NATIONAL
- 9 procedures CMS plans to keep on office-based payable list
- AMA releases 405 CPT code changes for 2022: 5 things to know
- Amazon eyes expansion of in-person healthcare to 20 more cities
- Biden to announce new vaccine mandates that could cover 100 million Americans
- Federal health officials urge White House to push back booster timeline
- First Responders Nationwide Resist COVID Vaccine Mandates
- Google is shutting down controversial data-sharing project with NHS
- Hospitals see 2nd consecutive month of job gains
- Hospitals urge action as billions in provider relief funds remain undistributed
- How Walmart and Amazon’s healthcare moves may affect ASCs
- Nursing home leaders unraveling after months of pandemic dangers, workloads, McKnight’s survey shows
- Physicians call for ‘guardrails’ against profit-driven interests in healthcare
- Telemedicine — a boon for many in the pandemic — threatened with cutbacks
- Nursing homes didn’t report 40% of early COVID-19 cases
ALABAMA
- Alabama nurses some of lowest paid in the country
- Alabama to use $12 million in relief funds to recruit nurses
- U.S. Navy deploys medical team to support Alabama hospital in COVID-19 hotspot
- Is Alabama experiencing a COVID-19 plateau? State hospital association weighs in
- How state health care officials plan to bring 250 new nurses to Alabama
- Alabama nurses continue to voice concerns over pay and staffing
- Alabama sees uptick in COVID hospitalizations
- ADPH: State database cannot be used to check workers’ vaccination status
- Alabama has 181 more ICU patients than staffed beds; 52% of ICU patients have COVID
- Alabama warns health providers about unlawful use of vaccination registry
- Hope for Alabama hospitals: Mobile County, a COVID hotspot a month ago, sees 34% drop in patients
ALASKA
- Alaska’s COVID hospitalizations still climbing, 1 in 5 patients now fighting virus
- Fairbanks hospital to require COVID-19 vaccine for staff as it wrestles with full ICU
- ‘So hard to watch’: Weekend spike brings Alaska’s COVID-19 hospitalization numbers to another record
- Alaska’s hospital capacity matters, but fewer covid-19 cases would be even better
- As COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record numbers, Anchorage Mayor Bronson says, ‘I don’t know what more we can do’
- Fairbanks hospital to require COVID-19 vaccine for staff as it wrestles with full ICU
- Alaska’s hospitals say staffing shortages are a top concern as surge in COVID-19 cases continues
- Alaska seeks out-of-state medical personnel amid virus surge
- State ICU call center could ease rural health care gap, Yukon-Kuskokwim health officials say
ARIZONA
- Arizona among the worst in the nation for COVID-19 vaccinations in nursing home staff
- Ransomware attack wipes out Arizona clinic’s EHR, corrupts 35,000 patients’ records
- Arizona investing additional $60 million to support hospital staffing amidst COVID-19 surge
- Arizona virus-related hospitalizations top 2K over 10 days
- Phoenix Indian Medical Center names CEO
- Former Hacienda nurse pleads guilty to sexually assaulting patient in vegetative state
- Valleywise Health CEO: ‘This is not your grandfather’s county hospital anymore’
ARKANSAS
- UAMS’ Institute for Digital Health & Innovation Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Enhance Traumatic Brain Injury Resources
- Northwest Arkansas hospitals set record for ventilator use
- Arkansas health officials fear ‘significant’ covid-19 spike after Labor Day gatherings
- Military medical team to help Arkansas with COVID-19 battle
- Lawmakers and health officials discuss COVID-19 impact on children, healthcare system
- Physicians critical of Arkansas hospital’s switch to new staffing agency
CALIFORNIA
- Kaiser Permanente says lab glitch led to backlog of thousands of COVID-19 tests
- LA reports 167 cases of new ‘mu’ variant
- Travel nurses quit California hospital after 1 day over EHR
- UC San Diego Health launches health innovation center
- Virus Pushes Some California Hospitals Near ICU Capacity
- Younger unvaccinated Californians increasingly hospitalized with COVID-19
- California hospitals running out of ICU beds: health officials
- California state hospital employee wrongfully shared 1,700+ patients’ records for years
- California ‘strike team’ deployed to Porterville hospital after emergency room overflows
