NATIONAL
- Six things to know about CMS’ new bundled payment model
- The big bang is coming in health care, and it will spark the next industrial revolution
- Medical industry trends toward more openness after errors
- Hospitals’ best-laid plans upended by disaster
- CMS to form interagency group to review Stark Law: 4 things to know
- Cardiologists Say Recent CMS Decision Undermines Value-Based Care Efforts
- Short-term spending agreement provides longer-term relief for CHIP
- Senate confirms Alex Azar as Trump’s new health secretary
- New federal office to protect consciences, religious objections of health care professionals
- Apple Is Making It Way Easier to Access Your Medical Records on Your iPhone
- 340B Drug Program Sees Massive Changes on the Horizon
- CMS announces 58 ACOs participating in Next Generation
- Deputy CMS administrator in charge of Medicaid to step down next month
- Cadillac tax delayed in funding deal
- CMS head Verma accused of ethics violation related to waiver applications
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Western Connecticut Health Network announces new pediatric care partnership
- CT Children’s pediatric services expanded to Western CT
- Hartford HealthCare president says company must keep up with ‘blinding’ change
- Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital Opens Advanced NICU
- CT Med Board reprimands New Haven doctor, disciplines two others
- Trinity Health names Dadlez successor
- Trinity Health partnership to form nonprofit generic drug company
MAINE
- Mercy Hospital gets $5M boost for Fore River project
- Maine Med receives five-star rating from federal agency
MASSACHUSETTS
- Brigham and Children’s hospitals each get $50m gift
- Massachusetts Nurses Association plans protest of Springfield Vibra closing at Leicester hospital
- Morton Hospital files 90-day notice to close maternity unit
- Philanthropists Donate $100 Million To 2 Boston Hospitals
- Harvard Bioscience snaps up lab equipment firm for $70M
- Mass. primary care experience improves
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- New Hampshire considers safeguards against balance billing
- Concord Hospital Offers $51.5 Million in Community Care
NEW YORK
- Ti hospital’s $9.1M renovation on track
- All Metro Health Care Rebrands as Simplura Health Group
- One Brooklyn Health gets $664 million infusion to improve services
- New Brooklyn health system forms with $700M cash infusion from Cuomo
- New York residents lose legal fight to reopen hospital that closed almost 6 years ago
- Mount Sinai Health System to affiliate with South Nassau Communities Hospital
- New York hospital undergoes $500M makeover
RHODE ISLAND
- Rhode Island physician sues 4 newspapers for defamation
- Calls for universal health care renewed in Rhode Island
- 4 local hospitals named ‘Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence’
- CNE, Partners plan definitive merger agreement
- Brown University vision for R.I. health care would gather specialty hospitals with Lifespan
VERMONT
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock CEO: Region needs health workers
- Agencies upgrade UVM Health Network to ‘A’ bond ratings
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Rebooted website to offer transparency as changes are made to state healthcare spending
- How do doctors help Del. economy? With $4.8 billion impact
- Dept. of Health embraces value-based care through Medicaid contracts
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Southeast DC Left in Need of Maternity Care After Birthing Wards Close
- Gray tables his bid for subpoena powers of United Medical Center officials — for now
- ‘Siri, how healthy am I?’ MedStar among the first to test Apple’s health records feature.
