- New CEO takes the reins at PRMC just as blizzard hits the Shore
- UMMC CEO apologizes to patient’s family, promises investigation amid PR crisis
NEW JERSEY
- BioNJ hopes to reverse N.J.’s decline in biopharma
- Penn Medicine and Princeton HealthCare System Officially Merge
- JFK Health officially part of Hackensack Meridian
- Saint Peter’s, RWJBarnabas ‘informally’ exploring merger
PENNSYLVANIA
- Do the Poconos need three hospitals?
- New Highmark-UPMC deal includes reassurance for Lancaster County
- CHS, owner of WB General Hospital, looking to divest hospitals in 2018
- Lawsuit: Pennsylvania hospital ignored patient’s pleas for identification, wrongly injected him with antipsychotic drugs
- Medicare cuts payment to Meadville Medical Center for 2018
- Penn Medicine and Princeton HealthCare System Officially Merge
- Penn’s hospitals now extend from Lancaster to Princeton
- AmeriHealth Caritas Delaware, Nemours reach provider agreement
- Millenium Home Health Care Merges With Five Points Healthcare
- Forbes Hospital cancer center plan gets Monroeville council OK
- Central Pa. hospital system absorbs surgical practice
- Surgery center raises issues with UPMC
- UPMC Pinnacle manages roll-out of new data system
- UPMC Pinnacle to open 102-bed hospital August 2019
- Plattsburgh hospital at 99 percent capacity
VIRGINIA
- Privia Health makes a change in the C-suite
- OrthoVirginia selects 2 chief administrative officers: 4 highlights
WEST VIRGINIA
- West Virginia Downgrades Ohio Valley Medical Center’s Trauma Designation
- Plateau Medical Center names Christopher Howe CEO
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Iowa lawmakers return with to-do list on taxes, Medicaid
- Unvaccinated health care workers required to mask up at Siouxland hospitals, clinics
- New Iowa Medicaid director open to changes in state program
- University of Iowa children’s hospital puts patient experience first
KANSAS
- Telemedicine is growing, but some health care professionals say Kansas could do better
- Kansas healthcare professionals track top health issues, make shift to preventive care
- Six powerful Kansas health foundations make collaboration part of the remedy
- Kansas health professionals harness new technologies to fight old issues
- Francis scare highlights vulnerabilities in Topeka
- University Of Kansas To Receive $25 Million Grant For Clinical Research
- Simari named to lead KU Med, will look for medical school dean
- Collaboration brings Children’s Mercy research tower to fruition
- KU Med gets a new boss
- Second-largest grant in KU’s history will grow medical research footprint
- Kansas community hospital to close home health agency; public health officials voice concern
- Pawnee Valley Community Hospital appoints interim CEO: 4 notes
MINNESOTA
- MDH says research shows drastic price differences at Minnesota hospitals
- Med-tech startup Metavention raises $65M, names new CEO
MISSOURI
- Telehealth gives rural Missouri greater access to health care
- Mercy Health builds out urgent care footprint with GoHealth pact
- ACGME will visit troubled St. Louis medical school to hear concerns of residents
- Luke’s Hospital agrees to buy Des Peres Hospital
- Multiple St.Louis-area hospitals monitoring national IV bag shortage
- Children’s Mercy Kansas City receives two record-breaking gifts totaling $150M
NEBRASKA
- Nebraska requires reporting of all dispensed prescriptions to PDMP
- MCH&HS hires new CEO
- Omaha area health care organizations form partnership to solve problems
- Memorial Community Hospital & Health System names new CEO: 5 notes
- Brown County Hospital selects interim CEO: 3 things to know
SOUTH DAKOTA
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Chicago safety-net hospital lays off 35 employees
- Illinois suspends second Outcome Health tax break deal
- Another Illinois Medicaid shake-up threatens hospitals
- OSF HealthCare reaches agreement with BCBSIL
- New CEO for U of I hospital
- Illinois home health aides ask SCOTUS to review agency fee refund decision
INDIANA
- How IU Health Slashed Self-Pay by Adding Financial Advisers
- New Brownsburg Hospital Debuts
- Firm that repairs ultrasound probes grows quickly
- IU Health may indeed be coming to Fort Wayne, but lack of clarity invites speculation on when and how
- Lutheran Health deepens lawsuit against ex-CEO
- IU Health to break ground on academic health center, demolish Bloomington Hospital
- Sean Dardeau named new CEO of Porter Health Care System
- State of Indiana Proposes Bill Offering Faculty Grants to Help Ease Nursing Shortage
- Assembly Biosciences’ market value surges to nearly $1B, despite red ink
- Joseph Hospital Names CEO
- Methodist Hospitals, Franciscan Alliance Merger Talks Halted
KENTUCKY
- Kentucky hospital retains Medicare contract
- Beshear: Kmart to pay Kentucky $415,000 to resolve medicaid fraud allegations
- Baptist Health Richmond selects Greg Gerard as interim president: 5 notes
- Louisville chiropractor reaches $114,000 settlement with AG
- Louisville Healthcare CEO Council names president
- Forbes puts spotlight on Louisville’s aging-care industry
