NATIONAL
- 10 numbers that show US hospital staffing strains
- 30% of US hospitals mandate vaccination for employment
- American Society of Anesthesiologists condemns AANA name change
- Amazon, Olive team up to bring cloud automation to 950 hospitals
- As COVID-19 vaccine mandates grow, so are requests for religious exemptions – USA Today
- Biden administration invests $19M to bolster rural telehealth
- Biden calls on Congress to intervene in drug pricing
- Biden to require nursing homes get staff vaccinated or lose federal funds
- ‘Bursting at the seams’: Full ICUs are creating a dangerous ER backlog and forcing hospitals to cancel surgeries
- Children hospitalized with COVID-19 in U.S. hits record number
- CMS holding off on hospital price disclosure penalties
- CMS retreats from ‘most favored nation’ drug pricing scheme
- Cyberattacks can cost hospitals $47K per hour of downtime
- FDA authorizes COVID-19 booster for immunocompromised people
- Federal appeals court sides with HHS in spat over Medicare Advantage overpayment rule
- Fresenius and Cigna expand partnership on dialysis
- Health systems see telehealth dip, but the tech is here to stay
- Healthcare workers, nursing home residents likely next in line for COVID-19 boosters
- HHS funnels $19M into 4 telehealth innovation programs
- HHS ready to battle drug companies for lower prices in court: Sec. Becerra
- JPMorgan’s healthcare venture eyes investments in telehealth, data analytics
- Judge blocks HHS from requiring religious providers to perform gender-transition, abortion procedures
- Most nurses vaccinated, support mandates: 8 ANA survey findings
- New US COVID-19 cases up 875.6% from June; many highly vaccinated areas now high-risk
- Private Medicare plans must return overpayments, appeals court rules
- Short-staffed hospitals battling COVID surge after opting not to staff up
- Surgery volume booms after surgeons leave hospital to open private practice, ASC
- U.S. expected to recommend Covid vaccine booster shots 8 months after second dose, sources say
- US to offer booster shots starting Sept. 20
- Where cases are leveling off, dropping & rising: 8 US COVID-19 trends
- White House to give billions in funding to support rural hospitals, boost staffing
- Why full FDA approval is ‘probably the last big opportunity’ to refresh vaccine messaging
- With no beds, hospitals ship patients to far-off cities
- Nearly 60% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Israel fully vaccinated, data shows
- COVID-19 vaccine requirement for nursing homes could lead to staff exodus, national association says
- Pfizer recipients infected with delta have same viral load as the unvaccinated, Oxford study says
- CDC to launch disease forecasting center
- Waning immunity amid delta surge may be fueling breakthrough cases
- U.S. to Advise Boosters for Most Americans 8 Months After Vaccination
- American Hospitals Buckle Under Delta, With I.C.U.s Filling Up
ALABAMA
- Alabama gov issues state of emergency amid surge
- Alabama seeks FEMA help: ‘Most rapid expansion of COVID’ overwhelming hospitals
- Empty ICU beds hard to find around Alabama as state’s COVID-19 surge worsens
- Gov. Kay Ivey issues COVID state of emergency, but no mandates or closures
- Report: Half of Alabama nursing home staff vaccinated for COVID-19
- ‘We are breakable’: Alabama hospital delaying some surgeries amid COVID-19 surge
- Amid COVID-19 surge, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issues order to boost hospital staffing
- Alabama will reach all-time COVID-19 hospitalization high in days, may need federal aid
- On current path, UAB expert projects COVID hospitalizations will reach 5,000 in September
- AL Hospital Association: No ICU beds available in Alabama
- Alabama’s hospital crisis intensifies; 29 now waiting for ICU beds
- Alabama hospital sees ambulance bay traffic jams
- Alabama hospital implements ‘no visitor’ policy due to rising number of COVID-19 cases
- ‘This is a crisis’: ICU beds full across Baptist Health
- Alabama Children’s Hospital Treating Record 22 Kids With COVID, 5 on Ventilators
- ‘We are suffering’: South Alabama hospitals struggle with COVID surge, but no major changes coming
- Alabama schools report 5,970 COVID-19 cases already this school year
- Alabama doctor says she sees a potentially ‘apocalyptic’ situation in her state
- Children’s of Alabama “in crisis mode” as delta infections set new records
- Builders break ground on new plastic surgery center in Alabama
ALASKA
- Anchorage ICUs at capacity as a surge of COVID-19 patients has hospitals under stress and scrambling
- Three new COVID-19 deaths in Alaska and a hospital system stretched thin
- Alaska Mental Health Trust CEO will retire
- Alaska reports over 1,000 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend as hospitalizations continue to rise
- Head of Alaska’s nursing home association says Biden’s vaccine requirement could cause workers to quit
- YKHC becomes latest Alaska health care provider to require vaccination
- Without safety net of health mandates, Anchorage’s strained, understaffed hospitals brace for more patients
- Mayor blasts hospital over COVID-19 treatment
- The pandemic didn’t cause Alaska’s doctor deficit, but it made the situation worse
- Kodiak sees worst COVID-19 outbreak since November as Alaska reports 338 more cases statewide
- Boom in COVID testing prompts Anchorage to open new drive-through site
- With no beds, hospitals ship patients to far-off cities
- Covid hospitalizations stay high in Fairbanks
ARIZONA
- Tempe aims for 75% COVID-19 vaccination rate in 3 weeks. Here’s how Phoenix-area cities compare
- Arizona hospitals see rise in pediatric COVID-19 cases amid nursing shortage
- Banner Health diverting cardiac cath lab patients amid staffing challenges
- Staff shortages hinder cath lab capabilities at Banner Health
- Banner Health concerned about capacity as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise
- Arizona hospitals see ‘exponential’ rise in pediatric COVID-19 cases
- Assisted living facilities prepare for Biden nursing home vaccine mandate
- Hospitals preparing as Arizona moves into third surge of COVID-19
- Anti-vaccine protesters gather near Phoenix Children’s Hospital
ARKANSAS
- ‘This is real’: Fear and hope in an Arkansas pediatric ICU
- Arkansas hospitals announce vaccine requirements for staff
- 2nd no-confidence vote at Arkansas hospital targets CEO
- Arkansas Health Care Association says COVID-19 is improving in nursing homes
- Arkansas Health Care Association has mixed emotions about long-term care vaccine mandate
- Arkansas hospital shows grim picture inside its COVID-19 ICU
- Gov. Hutchinson: Arkansas hospitals adding ICU and surge beds, nearly half of ICU patients have COVID
- Arkansas: 26 new COVID deaths, hospital stats dip slightly
- Data from Arkansas Department of Health shows vaccination rate among health care workers
- Mercy, Baptist Health add services and beds in Fort Smith area in response to COVID surge
- Ventilator patients in Arkansas tallied at record 323; hospitalizations also reach new high
CALIFORNIA
- California nursing home visitors must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination
- California nursing homes lead nation in staff and resident vaccinations
- COVID cases hit all-time highs in rural California hospitals as delta variant rages
- California hospital lacks project manager, funding for long-delayed tower
- California becomes 1st state to require proof of COVID vaccination or negative test for indoor events over 1,000 people
- Child COVID-19 hospitalization rates hit record in U.S. — but not in California. Here’s why
- First California Physician Partners merging with Tenet Health Central Coast
- Governor Newsom takes action to support California’s health care system during Delta surge
- California COVID-19 hospitalizations, cases top 2020 summer surge
- Centinela Hospital nurses allege understaffing, unsafe staffing conditions
- Challenges remain in California’s effort to establish a statewide health data sharing system
- Kaweah Health reaches capacity as Visalia hospital begins COVID-19 triage
- California physician gave 85% of mask exemptions in 1 school district
- Another step toward COVID vaccine passport? California, San Francisco, San Jose gear up for new mandates
- Emergency Department sees highest number of COVID-19 cases so far in 2021
- California surgeon cleared in $500M fraud case
- California physician gave 85% of mask exemptions in 1 school district
- Fountain Valley Regional Hospital names new CNO
- CMS threatens to terminate HCA hospital’s Medicare contract
- Cedars-Sinai expands its safety net donations
- Amazon exec of 9 years departs for Hinge Health
COLORADO
- Are Colorado’s latest efforts to get more people vaccinated working?
