NATION
- All 71 new 2017 ASCs by specialty
- Follow the money: Inpatient surgery moving out of hospitals into ambulatory centers
- Study: Only one-quarter of clinicians comfortable with value-based payment program
- Amazon eyes another healthcare shake-up: Getting into supply chain
- AHA recommends CMS delay application deadline for BPCI Advanced
- Gottlieb Outlines FY 2019 Budget Goals
- Female physicians earn $50k less than their male counterparts
- 10 most interesting health IT partnerships this week
- U.S. healthcare spending to climb 5.3 percent in 2018: agency
- MIPS performance scores for 2017 claims data are live
- Moody’s: 2-year delay on Medicaid DSH cuts credit positive for safety-net hospitals
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Northwell Health in deal with Connecticut health group
- Windham Hospital getting $3.8M annual boost from federal program’s renewal
- Griffin to break ground on Oxford medical building
- Farmington biotech lands $1.1M equity investment
- CT hospitals’ demand for immigrant medical talent on the rise
MAINE
- Feds Award More Than $270K to Improve Telehealth in Maine
- Southern Maine Health Care taps Nathan Howell as CEO
- Why one of Maine’s largest hospitals is cutting diabetes care
- York Hospital proposing to build acute rehab center
- MMC first hospital in Maine to be certified as Comprehensive Stroke Center
- In Maine, hospital using outpatient surgery beds to handle influx of flu patients
- 19 positions eliminated as Bangor-based Miller Drug restructures
MASSACHUSETTS
- Nurses at 2 Massachusetts hospitals make strike decisions
- Movers & Shakers: Wingate Healthcare’s New COO
- South Shore Health System laying off 50
- Health center pays $4M settlement
- Fitbit acquires Twine Health, a Boston-based health software startup
- Brigham and Women’s ‘home hospital’ model slashes costs in pilot study
- Nursing home giant Genesis eyes approval for $26M Dracut facility
- Massachusetts OKs GI unit closure at a UMass hospital
- State gives final approval to Partners’ Mass. Eye and Ear acquisition
- Mental health provider settles Medicaid fraud charges
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- N.H. nursing homes see Medicare cuts in federal budget plan
- Bill to reauthorize Medicaid expansion has murky future
- Hospital in New Hampshire Closing Labor and Delivery Unit
NEW YORK
- Northwell and ProCure NJ establish clinical affiliation to offer advanced proton beam cancer therapy
- New York safety-net hospital posts 5th consecutive profit in FY 2017
- New report highlights New York City’s health tech and life science investment landscape
- At NewYork-Presbyterian, Virtual Health is Transforming How Care is Done
- New York hospital CEO still collecting $600k salary 1 year after resignation
- NY doctor and wife to pay fine for false Medicare claims
- Pharma giant Roche to acquire Flatiron Health for $1.9 billion
- Northwell names top Sloan Kettering doc to lead cancer ops
- Brookhaven Memorial Hospital changes its name
RHODE ISLAND
- R.I. weathers intense flu season short Memorial Hospital’s emergency room
- Report: R.I. remains in bottom 10 in U.S. well-being rankings
VERMONT
- Critics trash Scott’s plan to cut doctor loan repayment fund
- BVHC shakes up leadership team
- Grace Cottage Hospital welcomes new CEO
- Vermont bill could levy 6% provider tax on ASCs, threatening its 2nd center
- Vermont hospitals hold system-wide growth to 2.8 percent
- Vermont hospitals launch ‘A Healthier State House’ competition
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Delaware millennials: Why be a doctor when you can be a physician assistant?
- State approval opens door for Milford skilled nursing center
- Bayhealth Sussex Campus on track and on budget
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- UMC contract protest questions Mazars’ health experience
- Johns Hopkins’ latest financials show Sibley Memorial Hospital is a real money maker
- MedStar hoped ride-sharing could lower its doctor visit no-shows. This study isn’t so sure.
