NATIONAL
- 7 CMS updates to know
- A top F.D.A. official moved on Monday to take over the agency’s vaccines office.
- AHA to CMS: Ensure COVID-19 vaccine mandate is ‘feasible,’ ‘fair’
- CDC director recommends boosters for healthcare workers, despite panel’s vote
- CMS reevaluating hospital outpatient pay rate cut exemptions
- CMS reviewing mid-build exception denials
- CMS’ final payment rules take effect Oct. 1: 21 things to know
- DOL targets home care for wage, employment rule violations: attorney
- FDA backs Pfizer COVID-19 boosters for seniors, high-risk
- Federal vaccination mandate necessary despite staffing challenges, CMS administrator says
- Former DHS Official to Lead HHS’ HIPAA Enforcement Agency
- HHS taps former DHS official to lead HIPAA enforcement agency
- Hospitals Begin Firing Staffers Who Refuse Covid Vaccines — Leading Some To Fear Staffing Shortages
- Jonathan Perlin to lead The Joint Commission
- Nursing home industry worries vaccine mandates will force facility closures
- Nursing union says hospitals aren’t following OSHA standard amid delta
- These 18 states have still not vaccinated at least half of their residents
- Vaccination-related employee departures at 18 health systems
- Private equity is buying up US healthcare: 4 things to know
ALABAMA
- HCA Healthcare to lease Medical Properties Trust hospitals in Utah
- University of Alabama to use initiative to bridge gap in health
- Jackson County Health Care Authority completes merger with Huntsville Hospital Health System
- UA starts $4 million initiative to improve health care
- Alabama governor defends plan to use Covid-19 relief funds to build prisons
- Governor Ivey touts importance of COVID-19 vaccine, slams vaccine mandates
- UAB School of Medicine gets new name after $95M gift
ALASKA
- A nurse says she was fired from Ketchikan’s hospital for reporting safety and patient care concerns
- Alaska, overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, adopts crisis standards for hospitals
- Anchorage mayor blames vaccine mandates for hospital staff shortage. Hospitals say he’s wrong
- 2nd Alaska hospital invokes crisis protocol in COVID spike
- Delta variant surge pushes Alaska’s sparse health care infrastructure to the brink
- About 100 contracted health care workers have arrived in Alaska, with more on the way
- Bethel hospital enacts crisis standards as Alaska stays on upward COVID-19 trajectory
- Providence Alaska throws support behind Anchorage mask mandate
- Delayed shipments of monoclonal antibodies stress supply of time-dependent COVID-19 drug for some in Alaska
ARIZONA
- Banner Health concerned about resources ahead of flu season in Arizona
- COVID-19 death toll in Arizona expected to top 20000 this week
- Arizona Long Term Care Facilities Facing A Workforce Crisis
- Covid-19 death toll in Arizona expected to top 20,000 this week
- COVID-19 Hospitalizations Are Slowing, But Arizona ICU Beds Are Still 92% Full
ARKANSAS
- Arkansas Children’s CEO says mental illness-related ED visits have jumped 150% during pandemic
- Arkansas Children’s raises minimum pay to $15 an hour
- COVID-19 vaccination deadlines arriving for many health care workers in Arkansas
- Hospital cases even lower; fewer shots raise alarm
- Mercy hospital COVID-19 vaccination deadline Sept 30; unvaccinated employees face suspension
- COVID-19 in Arkansas: Active cases, hospitalizations continue to fall, half of vaccines used for boosters
- Antibody exemption for vaccine mandate bill advances in Arkansas
- Arkansas blood donation centers in critical need as pandemic continues
- Arkansas Bill Creates Antibody Exemption for Vaccine Mandate
- Rogers, Northwest Arkansas Council partner to continue vaccine clinics, public education
CALIFORNIA
- Adventist Health taps chief experience officer
- ASC opens at $68M orthopedic center
- California health system sues neurosurgeons over alleged walkout
- California hospital onboards surgical robot at ASC
- CHOMP workers threaten lawsuit over state COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Community Medical sues over trauma service interruption. Fresno doctors group pushes back
- Good Samaritan Hospital CMO to resign after 18 months
- Kaiser Permanente union authorizes strike vote amid stalled contract negotiations
- UC San Diego Health sued over data breach affecting 500,000 patients
- California healthcare worker vaccine mandate goes into effect
- Sacramento’s mask mandate may end soon as COVID rate drops, health officer says