- Children’s Hospital Colorado Requires COVID Vaccines For All Employees
- CMS threatens to terminate HCA hospital’s Medicare contract
- Colorado’s COVID-19 outbreaks grow; long-term care facilities account for a third of clusters
- Colorado’s COVID-19 hospitalizations reach highest level since mid-May
- Major health care organizations in Colorado urge action on COVID-19
- More demand for COVID-19 testing in Colorado as delta variant rages
- Mesa County hospitals to require COVID vaccine for employees
- More Colorado hospitals mandate all employees get COVID vaccine
- Neurosurgeon found not guilty in $500M kickback case
- Polis pushes to require vaccines for health care workers as 3 departments mandate them
- Shortage Of Hospital Beds Impacts Colorado Families Who Need Attention For Health Matters Other Than COVID
- Travel nurse company sees another spike in demand
- Federal stimulus key to keeping Colorado hospital systems profitable during pandemic, report finds
- State health care policy agency claims Colorado hospitals most profitable in the nation
- COVID Update: Most Daily Hospitalizations Since January
- Children’s Hospital Colorado experiences 60% increase in ICU patients
- More Colorado health leaders are urging mask, coronavirus vaccine mandates
- 12 staffers infected in COVID-19 outbreak at Colorado hospital
- Colorado health department advises vaccine providers to give third dose to immunocompromised residents
- 22% of Colorado’s July COVID-19 cases were break-through cases, state data reveals
- Trial study at Children’s Hospital Colorado is curing teens of sickle cell disease
CONNECTICUT
- Lamont says he will work with union seeking to delay nursing home vaccine mandate
- Nursing home union to seek delay of Lamont’s vaccine mandate for workers
- Nursing Homes Face Further Labor Squeeze With Mandated Vaccination
- Connecticut Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with Liquid Morphine
- Audit raises concerns about investigations of elder abuse in CT
- New Haven nursing home leader reacts to Biden administration’s new vaccine mandate for nursing home staff
- Lamont continues COVID-19 mask mandate in the schools
- Connecticut Health Officials Urge Pregnant Women To Get Vaccinated
- CT Department of Health collaborates with hospitals, physician leaders to establish COVID vaccine third dose guidelines
- Outdoor mask guidance adds to Connecticut’s COVID confusion
- UConn Health removes ‘interim’ from CMO title after 2 years
- Connecticut to require COVID-19 vaccination for state employees
- ‘An incredible restoration of faith’: Positive developments in nursing shortage affecting fragile kids
- State reverses course, orders nursing home workers get vaccinated
DC
- DC healthcare workers must have at least 1 shot of vaccine by Sept. 30
- New York, D.C. to require health-care workers to be vaccinated
- Mayor Bowser and DC Health Announce Vaccination Requirement for District Health Professionals
- DC Health expands access to get routine vaccinations for children across all eight Wards
- Unvaccinated D.C. Residents Can Now Get The Shot At Home
- UMC drafts budget while hospital finances remain in trouble
- Where Va., Md. and DC stand on 3rd COVID-19 shots for immunocompromised
- DC-area hospitals avoid COVID-19 crush, for now
- Audit praises DC’s pandemic data, but finds gaps in school information
DELAWARE
- Delaware State Workers Must Get COVID-19 Vaccine or Face Testing
- Delaware governor orders state employees, health care workers to get COVID-19 vaccine or regular tests
- Inside the Delaware schools that deployed rapid COVID tests to protect kids
- Deaths, hospitalizations and new cases increase in Wednesday Covid report
- Nemours doc predicts surge after schools open; test materials to run out
- Covid update: Hospitalizations rise above 140
- Beebe receives highest designation as National Safe Sleep Hospital
FLORIDA
- 75% of Florida hospitals expecting critical staff shortages, survey finds
- Florida leads nation in COVID cases among nursing home staff
- Florida’s COVID-19 deaths rise as it leads in hospital rates
- ‘Health care system is really hurting,’ but Florida isn’t under a COVID-19 state of emergency
- Lee Health names vice president of oncology
- Lee Health offers nurses up to $6K for working extra shifts
- Lee Health surpasses all-time high COVID-19 hospitalizations
- Staffing shortage forcing Florida hospitals to move staff from ASCs, 1 CEO says
- Tampa General, USF Health to create new physician group
- COVID-19: Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital cuts outpatient services by 50%
- Florida hospital ‘stacking patients in hallways,’ report says
- Hospital CEO in Florida says staffers are overworked, angry and quitting: ‘Our breaking point’
- Florida county declares pandemic state of emergency amid hospital resource shortage
- ‘It’s Demoralizing’: One Man Shows What It Is Like Inside South Florida Hospital
- Florida remains nation’s hotspot for COVID cases, hospitalizations
- Travel Nurses Are Now a Necessity for South Florida Hospitals
- 7 fully vaccinated Florida COVID-19 patients die in what doctors say is extremely rare situation
- COVID-19 hospitalizations hit new high in Florida
- Hospitals in Broward County are almost out of beds
- Florida hospitals using ‘significant levels of oxygen’ as COVID patients soar
- Florida COVID hospitalizations drop, intensive care patients and cases rise
- Medical Properties Trust buys Palmetto General Hospital as part of $900M South Florida expansion
- Halifax Health sets another COVID hospitalization record with 171 patients
GEORGIA
- Already understaffed, Georgia hospitals swamped by latest COVID-19 surge
- COVID cases remain low at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta hospitals
- Georgia governor boosts hospital staffing amid COVID surge
- Georgia health care workers sound alarm amid COVID surge
- Georgia health system restores IT network 2 months after ransomware attack
- Georgia to spend $125M on hospital staffing amid COVID-19 surge
- Georgia trails most of the country in nursing home staff vaccinations
- Georgia’s troubled health care system
- Grady becomes latest Atlanta hospital to require vaccinations for employees
- Grady Hospital reaches full capacity as delta variant surges
- Urgent cares filling up in metro Atlanta with COVID-19 patients
- Wellstar Healthcare employees protest vaccine mandate
- As COVID-19 surge continues, Georgia hospitals running out of ICU beds
- Ga. hospitals stretched with influx of kids battling COVID-19, other viruses
- Georgia hospital workers ‘at wits end’ as COVID crowds ERs with unvaccinated
- Ga. Health Care System Says Kaiser Permanente Owes $41.7M
- With NGHS beds full of COVID cases, patients being treated in waiting ambulances
- Doctor: COVID-19 Is ‘Out Of Control’ Again In Georgia
- How local hospitals are handling the COVID surge
- COVID hospitalizations expected to surpass record in Georgia
- Report: Georgia among slowest states for COVID recovery
- City of Dalton declares state of emergency due to rise in COVID-19 cases
- Georgia breaks the million mark for COVID-19 infections as new wave hit
- Georgia surpasses 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases
- Wellstar sues Kaiser, claiming underpayments and nonpayments totaling $41.7M
HAWAII
- Bracing for the worst: Kona hospital nearing ICU capacity
- Hawai´i on Brink of Healthcare Crisis as Pandemic Booms
- Hawaiʻi County Mayor Considering Closing Beaches, Parks as COVID-19 Hospitalizations Increase
- More COVID cases in E. Hawaii long-term care homes
- The Latest: Hawaii in ‘crisis’ mode amid new pandemic wave
- More than 500 mainland staff will be deployed to Hawaii hospitals to help COVID-19 patients
- Hawaii Considering Beach Closures And A “Health Pass” As Cases Rise And Hospitals Fill Up
- Hawaii’s largest hospital’s ICU are near capacity
- Disaster plans are helping an Oahu hospital cope with a patient influx
- Hawaii health officials prepare for third COVID-19 vaccine roll-out
- Maui hospital feels weight of record COVID-19 cases
- Hawaii leads nation in nursing home vaccinations, but remains cautious of Delta spread
- HRSA provides $20 million for Native Hawaiian health care
- Hawaii sees steady demand for COVID booster shots for eligible patients
IDAHO
- Doctor: Idaho hospital asked to take Oklahoma COVID ICU patient transfer
- Idaho warns of COVID patient surge, hospitals ‘overwhelmed’
- Kootenai Health says COVID rise ‘exhausting’ resources
- St. Luke’s Boise: ‘Our ICU census is bursting at the seams’
- St. Luke’s to add self-serve pharmacy kiosk outside downtown hospital
- St. Luke’s in ‘full-court press’ to get more employees vaccinated
- Staff crunch, surgery backlog poses challenges for Saint Alphonsus in Boise
- North Idaho health system nears capacity as COVID-19 surge worsens. State adds 22 deaths.