- Former United Medical Center CMO files lawsuit alleging he was fired in whistleblower retaliation
MARYLAND
- New president appointed to lead Baltimore hospital where woman was put outside in gown
- Starting Sunday, Many Md. Businesses Must Provide Paid Sick Leave
- Urgent care clinic to replace Ryan’s Daughter at Belvedere Square
- Maryland AG reaches $81M settlement in dispute with Medicaid IT company
- Havre de Grace council president says his city still needs, wants and deserves a full service hospital [Commentary]
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center finalizes deal with Western Maryland Health System
NEW JERSEY
- Northwell and ProCure NJ establish clinical affiliation to offer advanced proton beam cancer therapy
- 6 New Jersey health systems join forces to tackle insurance costs
- NJ pharma job growth lagging, study says
- St. Joe’s Health selected for CMS’ new ACO model
- Hackensack Meridian Health performs state’s first robot-assisted surgery
PENNSYLVANIA
- Philly healthcare and life science investment firm 1315 Capital raises $300M+ for second fund
- Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre to open ER in July
- Penn Medicine, Geisinger patients can take health records with them on their iPhones
- 1315 Capital raises $300M for second health care equity fund
- Wilkes-Barre General debuts $40 million expansion
- Two visions for health care collide in Pittsburgh
- Erie doctor opens online medical offices
- InTouch Health’s health system partnerships and more digital health deals
- Main Line Health to build $32 million health center in King of Prussia
- Following appellate court rulings, Manor Care able to arbitrate wrongful death lawsuit
- Trinity Health files counterclaim in dispute with Cooper
- A telehealth alliance trio: Jefferson Health, Mission Health and InTouch Health
- Pennsylvania hospice company settles U.S. probe for $1.24 million
- UPMC feud with Highmark highlighted in national article
- Geisinger workforce expanding
- Tower Health’s new hospitals close to break-even
- Area doctors ditching traditional practice for membership-based model
- Jefferson establishes burn center
VIRGINIA
- Senate panel backs limited alternative to Medicaid expansion, but keeps hospital tax to pay for it
- Virginia proposes tracking provider prescribing habits with PDMP
- Virginia Medicaid Recipients Now Imposed With Work Requirements
- What to watch: Medicaid expansion push in Virginia
WEST VIRGINIA
- Healthcare: It’s big business in Metro Valley – and getting bigger
- Hassing joins Shenandoah Community Health as next CEO
- Provider to pay back wages to 500 for ignoring bonuses
- Ambulance, dispatch companies fined $1.4M for slow response
- GRMC facility becomes Grantsville Medical Center
- Woman claims she found filthy conditions inside Charleston, WV hospital
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Iowa agency reduces its oversight of Medicaid in legislative bill
- Iowa Hospital Association proposes a move from managed care
- Iowa bill holds doctors harmless for not warning of birth defects
KANSAS
- St. Luke’s ‘mini-hospitals’ to open around KC
- Kansas grants HCA Midwest $3M in incentives for new HQ
- Olathe Health announces that impending retirement of longtime president and CEO
- Study: Kansas health care sector generates $25B in sales
MINNESOTA
- Blue Cross CEO Michael Guyette leaving for new job
- Groundbreaking For U’s $108M Health Sciences Center
- DaVita cuts 38 jobs in Minneapolis
- New Hybrid Operating Room Shortening Hospital Stays
- Shriners hospital may cut back or cancel inpatient care
MISSOURI
- SSM Health child care center nears full funding
- Cooper County hospital sold to Kansas City company
- St. Luke’s ‘mini-hospitals’ to open around KC
- Missouri Sen. McCaskill visits Kansas City to talk rising ER costs with health care providers, advocates
- Missouri Federal Court Bars CMS from Enforcing Medicaid DSH Rule, FAQs
- SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital Launches $5-Million ER Renovation Fund Drive with $100,000 Check from Hospital Auxiliary
- Medical Center Set to Close Clinic in Holden, Eliminate Positions at Hospital
- HCA Midwest gets $3M incentive package for moving headquarters 4 miles