- California Extends HIPAA Telehealth Waiver to End of PHE
- California vaccine mandate: Most health care workers are complying, hospitals say
- Newsom signs legislation allowing cannabis treatments in California health care facilities
- To Combat Meth, California Will Try A Bold Treatment: Pay Drug Users To Stop Using
- California’s vaccine mandate deadline is on the horizon: How health system CEOs are preparing
- California Governor Signs Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use In Hospitals For Severely Ill Patients
- Amazon, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles tap 10 startups for healthcare accelerator program
- Mandates Boost Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Workers in California
COLORADO
- Children’s Hospital Colorado Served As Largest Enrolling Site For Pfizer COVID Vaccine Trial For Children Ages 5-11
- Colorado ASC company acquires multi-clinic ortho practice
- Colorado clinic owner ordered to pay $40K for marketing fake COVID-19 cures
- Colorado health system staff want answers after 2 executives resign
- Colorado’s hospitals have bent, but not broken, during new COVID surge
- COVID In Colorado: Rural Hospitals Worry About Staffing As Vaccination Deadline Approaches
- Most Colorado hospitals post some required price information — but it still may not be what you pay
- New emergency mental health facilities open amid pandemic
- Valley Health Alliance puts area ahead of the curve on lowering costs of care
- Colorado Health Care Workers Have Until Friday To Get 1st COVID Shot
- Colorado reactivates emergency medical staffing center despite signs COVID situation is improving
- Colorado nurse ‘heartbroken’ over losing job after refusing COVID vaccination
- University of Colorado faces COVID religious exemption suit
- Two Nurses Admit to Stealing Drugs from Hospital Patients
- Centura Health to invest more than $66 million in wages across Colorado and Kansas
- 17,260 Centura Health employees to see pay bump of at least 3%
CONNECTICUT
- CT House votes to extend Lamont’s emergency powers
- State investigating how many long-term care workers sought COVID vaccine exemptions from embattled doctor
- Unvaccinated CT health care workers set to be terminated
- Connecticut doctor’s license suspended for providing blank, signed vaccine exemption forms, health dept. says
- Winter Is Coming: CT DPH Warns Of 2nd COVID-19 Delta Variant Wave
- CT group home owner settles with 1199, others still face strike
- Danbury Hospital To Require Proof Of Vaccination For Visitors
- CT Data to Participate in Initative with CT Childrens
- Deadlines loom for hundreds of unvaccinated CT hospital employees
DC
- Children’s National innovation campus to create 1,000 new jobs
- Last-minute deal may save the future of healthcare for DC’s 250,000 Medicaid recipients
- Award-Winning D.C. Pediatrician Compares Vaccines and Masks to Airbags and Seatbelts
- Prince George’s Expects New Medical Office Building to Improve Health Care in the County
DELAWARE
- ChristianaCare loses 150 employees over COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Despite protests, ChristianaCare says nearly 98% of workers complied with vax mandate or got exemption
- 11 new deaths reported from Covid-19 in past two days
- For the first time in Delaware, most positive COVID cases are among young people
- Preparing for the next health emergency
- ChristianaCare to open facility at old Pier One site
- ChristianaCare Plans New Health Center In Rehoboth Area
FLORIDA
- 6 recent Florida ASC moves
- AdventHealth opening $300M, 18-OR surgery center
- Approved: Consulate Health Care to pay just $4.5 million of $258 million judgment in inherited upcoding case
- Doctors Hospital Names New COO
- Florida health system buys $3.7M property for outpatient complex
- Florida’s Nursing Staff Crisis Prompts Hospital Admins To Ask For State Help
- Lawsuit Filed Against Tampa Doctor Accused Of Taking Kickbacks
- Lee Health resumes elective surgeries that require overnight stays
- Marketing software firm building joint venture ASC in Ft. Myers, Florida
- New Lee Health medical facility could be coming to Cape Coral
- Tampa General Hospital Launches the Largest Master Facility Plan in the Hospital’s History
- Florida will be short nearly 60,000 nurses by 2035, report says
- Southwest Florida braces for flu season amid still-high COVID-19 hospitalizations, waning safety measures
- Florida COVID-19 cases continue to decline
- North Florida RMC nurse on the front line for COVID-19: ‘Don’t let your guard down.’
