NATIONAL
- Apple wants to gather all your medical records in the Health app
- 10 predictions for healthcare industry growth in 2018
- Kaufman Hall: Hospital M&A jumped 13% from 2016
- U.S. telehealth industry eyes Medicare for its next big check
- What To Watch In Health Care In 2018: Six Key Trends
- ‘Not a lot of good news’ for CT health care industry, says hospitals chief
- State-by-state breakdown of 2017’s 73 new or announced ASCs, outpatient centers
- Money Cut from 340B Will be Redistributed to Most Hospitals: Report
- DOJ seeks to curtail soaring False Claims Act cases
- Court sets speedy 340B lawsuit schedule, siding with AHA
- Amazon set to play role of technology disruptor in healthcare
- How telemedicine will change care delivery and costs in 2018
- State-by-state breakdown of 83 rural hospital closures
- CMS Inpatient-Only List: Preparing for Critical Changes in 2018
- CMS requires hospitals use online portal to attest to EHR incentive programs
- Anne Schuchat named acting CDC director
- Intermountain CEO says new generic drug company will work with 1,000+ hospitals
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Greenwich Hospital trains from within to combat nursing shortage
- Connecticut hospitals lose funding after federal review
- Trinity Health names Dadlez successor
- Trinity Health of New England, Aetna partner for ACO product
- CT Surgery Center plans move from Hartford to new 50K-foot facility in Farmington
- Yale New Haven Hospital launches new Capacity Command Center
MAINE
MASSACHUSETTS
- Beverly Hospital receives $1 million gift
- Boston hospital under fire for early discharge of patient
- Union Hospital may become a ‘medical village.’ Here’s what that means.
- Details Still Being Finalized in Partners Healthcare Acquisition of Care New England
- $10M gift sways Massachusetts hospital to dedicate outpatient center to donors
- Jeff Smith takes on role of interim president at UMass Memorial Medical Center as search to replace Patrick Muldoon commences
- Tufts Health Plan names new executives
- Mass. primary care experience improves
NEW YORK
- McCann Health adds NY creative chief and global COO
- Schumer: Looming funding cuts mean Syracuse health center loses 75 jobs, care for 29,000
- Erie County Medical Center: Anatomy of a ransomware attack
- Healthcare Companies In New York State Could Use Some Life Support
- Growing Medical Campus steering downtown culture
- New York governor devotes $664M to a new Brooklyn health system with funding for an integrated EHR
- ASC physician owners commit to keep taking outpatient cases to hospital that estimated new center would lead to $1.9M lost revenue
- New York home healthcare provider reaches $6.4 million settlement
- Medical tech startup Tyto Care raises $25 million in capital
- New York sues feds, citing $1 billion owed for state-run health insurance
- Willcare unlikely to be impacted by national healthcare merger
- Oh baby: Mercy plans $3.2M upgrade to labor and delivery
RHODE ISLAND
- Large New England Health Systems Take Definitive Steps Toward Merger
- Top Senate leader wants tighter rules on pay for RI hospital executives
- Details Still Being Finalized in Partners Healthcare Acquisition of Care New England
- Lawmaker introduces bills to limit hospital executive pay
- West View Nursing Home sold to Delaware company
VERMONT
- Big changes in the works at Porter Medical Center
- Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital names new CEO
- Mobile Medical awarded $43K Vermont Training Program grant
- Credit agencies affirm ‘A’ rating for Dartmouth-Hitchcock, upgrade outlook
- Docs push for comprehensive primary care services
- UVM joins high-profile regenerative medicine consortium
MID-ATLANTIC/EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Medical imaging firm ordered to pay $16M for Medicare fraud
- Whistleblower could get $2.9M reward in Medicare fraud case
- AmeriHealth Caritas now contracts with all six of Delaware’s major hospitals
- Incyte’s Delaware portfolio drives global growth
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- D.C.’s public hospital gets a new operator, as CFO says it is “functionally” bankrupt
- Who is Mazars? A look at the next company to try to save United Medical Center.
