NATIONAL
- EHR interoperability, connectivity a big challenge around globe new study finds
- AHA Asks CMS to Delay New Bundled Payment Model
- Anthem amends ER policy but stands behind decision not to pay for avoidable emergency care
- Albertsons, Rite Aid deal creates U.S. supermarket and health care giant
- Health experts suggest signing bank loans at hospitals may result in unaffordable costs
- Four Fresh New Perspectives on Telemedicine for Health Execs
- Amazon has quietly launched an exclusive line of over-the-counter health products
- HHS Secretary Alex Azar commits to support changes to physician-owned hospital ban
- Bon Secours Health System and Mercy Health Announce Intent to Merge
- 300+ healthcare workers issued religious or conscience rights violation complaints to HHS in 1 month
- Bill Aims to Rescue Cost-Saving Tool for Nonprofit Hospitals
- Healthcare costs vary among states due to use patterns, prices
- Moody’s: Nonprofit hospitals face volume, margin declines as insurers acquire physicians
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Connecticut sees concerning number of doctors leaving the state
- Bridgeport Hospital opens revamped newborn unit
- Wadleigh to step down as Access Health CEO
- Founder of Manchester medical products maker back at helm of company
- Masonicare to sell Newtown senior care campus for $13.1M
- Ninth Hartford Healthcare-GoHealth Urgent Care center to open
MAINE
- Franklin Community Health Network selects Timothy Churchill as permanent CEO
- Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport turning corner on steep losses
- Interim CEO to lead FCHN, Western Maine Health
- 19 positions eliminated as Bangor-based Miller Drug restructures
MASSACHUSETTS
- Partners HealthCare to lay off 100 employees
- 2 pharma giants, Calif. hospital to use Boston firm’s ‘organ-on-a-chip’
- Baystate Franklin Medical Center nurses set strike date
- Massachusetts bill seeks to protect patients’ health care confidentiality
- Steward Health Care taps former Baptist Health System CEO for exec role
- Greenfield Councilors plan to head to Springfield to try to speak with Baystate Health CEO
- Downtown Dallas’ newest office building attracts Boston health care firm rumored to be eyeing move
- Lab to forfeit $1M for unnecessary urine drug screens
- MassHealth reform links ACOs to community care for people with disabilities, complex health needs
- Ousted Vineyard hospital chief lands job in Alaska, but legal fight with Partners isn’t over
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Announces New Hospital Board Chair
- Hospital CEO leaving in 2019
- Seven Hills hires long-term care director
- Framingham’s Alira Health acquires Framingham research firm
- Group, UMass to hold meeting on Clinton hospital endoscopy closure
- Steward Health Care finalizes partnership to provide healthcare services in Malta
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- H. Lawmakers Pitch Medicaid Reauthorization
- Public to weigh in on New Hampshire Medicaid expansion bill
NEW YORK
- Funds reinstated in federal hospital program good news for Oneida Healthcare
- ENH sued for ‘negligent hiring’
- New Catholic Health CEO ready to face challenges of health care industry
- New York’s newest male physicians make nearly $27k more than female peers
- NY Medicaid director to leave
- Massena, Ogdensburg hospitals benefit from return of Low-Volume Hospital program
- This healthcare startup positions itself at intersection of social networks and physician reviews
- Rural WNY hospitals to receive $9 million from feds
- Coney Island Hospital files plans for massive new building
- New York hospital cuts 9 jobs, saves $1.67M for ‘mission-critical’ positions
- Memorial Sloan Kettering and IQVIA Holdings back Cota in $40M round
- Catholic Health’s new CEO is prepared to lead
- 38 New York hospitals get $24.2M in quality payments from Excellus BCBS
- New York hospital sheds $2.34M of expenses in 2-day cost purge
RHODE ISLAND
- Care New England posts $34M loss; execs cite costs of closing Memorial Hospital
- Lawyers eye recouping $20M for insolvent St. Joseph pension plan
VERMONT
- Vermont newspaper opposes surgery center regulation bill
- Editorial: Ambulatory surgery center bill gives VT bad name
- Mt Ascutney Hospital explores patient safety, welcomes new trustees at annual meeting
- Legislation puts ‘unfair burden’ on independent surgical centers
- UVM Medical Center pitches $22.1 million property purchase
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Doctor Files Whistleblower Lawsuit Against DC Hospital
- C. Council delays decision on UMC’s new turnaround company
- C. insurance regulator tells CareFirst to pay back surplus. Again. But that’s not the last word.