- California AG says some hospitals not reporting ransomware attacks
- California Faces Short-Term Nursing Shortage from COVID-19 Retirements
COLORADO
- Colorado COVID Cases, Hospitalizations Are the Worst Since May
- Colorado orthopedic practice acquires private practice, ASC
- Delayed surgeries and stretched staff: Colorado hospitals prepare for possible fall COVID surge
- FEMA approves additional $17.6 million to Colorado for COVID-19 response
- Hospital Doubles Up Patients In ICU Rooms As Delta Variant Surge Threatens Northern Colorado’s Health Care System
- Hospitals in northern Colorado at capacity for their ICU beds
- Class-action lawsuit alleges Colorado is failing at children’s mental health care
- COVID-19 hospitalizations in Colorado reach highest level since January
- Children’s Hospital Colorado sees early rise of respiratory viruses, along with spiking COVID-19 cases
CONNECTICUT
- Lamont delays nursing home vaccine mandate until later this month
- Lamont order will give nursing homes temporary staffing help
- Middlesex Hospital gets $2.86 million from FEMA for higher patient loads during pandemic
- UConn Health appoints physician as interim CIO
- Governor Lamont Provides Update on Connecticut’s Coronavirus Response Efforts
- Executive order gives Connecticut nursing homes temporary staff
- Hospital costs for unvaccinated over 2 months may top $9.5M
DC
- D.C. extends contracts for MedStar and other Medicaid insurers while it plans a rebid
- DC health workers can lose licenses if not vaccinated
- DC to require health care workers to get COVID-19 vaccines
- Children’s National in DC Treating, Studying Kids With ‘Long COVID’
- D.C. nurse launches podcast on future of profession
DELAWARE
- Delaware Receives $10.8 Million to Improve Access to Affordable Health Coverage through Reinsurance Program
- Trending: Delaware Covid-19 daily new case average hovers around 400
- Governor Carney Formally Extends Public Health Emergency
- Covid update: While cases, hospitalizations climb, Delaware stays in bottom half of states in virus’ spread
FLORIDA
- $17M medical office building, ASC sold in Florida
- 24-clinic Florida practice files for bankruptcy
- COVID Exacerbating Critical Staffing Shortages in Florida Nursing Homes
- Decrease in COVID hospitalizations and ICU patients continues in Florida
- One physician’s case for refusing to treat unvaccinated patients in person
- Florida health experts concerned by huge demand in parasite drug
- ‘They’re just trying to find a way to stay afloat.’ Take a look inside COVID-19 units across Florida
- AdventHealth moves to ‘yellow status,’ allowing for more surgical procedures
- New system alerts Bridgeway Center when mental health patients show up at the ER
- How Baptist Health South Florida is becoming ‘the Amazon Prime of healthcare’
- Florida COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to decline from late August peak
- Lee Health, first Florida hospital to suffer COVID-19 death, surpasses 1,000 fatal cases
- Florida COVID-19 hospitalizations “decline at a rapid pace”, but ICU beds still over 90% occupied
GEORGIA
- 95% of Georgia’s ICU beds are now occupied amid COVID-19 surge
- Grady Health System’s surgery center now $205M after cost overrun
- Grady Hospital cancels non-essential procedures after weekend surge
- Grady Memorial Hospital incurs big cost overrun on new surgery center
- Hard-hit Georgia nursing home industry seeks $347 million in COVID-19 relief
- Piedmont Healthcare opens new neurosurgery operating suite
- Just over 96% of Georgia’s ICU beds are now full
- These Middle Georgia hospitals offer COVID antibody treatments. Here are the details
- Georgia hospitals swamped by COVID-19 postpone surgeries
- Northeast Georgia Health launches new heart program
- North Georgia health leaders sign joint letter urging vaccinations
HAWAII
- Going into Labor Day, nearly every Oahu hospital is now at or near ICU capacity
- Hawaii health care workers decry lack of COVID mandates
- Hawaii hospitals run out of ICU beds, scramble to bring in extra oxygen
- Some physicians want to expand antibody treatment to keep mild COVID patients out of the hospital
- State launches Hawaii SMART Health Card program as businesses prepare to implement new requirements