MARYLAND
- PRMC among top hospitals in nationwide survey, gets 5-star rating in key areas
- Elkton hospital to merge with LifeBridge Health
- All-payer hospital program in Maryland saved money—but didn’t change utilization
- Value-based care program in Maryland scores well on costs, but not quality
- CareFirst makes final push for Supreme Court to hear breach case
- Baltimore health technology firm receives first outside venture capital investment
- Takoma Park officials ‘stunned’ to learn hospital’s plan to reduce health facilities
- Despite assurances, new ordinance, Havre de Grace residents remain concerned about hospital closing
- Doctors group promotes its economic impact in Maryland
- Union Hospital to merge with LifeBridge Health
- Md. to receive over $1 million settlement in alleged falsified dental services claims suit
- CMS authorizes federal investigation of Baltimore hospital for patient dumping
NEW JERSEY
- Physician-owned Advocare looks to enter urgent care market
- High flu activity pushing NJ hospitals to capacity
- Hackensack University Medical Center’s tax exemption appealed by City Council
- Merck-backed biotech startup launches in Union
- Cooper, Inspira combine cardiac units in Southern NJ
PENNSYLVANIA
- State tells hospitals to notify patients of charity care status
- St. Luke’s opens first LV pediatric dialysis center
- UHS to terminate management agreement with Texas hospital
- Jefferson, Magee complete merger
- New deal between UPMC, Highmark extends in-network access
- Nursing home chain at odds with union over sick, vacation pay
VIRGINIA
- UVa doubles down on patient safety after $5M fine
- Everett: Virginia, Modernize Nurse Practitioner Laws
- Wilson: Nurse practitioner modernization bill will help Roanoke’s health care system
- Failed hospital bill revived by Virginia Senate committee
- Bill To Extend Rural Hospital’s License Strikes Nerve
- Pop health tech improves medical group’s ACO performance with Medicare wellness visits
- Virginia’s Prescription Monitoring Program now connected to North Carolina’s
- Senator wants to end hospitals’ exemption from antitrust laws
WEST VIRGINIA
- Cornerstone Healthcare joins WVU Camden Clark Medical Center
- Jerome A. Gilbert: Hospital acquisition will benefit all
- From emergency to excess, lawmakers question DHHR funding
- WV hospitals could lose $15M for low-income care
- Settlement ends case in Huntington hospital buyout
- CAMC posts $30M loss in 2017; CEO says additional layoffs not expected
- Bill calls for modernization of Hopemont hospital
- Cabell Huntington Hospital, Steel of West Virginia agree to settle issues in hospital acquisition
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Flu patients wait up to 7 hours for ER treatment at U of Iowa Hospitals
- Guttenberg Municipal Hospital names interim CEO
- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics CEO to retire
- Iowa hospitals brace for double-digit cut in Medicare drug program
- Mercy Health Network acquires Elkader hospital
KANSAS
- Topeka health care company fined over records handling
- Kansas long-term care providers struggle financially
- Acquisition expands OP screening company’s reach
MINNESOTA
- UnitedHealth and Walgreens are mixing urgent care with pharmacy
- New health care notification system now active in Carlton County
- Minnesota Hospitals Gave Away More Than $200M in Free Care in 2016
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc. appoints Rhonda Robb as chief operating officer
MISSOURI
- First Look: BJC unveils two new towers on Washington University Medical Campus
- Prescription deal expands SSM beyond patient care
- Shooting at St. Louis hospital spurs debate on the use of armed security in hospitals
- Missouri hospitals projected to lose $157 million this fiscal year
- Health care proposal could cost UM System millions
- St. Mary’s Opens New High-Tech NICU
- Digital Health is Focus of St. Louis Expedition to Israel
- Missouri health systems join effort to create generic drug nonprofit
- Express Scripts dispute over cyber security disclosure heads to SEC
- MU Health Care, Boone Hospital end exclusive negotiations
NEBRASKA
- Nebraska’s behavioral health workforce has grown, report says
- Rural Nebraska facing health-care worries
- Blue Cross names new president and CEO
- Midlands Hospital in Papillion completes shift away from full-service care
NORTH DAKOTA
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Sanford Health Extends Global Reach by Entering 7 Countries
- Sanford Health donates 35 acres for Sioux Falls school
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- EMS calls in Charleston still soaring, growing number are psychiatric-related
- Chicago hospitals worry about closures, layoffs as they brace for Medicaid funding changes
- Former exec loaned Roseland hospital $100k to pay salaries. Now he wants his money back.