- Florida health care transparency website gets 1.15 million visitors over 20 month span
- South Florida Healthcare Entrepreneur Donates Helicopter to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
- North Florida health centers receiving $3.7M to increase vaccination efforts in underserved communities
- Blake Medical Center names new CEO
- Florida hospital converting former elementary school to facility with ASC
GEORGIA
- COVID threatens major Georgia hospital, possibility of having to decide who gets care
- Emory to get $5 million gift to boost primary care doctors in Georgia
- Federal officials taking over Georgia’s supply of COVID antibody drugs
- This Atlanta hospital is having to make tough choices amid Covid patient influx
- Middle GA hospital ultimatum: A jab or your job
- Gov. Kemp, state’s top health official to give update on Georgia’s fight against COVID-19
- Vaccination rates slowly increase in Georgia
- Nursing homes push to vaccinate staff ahead of federal mandate
- Georgia’s disability support staffing shortage now at ‘epic proportions’
- Gov. Kemp Discusses Georgia’s COVID Response
- Tennessee, Georgia health centers to receive $39 million to help underserved, aid vaccinations
- ‘Their tank is empty’: Local public health officials combat staff burnout, low pay, harassment
- VA launches investigation after medical records, $200K in checks left in basement for 10 months
- Piedmont CIO joins hospital navigation platform
HAWAII
- Hawaii Pacific Health offering COVID-19 booster shots, opening new vaccine clinic
- Program aims to relieve nurses shortage on Neighbor Islands
- COVID-19 delta variant proves deadly in Hawaii
- In a worrisome measure of need, half of Hawaii’s keiki are now on Medicaid
IDAHO
- Boise woman goes to California for surgery amid crisis standards of care
- COVID-19 surge, not vaccine mandates, causing Idaho’s hospital crisis, officials say
- ‘I don’t know where the end is’: Inside the ICU at Saint Alphonsus
- Idaho ICU near capacity as healthcare workers continue treating record number of COVID-19 patients
- Idaho morgues are running out of space for bodies as COVID-19 deaths mount
- Inside the Saint Alphonsus Intensive Care Unit in Boise
- Overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, rural Idaho hospitals struggle to provide care with minimal resources
- St. Luke’s doctor: ‘In a short time, we’ve had a tenfold increase in Covid cases’
- They Found Swastikas On Their Hospital. Still, They’re Coming In To Save Lives.
- COVID-19 contact tracing: local health districts are thousands of cases behind
- At Idaho hospitals, COVID-19 patients are consuming oxygen at ‘astounding rates’
- Washington Gov. Jay Inslee calls on Idaho politicians to take action on COVID-19 during visit to crowded Spokane hospital
- ‘We May Have Not Seen The Worst Of This’: Idaho Doctors
ILLINOIS
- Illinois emergency rule requires hospitals, health care facilities to track staff vaccination records, test results
- Loyola Medicine opens clinical lab in Chicago suburb
- Mary Free Bed expands care network to Sinai Chicago’s Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital
- ‘Serious Increase in Patients’ at Pediatric ERs Sparks Warning from Health Officials
- With Pritzker’s vaccine mandate, new focus on Illinois ‘Right of Conscience’ act
- Illinois Coronavirus Updates: Lower Transmission Risk, Future of Masks, Flu and COVID
- Illinois Public Health Department Reports Human Rabies Case
- Univ. of Illinois Hospital Defeats Nurse’s Retaliation Suit
- Health care workers are experiencing more violence since the start of the pandemic
- St. Clair County health officials announce decline in COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations
- As Illinois COVID-19 hospitalizations, cases fall, when will the mask mandate end?