- More Idahoans are using ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Officials warn it could be dangerous
- Idaho Public Health Districts Are Hiring Back Contact Tracers As Cases Climb
- Idaho Medical Professionals Experience Burnout As Unvaccinated Fill Hospital Beds
- North central Idaho sees largest uptick in COVID-19 cases since December
- Idaho Faces ‘Grim Fall’ As COVID Cases Surge
- Idaho Hospitals Plead With Public to get Vaccinated
- Latest COVID-19 Surge Has Idaho Hospitals Tipping Toward Crisis Mode
- Saint Alphonsus Hospital Marks 20 Years Serving Neonatal Patients
- Idaho, New Mexico hospitals weeks away from crisis standards of care, officials say
ILLINOIS
- Blessing Hospital In Quincy Hit with $2.8 Million Settlement over False Medicare/Medicaid Claims
- Cook County Health Requires Employees to Receive COVID Vaccines as ‘Condition of Employment’
- Health system opposes zoning reclassification in city where OrthoIllinois scrapped ASC
- Hospital cleared of liability for spine surgeon in wrongful death lawsuit
- Illinois Now Has a COVID-19 Vaccine Verification System
- Illinois nursing homes back vaccine mandate for workers as COVID cases rise
- NorthShore Health joins hospitals mandating vaccines; Northwestern Medicine, AMITA Health, still not
- Northwestern and Amita hospitals have yet to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for workers. Here’s why.
- Suburban Chicago Nursing Facility To Pay $360,000 To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
- Hospital Beds Filling Up In Lake, McHenry Counties: IDPH
- Memorial Hospital president paints bleak COVID-19 picture in southwestern Illinois
- Southern Illinois Healthcare to require COVID-19 vaccination for employees
- Every Illinois County Is Seeing ‘Substantial’ or ‘High’ COVID Transmission and Should Mask Indoors, CDC Says
- Illinois hits snags with new COVID-19 vaccine verification system
- Illinois records most deaths in a day since May; breakthrough cases a quarter of week’s deaths
- HSHS Illinois, Memorial Health System implement one-visitor policy
- Doctor: Illinois threatening medical license over mandatory mask stance
- Illinois’ Vaccine Portal Raises Privacy Concerns
- Illinoisans Can Seek Mental Healthcare In Wisconsin Under New Law
- All NorthShore U Health Staff Must Vaccinate by Oct. 31.
- HHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital names new CEO
- Illinois hospital settles fraud allegations
INDIANA
- Clark County hospitals reporting ICU beds at full capacity as COVID-19 surges
- Governor Announces Public Health Commission
- Hoosier doctors among the nation’s highest paid
- Indiana health officials notifying residents after contact tracing system breached
- Indiana hospital creating patient beds in offices, storage areas due to COVID-19 surge
- Indiana hospital remodel to include updating ASC
- Indiana hospitals see increase in COVID-19 patients; nearly all are unvaccinated
- Indiana reports 3,000 COVID cases for first time since January as delta variant surges
- IHA: Indiana faces health care worker shortage as hospitalizations rise 288% since July
- Johnson Memorial Health preparing for increase in COVID-19 patients
- Kindred Hospital to Close in Hammond
- Lutheran Health Breaks Ground on Mental Health Facility
- Medical Device Startup Seeing Growth
- Ohio, Indiana both report more than 3,300 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday
- Parkview Health Rethinks Major Remodeling Project
- Indianapolis health leaders worry as COVID hospitalizations cross 1,500, straining ICUs
- Indiana Hospital Association issues warning, urges vaccine uptake as hospitalizations surge
- Biden’s nursing home vaccine order will cause workers to ‘flee,’ Indiana group says
IOWA
- AARP: About 62% of Iowa nursing home employees are vaccinated against COVID-19
- UnityPoint sues to stop ASC from adding 2 cardiac cath labs
- Justice Department Settles with Iowa-Based Nursing Home and Management Company to Resolve Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim
- Iowa’s COVID-19 hospitalizations highest since January
- Iowa public health officials concerned, exasperated as COVID surges again
- Now in its third surge, COVID-19’s trajectory vexes Iowa experts
- COVID hospitalizations rise, straining some medical centers
- Iowa health leader pushes vaccinations
- Some Eastern Iowa hospitals admitting out-of-state COVID patients
- Iowa Healthcare Association Is Assessing Impacts Of Possible Federal Vaccination Order For Nursing Homes
- AARP of Iowa urging nursing homes to require COVID-19 vaccine for all staff
- Iowa’s COVID cases jump 68% as school officials, feds consider next moves
- Amid Rising COVID-19 Hospitalizations, Iowa Nurses Face Increasing Risk Of Burnout
KANSAS
- Kansas nurses cope with ‘moral distress’ as COVID creates hospital staffing shortages
- More masking as rise in COVID cases strains Kansas hospitals
- Survey: Just 1 in 4 Nursing Homes Confident They Can Survive Another Year
- Nurses at 3 HCA facilities reach labor deal
- CEO of 49-bed Kansas hospital resigns
- Kansas hospitals seeing staff shortages, increase in COVID patients
- ‘We’re in trouble’: Kansas City doctors concerned as hospitals fill with COVID-19 patients
- ‘We’re on fire again’: KU Health System chief urges public to take delta variant seriously
- Kansas hospitals rejecting transfer patients as COVID-19 cases surge
- Vaccinated residents die in COVID cluster at Kansas nursing home with low staff vaccination rate
- AARP calls for vaccine mandates as COVID reenters Kansas, Missouri nursing homes
- With no beds, hospitals nationwide including Kansas ship patients to far-off cities
- Mid-America Orthopedics expanding care at Kansas hospital
- Number of new COVID cases, hospitalizations in Kansas reaches late-January levels
KENTUCKY
- $840M construction contract awarded for new Louisville VA hospital
- 40% of severe COVID-19 infections at KY Children’s Hospital came in the last 2 weeks
- Beshear: Kentucky is ‘rapidly approaching critical’ in terms of COVID-19
- Beshear speaks about ‘dire’ state of Ky. hospitals as COVID-19 cases surge
- CHI Saint Joseph Health Raises Minimum Wage for Employees Across Kentucky
- Humana completes buyout of Kindred At Home
- Judge sides with pain physician, orders CVS to resume filling his scripts
- Kentucky COVID hospitalizations expected to reach pandemic high by weeks end, Beshear says
- Kentucky Gov. Beshear gives update on COVID-19 hospitalizations, vaccine booster
- Kentucky governor turns to doctors to make case for vaccine
- Kentucky hospital expanding its COVID-19 unit. Age of patients decreasing.