- $7 billion unaccounted in state healthcare spending
- Maestro Health just got acquired for $155M
- Illinois Hospitals Urge Legislative Action to Avert Funding Cuts
- Loyola Medicine to buy Tenet-owned Chicago hospital for $270M
- Illinois safety-net hospitals’ future uncertain amid potential Medicaid funding changes
INDIANA
- Lutheran Hospital parent wants former CEO barred from working for competitor IU Health
- Indiana Hospital Association Promotes Three
- Methodist Franciscan merger suspended
- Indianapolis’ Springbuk raises $20 million for its employer-facing health analytics software
- Naturopaths push for state licensing, right to call themselves ‘doctor’
- IU Health to Showcase Precision Genomics
- Lawsuit against 62 Indiana hospitals over records is dismissed
- Why an Indiana hospital chose to pay its ransomware attackers
- Largest Northwest Indiana Orthopedic Specialists Group Aligns With Franciscan Health
- Indiana Locations Among ‘Top Cardiovascular Hospitals’
- Search Begins For DeKalb Health CEO
- Health Analytics Firm Springbuk Closes $20M Round, Plans Hiring Spree
- CHS moves to ban former Lutheran Health Network CEO from advising competing health system
KENTUCKY
- Owensboro Health’s latest news a win for the economy
- U of Louisville trustees express concern over sale of Jewish Hospital to private equity firm
- Norton Hospital Sued Over High Fees in $714M Retirement Plan
- Medicaid enrollees sue Trump administration for approving Kentucky waiver
- Almost Family merger hits regulatory snag
- Expanding medical practice acquires smaller group
MICHIGAN
- DMC announcing layoffs today to provide more dollars for patient care
- Detroit Medical Center service workers seek new contract, decry “penny-pinching”
- McLaren Bay Region to open facility on Joe Mann
- DMC Children’s Hospital plans its own unit for sterile processing
- Health system hires CFO
- Spectrum Health hires Banner Health exec as CFO: 5 takeaways
- Henry Ford Allegiance Health has new tool for robot-assisted spinal surgery
- Michigan hospital fights for release of detained Polish physician: 7 things to know
- Michigan sets the stage with outstanding eye care breakthroughs
- Paul Browne takes CIO spot at Henry Ford Health System
OHIO
- Good Samaritan Hospital closing will stress EMS transport system, Dayton chief says
- Ohio insurer stopping payments for non-emergency ER visits
- Five things to know about the new Christ Hospital Medical Center-Liberty Township
- UPDATE: Affinity temporarily suspends closing wind down
- Trinity CEO: Hospital will be reshaped to meet next generation
- Mercy Health invests $6M in Valley
- Could ‘big data’ help Cleveland reduce health disparities – and create jobs?
- Dayton-based Premier Health to consolidate two hospitals as part of new strategic plan
- Massillon’s mayor says Affinity closure blindsided the city
- Ohio HIE Has Sent 8.1 Million Results
- Judge gives Ohio hospital temporary lifeline
- Good Samaritan closing: Neighborhood group sees hope in hospital’s closure
- Murdock retiring from Trinity Health System
- MetroHealth to complete $1.3 million renovation of its behavioral health inpatient unit
- NE Ohio doctors charged for performing unnecessary tests, overbilling insurance providers
- Akron Children’s Health Center, Boston Heights to open in 2019
- Push for doctors to buy Affinity loses steam
- University Hospitals names Eric Beck president of UH Ventures
- Good Samaritan Hospital closing: What we know now
- Premier Health to consolidate two hospitals as part of strategic plan to control costs
- HealthSpot bankruptcy trustee wants Cardinal Health to give back $3M loan payoff
- St. Elizabeth reveals plans for massive cancer center
- Greater Cincinnati health care firm begins multimillion-dollar renovation of campus
- Flu update: How Cleveland Clinic and others are handling high patient volumes
- Wyandot Memorial Hospital names Ty Shaull CEO
WISCONSIN
- Health care consolidation expected to continue in 2018
- Hospital CEO to Epic: Stop blocking innovation, open up your platform
- Western Wisconsin Providers Praise New Multi-State Nursing Agreement
- Change Healthcare buys Wisconsin company
- Common Ground names new chief medical officer, CFO
- Lasecki new CMO for Bellin Health
- Froedtert Health buys LifeCare Hospitals building in Waukesha for $30.6 million
- Prevea plans $17.5 million building for St. Nicholas campus in Sheboygan
- Milwaukee hospital suspends employees for leaving homeless patient in cold
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- South Baldwin Regional Medical Center Names New CEO
- UA enters into a partnership to train rural students in health care
- Champion Sports Medicine partners with telemedicine platform
- Surgical Care Affiliates partners with Oregon outpatient center
- Alabama medical center to add 150 jobs
FLORIDA
- Cleveland Clinic Florida offers ‘concierge medicine’ — for $4,000 a year
- Nurse shortages in Florida might be reduced by new multi-state license
- Baptist Health promotes Boulenger to COO
- New Neonatal ICU at Florida Hopsital Altamonte
- Here’s the type of jobs UCF would create if it takes over Lake Nona’s Sanford Burnham facility
- Exclusive: Florida Hospital’s secret deal with Sanford Burnham angers county officials, may backfire
- Central Florida health systems continue construction, expansion
- Broward Health hires hospital CEO from for-profit rival