- United Medical Center selects new operator
- DC CFO says United Medical Center is ‘functionally bankrupt’
- DC official rules United Medical Center violated open meetings law with vote to shutter obstetrics unit
MARYLAND
- CMS to investigate University of Maryland hospital in response to viral video
- Maxim Healthcare Services Appoints New Clinical Leader to Executive Team
- Mercy Medical Center reports 6% readmission rate for spinal fusion
- CMS authorizes federal investigation of Baltimore hospital for patient dumping
- Betamore, Hopkins, UM launch health care incubator
- Construction begins on senior living complex in downtown Bethesda
- Johns Hopkins gets $50 million from United Arab Emirates for new stroke research center
- Johns Hopkins-born pharma company raising $40.5 million, hunting for lab space
NEW JERSEY
- Cooper, Inspira integrate cardiac services in South Jersey
- 5 things to know: How 2 Jersey health systems’ cardiac care echo a Springsteen song
- Jersey Shore University Medical Center to expand fellowship, residency programs
- Certara acquires medical software company
- Physician-owned Advocare looks to enter urgent care market
PENNSYLVANIA
- Ruling opens door to punitive damages in Pennsylvania malpractice case
- Joint Venture Brings Rehab Plus Wellness Model to Senior Living
- Funding stream completed on Waynesboro medical building
- Wills Eye Institute denied hospital certification because of outpatient caseload
- Jefferson Health, Mission Health partner with telehealth vendor to develop 10 remote care models
- Lehigh Valley Health Network’s ‘Moneyball’ marketing strategy attracts insured patients
- Pennsylvania hospitals show year-over-year improvement
- Golden Living fighting $1.8 million in back-vacation pay owed to employees
- St. Luke’s tackles value-based care with data warehouse and specialized analytics
- Pennsylvania hospital to acquire Central Penn Gastroenterology Associates
- Judge denies CMS hospital certification to Pennsylvania ophthalmology facility
- After nurses vote, SEIU survives challenge at UPMC McKeesport
- Allegheny Health Network reports 1st full year of positive earnings
- Will Amazon Really “Disrupt” Health Care? 5 Philly Health Leaders Weigh In
- Nearly 2,000 Pa. consumers to get a share of $3M biopharm firm settlement
- Philadelphia International Medicine signs first European hospital affiliation deal
- UPMC McKeesport nurses vote to keep union
VIRGINIA
- Virginia’s Hospitals’ Financial Strength Improves
- Speaker of Va. House signals willingness to consider Medicaid expansion, but with strings attached
- Amy Carrier to serve as inaugural COO of Bon Secours Virginia
WEST VIRGINIA
- Charleston Area Medical Center ends 2017 with a $30 million loss, looks for better year in 2018
- Williamson Memorial Hospital sale moving forward
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Mercy’s $10M Mason City behavioral health center on track for spring 2019 completion
- Proposed Iowa Data Breach Bill Accounts for Health Data
KANSAS
- Doctor: Wichita hospitals perform unnecessary tests, surgery
- Lawsuit: Kansas hospitals do medically unneeded procedures
- Feds: Kansas hospital complies with federal regulations
- Doctors with KU Health System complete 10-person kidney transplant for the first time in KC
- Kansas takes over as nation’s flu hotspot, according to smart thermometer
- Olathe Health CEO retires
- Teva begins first wave of layoffs in OP
MINNESOTA
- Minnesota nursing program hopes to fill needs of rural areas
- Health officials say Minneapolis assisted living facility negligent
- HealthPartners hires former big health system exec to serve as CFO
- New Minnesota health commissioner makes fight vs. elder abuse a high priority
- Allina applies analytics to patient data to save $45 million over 5 years
MISSOURI
- Washington University medical school partners with Israeli startup
- New Members Have Been Appointed To SSM Health Board Of Directors
- SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital-Jefferson City president resigns
- Angie Bass, President and CEO, Missouri Health Connection
- Missouri Mulls Looser Telemedicine Rules
- Washington University receives $10 million for drug development challenge
NEBRASKA
- Nebraska hospital transitions away from full-service care
- Nebraska hospital embracing ASCs in pivot away from full service
- Nebraska becomes first state to require all drugs be reported to prescription monitoring program
SOUTH DAKOTA
- South Dakota city raises $2.1M for new hospital in 6 months
- $10M expansion project wraps up at South Dakota hospital
- Local hospital verified as Level II Trauma Center
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Hospital tax fund gets $360M boost—but safety net CEOs still worry
- Outcome Health CEO steps down as part of settlement with investors
- Tenet Hospital in Chicago Expected to Fetch $270M
- Outcome Health Says CEO Rishi Shah Has Resigned, Lawsuit Settled