- Nurses at Kentucky hospital protest, call for better pay amid staffing shortages
- Nursing shortage worries Kentucky hospitals as COVID-19 delta variant cases rise
- ‘Rapidly approaching critical.’ Beshear warns KY hospitals may run out of ICU beds.
- Sicker patients, fewer empty beds: A look at Kentucky’s COVID-19 hospitalizations
- U.S. Senate probes Kindred At Home, cites concerns over PE in hospice
- COVID-19 cases filling Kentucky ICUs; Bowling Green hospital latest to reach capacity
- Pediatric COVID-19 hospital admissions in Kentucky reach record high
- Kentucky Association of Health Plans to offer unlimited state fair ride passes for vaccinations
LOUISIANA
- Louisiana health system opens COVID-19 testing at ASC
- Louisiana honors nurse who went door to door and vaccinated 2,000 residents
- Louisiana offers child care help for hospital workers amid staffing shortages
- The root of the nursing shortage problem and what Louisiana leaders are doing about it
- Louisiana hospitals: Medicare Advantage prior authorization limits care
- Ochsner seeing plateau in COVID cases but far from declaring victory
- Military medical team arrives at Ochsner LGMC
- Louisiana honors nurse who went door to door and vaccinated 2,000 residents
- La. ranks dead last in U.S. for vaccination rate among employees of nursing facilities
- Louisiana’s health care system nearing ‘major failure’ under COVID surge, says Gov. John Bel Edwards
- Louisiana hospitals at ‘breaking point’ with COVID-19 surge
- Louisiana hospitals on the brink of collapse
- Louisiana health officials ‘ready’ to administer booster shots in September
- Louisiana hospitals, overwhelmed with Covid patients, sending ambulances to Texas
- Louisiana is ‘days away’ from ambulances unable to transport to overwhelmed hospitals
MAINE
- Many Maine long-term care facilities planned worker COVID-19 vaccine requirement before governor’s mandate
- Mills mandates vaccinations for all health care workers in Maine
- 10 states, cities requiring COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers
- Health care workers protest COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Augusta
- Gov. Janet Mills announces COVID-19 vaccine mandate for Maine health care workers
- Maine hospitals brace for small number of staff to quit over new vaccine mandate
- A ‘Different Pandemic’: Maine Hospital Leaders Alarmed By Spike In COVID-19 Patients
- Hospital Officials In Maine Say They’re Ready To Deliver COVID-19 Booster Shots
- Maine’s delta variant surge has largely spared nursing homes
- “It’s been a long 17 months” | Maine nurses battle burnout amidst Delta variant
- 2 Houlton health facilities closed to public as COVID-19 spreads
MARYLAND
- Maryland health officials push to get nursing home employees vaccinated
- National Spine & Pain Center to pay $5.1M billing fraud settlement
- Proof of vaccination status required for Maryland hospital workers, nursing home staff, Hogan says
- Shore Health pays $9.5 million settlement after alleged Medicare, Medicaid overpayments
- Vaccine Required For Anne Arundel Medical Center Staff
- Concern grows over Maryland hospitals reaching capacity to treat children
- Maryland hospital beds for kids are filling up with COVID and other virus cases. When school starts, doctors say it could get worse.
- LifeStance Health Enters Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, South Carolina And Wisconsin, Expanding Its National Footprint To 31 States
- COVID-19 In Maryland: Over 600 Hospitalized As Key Metrics Continue To Rise
- Maryland Coronavirus State Of Emergency Ends As Cases Spike
- Seven out of 10 people in this Maryland Zip code are unvaccinated. Local leaders are trying to change that.
- Maryland handing out $48M in mental health grants
- Jury awards $34.7M to Anne Arundel family who sued MedStar Harbor Hospital over son’s birth injury
- ‘Younger, quicker, sicker’: COVID delta variant worries weary Maryland hospital workers as cases and hospitalizations rise
MASSACHUSETTS
- Massachusetts healthcare group eyes ASC service growth
- RI, MA Skilled Nursing Facilities Resolve Discrimination Allegations
- Physicians ask Massachusetts governor to end Saint Vincent nurses’ strike
- Doctors Seek Governor’s Intervention To End Nurses’ Strike At St. Vincent Hospital
- Gov. Baker disappointed by lack of federal guidance on COVID-19 booster shots
- Harvard launches precision medicine program with Israeli innovation center
- Nurse Strangled At Tewksbury State Hospital: Report
- St. Vincent nurses’ strike at 164 days, weeks after offer from Tenet
- ‘Impossible Lawsuit’: Families Find Few Options To Sue Long-Term Care Over COVID Deaths
- UMass Medical Center reopens COVID-19 command center as cases rise
- Massachusetts coronavirus cases increase by 1,182 with 11 new deaths
MICHIGAN
- In Michigan, the COVID increase isn’t just among the unvaccinated anymore
- Michigan health officials shift tone, ‘strongly recommend’ masks in schools
- Deaths rising, but cases remaining relatively steady
- Delta predominant in Michigan; 99% of specimens identified as variant in last 4 weeks
- Michigan fast-tracking extra COVID-19 vaccine doses for vulnerable residents of long-term care homes
- With delta variant surging, Michigan surpasses 20,000 COVID-related deaths
- Michigan health officials provide COVID data update
- Biden nominates former Michigan health director Robert Gordon to federal post
- Michigan health chief questioned repeatedly about why state hasn’t issued mask mandate
- Michigan to use existing network of vaccine providers if COVID-19 boosters are OK’d
- New COVID cases in mid-Michigan increasing at ‘steady’ rate, health officials say
- Michigan Medicine: No visitors allowed in adult emergency room as COVID cases rise
- Michigan becomes 48th state to reach highest coronavirus transmission level
MINNESOTA
- UnitedHealthcare acquires PreferredOne
- Allina Health swings to operating gain in Q2
- Optum quietly revamps online pharmacy, sells virtual care for cash
- Mayo Clinic plans $200M proton beam expansion to meet growing demand
- How 8 health systems are handling employee COVID-19 vaccinations
- Health care providers face staffing challenges amid increase in demand
- CentraCare to require COVID-19 vaccines for all staff by Dec. 15
- Lakewood Health partners with Twin Cities Orthopedics
- In Minnesota’s least-vaccinated counties, local health providers work to educate, encourage
- COVID-19 striking more Minnesota children, underlining urgency of broad community vaccination
- ‘Medical Freedom’ rally held outside St. Cloud Hospital to protest vaccine mandates
- Biden administration mandates vaccines for nursing home workers
MISSISSIPPI
- ‘Heartbreaking’: Mississippi gets 2nd field hospital in days
- Hospitals or politicians? Mississippians faced with choosing where to get COVID-19 news
- Mississippi opening ‘field hospital’ in parking garage as beds run short amid current COVID-19 surge
- Mississippi’s hospital system is on the brink of collapse because of COVID
- Mississippi’s Hospital System Could Collapse Within 10 Days Under COVID’s Strain
- Nearly 1,000 Mississippi beds empty because of lack of staff
- Mississippi hospitals request over 1,450 health care workers to fill state’s needs
- Mississippi hospital puts beds in parking garage to cope with COVID-19 surge