- Missouri court bans CMS from using Medicaid DSH rule, FAQs to calculate payments
- Mercy names Dr. Marc Gunter president of 2,100-physician group
NEBRASKA
- Effort to create special panel to oversee Nebraska’s new Medicaid system looks unlikely to succeed
- Nebraska ACO gets analytics help to improve care
- Nebraska Medicine performs first heart-lung transplant in state
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Northwestern’s $400M Lake Forest hospital features private rooms, new operating tech
- Some Illinois Hospitals Warn Medicaid Change Could Mean Cuts
- Methodist Hospitals appoints new assistant vice presidents and two new directors
- Medicaid plan could shutter 2 hospitals, House vote delayed
- Illinois lawmakers inch closer to new hospital tax despite worries
- Alexa, give me a diagnosis: New Illinois med school built for health-tech future
- FTC OKs proposed Aurora Health Care, Advocate merger
- Bankrupt Medical Records Company Slapped with $100K HIPAA Fine
INDIANA
- St. Vincent adds micro-hospital to Hendricks County’s competitive health landscape
- St. Vincent Names Chief Strategy Officer
- Franciscan Health, Circulation Partner on Non-Emergency Transportation
- Hamilton County to get 3 new freestanding emergency rooms
- OurHealth’s model brings onsite, near-site clinics to employers
- Medical device companies talk policy, workforce at Statehouse visit
- Parkview, Lutheran leaders say recent talks normal
- Anthem Completes Acquisition of America’s 1st Choice
- INtuitive Health Launches a Partnership With Riverview Health in Indianapolis
KENTUCKY
- Kindred shareholder sues to halt $4.1B deal with Humana, two equity firms: 5 things to know
- KentuckyOne doubled earnings in 2Q, Jewish Hospital organization still bleeding millions
- Kindred Healthcare faces lawsuit over proposed sale to Humana, private equity
- Bill would let Kentucky take over Medicaid pharmacy benefits
- Kentucky Bill Aimed at Revamping Medical Malpractice System Advances
- St. Elizabeth Healthcare brings best and brightest caregivers to 6 hospitals and 115 facilities
- Kentucky hospital retains Medicare contract
MICHIGAN
- Charles Shanley hired as CEO of Wayne State University Physician Group
- Lansing Urgent Care announcement of seventh clinic
- Henry Ford Allegiance ‘Reluctantly’ Settles DOJ Antitrust Suit
- CEO of UP Health System – Marquette gets promotion
- Affiliation talks among UM, pediatric group, DMC Children’s Hospital more serious than previously known
- Eastern Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy group plan $8.4M health center
- Otsego Memorial Hospital is Level IV Trauma Center
- DCHS: Bellin acquisition on track
- $5M doctor’s office proposed in Howell, will provide ‘in demand’ urgent care
- Health care fraud nets West Bloomfield doctor 6 years in prison
- Ascension Michigan Names New Chief Medical Officer & Chief Nursing Officer
- EEOC sues Michigan hospital over flu vaccine policy
- Medical research company selling business for $800M
- MSU appoints health leaders after Nassar scandal
- Medical firm acquires practice
- Beaumont Health has 1,500 job openings
- Fire causes Michigan hospital to cancel elective surgeries, move patients
- Michigan hospital at risk of losing Medicare funding
- Michigan hospital leaders: ED closure is primarily about responding to patient needs
OHIO
- Cleveland Clinic ranked among ‘World’s Most Ethical Companies’
- Cintas Corp.’s Farmer family donates $10M to boost cancer care in Cincinnati
- Cardinal Health now facing more than 350 opioid lawsuits
- Community urges Premier Health not to close Good Samaritan Hospital
- Cardinal Health makes changes in executive ranks, increases board size
- Leadership shakeup continues at OSU Wexner as COO departs
- Quorum closes Ohio hospital
- Cleveland Clinic ER physician to run for governor
- Ohio Supreme Court Weighs In On Lakewood Hospital Lawsuit
- James Cancer COO Jeff Walker to leave hospital as leadership shakeups continue
- Home healthcare company closing all Ohio operations, laying off 37 in Eaton
- Biotech firm moves HQ from Cincinnati
- Dr. Brent Burkey is Fisher-Titus Medical Center’s new president
WISCONSIN
- Wisconsin nursing home closures: how are local facilities staying afloat?