- SIU’s Medical School Spends $2.2M to Open Springfield Clinic
- Former CFO sues Chicago hospital to recoup $100k loan
- Presence hospitals will be in Health Alliance’s network when OSF takes over
- Loyola Will Spend $270 million on Suburban Hospital
INDIANA
- IU Health Paoli Hospital Reverses Decision To Discontinue Baby Delivery Service
- Franciscan Health aligns with largest orthopedic group in NW Indiana
- New hospital planned for former St. Catherine facility in Charlestown
- IU Health selects Dr. Ryan Nagy as permanent president of 2 hospitals
- Feds extend existing Healthy Indiana Plan through February; still deciding on work requirement
- Tennessee judge allows CHS’ lawsuit against ex-Lutheran CEO to move forward
- OurHealth Updates Expansion Efforts
- Indy biotech startup moves toward trials for stroke remedy
- IU Health Details Statewide Reach of New Foundation
- Lilly Results Beat Estimates
- Zimmer Biomet Reports Major Profit Jump
- Johnson Memorial to Celebrate New Rehab Center
- Eli Lilly CEO Welcomes Amazon’s Arrival in the Health Care Business
- HHS Secretary, Holcomb to Make Announcement
- New hospital to occupy Indiana facility that shuttered in 2015
- Indiana hospital plans $125M expansion
KENTUCKY
- Health care options on the incline in Southeastern Kentucky
- Anthem’s discretionary ED policy lands patient with $12k bill
- Grace Health recipient of $496,000 telemedicine grant
- Longtime Norton hospital leader retires; national search for replacement underway
- KentuckyOne Health selects new chief HR officer
- Elmcroft loses most of its senior-facility management portfolio
- Humana shares dive as Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase team up on health care
- Donovan Blackburn named CEO of Pikeville Medical Center
MICHIGAN
- Moreland Native new senior vice president of health care system in Michigan
- Beaming up high-quality health care
- $59 million expansion planned for MidMichigan Health in Alpena
- $35M expansion at Borgess hospital to include 12 new operating rooms
- New Spectrum Health CFO Tackles EMR Upgrade, Cost Containment
- Beaumont Health wants outpatient facility built in western Oakland County
- DMC settles dispute by boosting spending on 2 safety-net hospitals
- DMC commits $2.3M to improve two hospitals
- Religious order partners with health organization on campus
- Borgess Nurses concerned over possible layoffs
- St. Joseph Mercy Oakland names new chief medical officer
OHIO
- Hospital closing latest blow to city’s west side
- Cleveland Clinic Partners with Martin Health System for First Cardiovascular Affiliation in Florida
- Denver’s Paladina Health starting to make waves in Northeast Ohio
- Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center ready to seek designer for 840-bed hospital tower
- Dozens protest hospital closing at Premier Health headquarters in Dayton
- Fraud, criminal charges brought against doctors, practice manager and hospital employees
- Complexity of health care industry enables fraud schemes, NE Ohio doctors charged for overbilling
- Cleveland Clinic chosen to enter talks for takeover of Indian River Medical Center
- Outpatient expansion costs lead to expected operating loss for Fairfield Medical Center
- With imperfect screening system, Ohio State unaware of doctor’s sexual assault allegations
- Altercare acquires six centers in Ohio
- Memorial CEO: 15 staffers ultimately let go, other employees reassigned
- UPDATE: Affinity, Massillon closing in on deal
- Dayton-area hospital hiring for more than 150 positions
- Exclusive: Premier Health CEO Mary Boosalis discusses Good Sam closure
- Aetna plans to add 350 jobs, open second office in New Albany
- Mercy Health pumps nearly $4B into Cincinnati economy, study says
- Chief of UC blood center steps down
- Dozens of St. Elizabeth employees affected as medical center changes hands
- Cleveland Clinic ACO takes on downside risk with move to Track 1+ model
WISCONSIN
- Marshfield seeking “Wisconsin Healthy Communities” designation
- Ascension closes downtown Racine clinic, relocates services to other sites
- Gov. Walker pitches welfare plan to Wisconsin doctors
- Common Ground names new chief administrative officer, COO
- Children’s Hospital receives $500,000 from nonprofit Gold in September
- Medical office building planned for vacant site on King Drive
SOUTH/SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- Birmingham named No. 1 metro area for health care jobs
- Rural Health breaks ground on new facility
- Health care startup plans to add 175 employees in Alabama
- Birmingham startup Pack Health to create 175 jobs in expansion
- Pack Health experiencing massive growth
FLORIDA
- Mount Sinai Health System opens new state-of-the-art medical practice in Florida
- HCA ups bid to take over Florida hospital to $461M
- 3 Orlando doctors convicted of $4.3M kickback scheme involving pain creams
- Venice residents oppose new hospital site on East Venice Avenue