MARYLAND
- Maryland hospital association hires new president
- Havre de Grace mayor, council members oppose hospital closure without a suitable replacement
- Bon Secours Health System and Mercy Health Announce Intent to Merge
- State-of-the-art operating room at PRMC could make crucial difference in stroke victims
- PRMC Open New Neurosurgery Operating Room
- Maryland, D.C. consider measures to stabilize state health exchanges
- Lawsuit says Maryland ambulance company overbilled Medicare
NEW JERSEY
- New medical school will open in New Jersey this Summer
- New Jersey to Launch State Health Information Exchange Network
- How New Jersey’s busiest ED slashed opioid prescriptions by 58%
- Virtua’s Bob Segin: Health system CFOs should ‘get out of their comfort zone’
- NJ attorney general creates office to deal with opioid crisis
PENNSYLVANIA
- Penn Medicine opens new center for telemedicine in Philadelphia
- Penn Medicine has created one of the largest telehealth centers in the country
- One MRI is $1,000 more than another. That’s just the start of Philly’s health care pricing mysteries
- Lawsuit questions whether four-hour delay at ER caused plaintiff vision in one eye
- Nurse with hearing loss loses part of lawsuit against Genesis Healthcare
- Pennsylvania hospital loses tax-exempt status
- Universal Health Services a big tax-cut winner, Moody’s says
- Construction started on Allegheny Health Network’s $35 million cancer center in Monroeville
- Genesis Healthcare gets some debt relief
- Highmark exec joins Hershey Medical Center board
VIRGINIA
- Smyth hospital CEO details merger benefits for community
- Northam signs hospital bill in Patrick County
- Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association statement on state budget bills
- UVa patient records exposed for 17 months in malware attack
WEST VIRGINIA
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- University of Iowa hospitals seeking rate hike, amid industry headwinds and institutional efficiency efforts
- Cownie: Telehealth would ease health care access for many Iowans
KANSAS
- Kansas Senate committee endorses bill to expand Medicaid
- Kansas telemedicine act swept up in abortion debate
- Two-year wait to open Wanamaker Dialysis Clinic nearing end
MINNESOTA
- Mayo vs. IRS: Is Clinic more school than medical center?
- Mayo will close clinic in southeast Minnesota
- Mayo Clinic’s CEO to retire at year’s end
- Hitch Health partners with Lyft for nonemergency transportation
- Abbott Northwestern plans $29M neuroscience unit
- Minnesota hospital errors rose slightly over past 4 years
- Mayo Clinic saw operating income rise to $707M in 2017
MISSOURI
- Ascension, Presence Health ink deal to merge
- Take a tour of Saint Luke’s first micro-hospital
- Missouri hospital to begin $7.5M same-day surgery, outpatient expansion
- Anthem’s controversial emergency room policy is target of Missouri lawmakers
- Missouri Hospital Becomes Second Municipal Bankruptcy of 2018
- SSM Health hospital hit with physician kickback allegations
- Following Indiana and Kentucky’s lead, Missouri looks at Medicaid work requirements
- Ascension Health begins layoffs in Michigan
- Anthony Tersigni: Healthcare leaders must address behavioral health disparities
NEBRASKA
- Ricketts names health care exec to state Medicaid division
- UNMC budget cuts won’t impact patient care, but Nebraska-Medicine CEO has long-term concerns
- Nebraska legislator seeks more state oversight of health care facilities
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- How OSF HealthCare partners with community organizations to drive population health
- Memorial Hospital East gets new administrator after previous leader retires
- Ascension, Presence Health ink deal to merge
- President and CEO of St. Elizabeth’s in O’Fallon resigns
- WellCare Names Chuck Beeman Illinois State President
- $92 million accounting error delivers blow to Edward-Elmhurst Health’s bottom line
- FTC OKs proposed Aurora Health Care, Advocate merger
INDIANA
- Franciscan Closing Carmel Facility
- Unidentified health system to invest $1B into Indiana medical complex
- Developers to propose $1 billion hospital project in Carmel
- Community Health Network COO Named VP
- Vincent says it remains ‘fully committed’ to West 86th Street campus
- Cook Details Major Realignment
- Highpoint Health Is Same Healthcare System With A New Name, Mission, Vision
- Judge dismisses 3 counts in CHS’ lawsuit against ex-Lutheran CEO
- Officials say new medical campus will bring collaboration, vitality