- Hawai’i Pacific Health hits milestone with over 250k COVID-19 vaccine doses administered
- High hospitalization rates stress Hawaii’s healthcare systems
- Here’s How Native Hawaiian Groups Are Using $38 Million In Federal Funds
- Hawaii medical facilities given immunity in COVID surge
- Hawaii will soon launch an app that will let you keep your vaccine card at home (probably)
IDAHO
- ‘A last resort’: Crisis standards of care enacted in Northern Idaho
- Boise doctor: ‘It’s the most extreme health situation we’ve ever seen’
- Idaho hospitals begin rationing health care amid COVID surge
- Idaho hospitals nearly buckling in relentless COVID surge
- Idaho Hospital Turns Meeting Room Into COVID Room
- Inside the ICU: St. Luke’s healthcare workers give perspective on handling the challenging COVID-19 surge
- ‘Loss of hope’: Idaho hospitals crushed by COVID-19 surge
- Oregon, Idaho brace as ICUs’ beds dwindling
- North Idaho hospital using lobby, classrooms and hallways to treat emergency room patients
ILLINOIS
- 700-physician practice in Illinois invests in 2nd large medical group this year
- Chicago hospital uses Amazon’s HealthLake to tear down data silos and build a coherent patient history
- Illinois medical group sued over data breach that exposed 655K patients’ info
- NorthShore, Edward-Elmhurst to merge into 9-hospital system
- QAnon supporters flood Chicago hospital with calls to administer ivermectin
- Sinai Chicago CEO to step down
- COVID by the Numbers: Coronavirus Metrics in Each of Illinois’ 11 Health Care Regions
- SSM Health expert supports legislation allowing mental health absences for Illinois students
INDIANA
- Eskenazi Receives Grant to Support Community Health
- IU Health says fewer than 300 employees suspended over COVID-19 vaccination mandate
- Reid Health to Expand in Franklin County
- IU Health Suspends Unvaccinated Workers
- COVID-19 patients strain Indiana hospitals as virus surges
- Shortage of nurses becoming an issue in Indiana
- Hospital in Seymour, Indiana, postpones some elective surgeries due to COVID-19 surge
- As hospitalizations increase, Johnson Memorial goes on diversion
- Indiana’s Largest Hospital System Stopping Some Surgeries
- Indiana Department of Health sends a COVID-19 “strike force” to Parke County – here’s what that means
- State Hits 14,000+ Dead, Holcomb Adds Reporting Requirement For Hospitals
IOWA
- U of Iowa’s hospital wins approval for $395M hospital campus: 5 things to know
- Iowa waives training rules for nursing home aides
- As nursing home outbreaks rise again, so does fear over an impending vaccination mandate
- ‘Nobody’s helping us’: Daughters say Pleasant Hill nursing home failed to care for their mother
- Iowa hospitals, nursing homes report widespread nursing shortage
- Regents quick to OK construction of new University of Iowa hospital in North Liberty
- Board Of Regents Approves UIHC Plan To Build New Hospital In North Liberty
- 8 health systems with strong finances
- National nursing shortage: How each of Siouxland’s three states are being affected
- Medicare, Medicaid share vaccination data among nursing homes in Nebraska, Iowa
KANSAS
- Kansas officials reject limiting nurses’ extra pay to hospitals without vaccine rules
- As Kansas officials eye bonus program for nurses, GOP leader threatens funds at facilities with vaccine mandates
- Kansas panel delays nurse pay boost, rejects punishment for vaccine requirement
- Some Kansas nursing homes worried the new federal vaccine mandate will shut them down for good
- Kansas nursing home employees missing vaccine targets
- Kansas to provide $50M pay boost for nurses at understaffed hospitals
- Kansas plan for extra nurses’ pay stalls over GOP concerns
- ‘By God, you stay in your lane’: Kansas lawmakers won’t link nurse bonuses to vaccine mandate
- Wichita hospitals warn COVID and flu season could overwhelm already strained systems
- 15 hospitals closing departments, ending services
- Missouri, Kansas lag behind in getting nursing home staff vaccinated
KENTUCKY
- $7M awarded to former pain center patient’s family after alleged prescription denial
- Hospitals, nursing homes plead for state aid to keep facilities staffed
- Hospitals, nursing homes sound alarm as Kentucky lawmakers debate for COVID special session
- Kentucky governor says the state’s Covid surge is ‘dire.’