- This health care facility’s new unit will create 20 jobs
- Cleveland Clinic Partners with Martin Health System for First Cardiovascular Affiliation in Florida
- Opko Health announces resignation of diagnostic lab president
- Broward Health to consider CEO candidates
- Tampa ambulance company to pay $5.5 million in Medicare fraud lawsuit
- Florida Hospital pulls its Sanford Burnham offer
- Estero hopes new health facility will relieve need for hospital
- HCA ups bid to take over Florida hospital to $461M
- Cleveland Clinic chosen to enter talks for takeover of Indian River Medical Center
- Mount Sinai Health System opens new Florida medical practice
- Florida Hospital to add standalone emergency departments in Waterford Lakes, Oviedo
- Poinciana Medical Center plans $10 million expansion
- Good Samaritan Medical Center upgrades robotic surgery system
- Beverly Capasso Named Broward Health President/CEO
- Boca Ration Regional Hospital earnings decline while revenue grows
- Cross Country Healthcare names new CFO amid organizational shakeup
- Mayors and execs at UCF, Sanford Burnham react to Florida Hospital’s decision to bow out of race
- How a Sarasota health tech company plans to use $15 million in new capital
GEORGIA
- Georgia legislature to take on surprise billing
- Mobile ER Arrives At Grady Memorial Hospital To Handle Overflow
- Georgians will see the impact of Amazon healthcare pact — eventually
- Children’s Healthcare cuts ribbon on new Kennesaw facility
- Former Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta COO picked as eye care network CEO
- WellStar Kennestone Hospital to build $126M ED expansion
- Quorum Health to divest 77-bed Georgia hospital
MISSISSIPPI
- Judge again approves deal to prop up hospital pension plan
- County guarantees loan for south Mississippi hospital
- Drugmaker to pay Mississippi $33M in pricing lawsuit
- Rush Health System appoints new CEO, board members
- North Mississippi Medical Center moving pediatrics unit
- Mississippi Senate plan steps back from Medicaid changes
NORTH CAROLINA
- Is That Rural Hospital Really Necessary?
- Audit: North Carolina health care system overbilled Medicare
- Jefferson Health, Mission Health partner with telehealth vendor to develop 10 remote care models
- Charlotte area hospitals offer virtual visits to prevent flu spread
- North Carolina hospital to boost nurse pay in effort to increase retention rate
- Audit: North Carolina Health Care System Overbilled Medicare
- Lingering Questions Regarding Proposed UNC Health Care Partnership Lead to Frustrations
- 3 surgery centers, hospital compete for NC CON
- Charlotte Talks: North Carolina’s Rural Health Crisis
- Hospitals across Triangle seeing ‘record number’ of flu cases
- Health-care services firm plans layoffs in Charlotte area, affecting 80-plus jobs
- Conifer Health Solutions to layoff 81 workers at Frye Regional Medical Center
- New Wilmington health location coming to Leland
- Triangle gains public company with closing of reverse merger
- NCCU joins Duke, N.C. State, UNC in federally funded partnership
- Well Care Health’s Cumberland Expansion Will Grow Local Jobs
- Wilmington Health Plans To Open Leland Location
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Clemson architecture program teams up with MUSC to design a better operating room
- Program helps demystify ‘complicated’ health care industry for South Carolina lawmakers
- South Carolina’s first ‘micro hospital’ to be built in Bluffton
- Palmetto Health Tuomey expands to increase accessibility
- Judge Tosses Challenge to South Carolina’s Ocular Telehealth Ban
- Pelham Medical Center expansion to double patient capabilities
- Roper St. Francis Foundation receives $2.5 million donation
- Busy flu season prompts local hospital to turn to temporary mobile unit
- Munley named administrator for Shriners Hospitals for Children
- Palmetto Health, Doctors Care teaming up at 14 Midlands locations
TENNESSEE
- Regional One Health Looking to Grow, CEO Says
- Several Tennessee health clinics close; nonprofit to step in
- Mayor proposes roughly $13M subsidy for Nashville General
- St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital Receives $6 Million for Expansion
- As merger deadline approaches, Ballad Health emerges on social media
- Hiring Freeze, Cuts Proposed To Save Nashville General Hospital
- PARIS TN: Hospital selects new ER doctor management company
- Tennessee judge allows CHS’ lawsuit against ex-Lutheran CEO to move forward
- MSHA announces management changes ahead of Ballad
- Ballad Health merger receives final approval from the Tennessee Department of Health
- New Le Bonheur outpatient center brings healthcare closer to home
- Debt-burdened CHS Sells TN Hospital to Cash-strapped Rennova
- HCA Healthcare 4Q Profit Hit by Higher Taxes; Plans Quarterly Dividends
- How does an Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway healthcare company impact Nashville?