- NWI hospitals step up cardiac care game advanced new technologies, minimally invasive procedures
- Vincent expands care for women to Alexandria
- Franciscan gives update on new hospital
- Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Opens Health Clinic
- Anthem Completes Acquisition of America’s 1st Choice
- Next Board Chairman Set at Anthem
KENTUCKY
- SUN Behavioral Health 197-bed hospital in Erlanger completed, will begin to accept new patients in May
- OLBH opens new $1.2 million cath lab
- Two Lexington hospitals announce expansion plans costing $64.4 million
- Hosparus Health makes hire in C-suite
- Emergency Or Not? Ky. Medicaid Changes Will Penalize For Unnecessary ER Visits
- UK HealthCare Submits Application for 141 Beds at UK Chandler Hospital
- CMS threatens to revoke Kentucky hospital’s Medicare funding
- Kentucky hospitals plan expansion projects totaling $64.4 million
- Kindred Healthcare sets March 29 vote on controversial sale to Humana, private equity
- Long-time Louisville pediatrician practice files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection
- Bon Secours Health System and Mercy Health Announce Intent to Merge
MICHIGAN
- Warren hospital’s ER goes mobile during construction
- Putnam: Will Lansing neighborhoods thrive or wither when McLaren moves hospital?
- EEOC: Michigan health care company violated religious discrimination laws
- ‘Detroit Rising’: Primary care doctors in city neighborhoods in short supply
- Michigan Considers Moving Long-Term Medicaid to Managed Care
- WMU medical school granted full accreditation
- Ascension Health begins layoffs in Michigan
- Imminent ER Closure Worries Sparrow Nurses, Patients
- Michigan State University Announces New Health Structure
- Saint Joseph Mercy Health System and Michigan Medicine moving forward with joint venture of St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea
- Mercy building new northside medical facility across from Spectrum’s
- New online database offers real-time data for Michigan health care consumers
- Joseph Mercy Health, Michigan Medicine join forces at Chelsea hospital
- Senior living company acquires facility
- Perrigo appoints CFO
- Michigan Supreme Court denies family’s appeal of erased $20M verdict
- Huron Medical Center appoints 4th CEO since January 2017
- Sparrow Carson President and CEO Matthew Thompson leaves post amid infection control issues
OHIO
- UH Portage Medical Center selects new president: 3 takeaways
- Crystal Clinic to build 60-bed hospital in Fairlawn
- MetroHealth Unveils Plan to Revitalize Community with Hospital in a Park
- Home health care company laying off 129 in Greater Cincinnati
- Bon Secours Health System and Mercy Health Announce Intent to Merge
- Mike Keating stepping down this year as president and CEO of the Christ Hospital
- Ohio orthopedic group plans $100M MOB, ASC
- Cardinal Health closing Ohio warehouse, cutting 100 jobs
- O’Bleness Hospital shows off new, expanded ICU
- Nurses say strict attendance policies aren’t just a problem at Northeast Ohio hospitals
- Cincinnati medical device maker gets board refresh
- Cleveland Clinic’s London hospital to open in early 2021
- HealthSpan integration, community expansion help drive MetroHealth’s strong 2017
- Ohio lawmakers consider banning tax breaks, state contracts from Anthem over ED policy
WISCONSIN
- Wisconsin hospitals suffering from prolonged IV solution shortage
- Claim alleges Agnesian defrauded government with physician kick-backs
- Walker discusses WI Health Care Stability Plan in Eau Claire
- Aurora plans Pleasant Prairie facility
- FTC OKs proposed Aurora Health Care, Advocate merger
- Medical College of Wisconsin knew doctor was accused of performing unnecessary surgery
- Wisconsin Hospital ends partnership with anesthesia group
- SSM Health hospital hit with physician kickback allegations
- Merger of Catholic health systems is off to a good start
- Milwaukee County Jail’s health care contractor charged with falsifying inmate records
- Wisconsin health care cost transparency is slowly improving | Mark Herzog
- Aspirus IR Clinic grand opening to be March 15
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- OrthoExpress to open 1st Alabama orthopedic urgent care clinic
- Alabama hospital retains Medicare funding
- Alabama hospital unveils high-tech NICU beds
- UAB Medicine gives rural hospital new life
- UAB graduate prepares for role as state’s next health officer
FLORIDA
- Deal could end hospital fights over trauma centers