- Kentucky lawmakers to meet for special session to discuss COVID-19 measures
- Kentucky reports highest ever week of new COVID-19 cases: More than 30,600 test positive
- Kentucky SNFs expect to lose at least 11% of workforce due to vaccine mandate
- Ky. special session underway to address rapidly increasing COVID cases
- Ky. Hospital System Sued Over Worker Vaccine Requirement
- Medical team arrives in KY to help increase hospital capacity
- Two-thirds of KY hospitals face critical shortages of staff, supplies
- FEMA sending teams to Kentucky as Covid-19 surges
- Nursing shortage strains finances of Kentucky hospitals
- Confluent Health acquires physical therapy practice, its seventh acquisition this year
- Louisville health care practice announces acquisition deal, continuing growth streak
- ‘It’s a life or death thing’: Kentucky cancer patient told to wait for hospital beds to open to have surgery
- Kentucky Children’s Hospital at full capacity due to COVID-19, other respiratory illnesses
- Health Care Workers Challenge COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate
- Kentucky Hospital Employees Sue Over Vaccine Mandate as ICU Beds Fill Up
- Kentucky hospital pushed to its limits as lawmakers extend state of emergency due to Covid-19 surge
LOUISIANA
- 800 nursing home residents were cramped in “a warehouse of death,” post Ida
- 4 Nursing Home Residents Died After Evacuation to ‘Deteriorating’ Facility Due to Hurricane Ida
- After four nursing home deaths, Louisiana officials investigate Hurricane Ida evacuations
- Baton Rouge nursing home owner Bob Dean has drawn regulators’ ire on numerous occasions
- Death toll rises as nursing home operator faces 7 closures, legal scrutiny over hurricane evacuation
- Families never knew nursing home loved ones were suffering in warehouse; ‘it breaks my heart’
- Louisiana health officer orders immediate closure of seven nursing homes
- Several Louisiana nursing home evacuees die in warehouse used as storm shelter
- Things must change with nursing home storm plans, Louisiana’s lieutenant governor says after deadly hurricane
- At least 141 carbon monoxide cases reported in Louisiana since Hurricane Ida
- State investigating Ida evacuation site after 4 nursing home patients dead, 15 hospitalized
- Louisiana revokes 7 nursing home licenses after 800+ patients evacuated to warehouse
- Louisiana Nursing Home Residents Describe Squalor at Warehouse
- Power restored at one Louisiana hospital; some hospital services remain closed after Hurricane Ida: 7 things to know Sept. 8
MAINE
- 2nd Lawsuit Filed Over Maine’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate For Health Care Workers
- Few Maine hospitals comply with federal price disclosure law
- Group sues to block Maine’s health care worker COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Maine COVID-19 ICU nurses relay exhaustion, frustration amidst Delta variant
- Maine delays enforcement of healthcare worker vaccine mandate but offers no testing alternative
- MaineHealth network postponing some elective procedures to make room for COVID-19 surge
- Martin’s Point Health Care to Open New, Eco-Friendly Health Care Center at Brunswick Landing
- St. Mary’s Health System and MaineHealth Announce Expansion of Clinical Agreement
- Second lawsuit filed over vaccine mandate for health care workers in Maine
- Too little, too late? Rural long-term care facilities still shutting down despite injection of state funds
- Vaccine mandates are hitting Maine nursing homes already at the margins
- Maine nursing home to close; Vermont courts extend protocols
- How a remote Maine school union uses telehealth for a variety of needs
- Many health care providers are exempt from Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Maine Medical Center nurses urge hospital to revert to previous COVID protections
- Maine Medical Center nurses call on hospital to keep COVID-19 protections
- ‘There has to be something better’: Patients, loved ones feeling impact of busy hospitals
- COVID-19 Positivity Rate Tips 10% At Northern Light Health, Maine Medical Center Postpones Some Elective Surgeries
- His mother nearly died. Then her rural Maine nursing home said it’s closing.
MARYLAND
- Atlantic General Hospital breaks ground on medical center with ASC
- Baltimore’s GBMC begins construction on $166 million expansion project designed to upgrade patient experience
- With breaches rising, Maryland cybersecurity companies are poised to protect healthcare systems
- They’ve treated tens of thousands of COVID-19 patients and fear more are coming.
- Maryland Department of Health plan may include Hagerstown, Salisbury hospital closures
- MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center earns 2021 Environmental Excellence Award
- Atlantic General Hospital CEO steps down; new national leader search initiated
MASSACHUSETTS
- ‘Eager to get to work’: How Dr. David Brown will lead Mass General
- Rowley Nursing Home Owner Threatens To Close Over COVID Vaccine Mandate
- UMass Medical School renamed after record $175M donation
- 2 Boston physicians killed in plane crash
- Epic-linked tool helps Mass. hospital secure drug history on vast majority of patients