- Finally, an answer to why nothing’s happening at the rehab facility at Estancia
- Central Florida’s largest health system to continue growth via ASCs, outpatient facilities
- Capital Regional Medical Center CEO to resign
- Jared Smith to assume CEO role at Broward Health Coral Springs
- Florida Hospital executive, former Winter Park Mayor Ken Bradley ready for retirement
- 9 Investigates: UCF, Florida Hospital plans to take over Sanford Burnham site
- Cross Country Healthcare names new CFO amid organizational shakeup
- University of Miami to build proton therapy center
- Mayo Clinic receives $20 million gift for Jacksonville campus expansion
- Exclusive: Florida Hospital’s secret deal with Sanford Burnham angers county officials, may backfire
GEORGIA
- Piedmont Healthcare to invest more than $250 million in Columbus Regional acquisition
- Children’s Hospital of Atlanta physician trudges one mile in snow, ice to treat patients
- Hospital forging ahead with ’18 plans: Physician recruiting and nursing ideas discussed at meeting
- Clinic CEO: Negotiation with Walker County still on the table
- Central Georgia hospitals experiencing shortage of IV bags
- Proposed Georgia legislation calls for more transparency on medical bills for some procedures
- Georgia health system reaches settlement with Savannah Morning News
MISSISSIPPI
- Medicaid draft bill cuts provider reimbursement by 5 percent
- After 23 years, Swetman steps down as Memorial Hospital Foundation Chairman
- Three systems pitching affiliation to OCH
- Batson Children’s Hospital getting a much-needed facelift
NORTH CAROLINA
- Novant, Wake Forest Baptist agree to share MyChart patient information
- New Catawba Valley Medical Center CEO not a stranger to hospital
- Erlanger closer to deal with North Carolina hospital
- UNC board member questions legality of massive Carolinas HealthCare deal: 5 things to know
- UNC, Carolinas health care deal raises questions of legality and ethics among BOG members
- UNCW breaks ground on $66 million health building
- UNC announces new $1.6M partnership aimed at diversifying health infomatics field
- Virginia’s Prescription Monitoring Program now connected to North Carolina’s
- Mission Health sells Asheville Surgery Center, will remain in the building
- UNC Health Care talks need sunlight
- North Carolina let 5% of nursing home deficiencies go unchecked
- CEO of Columbus Regional resigns
- Columbus Regional Healthcare System CEO Carla Hollis to step down
- UNC Health Care sees room for a compact medical campus on the edge of Chapel Hill
- Study: Need for school nurses growing in NC, could cost $79M a year
- Nash UNC to hike nurses’ pay
- ‘Safety Net’ Hospitals Face Federal Budget Cuts
- OIG tags Carolinas Medical Center for incorrect billing
- Blue Cross NC CEO isn’t a fan of Carolinas, UNC Health Care collaboration
SOUTH CAROLINA
TENNESSEE
- Erlanger closer to deal with North Carolina hospital
- Sumner Regional Medical Center names new chief medical officer
- Change Healthcare buys Wisconsin company
- Oscar Health introduces app for immediately scheduling in-network doctor appointments in Nashville
- NY firm invests in local health care cyber risk manager
- In treating students from Kentucky, Vanderbilt trauma team encounters first experience with school shooting
- Tennessee health system cuts daily inpatient opioid use by 40%
- Memphis Baptist Hospital first hospital in state to offer patients alternative medication
- Tennessee chiropractor pays more than $1.45 million to resolve false claims act allegations
- Tennova: No new West Knox hospital; services to be ‘reconfigured’ at existing facilities
- RCCH HealthCare Partners taps Greg Nielsen as division president
- Saint Thomas Medical Partners names COO
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s chief compliance officer leaves for UW Medicine
- CHS’ Wayne Smith says it will take years to feel the effects of consumerism
- What’s a Tennessee doctor worth to the state’s economy? $2 million
- Regional One acquires East Memphis primary care docs
- Top of the List: Memphis’ top-rated nursing homes
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Sparks Health System taps Stephanie Parson as chief quality officer
- Springdale children’s hospital gains $1M endowment from Tyson foundation
- El Dorado family makes $3M donation to Arkansas Children’s Hospital
- UAMS meets with employees to talk budget problems
- Committee Raises Questions of Collusion Between UAMS, Baptist Health
ARIZONA
- Reporting glitch leaves Arizona without federal health data
- GV Hospital enters process to turn over ownership
- Equity firm submits winning (and only) bid for bankrupt Arizona hospital
- How one ACO ditched Excel to engage physicians and advance shared savings
LOUISIANA
- A billion-dollar Louisiana budget shortfall could close hospitals, jeopardize med schools
- Rise in ‘virtual’ doctor visits sparks need for more clarity in Louisiana law, experts say
- Louisiana surgical hospital sues Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana for sending $411,761 payments to patients: 4 key notes
- Ochsner Mid-City Urgent Care opening, with women’s care and dermatology services
NEW MEXICO
- The Latest: New Mexico joins multistate nurse licensure pact
- State names providers selected to manage Medicaid program
OKLAHOMA
- Can Oklahoma Become the Silicon Valley of Health Analytics?