- Quorum Health CFO to resign
- CHS sells Tennessee hospital
- How HCA plans to spend half-a-billion dollars in tax savings
- CHS’ Wayne Smith says it will take years to feel the effects of consumerism
- Memphis noted as city of doctors, nurses and pharmacists
- CEO-elect of Ballad Health abruptly retires
SOUTH-CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- UAMS Medical Center CFO Resigns
- Washington Regional conducting own review after doctor’s hospital privileges terminated
- Hospital’s new CEO makes growth priority
- Committee Raises Questions of Collusion Between UAMS, Baptist
ARIZONA
- Robotic technology helping with spinal surgeries at Phoenix hospital
- New Marana ‘freestanding ER’ set to open this month
- Flu numbers surge in Arizona
- Banner Health selects new chief clinical officer
LOUISIANA
- What’s in it for Ochsner? New revenue, statewide presence in move to manage north Louisiana safety-net hospitals
- Convictions of New Orleans doctor, company owner in Medicare fraud case overturned
- Slidell Memorial Hospital CEO Bill Davis to depart at year-end
NEW MEXICO
- Local nurses favor updated multistate license bill
- Molina Healthcare seeks injunction over Medicaid contract
- Hospital reports positive financial turn
- DaVita promotes ABQ executive to lead Washington market
OKLAHOMA
- Oklahoma Heart Hospital boasts 98 percent retention rate for nurses
- OU hospitals transfer to new ownership
TEXAS
- SCL Health names Baylor Health veteran as new chief financial officer
- Too many lawsuits or bad nursing home care? What’s behind bankruptcy, injuries, deaths at Texas-based chain
- Tenet Hospital in Chicago Expected to Fetch $270M
- The Hospitals of Providence names new COO
- Critics say Texas-based nursing home operator using bankruptcy to hide from dozens of lawsuits
- GSMC-Marshall CEO set to retire this week
- What San Angelo hospitals and colleges are doing about the nursing shortage
- Hospital statistics: Learn more about Plano’s growing health care industry
- Doctors Hospital unveils new ICU and Cardiac Rehab unit
- Las Palmas rehab hospital gets new med director, update
- SA on-demand health and technology company expanding to Austin
- Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center-Marshall CEO retires
- See North Texas’ highest-paid hospital executives
- SHSU answers call for healthcare need in Texas
- $30M donation transforms UTSA Cancer Center to heal South Texans
- North Texas emergency room chain relocates, cuts its corporate office space in half
- Gainesville hospital announces partnership with management company
- Major shareholder wants more frequent oversight of Tenet’s board
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
IDAHO
MONTANA
- Bozeman Health opening convenience care clinic
- MT Hospital Swaps NextGen EHR for athenahealth EHR Replacement
- Employees at 5 hospitals go to court to challenge deal with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana
OREGON
- CMH Hires New Financial Officer
- Tuality Healthcare appoints new president
- Portland Area Clinics Negotiate New Contracts After FamilyCare Closure
- Report: Oregon’s health care transformation is working
- It’s T minus 24 hours, or so, until FamilyCare’s shutdown
- Oregon State Hospital has a new superintendent
WASHINGTON
- Necessity or nonsense? Should Trios bankruptcy prevent the release of public records?
- The Everett Clinic Announces Senior Leadership Transitions
- As health tech booms, new census counts more than 460 health startups in Washington state
- Study: More than 600k Washington state patients received $282M in unnecessary medical care in one year
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Meet the new president of the California Association of Healthcare Leaders
- Kaweah Delta hospital district names Malinda Tupper CFO
- Richmond: New health center to be named for pioneering doctor
- 2 California urologists to pay $1.085 million for alleged violations
- Kearns to retire as Rady’s CEO
- Legislators approve audit of Tulare hospital finances
- Nurses Association negotiator calls UC contract proposals ‘egregious’
- Kilroy snags South S.F. biotech project, home to 23andMe labs
- Lompoc Valley Medical Center CEO to retire in June
- Enloe Medical Center CEO talks rural hospital challenges
COLORADO
- SCL Health names Baylor Health veteran as new chief financial officer
- Nursing Shortage Prompts Bill To Help More Nurses Stay In Colorado
- Colorado Plains Medical Center recognizes Matt Laws
- JeffCo health is working to fix community inequities by fixing themselves first
- Northwest Colorado Health names new CEO
- Colorado hospital pilot reduced opioid use by focusing on alternative pain therapy in the ER
- Ryan Rohman named COO at 2 UCHealth campuses
- Aspen hospital suspends elective surgeries due to problems with steam sterilization process
- MedAware raises funds to grow medical-study database
- Parkview Medical Center hires Jon Riggs as CFO
HAWAII
NEVADA
- UNR School of Medicine expanding to better serve the community – and Nevada
- Mesa View Hospital CEO To Retire, Replacement Selected
- Nevada Regional Medical Center looks for ways to increase revenue
UTAH