- Owensboro Health, Markey Cancer Center strengthen their partnership
- Look inside the newest building at the U of L Health Sciences Center
- Why this imaging firm will spend $2M to open a facility in an underserved part of town
- Humana CEO: Chronic disease management challenges fuel Kindred acquisition
- Check out Kindred Healthcare’s new headquarters expansion
MICHIGAN
- Michigan ranked sixth least competitive health insurance market in AMA report
- New Perrigo Co. CEO is pharmaceutical industry veteran Uwe Rohrhoff
- New Spectrum Health facility opens in Ada
- Nurses, Others at Sparrow Hospital Approve 3-Year Contract
- Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, Mercy Health Announce New Statewide Executive Team
- Spectrum Health’s heart and lung transplant program hits major milestone
- McLaren finalizes MDWise deal for provider-sponsored plan
- McLaren Greater Lansing CEO and President Tom Mee to step down from position
- University of Michigan opens new clinical simulation center, doubles practical training for healthcare
- CF native Holmquist to succeed Smith as CEO at UPHP
- Senior living company completes $9M community
- Perrigo names president and CEO
- Trinity Health adds 6 to exec team for newly created Michigan health system
OHIO
- Premier-UHC dispute shows tense health care climate
- Crain’s editorial: MetroHealth is on the prowl
- Ohio Hospitals And Nurses At Odds Over New Overtime Bill
- Regional news briefs, Jan. 8: Alliance hospital affiliates with Aultman
- Sprague bill would ban forced nurse OT
- 120-bed nursing home property in Dayton area has new owner
- Massillon hospital to close
- Summa Health selects Tanya Arthur as CIO: 4 things to know
- New $62M medical center set to open near Liberty Center
- Quorum Health to close 156-bed Ohio hospital
- Nurses rally against the closure of Affinity
- Cardinal Health’s CEO isn’t that worried about competition from Amazon – here are the prime reasons
- Physician group seeks to purchase troubled Ohio hospital
- Nurses union: Abrupt closure of Ohio hospital would escalate opioid crisis
- Mercy Health seeks to fill scores of jobs
- Greater Cincinnati hospital system elects government official as board chairman
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital spends millions for neighboring building
- Toby Cosgrove talks about ‘looking around corners’ to a future beyond Cleveland Clinic
- 2 US senators urge Quorum Health not to close Ohio hospital
- Physicians seek to buy 156-bed Quorum hospital in Ohio
WISCONSIN
- SSM Health completes merger with Agnesian HealthCare and Monroe Clinic
- Froedtert South, Anthem make agreement official
- TripleCare to provide telemedicine at Midwest SNFs
- SSM fallout? Babies back, board will go
- Amid leadership shake-up, official says hospital plans to expand services, increase efficiency
- Exact Sciences expects to report 4Q revenue increase of nearly 150%, but shares drop
- Froedtert unveils new Drexel Town Square Health Center in Oak Creek
- Aurora Health Care buys six medical center, clinic buildings
- U of Wisconsin Health CMIO: Copy-and-pasting in EHRs is a ‘blot on our profession’
- HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital CEO Julie Manas exits suddenly
- HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital, CEO part ways
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- UAB Hospital unveils new rolling, intensive care unit
- Schaeffer Eye Center acquired by national chain
- Vitruvias Pharmaceuticals completes Series A round
- Council gets report on hospital
- Wadsworth working for earlier hospital closure notices
FLORIDA
- Hospital system plans $308M expansion
- Northeast Florida hospitals seek prescription to blunt potential nursing shortage
- USPI, Hospital for Special Surgery partner to open Florida ASC: 5 things to know
- Nonprofit hospital buys neighboring properties for $7M
- Skilled Nursing Owner Defaults on $257 Million HCP Loan
- Tenet inks deal to build surgery center near South Florida hospital
- Baptist Health South Florida picks Cota for precision oncology
- Florida officials: Hack exposed 30K Medicaid patients’ files
- Sacred Heart retains certification as region’s only adult and pediatric trauma center
- Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center unveils new technology
- Florida Medicaid program cleaning up after data breach
- Nemours’ top CEO to retire
- Indian River Medical Center takeover proposals due Jan. 22
- Johnson & Johnson changes hiring plan for regional HQ in Lake Nona
- Mease Countryside begins $156 million expansion
GEORGIA
- Atlanta firm buys Casselberry’s Avant Healthcare staffing company
- Georgia task force on health care recommends more research
- Patients Sue Prince George’s Hospital After OB-GYN Faked Identity
- Ciox Health sues HHS to stop ‘irrational’ HIPAA enforcement
MISSISSIPPI
- Mississippi hospitals grab for piece of lucrative Medicaid contract in draft tech bill
- Hospital critical care beds filling up
NORTH CAROLINA
- Hospital CEO search nears end
- Want to avoid the emergency room? There’s a 24/7 clinic opening in Charlotte.