- DCHS: Bellin acquisition on track
- FTC OKs proposed Aurora Health Care, Advocate merger
- Aurora and Advocate merger nets approval from FTC, Illinois board
- Mayo Clinic proposes medical facility in Hudson
- Aurora plans Pleasant Prairie facility
- Police investigate unexplained injuries at Wisconsin hospital’s NICU
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- Encompass Health reveals part of new headquarters
- Bryan W. Whitfield Memorial Hospital CEO to retire in June
- UAB partners with another rural Alabama hospital
- UAB creates an Accountable Care Organization for Medicare patients
- Encompass Health commits to joint venture with Idaho hospital
- UAB partners with tech company for surgical recovery boost
FLORIDA
- Planned $1 Billion Medical City to Include Assisted Living
- Opinion: Florida’s Certificate-Of-Need Laws Should Go
- Hospice campus targets senior living complex
- Bayfront Health system gets new leader
- Envision faces lawsuit over surprise bills for emergency services
- HCA Healthcare plans 100-bed hospital in Lee County
- Clinic proposes to build a 25-bed hospital in Ave Maria
- FSU makes residency partnership with Winter Haven Hospital official
- Revolving emergency-room door brings new physicians group to Indian River Medical Center
- Lakeland Regional launches cardiac rehab program
- Corner Office: Lakeland Regional CEO Dr. Elaine Thompson on running the nation’s busiest ER and keeping up with grandkids
- Hospital starts $28.5M expansion
- Florida house panel sides with doctors in fight over insurance claims
- Baptist Health promotes Rosello to CEO of largest hospital
- Broward Health ER Director: ‘We Drill For This’
- Palm Beach County’s newest city to get its first medical facility
- $1B Vertical Medical City wants to break through downtown’s skyline limit
GEORGIA
- JONES: Georgia Senate passes healthcare legislation
- Piedmont hospitals sue Blue Cross over new limits to ER and imaging
- Navicent partners with Carolina-based Atrium Health
- Navicent Health Baldwin CEO resigns less than 4 months into tenure
MISSISSIPPI
- Mississippi’s medical licensing board hires new director with at least 12 patient lawsuits against him
- CEO Hutson leaving hospital
- New director of medical oversight agency named in 12 malpractice suits
- House rejects Medicaid expansion
- Medical board president defends hiring of director
NORTH CAROLINA
- Here’s how much UNC Health is spending on lawyers, consultants for Atrium deal
- Longtime senior IT executive Craig Richardville abruptly departs Atrium Health
- Hospital name change mocked and mourned as system eyes major expansion
- North Carolina treasurer asks UNC Health Care for $1B bond to ensure cost savings from pending merger
- WellQ clinic links health and financial well being of patients
- Navicent partners with Carolina-based Atrium Health
- New Mission Health CFO Targets Growth, Costs, Value, Efficiency
- NC Treasurer to UNC Health Care: Put up $1 billion to guarantee cost savings
- Mission looking for new location for MAMA
- A telehealth alliance trio: Jefferson Health, Mission Health and InTouch Health
- Duke Regional Hospital plans $102.4M expansion
- Rural parts of North Carolina need more doctors. He’s trying to change that.
- Atrium Health’s Musculoskeletal Institute names Dr. Claude Moorman president
- Eric Tomlinson leaving as head of Innovation Quarter, says it’s time to move on to next challenge
- A top Atrium Health executive departs for unspecified reasons
- RCC OKd for simulation hospital
- Area hospitals boost cancer care capabilities
- Wilmington Firm Liberty Healthcare Plans For Growth
- UNC Clarifies Comments on Health Care Cost Control
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Bill lets governments tap into hospital revenues
- Overdoses cost South Carolina hospitals nearly $56 million in 2016, MUSC report shows
- South Carolina hospital aims to save $1M by reducing workforce
TENNESSEE
- Cryptomining on Tennessee Hospital Server: Latest Incident in Growing Trend
- UT Medical Center’s new critical care unit treats neuro trauma
- Methodist University Hospital announces new president
- New Meridian hospital means more local beds devoted to mental health care
- Ballad Health explains need to conceal certain oversight records
- MedEquities adds Crescent CEO to board
- Louisiana hospital is the latest sale for CHS
- Regional One taps new chief legal officer
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Shield HealthCare Expands into Arkansas
- Arkansas Hospital Uses Robots to Sterilize Rooms
- Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine enters agreement with CHI St. Vincent at Hot Springs
- Medicaid Plan’s Fate Uncertain as Arkansas Lawmakers Convene
ARIZONA
- Arizona officials investigate Cerner EHR complaints at Banner Health
- Banner Health ‘underestimated’ scope of computer conversion in Tucson
- Nonprofit health tech initiative growing in second year with GPEC partnership
LOUISIANA
- Louisiana pursues Medicaid work requirements
- Community Health Systems Announces Definitive Agreements to Sell Leesville, Louisiana Hospital to Allegiance Health Management
- Tulane Health System names Tom Patrias COO