- Boston Children’s tackles microaggressions in Bystander-to-Upstander program
- Emojis could improve patient-physician communication, Mass General physician says
- 15 hospitals closing departments, ending services
- Springfield-Based Hospital Group Strained By New COVID-19 Cases
- Baystate Health reports 103 COVID-19 patients, 17 in critical care
MICHIGAN
- $19.3M ASC planned by Michigan health system
- Detroit hospital system sued over COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Detroit hospital system sued by about dozens of staff over COVID vaccine mandate
- Henry Ford Employees Sue Over Institute’s Vaccine Mandate
- Spectrum, Beaumont Health take next step in planned merger
- Michigan hospital staffing shortage nears crisis point as COVID-19 patients rise
- Rising COVID cases delay return to in-person work at Michigan Medicine
- Michigan hospitals operating ‘at near capacity levels,’ official says
- School COVID outbreaks quadruple, total clusters climb 18% in Michigan
MINNESOTA
- Mayo’s COVID-19 remote patient monitoring program reports strong tech engagement, study finds
- Mayo, Google develop algorithm to help treat brain injuries, psychiatric illnesses
- 15 hospitals closing departments, ending services
- Minnesota nurses’ union opts for neutrality on vaccine mandates
- Minnesota doctors, nurses battle ‘compassion fatigue’ with COVID-19 surge
- ‘It’s overwhelming’: Minnesota healthcare workers share stresses of latest COVID surge
- Immunity induced by Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine declines with time, Mayo Clinic study finds
MISSISSIPPI
- 18-physician cardiology clinic breaks ground on ASC
- Hospitals in crisis in least vaccinated state: Mississippi
- Workers protest Mississippi hospital’s COVID vaccine mandate
- Mississippi hospital to reopen after 5 years
- Samaritan’s Purse demobilizing Emergency Field Hospital at University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Some Workers Protest Mississippi Hospital’s COVID Vaccine Mandate
MISSOURI
- South City Hospital bucks trend, won’t require COVID-19 vaccines for health care workers
- Missouri, Kansas lag behind in getting nursing home staff vaccinated
- Missouri Delta Medical Center healthcare workers encourage COVID positive patients to undergo infusion treatment
- ‘Push hard and try everything’: Inside southwest Missouri’s search for help fighting COVID delta variant
- 7-day COVID case average has dropped by a third in Missouri since early August
- St. Louis children’s hospitals near capacity, and not just from COVID
- Full ICU at Missouri Delta Medical Center, workers scramble to keep up with COVID-19 surge
- Southeast Missouri town of Sikeston at center of COVID surge
- State issues COVID-19 ‘hot spot advisory’ for two metro St. Louis counties
- St. Louis Hospitals see record number of children hospitalized for COVID-19
MONTANA
- Montana hospitals urge state of emergency declaration
- Program Aims To Address Montana’s Mental Health Care Worker Shortages
- Flathead health officials say surge in COVID-19 is alarming
- How a hand-tied local health department is keeping up the fight against COVID-19
- Montana Nurses Association slams state rule on school mask mandates
- Hospitals filled to the brim as COVID surges again in Montana
- Montana Hospitals Have Little Room For Idaho’s Overflowing COVID Cases
NEBRASKA
- 15 hospitals closing departments, ending services
- COVID cases in Nebraska up for 11th week, but not as much as last week
- Nebraska Doctor Calls 23 Hospitals Before Finding ICU Bed for Suspected COVID Patient
- Nebraska Doctors Despondent as Preventable COVID Wave Slams State
- Virus cases, hospitalizations keep going up in Nebraska
- Nebraska numbers show COVID-19 vaccine still working
- National nursing shortage: How each of Siouxland’s three states are being affected
- Medicare, Medicaid share vaccination data among nursing homes in Nebraska, Iowa
- Nebraska nurses exhausted and frustrated with unvaccinated COVID patients
- ‘The last thing we need’: Nebraska Medicine doctor concerned of potentially bad flu season
NEVADA
- Nurses at MountainView Hospital approve new 3-year contract
- Hospitals on ‘alert’ status for staffing as state hits 400,000 COVID-19 cases
- About 40 cases of ‘mu’ coronavirus variant detected in Nevada
- I-Team: ‘Lining up in the hallways,’ Las Vegas doctor says he’s seeing younger, sicker COVID-19 patients
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Upper Valley hospital officials say worker shortage is limiting capacity for care
- Hospital staff vaccination mandates become divisive issue between nurses in New Hampshire
- NH hospital says ER is over 100% capacity as COVID cases rise
- NH Hospitals Using Over 80% Of ICU Beds Designated For COVID
- Hospital says ER is over 100% capacity as COVID cases rise
- New Hampshire hospitals stressed as COVID-19 hospitalizations increase
- Wentworth-Douglass Hospital overflows as COVID cases surge. Concern for staff rises, too.
NEW JERSEY
- Bayada Agrees to Pay $17M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
- RWJBarnabas Health shakes up hospital leadership
- N.J. health care workers are supposed to be vaccinated. But how many really are?