- Hospital finance director indicted in $3 million embezzlement scheme
- Triangle hospitals grapple with IV bag shortage amid nasty flu season
- AccessOne grows footprint with HealthFirst acquisition
- Carolinas HealthCare expands urgent-care offerings with 24/
- Amid N.C.’s Medicaid reform, Aetna inks agreement with CCNC
- Mission Hospital’s $400M surgery tower to house over 400 beds
- Hospital closes in Scotland Neck
SOUTH CAROLINA
- South Carolina rejects plan for new psychiatric hospital
- Startup Zylo Therapeutics opening in Greenville
- InvestSouth acquires Interim Healthcare of Greenville
TENNESSEE
- Publicly traded Nashville health care company names new CEO
- Health group merger deadline changes
- Blount Memorial Hospital losing trauma center certification
- CHI Memorial Announces Expansion In East Hamilton County
- Change Healthcare launches blockchain platform
- Saint Francis Healthcare parent company now expects to layoff 2,000 workers
- CHS CEO Wayne Smith on ill-fated $7.6B deal: ‘Based on a retro view of it, I wouldn’t do the deal.’
- New Brentwood health care company lands big-name backing
- Brentwood health care company to pay $26M to settle shareholder suits
- 11-member stakeholder panel holds 2nd closed-door meeting regarding Nashville General’s future
- Council members propose bill to prevent Nashville General from ending inpatient care
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Children’s Northwest set to open clinic doors
- Whitaker foundation gives $1 million to Arkansas Children’s Northwest
- Largest Arkansas hospital to cut 600 positions
- Medicaid to Dominate Arkansas Budget Talks
- Update: UAMS to Cut 600 Positions, Including 258 Occupied
- Arkansas Heart Hospital Acquires Malvern Clinic
- Fort Smith hospital sets up flu clinic to ease ER crowding
ARIZONA
- Cottonwood’s Red Rock Pediatrics acquired by Phoenix Children’s Hospital
- Flu causing long wait times in Arizona emergency rooms
- Q&A: Maricopa Ambulance CEO discusses citywide contract
- DOJ: Kool Smiles dental clinics to pay $23.9 million, allegedly submitted false claims
- Banner Health, Select Medical to join forces on physical-therapy centers, rehab hospitals
- Green Valley Hospital CEO: We will exit bankruptcy status by February
LOUISIANA
- Children’s Hospital of New Orleans to construct behavioral health facility as part of $300M makeover
- $36,000 competition seeks digital solutions to health issues that can add to New Orleans’ tech sector
- Our Lady Health System names Texas hospital executive to succeed retiring John Finan as CEO
- Ochsner acquires New Orleans Urgent Care locations
- Why Ochsner is acquiring 2 new urgent care clinics
- Ochsner Health System Integrates Prescription Drug Monitoring Tool into HER
- Louisiana governor considering work requirements in Medicaid
NEW MEXICO
- State debuts new health care transparency website
- Molina on course to exit key NM insurance market in 2019
- UNM Hospital partners with NM Heart Institute
OKLAHOMA
- Oklahoma health department proposes 198 layoffs as part of budget rollback
- New executives at St. Mary’s looking forward to expanded services
- Oklahoma flu hospitalizations top 1,000
- Mercy experiencing ‘high volume’ of critical patients as flu season peaks
TEXAS
- New STHS ER Monte Cristo open in north Edinburg
- Free-standing emergency room trend continues to spread
- Hospital CEO says waiver extension will have positive impact
- New free-standing ER to host Grand Opening on Jan 13
- Baylor Scott & White, Tenet on List of Top Charity-care Spenders in Fiscal 2016
- Dallas Hospital Turns Away Non-Emergency Patients Due to Flu Activity
- Tenet, Baylor Scott & White restructure joint venture: 4 things to know
- Tenet divestment continues by scaling back Texas joint venture
- Baylor Scott & White Health to acquire Centennial medical center in Frisco
- American Association of Nurse Practitioners breaks ground for new national headquarters in Austin
- David’s HealthCare Opens Emergency Center In Leander
- San Antonio State Hospital to receive $14.5 million
- Houston behavioral health hospital to become largest in U.S.