- Mississippi provider org’s use of telehealth enables huge turnaround during the pandemic
- Mississippi has nearly 1,000 empty hospital beds but no staff to care for patients despite soaring COVID numbers
- Health official: 20,000 Mississippi students in quarantine
- Mississippi is No. 3 per capita in mortality from COVID, per CDC data
- Rural hospitals in Mississippi dealing with COVID-19 surge
- Elective surgeries off operating tables at Mississippi hospitals for next few weeks
MISSOURI
- Missouri medical cannabis sales set new record
- Survey: Just 1 in 4 Nursing Homes Confident They Can Survive Another Year
- Nurses at 3 HCA facilities reach labor deal
- AARP Calls For Vaccine Mandates As COVID Re-Enters Missouri Nursing Homes
- Medica to invest in SSM Health’s insurance plan
- University of Missouri study examines how nursing homes can keep residents out of hospitals
- Missouri hospitals see a record number of ICU patients
- As beds fill, St. Louis area hospitals again postpone procedures
- Health officials fear overcrowding at area hospitals
- ‘People waiting on gurneys’: Doctors, nurses explain what it’s like inside Kansas City hospitals
- Missouri nears 500 July deaths from Delta surge as hospitalizations continue to rise
- Anti-vaccine protestors travel to Missouri to confront CoxHealth CEO, pharmacists
- Missouri hospitals in expensive race for health care workers, as COVID cases continue to rise
- Two local nursing homes now have over 90% of their workers vaccinated
- AARP calls for vaccine mandates as COVID reenters Kansas, Missouri nursing homes
MONTANA
- Nursing home vaccination rates in Montana still well short
- Montana Health Departments Prepare To Distribute COVID Booster Shots
- Montana Stands Out In Prohibiting Vaccine Mandates For Health Care Workers
- Montana’s home health care shortage
- Montana Hospitals Face Staff, Bed Shortages As COVID Cases Spike
- St. Patrick Hospital full, staffing short amid COVID-19 delta surge
- Vaccination interest increases as Montana continues upswing in new COVID wave
- Montana’s nursing homes may mandate staff vaccinations under new federal reg
- COVID Hospitalizations In Montana Reach Highest Levels Since January
- COVID outbreaks at Missoula elder-care facilities prompt health department action
- Nurses union wants higher pay in new contract with Bozeman Health
NEBRASKA
- AARP Nebraska: Nursing home staff vaccination rates falling short
- Creighton and CHI Health will study long-term COVID-19 in Nebraskans for CDC
- Even with limited data for last week, it’s clear Nebraska continues to see increase in COVID cases
- Eight Nebraska health care systems are mandating covid-19 vaccines for their employees
- Residents of Oakland, Nebraska, wonder what’s next after hospital closes
- ‘No plans’ to reinstate Nebraska’s COVID-19 dashboard, state health department says
- Wednesday Aug. 18 COVID-19 update: 69 cases linked to two school camps
NEVADA
- Hospital group requires employees to be vaccinated
- Nevada’s Board of Health to consider mandatory vaccinations for college students
- Nevada Hospital Association notes hospital staffing shortages
- Vegas Marks 5,000 COVID-19 Deaths; Reno Seeing Cases Surge
- Nevada reports 33 COVID-19 deaths, matches Clark County at 16.1% test positivity rate
- Nevada panel parcels out $1B-plus in federal pandemic aid
- Saint Mary’s terminates coverage agreement with Prominence HMO for hospital procedures
- Nevada Medical Practice Agrees to Pay $1 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Medicare Reimbursement Claims
- Nevada adds 40 COVID deaths in a day for 2nd time this week
- Nevada partnering with pharmacies to increase vaccine access
- Alignment Healthcare adds CareMore Health to its provider network in Arizona and Nevada
- Cyberattack on Vegas Medical Center Exposes Staff, Patients’ PHI
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Frisbie Memorial Hospital welcomes new orthopedic practice
- Frisbie Memorial Hospital names CEO
- How 8 health systems are handling employee COVID-19 vaccinations
- Concerns from NH’s long-term care providers association over vaccine mandate, booster shots
- Merrimack County mandates vaccine for nursing home, assisted living workers
- Protesters cause a stir over Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s COVID vaccine mandate for employees
- NH Health Care Association supports President’s call for vaccinating nursing home workers
- You can’t bargain with a virus: COVID numbers alarm health officials; booster shots coming
- New Hampshire hospitals reassess visitor policies as COVID-19 cases rise
NEW JERSEY
- NJ implementing universal health care coverage for children, including unauthorized
- New Jersey Rated the 10th Safest State During COVID-19
- Hackensack Meridian Health & NowPow Connect Patients to Community Resources
- NJ Hospital Is Giving Antibodies To Patients To Help Fight COVID
- As NJ scrambled to deal with pandemic, lobbyists took aim
- COVID Hospital Admissions for Kids at 3-Month High Locally, All-Time High Nationally
- Jersey Mike’s founder gives $10M to Hackensack Meridian Health
- Pallone wants $10B to build, modernize community health centers
- Hunterdon Healthcare names CIO
- Hackensack Meridian hospital taps new CNO
NEW MEXICO
- 637,000 patients exposed in UNM Health data breach
- More than 600K patients affected in UNM Health hack
- 10 states, cities requiring COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers
- New Mexico to re-implement indoor mask mandate; vaccinations required in hospitals, congregate settings
- Idaho, New Mexico hospitals weeks away from crisis standards of care, officials say
- New Mexico to re-implement indoor mask mandate, various vaccine requirements
- As COVID-19 surges, New Mexico struggles with nurse shortage
- New Mexico puts out call for nurses, medical staff as COVID-19 hospitalizations increase
- New vaccine requirement for healthcare workers causes concern during shortage
NEW YORK
- Catholic Health employees approve labor deals at 3 facilities
- COVID negligence suit against LI nursing home can proceed, judge says
- Cuomo exit isn’t stopping push for answers on nursing homes
- Cuomo mandates all New York hospital, nursing home staff be vaccinated
- Health Care Workers in New York Must Get Vaccine, Cuomo Says
- Incoming NY Governor Kathy Hochul says she’ll consider sharing official Cuomo nursing home COVID deaths data when she replaces him
- Mount Sinai South Nassau names CMO its new president
- Mount Sinai Queens makes Dr. Cameron Hernandez permanent COO
- New York, D.C. to require health-care workers to be vaccinated
- New York health system boosts minimum wage amid 50% uptick in open positions
- Nursing home becomes first in Syracuse area to be sued over Covid-19 death
- NYC nursing home offering up to $10K signing bonuses for needed health care workers, nurses
- Vaccine mandates grow in NY; NYC venues to start checking
- New York hospitals to enter management services agreement
- 17,000 Catholic Health patients added to those affected by CaptureRx ransomware attack
- NewYork-Presbyterian hospital fired nurse in retaliation for union activity, labor board rules
- New York state orders COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers
- Who is Northwell prioritizing for boosters?