- Newark Beth Israel, Clara Maass Announce New Role to Address Breast Health Disparities
- Three Atlantic Health System ACOs Earn High Marks for Care in 2020, While Reducing Costs and Saving Millions for Medicare
- Coronavirus: New Jersey hospital fires employees over fake vaccination cards
- Morristown Medical Center gets high marks from nursing site
NEW MEXICO
- UNM Health alerts patients about major cybersecurity attack
- New Mexico’s hospitalization rate holds steady as new cases begin to slow
- Physicians stress seriousness of New Mexico’s coronavirus surge
- State health officials warn against using Ivermectin
- New Mexico COVID-19 update: 543 new cases, totaling 238,430
- New Mexico data shows apparent ‘deceleration’ in new COVID-19 cases
NEW YORK
- 5 recent ASCs opened or announced in New York
- Newsday gets LI nursing home records that highlight conflicting views on enforcement
- NewYork-Presbyterian CXO Rick Evans: 7 principles to maintain relationships with our patients in a world of transactions
- NY’s Covid vaccination mandate could backfire on hospitals, nursing homes, lawmakers warn
- Van Duyn Nursing Home avoids costly penalty from federal government
- New York Hospital names head of new surgical oncology division
- 15 hospitals closing departments, ending services
- New York Governor Warns Of Health Care Staffing Shortage, Hospital Bed Capacity
- Mount Sinai Health System Launches Comprehensive Mobile App for Patients
- Booster shot rollout is coming for New York, Hochul says
- Health care worker vaccine mandate leads to upstate worries
- Gov. Hochul: Staffing problems issue at New York health care facilities
- Syracuse hospital tells workers: Get vaccinated or lose your job Sept. 28
NORTH CAROLINA
- Bid to reopen shuttered North Carolina ASC rejected
- The Triangle’s mental health care system shows the strain of 18 months of pandemic
- NC hospitals begin publishing COVID patient numbers to make a point about vaccination
- Rural North Carolina hospital leader emerges as outspoken critic of COVID ‘noise’
- COVID hospitalizations in North Carolina approach January’s pandemic high; more people on ventilators than ever
- Montecito Medical Acquires Medical Office Property in Pittsboro, North Carolina
- ‘We have had to put children on ventilators.’ Children under 17 account for 30% of NC’s COVID-19 cases
- Health data search engine gives medical group all the information it needs
- Rural hospitals can’t find the nurses they need to fight COVID
- North Carolina sounds alarm that nearly half of state’s middle and high school Covid-19 clusters tied to sports
NORTH DAKOTA
- North Dakota health officials encourage COVID-19 testing, monoclonal antibodies as outbreak continues
- North Dakota reports 4 COVID-19 deaths as outbreak worsens
- In poorly vaccinated North Dakota, tale of east and west
- Already under stress, North Dakota hospitals could be ‘overrun’ by imminent COVID-19 peak
- Active COVID-19 cases skyrocket in North Dakota as state reports 2 deaths
OHIO
- Cincinnati area hospital systems sued again over vaccination mandates
- Ohio hospital doesn’t have to give ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment, judge says
- Ohio’s COVID-19 resurgence heralded by record-setting week
- OSU Wexner Medical Center CEO stepping down
- ‘These numbers are certainly troubling’: Ohio health officials address COVID surge as positivity rate tops 13 percent
- ODH: Rise in COVID cases, hospitalizations strain health care system
- COVID-19 trends putting dangerous strain on Ohio hospitals, says medical director
- Ohio children’s hospital leaders warn of ‘perfect storm’ of COVID and RSV cases
- Ohio hospital capacity remains flat, but full
- Ohio Gov. DeWine not issuing vaccine mandate for state employees
- Ohio nurses wait months for license approval amid COVID-19, staff shortages
- Northeast Ohio health-care agencies to be acquired by LHC Group
- Demand for COVID-19 testing skyrockets across Northeast Ohio
- From full ICUs to long wait times in the ER, coronavirus in children is surging in Ohio
- 2.7% of hospitalizations in Ohio due to COVID-19 last week involved juveniles
- 1 in 7 patients in Ohio hospitals are Covid-19 positive
OKLAHOMA
- State Health Commissioner, Oklahoma Hospitals At Odds Over Capacity Providers Say Doesn’t Exist
- Oklahoma governor asks only physicians on Medicaid oversight board to step down
- Medical tents, trailer morgues and determinations on who gets a ventilator: Oklahoma hospitals shift toward crisis standards of care
- Fact-checking the misinformation about Oklahoma hospitals and ivermectin
- Nursing assistant at OKC hospital arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting patient
- Oklahoma’s 7-day rolling average of COVID-19 is down, but experts say don’t relax yet
- Nationwide shortage of rapid COVID-19 tests hitting Oklahoma
OREGON
- Oregon has the fewest hospital beds per capita in the country
- Oregon, Idaho brace as ICUs’ beds dwindling
- Oregon’s COVID-19 hospitalizations could be peaking, but it’s a long way down