- Executives in Shuffle at Medical City Hospitals
- Tenet Healthcare now expects to layoff 2,000 workers
- Central Care’s 6 clinics could close next week after funding loss
- Tenet Healthcare announces more job cuts and plans to strategically reposition the organization
- Christus St. Michael Outpatient Rehabilitation Center opens in Atlanta, Texas
- San Antonio’s InGenesis acquires Kelly Services’ health care business
- Change on MCH’s horizon
- Medical City Dallas names new CFO
- Texas Hospital Association creates ‘Smart Ribbon’ to help doctors better understand cost of ordering tests
- Tenet sees stock sink after increasing job cut target
- Kaiser CIO joins Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation’s board of directors: 3 things to know
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Alaska community hospital stops labor and delivery services earlier than expected
- New Children’s Emergency Center Set to Open
- Sitka Community Hospital stops delivering babies
- Alaska hospitals impacted by IV shortage
IDAHO
- Officials announce location of Chubbuck’s new medical campus
- Boise hospital to close, lay off employees
- Vibra Healthcare and Ernest Health to Consolidate Hospital Operations into One Location
- Luke’s, Saint Al’s hospitals delayed in accreditation due to new licenses
- Syringa Hospital and Clinics taps new CEO: 6 notes
- Idaho long-term care hospital to close, lay off 135 employees
- Hospital shuffle: Soon-to-close hospital to be replaced with psych facility
- Luke’s Nampa considering new cancer treatment center
- Haven Behavioral Healthcare to acquire acute-care hospital for $19 million
- Idaho lawmakers mull ambitious plan to address state’s severe doctor shortage
- Idaho is near-last in its number of doctors. This plan could start to change that.
MONTANA
- Employees at 5 Montana hospitals demand details of their BCBS health insurance contracts
- A majority of Montana counties face primary care shortages
- Montana physicians work to keep citizens and economy healthy
OREGON
- Cascade Health Alliance names new chief medical officer
- Doctors build new office in Bend
- Salem Health to open Woodburn clinic this spring
- Adventist Health clinic and urgent care open for business in Banks
- Providence in talks to acquire Salem-based health IT company
- Diagnostic Imaging of Salem to close, lay off 34 employees
WASHINGTON
- The Everett Clinic Offers Personalized Care to Bothell Community
- Most Spokane, Coeur d’Alene hospitals saw childbirth uptick last year
- Grays Harbor Community Hospital’s CFO to resign
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Verity Health System names Richard Adcock CEO: 5 things to know
- Health System Overseeing St. Vincent Hospital Names New Chief Executive
- Clover Health lost its gamble to get more patient data
- Rural hospital in California files for bankruptcy
- 275 Adventist Health Jobs Transition to Cerner for Partnership
- Cher sues NantHealth’s Soon-Shiong again, asks for jury trial
- Western Sierra Medical Clinic names Christina Lasich as chief medical officer
- Once valued at up to $1.5 billion, S.F. health startup sells for fire sale price of $100 million
- Molina to transition 95 Sacramento employees to Golden Shore Medical
- Napa’s OLE Health names Alicia Hardy CEO
- Flu epidemic is overwhelming California ERs, as death toll climbs
- Saint Agnes Medical Center ER operates at 104% capacity due to severe flu season
- California fines 9 hospitals $500k+ for patient safety issues
COLORADO
- Cigna contract impasse might leave Centura Health hospitals out of network
- Denver Health Company Lays Off Workers: Report
- Colorado diagnostics technology company raises $200 million round
- CU Study: Medicaid Expansion States, Like Colorado, Less Likely To See Hospitals Close
- Community Hospital hires chief operating officer
- Colorado hospital opening $12M outpatient surgery center
- New health center boosts health care access in southern Colorado
- Hospital settles age-discrimination suit
- Verity Health System selects Dr. Mark Fratzke as permanent CEO of 2 hospitals
HAWAII
NEVADA
- UNLV School of Medicine helping to address southern Nevada’s doctor shortage
- DJO Global notifies patients of potential data breach at 3 Nevada hospitals
- Nevada adds $34.35 million to Medicaid management system
- PAM Rehabilitation Hospital of Centennial Hills Opens
UTAH