- Rochester Regional Health launching 2nd EHR for employee records
NORTH CAROLINA
- As hospitals mandate staff vaccines, Mission Health resists
- COVID-19 in NC: 1.1 million total cases; hospital patient count surges past 2,400
- COVID hospitalizations in NC near January levels as delta variant surges
- Duke study repurposes FDA-approved drugs to treat mild cases of COVID-19
- Federal data shows Raleigh, Durham ICUs close to capacity
- Gov. Roy Cooper to give COVID-19 update this afternoon as state reports increasing cases among kids
- HCA to fund expansion at Mission hospital
- Hospital beds in the Carolinas are filling up, see which counties are struggling
- Local Residents Sue HCA, Alleging Overcharging at Mission Hospital
- More NC nursing home COVID outbreaks means more lockdowns
- North Carolina ASC real estate sold for $9.6M
- The delta surge of COVID-19 patients is rapidly filling ICU beds in the Triangle
- Thousands of nurses are hurt lifting hospital patients. Can a Durham startup help?
- Triangle children’s hospitals already near or over capacity as RSV and COVID-19 surge
- WakeMed Hospital at Home program sees 2 to 3 times more COVID-19 patients
- When could we see delta peak in North Carolina?
- First peer-run respite opens as alternative to hospitalization for people in mental health distress
- Cityblock Health Announces Collaboration with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina to Deliver Comprehensive Primary Care to Medicaid and Medicare Advantage Members
- Doctors expect surge of child COVID patients in North Carolina hospitals
- Medically At-Risk North Carolinians Can Get Third COVID Shot
- COVID vaccinations are climbing, slowly, in rural North Carolina. But skepticism remains
- Atrium, Wake Forest Baptist unveil joint brand
NORTH DAKOTA
- Sanford Health opens Children’s Campus expansion
- Sanford Health names new Bismarck region president and CEO
- COVID-19 test positivity rate surpasses target in North Dakota; doctors urge masks in schools
- COVID-19 cases in North Dakota surpass 1,000; Missouri Slope mandates vaccine for workers
- Feds use financial leverage to push vax requirement for nursing home staff
- North Dakota long-term care facilities face increase of COVID-19 cases head-on
- Altru and GFPS sign partnership agreement
- As Variants Spread, Vaccination Pressure Builds for Nursing-Home Staffs
- First responders say there’s no sign of overdoses slowing down in North Dakota
- More North Dakota hospitals announce vaccine mandates as state’s active COVID-19 cases near 1,000
- As COVID-19 cases increase in North Dakota, public health is seeing the effects
- CHI St. Alexius Health requires COVID-19 vaccine for workers; delta continues surge in North Dakota
OHIO
- Akron Children’s Hospital names Gessner president, CEO
- Just over 50% of Ohio’s nursing home workers are vaccinated for COVID-19
- Memorial Health cancels surgeries, reverts to paper records as it responds to cyberattack
- Ohio, Indiana both report more than 3,300 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday
- Ohio medical center says nurses got CEO’s bonus wrong on billboard
- OSU building new $1.79B hospital
- Surgeries canceled, ambulances diverted, IT system down at Ohio health system after ransomware attack
- Northeast Ohio nursing home staff react to President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Ohio cities revive mask mandates as new state law stops health departments
- Child COVID-19 Cases Increasing In Northeast Ohio Children’s Hospitals
- Ohio State anticipates new hospital’s contributions to the future of health care
- ‘We don’t really want to do this again’: Hospital workers prepare for another COVID battle
- Which Ohio hospitals are requiring the COVID-19 vaccine?
- Centene back in good graces of Ohio Medicaid after $88M settlement
- Ohio State Wexner Medical Center specialists provide update on rising hospitalizations, COVID-19 vaccine rollout
- ‘No Jab, No Job’: Hundreds protest in front of Summa Health against its vaccine mandate policy
- Local hospital suspends visitation amid growing COVID cases
- All but 2 Ohio counties have high spread of COVID-19
- Ohio set to reach $808 million opioid settlement after more counties, cities sign on
- Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 wave putting renewed strain on medical resources
- Hospitals hamstrung by ransomware are turning away patients
- UC Health 1st in U.S. to perform endoscopic triple valve surgery
- Memorial Health expecting weeklong IT system outage from ransomware attack
- Lindsey Osting named president of OhioHealth Doctors Hospital
OKLAHOMA
- 4 Oklahoma Health Systems Team Up To Provide COVID-19 Situation Update
- Doctor: Idaho hospital asked to take Oklahoma COVID ICU patient transfer
- Order gives Oklahoma hospitals flexibility for COVID-19 care
- ‘There’s no way to find a bed:’ Oklahoma hospitals are running out of room amid COVID-19 surge
- Health Department enacts emergency rules as Gov. Kevin Stitt rejects COVID emergency order
- COVID-19: 15,471 new cases in Oklahoma last week; Hospitalizations climb toward December peak
- Oklahoma Hospitals Break Down Rising COVID-19 Patient Numbers
- ‘We’re drowning’: Doctor describes worsening conditions inside Oklahoma hospitals
- Only Half of Oklahoma’s Nursing Home Workers Are Vaccinated. Now Biden Is Mandating It.