- Lee Health seeking license for hospital in south Lee County
- Florida Hospital adds to exec teams at 4 hospitals
- State denies Orlando Health’s plans for pediatric heart transplant program
- 7 things to know today and Florida Hospital’s parent expands its Lake Mary footprint
- Eye Doctor Gets 17 Years For Medicare Fraud
- Expansion approved for Jupiter Medical Center
- Bay Medical Sacred Heart CEO abruptly resigns
GEORGIA
- Jeff Davis Hospital breaks ground on $2.4 million expansion
- WellStar breaks ground on new Kennestone Emergency Department in Marietta
- Georgia hospital system sues Blue Cross Blue Shield for Anthem imaging policy
- OIG tags 612-bed Georgia hospital for erroneous billing
- Brookhaven Medical Center purchased for $27.6M
- Monroe County Hospital appoints Lorraine Smith CEO
MISSISSIPPI
- Mississippi doc named chief medical office for Molina
- Supreme Court decides not to hear appeal regarding Singing River Health System pension plan
- Several hospitalized after car crashes into Mississippi surgery center
- Specialty Orthopedic Group building $11M facility
- UMMC physicians creating models to reduce opioid addiction
NORTH CAROLINA
- Erlanger’s Footprint Expands into North Carolina
- North Carolina fines psychiatric hospital $20k for care lapses
- UNC-Atrium health care deal hits a snag over who will be in control
- Novant Health Rowan sets sail on $12 million campaign for Cancer Care Center
- Triad health provider seeks approval for new $23.5 million medical complex
- North Carolina attorney general seeks more details on Atrium Health-UNC Health Care merger
- Health Care Providers Battling Cyber Attackers
- Cone Health aims to build stand-alone $23.5M emergency department near Greensboro Urban Loop
- Mint Hill Medical Center closer to reality
- Novant Health to cut 23 jobs in Forsyth County
- Urgent care growing in WNC
- Charlotte hospital giant plans to slash labor costs across the region, documents show
- Job cuts came only to Novant’s call-a-nurse operations in Forsyth County
- Atrium Health cuts labor costs, affecting 90 positions
SOUTH CAROLINA
- SC legislators’ attempt to sell Greenville Health System called political
- McLeod Health announces new board members
- Former Roper St. Francis executive joins MUSC leadership team
- Controversy over Greenville Health System sale idea spills into Senate
- Encompass Health and Tidelands Health announces new $23M rehab hospital
- Bon Secours to merge with Mercy Health
- Greenville Health System president speaks out against potential sale: Highest bidder would only ‘care about making money’
TENNESSEE
- Erlanger’s Footprint Expands into North Carolina
- Jude Hospital announces plans for research center
- Erlanger, UT Medical Say Working To Resolve Issues
- Erlanger proposes emergency center
- Judge dismisses 3 counts in CHS’ lawsuit against ex-Lutheran CEO
- Roland Cruickshank is Methodist University Hospital’s new president
- CHS Sells Louisiana Hospital to Allegiance Health
- As Nashville General Hospital’s future remains uncertain, advocates keep pushing
- Saint Francis drops Arlington ER plan; Baptist proceeds with its proposal
- Brookdale rejects sale, names new CEO
- LifePoint slips to $27.5M net loss in Q4
- STRHS Winchester-Sewanee names permanent CEO
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Arkansas trauma system making strides, but still behind national standards
- CHI St. Vincent Names New VP of Finance
- Bernards, UnitedHealthcare Announce Network Relationship
- Arkansas governor seeks more PBM regulation
ARIZONA
- Lack of primary care doctors in Verde Valley has patients scrambling
- Audit: Arizona fails to collect $36.7 million in drug rebates
- UA and Phoenix to launch biomedical technology accelerator
- Phoenix City Council approves funding for University of Arizona technology medical and life science accelerator
- Larry Goldberg is Banner-University Medicine’s new president
LOUISIANA
- Ochsner opens Mid-City and St. Bernard Parish health clinics
- CHS Sells Louisiana Hospital to Allegiance Health
NEW MEXICO
- New Mexico hospital CEO: We have enough money to fund payroll short-term, but we need more cuts
- New Mexico hospitals benefit from recent Medicare changes, analysis shows
- Scam targets San Juan Regional Medical Center patients
OKLAHOMA
- Fire intentionally set by patient in emergency room at Baptist Hospital
- CCMH is SWOK’s major heart attack hospital
- Nurses start certification classes to train more health-care professionals
TEXAS