- Louisiana hospital is the latest sale for CHS
NEW MEXICO
- New Mexico judge demands Quorum Health pay patient $2.3M after botched bone cement spinal treatment
- TriCore CEO is out; company is mum
- Senate bill would protect hospitals in NM
- Gila Regional welcomes permanent CFO
OKLAHOMA
- Oklahoma health department leader resigns after domestic violence allegations
- Oklahoma Medicaid providers could face rates cuts in March
- Bill would make it illegal to discriminate against those refusing flu shot
- Oklahoma agencies brace for more cuts
TEXAS
- Here’s how satisfied local physicians are at 26 Houston-area hospitals
- Inside El Paso’s first ‘micro’ hospital
- New CEO named to oversee CHI St. Luke’s Health
- Baylor Scott & White Health Executive Shake-up Continues as CFO Departs
- CHI taps T. Douglas Lawson as Texas division CEO
- Dallas approves $207M contract to keep Baylor hospital, Fair Park above water
- Medical City Healthcare Gets a New CMO
- El Paso Children’s Hospital on its sixth birthday moving forward
- Physician-owned hospital pays $8.5 million false claims settlement
- San Antonio wound care company to lay off 68
- Review praises Central Health but leaves Dell question unresolved
- Northeast Baptist Hospital taps J. Phillip Young as CEO
- Covenant Health announces acquisition of West Texas ER in Lubbock
- 6 things to know about Texas hospitals’ emergency response to Hurricane Harvey
- Let’s See How Many Dallas Doctors Have Opted Out of Medicare
- Warner Selected As EVP To Lead UT Southwestern Health System
- Baylor Scott & White sees operating income jump 80%
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Feds Urge Repeal of Alaska Law on Healthcare Competition
- Humphreys to lead state Medical Board
- State gets more than expected for reinsurance program
- Alaska hospital taps former Martha’s Vineyard Hospital CEO for top post
IDAHO
- Saint Alphonsus plans to build new inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Boise
- Madison Memorial teams up with U of U to improve patient care
- New Meridian hospital means more local beds devoted to mental health care
- BCBS of Idaho to sell 5 plans bypassing ACA rules
MONTANA
- Indian Health Service picks new provider for Billings
- IV fluid shortage at Billings hospitals beginning to ease
- Hi-Line Hospitals are well prepared for blizzard conditions
OREGON
- Health Share welcomes new members (Guest opinion)
- New chief at Providence Milwaukie
- Oregon Moves Toward Healthcare-for-All
- Oregon Takes Steps Toward Enshrining Right To Health Care In State Constitution
- Rx drug price transparency bill passes first hurdle in the House
- OHSU teams up with national laboratory on precision medicine
- Feds grants Oregon $54M to stabilize health insurance market
- Portland health IT startup enlists two major health systems for broad rollouts
- Columbia Memorial Hospital appoints inaugural COO
WASHINGTON
- Seattle Children’s receives landmark $60M bequest
- Seattle Genetics inks drug licensing deal worth up to $1.2 billion
- Why a Seattle TV station bought $1M worth of medical debt
- Washington hospital loses COO just after CFO resigns
WYOMING
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Investigation Launched Following Aetna Medical Director’s Admission of Never Looking at Patients’ Health Records
- Kaiser Permanente sees revenue climb $8.1B in 2017
- $500 Million Donation To Build New San Francisco Hospital
- Molina Healthcare reports $512-million loss for 2017
- Opioid epidemic rages, but California drug database lags
- Physician shortage: New program trains nurse practitioners to meet the need in Stanislaus, Merced counties
- Molina Healthcare CEO hopeful of ‘less volatile future’ after reported $512 million loss in 2017
- California confronts the complexities of creating a single-payer healthcare system
- Dignity Health workers plan nearly 30 protests in California
- St. Helena hospital outsources 200 jobs to national firm
- A telehealth alliance trio: Jefferson Health, Mission Health and InTouch Health
- Adventist Health CFO Jack Wagner to retire in March
- California Hospital Readies for Major Construction
- UCSF to build new hospital following $500 million donation
- MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center selects new COO
COLORADO
- Colorado says new leader for state hospital coming soon
- Friday Health Plans CEO retires
- Bill requires certain ERs to disclose patient costs
- DaVita eyes acquisitions, share buy-backs with cash windfall
- Colorado imaging center aims to offer cost-effective alternative to hospitals
- Denver area hospital’s CEO to retire
- Study: Here’s why Coloradans pay more for health care
HAWAII
- Kahuku Medical Center names new CEO
- Hawaii bumped to third in annual State of Well-Being Rankings report
- Patients forced to travel elsewhere for care while Maui’s only neurosurgeon remains on leave
NEVADA
- Nevada takes steps toward leaving federal healthcare.gov
- Hospital expands cardiac services with $2 million upgrade
- Fallon’s dermatology office expands services beyond city limits
- Vegas cancer doctors see new treatments on horizon
- WGU Nevada courses help offset health care professional shortage
UTAH