- Inside an Oregon hospital amid an ‘absolutely stunning’ Covid surge
- Health care workers running on fumes as Oregon vaccine mandate’s Oct. 18 deadline looms
- ‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: Oregon hospitals bring in temporary morgues as COVID-19 surge continues
- ‘Absolutely heartbreaking’ week of deaths at southern Oregon hospital
- PeaceHealth, unions clashing after health system places hundreds of workers on unpaid leave
- Oregon doctor: ‘I don’t think there are words for’ how health care workers feel right now
- Some rural Oregon health care workers and a doctor fuel distrust in vaccines
- National Guard returns to Oregon hospital amid staffing shortage
PENNSYLVANIA
- Feds file false claims suit against UPMC
- Patchwork of vaccination records leaves some Pennsylvania hospitals unsure which patients are vaccinated
- United States Files Suit Against UPMC, Its Physician Practice Group, and the Chair of Its Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery for Violating the False Claims Act
- UPMC surgeon performed, billed for illegal overlapping surgeries, whistleblower suit alleges
- Pennsylvania COVID-19 hospital update
- Pennsylvania’s Dementia Care Is A ‘Public Health Emergency,’ But Resources Are Lacking
- Philly-area COVID-19 cases are leveling off, but health community is ‘bracing for an uptick’ heading into fall
RHODE ISLAND
- RI will extend vaccination deadline for some health-care workers
- Rhode Island will put healthcare workers on unpaid leave if unvaccinated by Oct. 1
- Hospitals prepare for the uncompliant as mandatory vaccination deadline nears
- RI expects to recover ‘tens of millions’ in Medicaid for state hospital
- RI nursing home industry pleads for vaccine mandate accommodations
- COVID Mu Variant Hits Rhode Island—It May Be Resistant to Existing Vaccines
- 33 lawmakers ask McKee to amend vaccination mandate for health workers
SOUTH CAROLINA
- $180M senior living project planned for Kiawah Island near Charleston
- COVID wins big in SC Supreme Court, ball is in Legislature’s court to revisit mask ban
- COVID-19 cases jump in Tennessee, South Carolina
- ‘Just look at those statistics’: Upstate hospitals again freeze non-emergency surgeries as COVID-19 patients filling beds
- Nurse shortage impacting Lowcountry hospitals
- Prisma Health breaks record for COVID-19 hospitalizations
- South Carolina Healthcare Organizations To Pay $140 Million To Resolve Uncontested FCA Whistleblower Allegations
- South Carolina system terminates employee unvaccinated by system deadline
- ‘We may be getting close to a max’ as Tri-county sets new COVID record
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Avera Health joins Sanford Health in requiring vaccinations for employees
- SD hospitals bracing for monthlong virus surge
- Sanford Health gets $350M donation for virtual care center
- 8 health systems with strong finances
- T. Denny Sanford gives $350M to Sanford Health for ‘virtual care center’
- Avera Health moves to require its employees be fully vaccinated by Dec. 1
- South Dakota Says It’s Managing COVID-19 Patients, for Now
- Monument Health changes hospital visitor policy
- National nursing shortage: How each of Siouxland’s three states are being affected
TENNESSEE
- 5 fast facts on the president of AmSurg
- Ballad Health: Visit ER for ‘life- or-limb-threatening’ emergencies — not COVID tests
- COVID-19 cases jump in Tennessee, South Carolina
- Fired Tennessee vaccine director files federal lawsuit
- Jury awards North Texas doctor $7.8 million in lawsuit over his partner locking him out
- Tennessee fund that helps hospitals with staffing expenses, is near depletion
- Gov. Lee, TN health officials discuss ‘hospital capacity concerns’ amid COVID surge
- Tennessee sets record for hospitalizations due to COVID for 7th straight day
- Tennessee pediatrician has the ‘break up’ talk with patients who refuse COVID-19 vaccine
- Tennessee COVID Hospitalizations Keep Climbing, But There’s Hope For A Crest
- Blount Memorial Hospital to receive mobile morgue
TEXAS
- $7.8M awarded to orthopedic surgeon after stem cell clinic ownership row
- Tenet extends deal with Cigna: 3 things to know
- Texas Hospital to Pay $3.3M to Settle Claims-Related Whistleblower Suit
- Texas Medical Center Launches World’s Largest Life Science Campus
- Tenet and Cigna offer customers extended network access
- 8 health systems with strong finances
- Microsoft-powered app exposes 326,000 patients of Texas vaccine clinics
- Tenet’s new CEO gets pay raise: 6 things to know
- Texas is depending on travel nurses more than ever as COVID patients overwhelm hospitals
- Texas Hospital Reports 50 Mu COVID Cases As Delta’s Dominance Continues
- Nursing shortage continues to trigger low ICU beds for Austin-area hospitals
- Texas A&M Health Science Center achieves Project ECHO superhub status
- ‘Between six hours to six days’ | Texas Medical Center doctors say wait times vary
- COVID-19 mu variant found in Dallas County
UTAH
- COVID-19 is overwhelming Utah’s hospitals. What are state leaders going to do about it?