- Purcell Municipal Hospital gaining more support services
- ‘Dire situation’: Delta variant, low vaccination rate push OKC hospitals to capacity, officials say
- Four Oklahoma health systems urge vaccinations amid surge in COVID-19 cases
- “It is heartbreaking and exhausting,” Oklahoma doctors say hospitals at breaking point with increase in COVID-19 cases
OREGON
- 1,500 Oregon National Guard members to help hospitals with COVID-19 surge
- Nearly 600 Oregon healthcare workers get new contracts, annual pay raises
- Oregon barrels toward herd immunity in a disastrous way, expert says
- Oregon hospital converts ASC to medical-surgical unit amid COVID-19 patient surge
- Oregon hospitals are approaching their limits as COVID-19 surges
- Oregon issues mask mandate, warns of hospital surge
- Oregon reports record COVID-19 case numbers as hospitals fill
- Oregon surpasses COVID-19 records for case numbers, hospitalizations and ICU beds
- Oregon, Tennessee enlist National Guard to help hospitals amid COVID-19 surge
- Oregon’s US lawmakers urge FEMA to help short-staffed hospitals
- Providence Health Plan names new CEO and new president
- Smaller hospitals in Oregon overwhelmed weeks before COVID peak
- ‘We’re running out of options’: Oregon hospitals treating patients in hallways amid COVID-19 surge
- Oregon’s total hospital capacity at 7 percent amin ongoing COVID-19 surge
- As COVID-19 Surges, 93% of Oregon’s Hospital Beds Are Full
- Oregon emergency rooms backed up as hospital beds fill with COVID patients and others
- Oregon State Hospital must resume admitting patients within 7 days, court rules
- Oregon Health Authority reports another increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations
- Oregon hospitals prepare for National Guard troop deployment
PENNSYLVANIA
- Firm owes back wages to health-care workers
- In bid to keep nurses, Philadelphia area hospitals offer bonuses, higher pay
- New Philly mandate requires healthcare, college employees and students get vaccinated by mid-October
- Nursing Home Faces Lawsuit Stemming from COVID-19 Pandemic
- Pennsylvania doctor’s employee embezzled $592K
- Pennsylvania sets 80% nursing home staff vaccination target by Oct. 1
- Pennsylvania wants more nursing home staff vaccinated for COVID-19
- PHCA criticizes state Health Department’s mandatory nursing home vaccine goal
- Philadelphia imposes new mask mandate to combat rise in COVID cases
- Philly-area hospitals are paying nurses big bonuses to stave off shortage
- Still no mandate, but Pennsylvania wants 80% of SNF workers vaccinated by October
- Temple Health, Nemours Children’s Health execs honored among 25 industry ‘innovators’
- Tower Health joins growing list of health systems requiring workers to get Covid-19 vaccine
- Tri-County Hospitalists, LLC Agrees to Pay $200,000 to Resolve Allegations of Overbilling Medicare
- Another major hospital system in Pa. announces COVID-19 vaccination mandate
- No Vaccine Mandate For Most Southwestern Pennsylvania Health Care Workers, Other Medical Systems Take Harder Stance
- New Pennsylvania data tool will address health inequalities
- Pennsylvania Department of Health to issue vaccine mandate for workers in state-owned health care facilities
- Pa. hospitals seeing rise in youth mental health crises
- Pittsburgh hospitals see influx of out-of-state patients from COVID-19 hot spots
- Geisinger ups payment adherence 23% with AI-backed payment solution
- HCA sells PatientKeeper used in 180 hospitals to General Catalyst’s Commure
RHODE ISLAND
- RI, MA Skilled Nursing Facilities Resolve Discrimination Allegations
- Rhode Island attorney general pushes back on payer-pitched rate increases
- 10 states, cities requiring COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers
- Gruesome patient incident at Eleanor Slater Hospital sparks investigation
- COVID-19: RI reports 268 new cases, most hospitalizations in 2 months
- Newport Hospital re-establishing incident command center in wake of COVID surge
- RI health-care facilities support Gov. Dan McKee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Rhode Island will require vaccines for all healthcare workers
- COVID-19 hospitalizations top 100 in RI for 1st time in months; 301 new cases, 1 death
SOUTH CAROLINA
- ‘A place we’d hoped to never see again’: Tidelands Health over 100% capacity as COVID surges
- Hospital beds in the Carolinas are filling up, see which counties are struggling
- Lowcountry hospitals resume no-visitor policies as COVID-19 cases spike
- SC pharmaceutical plant to require COVID vaccine for workers
- Surgeries rescheduled as two SC hospitals over capacity
- COVID updates: Here’s how the coronavirus is affecting Upstate SC communities
- COVID-19 surge challenges hospital capacity and manpower
- ‘Zero visitation’ policy in place at Midlands hospital as COVID cases surge
- American Specialty Health Named One of South Carolina’s Top Five Best Places to Work in the 2021 Best Places to Work Awards
- Study says South Carolina ranks 42nd in COVID recovery speed
- Myrtle Beach area hospital occupancy rates stay high; most COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated
- COVID-19 data eerily similar to August of 2020
- South Carolina inches near 700,000 COVID-19 cases, adds 26 to death toll
- McLeod Health and HHS partner to expand access to monoclonal antibody therapy to COVID-19 patients in northeast South Carolina
- MUSC closes on four more facilities
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Doug Ekeren to carry 2 CEO roles with Avera
- Sanford Health ranked No. 1 hospital in South Dakota by new report
- COVID-19 cases, vaccination rates spiking in South Dakota
- South Dakota sees one new death as COVID-19 hospitalizations jump by 43%
- Nursing shortage worsens in South Dakota at a time when COVID-19 is reemerging
- South Dakota reports jump in virus cases in nursing homes
- ‘You are still very well protected at this point’: Avera doctor asks for fully vaccinated people to stay patient
TENNESSEE
- ASCs ready as Texas governor urges hospitals to delay elective surgery
- At many Nashville-area hospitals, COVID-19 leaves ‘no beds’ and nowhere else to go
- Bed shortage reported at Midstate hospitals
- Delta variant ‘burning through’ Nashville; hospitalizations up 900% in 6 weeks statewide
- Doctor describes spike in COVID-19 patients at Tennessee hospitals: ‘There are no beds’
- Former HealthStream executive Gerry Hayden has been named CFO of Brentwood-based Luci
- ICU beds full at many Middle Tennessee hospitals
- More than half of Tennessee nursing home workers are not vaccinated
- Oregon, Tennessee enlist National Guard to help hospitals amid COVID-19 surge
- Tennessee COVID hospitalizations continue to grow amid hospital staffing concerns
- Vanderbilt’s findings 5 months after opening clinic for COVID-19 long haulers
- VUMC Adult Hospital and Emergency Department are ‘completely full’ amid COVID surge
- Water main break impacting Ascension Saint Thomas West hospital
- Wheelchair tech firm hires ex-HealthStream CFO
- ‘The die is already being cast.’ GOP hospital exec warns of looming COVID crisis for kids
- TN Health Commissioner: ‘If you don’t have a true medical emergency, don’t go to the ER’
- All ICU beds full at most hospitals in every major Tennessee metro area, says hospital association
- ‘Impossible to find’ empty ICU, ER beds in Middle Tennessee, hospital chief medical officer says
- West Tennessee COVID-19 cases reach 2020 highs, health officials say
- Knoxville-area hospitalizations for COVID-19 are seven times higher than a month ago as delta variant rages
- Local hospital numbers elusive as COVID-19 cases rise again
- Tennessee COVID Hospitalizations Are Climbing With No Peak In Sight
- Vaccination rates of Tennessee youth among the lowest in the nation
- Ballad Health children’s hospital CEO tests positive for COVID-19
- CHI Memorial names Rhonda Adams Scott COO, president
TEXAS
- 62 former Houston Methodist Hospital workers suing over wrongful termination
- ASCs ready as Texas governor urges hospitals to delay elective surgery
- COVID on the rise again in Texas nursing homes, stressing staff
- Houston Methodist faces 2nd lawsuit over employee vaccine mandate
- More than 11,500 hospitalized with COVID in Texas as ICU beds become increasingly scarce
- Monetary penalties loom for Texas hospitals noncompliant with price transparency rule
- New $120 million hospital delivered to Dallas suburb experiencing off-the-charts growth
- Number of Texas Nursing Homes With COVID Cases Rises Almost 800 Percent in Past Month