- Oklahoma is the Heartland — the Kidneyland, Lungland, and Liverland
- Flu patients filling up Oklahoma City hospitals, officials say
- Discharged patient arrested for refusing to leave Oklahoma hospital, dies hours later
TEXAS
- UMC to tear down old hotel to build clinic, plans ERs in other clinics to expand services
- Three Tenet Hospitals On List of Top Neurosurgery and Spine Hospitals
- Baylor Scott & White hospital to close NICU, end delivery services
- Changes Including Layoffs On Tap at Tenet Hospital in Detroit
- San Antonio children’s hospital hires new CEO
- Methodist Healthcare System CEO Jaime Wesolowski to retire
- Texas Children’s Hospital sees operating income drop 66% in FY 2017
- Texas hospitals worried about impact of cuts to drug discount program
- Texas specialty hospital to close, lay off 96 employees
- Tyler hospital launches facility with MD Anderson Cancer Center
- UHS to terminate management agreement with Texas hospital
- Aransas Pass still without a hospital
- Another Garland medical center set to close next month
- Baylor Scott and White exec takes over CFO role at SCL Health
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Sticker stock for Legislature at $100M Medicaid request
- Assembly appoints new hospital board members, approves RFP
IDAHO
- Primary Health to build Idaho’s 1st pediatric urgent care clinic
- Idaho’s First Medical School Accepts First Medical Students
- Idaho to gain its first pediatric urgent care clinic
MONTANA
OREGON
- Portland startup NurseGrid raises $5.7 million
- Oregon voters overwhelmingly pass health care taxes
- Oregon voters pass Measure 101, health care provider taxes
- Providence, Children’s Health Alliance to serve 13K kids covered by FamilyCare
- Surgical Care Affiliates partners with Oregon outpatient center
WASHINGTON
- Mathis named chief compliance officer for UW Medicine in Seattle
- Trios Health hires interim CFO
- How Juno’s CEO broke the $9 billion takeover news to employees, vendors and founders
WYOMING
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Why this $15M gift to an LA hospital is so unusual
- Q&A: New Adventist CFO Expects Cost-Cutting, Expansion Deals
- At Dignity Health, A Data-Driven Population Health Strategy is Yielding Promising Results
- DJO Global pays $7.62M settlement for subsidiary’s Tricare billing fraud: 5 things to know
- 2 Salinas Doctors Agree To Pay $1.085 Million To Settle False Claims Allegation
- California hospital imposes overtime restrictions, hiring freeze to shore up finances
- Kern hospital employees least vaccinated in California
- Meet the new president of the California Association of Healthcare Leaders
- North Bay heart device maker eyed by giant Boston Scientific
- Palomar Health restructuring prompts 42 layoffs
- Stanford Health Care’s operating income more than doubles in Q1
COLORADO
- Catholic Health Initiatives CFO Dean Swindle’s advice to other systems: ‘Don’t get too comfortable with your past success’
- North Colorado Medical Center invests nearly $2 million in new robotic surgery technology
- Physicians in Loveland, Fort Collins open direct primary care practices
- New Colorado law gives patients more transparency on medical fees
- Children’s Hospital Colorado hires chief strategy officer
- Hickenlooper signs interstate compact to help offset shortage of Colorado nurses
- Colorado pharmaceutical company is bought by North Carolina competitor
- Rohman named COO of MCR, Poudre hospitals
- Baylor Scott and White exec takes over CFO role at SCL Health
HAWAII
- Future bright for Maui’s privatized hospitals
- Hospice of Hilo changes its name
- Why Hawaii’s Unlicensed Elder Care Industry Is Out Of Control
NEVADA
- Medical workers reflect on ER aftermath of Las Vegas shooting
- Is Sunrise Hospital clothing a dig at UMC over Las Vegas shooting?
- Dignity Health VP: Las Vegas neighborhood hospitals ‘showing incredibly strong performance’
UTAH
- Intermountain Healthcare to create drug company in response to price hikes
- Intermountain Healthcare to move 2,300 workers to new employer
- Intermountain buys stake in medical billing company
- Utah hospital breaks its record with 52 liver transplants
- Intermountain VP encourages more health systems to join effort to make generic drugs accessible, affordable