- COVID-19 mass vaccination sites may return to Utah — but only if feds OK booster shots
- Dan Lundergan Named CEO of University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics
- University of Utah Health names CEO
- The number of new COVID-19 cases in Utah surges
- COVID-19 and increase in respiratory illnesses pose threat to hospital capacity
- COVID-19 is overwhelming Utah’s hospitals. What are state leaders going to do about it?
- Some Utahns are waiting hours in line for a COVID-19 test. Now the state is planning more sites
VERMONT
- Families contend with confusion as Delta variant infiltrates Vermont nursing homes
- CMS releases evaluation of Vermont all-payer model, with promising early results
- Vermont health program reduced hospital stays, saved money
- Hospitals in Even the Most-Vaccinated States Are Starting to Feel the Squeeze
- SVHC requiring staff vaccinations; reports demand for COVID-19 testing
- Auditor directs Vermonters to health care pricing tools
- Auditor: Hospital price transparency tools now available
- COVID outbreak, death reported at elder facility Vernon
VIRGINIA
- Virginia Department of Health expands COVID-19 testing due to rise in cases
- COVID-19 in Virginia: 3,950+ new cases reported
- UVA Health hires talent acquisition/retention senior director
- Virginia health officials say new COVID-19 variant is in state
- Many Virginia Eastern Shore healthcare workers required to get vaccinated
- COVID-19 cases continue to climb in Virginia, Tennessee
- Not enough willing arms: More than 74,000 COVID-19 vaccines wasted in Virginia since January
- Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital has used EMS diversions to deal with increased COVID-19 caseload
WASHINGTON
- 50-physician anesthesia group must end allegedly illegal noncompete contracts, pay $110K: Washington AG
- Former orthopedic surgeon sanctioned over misconduct
- PeaceHealth places unvaccinated workers on leave, prompting union pushback
- PeaceHealth, unions clashing after health system places hundreds of workers on unpaid leave
- Providence looks to rapidly fill 17,000 jobs
- Seattle Children’s 21-page anti-racism plan: 5 things to know
- Washington hospitals see 34% weekly increase in patients needing ventilators amid COVID-19 crisis
- Washington state employees union reaches tentative agreement with state over COVID vaccine mandate
WEST VIRGINIA
- COVID cases are surging in WV, health department hosts vaccine clinic
- Sharp named president and CEO of Valley HealthCare System
- West Virginia University Medicine plans to launch new insurance provider Peak Health by January 2023
- West Virginia COVID-19 health recovery one of worst in nation
- Some Rural Hospitals in WVa Hit Bed Capacity as Virus Surges
- West Virginia hospital systems delaying elective surgeries due to Covid
- West Virginia COVID-19 hospitalizations nearing pandemic record
- West Virginia Health Officials report COVID-19 cases top 200,000
- West Virginia leads nation in covid acceleration, straining hospitals
WISCONSIN
- Ascension Wisconsin opens first micro-hospital
- Marshfield Clinic Health System Partners with 4medica to Modernize and Build Laboratory Reference and Outreach Business
- North-central Wis. hospitals seeing increase in younger, more severe COVID-19 hospitalizations
- OrthoIllinois’ Wisconsin ASC controversy continues after ‘passionate’ public debate
- The untold story of health systems’ response to COVID pandemic
- Wisconsin reports more than 1,000 COVID-19 hospital patients for the first time since January
- Wisconsin health system selects 4medica to manage lab data
- Exhausted, heartbroken and angry: St. Mary’s Hospital staff confronts another COVID-19 surge
- Wisconsin reports highest one-day COVID-19 death toll since mid-Feb.
- Illinois- based SwedishAmerican Health System changes name to UW Health
WYOMING
- Memorial Hospital Of Sweetwater County Opens Second COVID-19 Unit
- Wyoming Hospital Facing COVID ‘Crisis Level,’ Bans Most Visitors
- Cody hospital, dealing with more COVID patients, prepares to adopt crisis plan
- Hospitals in Idaho and Wyo reach critical point with COVID-19 patients
- Wyoming COVID hospitalizations 1,350% higher than same point in 2020, surging past 200
- Hospital opens second COVID-19 unit