- University of North Texas Health Science Center to pay $13M
- Survey shows physician satisfaction rate for Houston hospitals
- Longview Regional plans upgrades, seeks tax relief
- Longview Regional owner sells hospital
- UT, Ardent announces leadership, naming for former ETMC campuses
- UT Board of Regents approves $35 million partnership with Ardent Health Services, system to be known as UT Health East Texas
- Downtown Dallas’ newest office building attracts Boston health care firm rumored to be eyeing move
- New name for ETMC 10-hospital system
- Baylor Scott & White reports higher admissions, $595M profit through half of FY18
- Texas Health Plano Saving More Limbs with Non-Traditional Procedure
- Central Health parts ways with firm redeveloping Brackenridge site
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Former Gifford Health Care CEO Takes New Position in Alaska
- Hospital names new CEO: Joe Woodin
- Alaska state lawmakers look to impose Medicaid work requirements
IDAHO
- In Idaho, medical-care exemptions for faith healing come under fire
- Idaho Prepares to Offer Association Health Plans to Consumers
- Primary Health opens new Nampa clinic
- Idaho aims to test ACA exemptions
MONTANA
- Apprenticeship program seeks to train more healthcare workers in Montana
- Panel seeks cure for medical cost transparency
- IV fluid shortage at Billings hospitals beginning to ease
- Gallatin health advocates say they feel disjointed from the state
- Former CFO gets prison time for stealing $111k from Montana health clinic
OREGON
- Oregon CCO reform bill narrowly passes in House, now heads to Senate
- Salem Hospital’s emergency department expansion benefits community
- Portland health IT startup enlists two major health systems for broad rollouts
- Drug price transparency bill passes another hurdle in Oregon Legislature
- City of Portland announces it will sue drug industry over opioid crisis
WASHINGTON
- Health care and research progress in Spokane and Seattle
- Nurses forced to work without pay awarded $2.8 million
WYOMING
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Healthcare workers to protest Dignity mega-merger Tuesday at Mercy Hospital Southwest
- 2 pharma giants, Calif. hospital to use Boston firm’s ‘organ-on-a-chip’
- California judge allows $1B suit against UnitedHealth to proceed
- Physician group submits bid to reinstate healthcare operations at shuttered 157-year-old California hospital site
- Protests begin at Kaiser Permanente hospitals across California
- Adventist Health Selects Andrew Jahn to Lead Southern California Region as President
- Mercy workers cancel protest, contract negotiations continue
- Catalina Island Medical Center showing marked improvement
- 4 California hospitals ask AG to reduce charity care requirements
- Silicon Valley’s (other) gender in tech problem: Women in Bay Area biotech are still waiting to break through
- Health insurance giant accuses Sonoma West Medical Center of fraudulent billing
- El Camino Hospital taps new CIO
- Cedars-Sinai receives record-breaking $50M gift to launch heart institute
COLORADO
- Colorado proposes requiring data breaches to be reported in 30 days
- Banner Medical Group names new CEO
- DaVita to lay off 41 in Lakewood
- Free-standing ERs soon might be forced to tell costs upfront
- Colorado Springs hospital construction projects pass key milestone
- Denver area hospital’s CEO to retire
- Bank of Colorado in Craig invests $15K to build medical clinic
- Regional West strengthens partnership with UCHealth and University of Colorado Cancer Center
- EMCH working to serve Brush beyond hospital, CNO says
- Children’s Hospital Colorado Opens State-of-the-Art Allergy and Immunology Center
- CHI Health CEO Dr. Cliff Robertson on the greatest misconception about CEOs
- Former Fortune 500 execs join Colorado health-tech firm focused on thwarting opioid abuse
- UCHealth drops ‘interim’ from CFO Dan Rieber’s title
NEVADA
- Nevada breaks with UNLV health clinic over patient conditions
- UNLV School of Medicine’s Rosenberg on the future of Vegas sports medicine
UTAH
- Why Intermountain Healthcare says it’s best for patients and employees to outsource billing to a company with a checkered past
- Intermountain donates $15M to University of Utah for med building
- Utah House passes bill to import cost-saving pharmaceutical drugs from Canada
- When will Utah County’s west side get a hospital?
- Utah’s Life Sciences Industry One of the Fastest Growing in the U.S.
- Mark’s Hospital names new CEO