- Number of US children hospitalized with COVID-19 hits record; Dallas out of pediatric ICU beds
- Texas ASC adds outpatient total hip replacements
- Texas ASCs brace for hospital spillover, but another PPE shortage could spell disaster
- UTHealth inks data licensing deal for patients’ deidentified data
- Number of US children hospitalized with COVID-19 hits record; Dallas out of pediatric ICU beds
- Texas health officials warn of full ICUs as state grapples with worsening Covid-19 surge
- North Texas hospital employees plead for people to ‘care and get vaccinated’ as they share video diaries from COVID unit
- Texas health department denies aid request for COVID-19 care site at Travis County expo center
- 15 things to know about CHS, Tenet and HCA
- Chutes & Ladders—Tenet shares CEO succession plan; Hartford HealthCare names Cleveland Clinic exec as CFO
- COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing in Texas nursing homes, and nearly half of workers are unvaccinated
- Texas needs 13,000 extra hospital personnel, but it’ll get just 2,500
- How Southwestern Health Resources saves $6M a year with predictive analytics
- Texas hospitals grappling for extra staff as the entire country faces nursing shortages
- Report: 57% of Texas nursing home staff is fully vaccinated against COVID-19
- For Texas Nursing Homes, The Biggest Challenge From Delta Variant Is Maintaining Staff
- Here’s a list of North Texas hospitals requiring its staff, vendors to get vaccinated
- East Texas hospitals shift to ‘disaster documentation’ to allow nurses to spend more time caring for patients
UTAH
- 7-day daily average for Utah’s new COVID-19 cases now at 950, highest since February
- Daily Utah COVID-19 counts now include an assessment of your risk
- Merger of Utah’s Departments of Health, Human Services moves forward
- Virus surges again in Utah’s long-term care facilities, with many workers unvaccinated
- Child hospitalizations for COVID-19 are not spiking in Utah, but national trends suggest they could
- Five Utah hospitals reported as “noncompliant” with new ACA price transparency rule
- Utah reports the most new COVID-19 cases in five months
- Utah’s ICUs past capacity as COVID patients surge in numbers
- Intermountain Healthcare postpones elective and non-emergent procedures
- Justice Department Files Suit to Stop Utah Physician from Issuing Opioid and Other Prescriptions in Violation of the Controlled Substances Act
- 70% of general surgical residents at University of Utah are now women
VERMONT
- States ranked by percentage of population fully vaccinated: Aug. 18
- Pharmacists on the front lines as Covid-19 booster-shot gatekeepers
- Families contend with confusion as Delta variant infiltrates Vermont nursing homes
- The UVM Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital launches new Senior Companion Volunteer Program
- VAHHS urges support for hospital budgets after pandemic year as GMCB begins hearings
- 5 things every Vermonter should know about how the state regulates hospital spending
VIRGINIA
- Most Virginia hospitals and nursing homes aren’t mandating COVID-19 vaccines for their employees
- Virginia’s COVID positivity rate unchanging Thursday
- As hospitalizations climb, Roanoke-area health officials continue to push for vaccinations
- Dr. Melissa Viray says Virginia Department of Health is preparing for future COVID-19 booster shots
- Delta variant’s prevalence leads to stricter visitor guidelines at Berkeley, Jefferson medical centers
- Over 66% of Virginia adults fully vaccinated | More than 9.7 million doses administered
- Health care insiders review Virginia special session
- Virginia is looking at 21st-century solutions to help people prove they’re vaccinated
- COVID-19 hospitalizations back above 1,000 in Virginia; cases at highest level in six months
- VDH launches new dashboard tracking community transmission
- Health leader says COVID-19 Delta variant cases are creeping up in Virginia
- Report: Virginia COVID-19 recovery slightly less than average
- Hospitals prepared if COVID worsens
- Ballad Health to suspend elective overnight surgeries starting Monday
- County-by-county look at COVID-19 cases in Virginia; which areas saw biggest spikes last week
WASHINGTON
- Delta ‘Exhausting Hospital Capacity’ Across Washington: DOH
- Elective surgeries getting canceled again as Washington hospitals fill up with rising COVID cases
- Hospitals delay non-emergency surgeries as COVID infections rise in Washington
- ‘I don’t consent’: State, health care workers protest new vaccine mandate
- Providence’s operating loss shrinks to $94M through the first half of the year
- Seattle Children’s CEO, board chair face calls to resign
- Seattle Children’s staff call for full report from probe into racism at hospital system
- Survey finds Washington’s nurses are stressed, and some are seeking jobs elsewhere in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
- UW Medicine offering third vaccinations, rescheduling surgeries as delta variant surges
- Vaccine mandate may have unintended consequences
- Wash. state hospitals near breaking point amid surge of new COVID-19 cases
- Washington hospitals filling as pandemic labor shortage strains health care system
- Younger, unvaccinated COVID-19 patients fill ICU at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center
- Washington state man claims hospital refusing transplants to the unvaccinated
- Washington’s COVID vaccine mandates ordered by Gov. Jay Inslee are among the strictest in the nation
- Statewide updated mask order goes into effect Monday, Aug. 23
WEST VIRGINIA
- WVU Health System names chief quality officer
- 3 WVa Health Facilities Get Funding to Fight Substance Abuse
- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito praises Mon Health, happy to see advancements in West Virginia medical technology
- Sen. Capito visits Mon Health to learn about West Virginia startup technology
- Three WV counties in red, active COVID-19 cases near 6,000
- West Virginia passes 3,000 total COVID-19 related deaths
- OVP Health honors one family’s journey to bring parity to West Virginia Medicaid
- Vaccination and testing sites ramp up amid Delta variant surge
- Hospitals hamstrung by ransomware are turning away patients
- COVID-19 daily percent positivity rate now over 11 percent in W.Va.
WISCONSIN
- Dozens protest Marshfield Clinic employee vaccine mandate
- Health system opposes zoning reclassification in city where OrthoIllinois scrapped ASC
- Now under new ownership, The Bay at St. Ann nursing home to begin serving Medicare patients
- TriNetX, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute partner to improve trial access
- Ascension Wisconsin gives bonuses to ‘Healthcare Heroes’ — provided they don’t belong to a union
- Gundersen Health System to require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19
- As health care workers protest vaccine mandates, experts say receiving unemployment isn’t certain
- Wisconsin virus cases reach 6-month high
- Wisconsin telemedicine improves care for some patients but not all
- Breakthrough COVID-19 cases are growing in the Fox Valley, but hospitalizations remain low among the vaccinated
- Wisconsin Counties With High COVID-19 Transmission Multiplying
- Nursing home organizations concerned vaccine mandate may lead to staffing shortages
- Illinoisans Can Seek Mental Healthcare In Wisconsin Under New Law
- Northeast Wisconsin hospitals seeing COVID-19 patient numbers rise
- UW Health: 50% of Wisconsin residents fully vaccinated
- Wisconsin nears 6 million total COVID-19 vaccine doses
- Half of eligible Wisconsin residents vaccinated against COVID-19
- Wisconsin’s Covid Condition: Hospitalizations Skyrocket with Delta
- As COVID-19 delta variant surge continues, Wisconsin fears crowded hospitals again
- Wisconsin health system fires VP accused in kickback scheme
- COVID-19 Hospitalizations Spike In Wisconsin As Delta Variant Spreads
- COVID-19 in Wisconsin: Activity level now considered “very high” in 12 counties
- More than nine in 10 Wisconsin ICU beds are in use
WYOMING
- Wyoming Governor: No Mask Mandate, COVID Vaccine Requirement
- Wyoming’s active COVID cases reach highest number since December
- AARP: Wyoming tops nation in nursing home COVID death rate
- Sage Living move in paused to contain potential COVID outbreak
- ‘All hands on deck’ at hospital; community COVID updates return
- Covid Increase impacts Wyoming businesses
- Cheyenne Hospital’s ICU Close To Capacity