INDIANA
- Burnout among health care workers increasing with hospitals still short-staffed, over capacity
- CHS to open Indiana hospital in November
- Columbus Regional Boosting Minimum Wage
- Fair Haven to Open New Indy Facility
- Franciscan Health stepping up vaccination mandate
- Groundbreaking for New Life Sciences Facility in Fishers
- Groundbreaking Set for West Terre Haute Clinic
- Indiana COVID-19 spread stays high while hospitalizations dip
- Indiana health chief worries vaccine hesitancy could spread
- Indiana health officials see ’cause for optimism’ as new COVID-19 cases decline in recent weeks
- Indiana National Guard deployed to Ascension St. Vincent Hospital to help amid COVID surge
- National Guard sends teams to Deaconess Midtown and Gateway Hospitals
- National Guard troops deployed to St. Vincent hospital due to increased COVID-19 cases
- Paragon Medical Expanding Ortho Device Plant
- Cyberattack on Indiana hospital forces IT system shutdown
IOWA
- University of Iowa hospital, amid staffing woes, doubles ‘extra shift’ pay for eligible workers
- Number of ICU beds available in Iowa at pandemic low
- University of Iowa-led study finds COVID vaccine ‘highly effective’ in health care workers
- Iowa’s largest hospital struggles with understaffing, burnout
- UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s receives grant for birth care center
- UI Health Care, Mercy Medical begin administering COVID-19 booster shots to staff
- Pediatricians warn of COVID-19 spreading among Iowa schoolchildren
KANSAS
- Centura Health to invest more than $66 million in wages across Colorado and Kansas
- 39 quit Kansas health system over vaccine mandate
- Rising suicide rate in Kansas prompts new efforts to address mental health concerns
- AdventHealth gets set to open the first full service Kansas City area hospital in 15 years.
- Counties with the lowest hospital bed capacity in Kansas, Shawnee Co. among top 5
- Southeast Kansas hospital taking care of frontline workers well-being
- At Capacity, Rural Kansas Hospitals Struggle To Find Room
- Advocates spotlight Kansas maternal health shortfalls, possible remedies
- Providence Medical Center and Saint John Hospital name Director of Physician Services
- New-to-KC primary care provider targets underserved seniors
KENTUCKY
- Appalachian Regional Healthcare to buy 72-bed Kentucky hospital
- Baptist Health breaks ground on outpatient medical center
- Federal court upholds St. Elizabeth Healthcare’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Health care facility to shut down, laying off nearly 100 employees
- Healthcare workers vows to appeal court decision upholding Kentucky hospital system’s vaccine mandate
- Humana files another lawsuit against a big pharma company
- Kentucky company’s new respirator to aid healthcare workers
- Kentucky hospitals can’t sustain current COVID case levels
- Kentucky National Guard expanding support to more hospitals
- Kentucky will receive $15 million to implement, expand mobile crisis intervention units
- Ky. Hospital Workers Can’t Block Vaccine Mandate
- Lawmakers urge Beshear to call special session to address health care issues
- National nursing home, assisted living survey shows staffing shortages, concerns about staying open
- New COVID cases have declined in Kentucky for two weeks. Hospital ICUs still packed
- Trilogy Health Services invests in employees in creative ways
- West Kentucky COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations beginning to decline
LOUISIANA
- Judge dismisses suit filed against Ochsner Lafayette General over COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Louisiana health officials dodge legislators’ questions on nursing home evacuations
- ‘Their tank is empty’: Local public health officials combat staff
- Louisiana schools chief scraps COVID quarantine suggestion
- After storms, mental health crisis compounded by COVID looms in Louisiana
- COVID hospitalizations drop as Louisiana approaches 14,000 dead
- CVS Health To Invest $25 Million in Affordable Housing in Louisiana
- A month after Ida, recovery is close for Ochsner in Bayou region as COVID slows
- No vaccine deaths in Louisiana after 2.3 million COVID shots
- COVID Deaths In Louisiana Children Are Mounting
- With parish hospitals still down, debate continues over whether it’s safe for nursing home patients to return to Terrebonne
- Louisiana seeing strong booster shot numbers as eligibility expands
- LDH reports alarming increase in severe pregnancy outcomes due to COVID-19
MAINE
- Bangor hospital sets COVID-19 inpatient record for 2nd week as Maine hits highest ICU levels yet
- In Well-Vaccinated Maine, Covid-19 Still Fills Hospitals With the Unvaccinated
- Deadline nears for Maine health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19
- $11M headed to 18 Maine health care centers
- Maine hospitals brace for possible staffing shortages once vaccine mandate starts
- Maine sees largest single-day increase in coronavirus infections
- Maine Has The 3rd Highest Vaccination Rate In The Country
- York Hospital welcomes new executives
- More health care workers are getting vaccinated in Maine, but not everywhere
- Maine Reports Its Biggest Daily Jump In New Coronavirus Cases Yet
- Maine hospital to open surgery center
- York Hospital ICU still full as COVID pressure plateaus locally
- ‘People are dying at a more frequent rate,’ NLH official on COVID patients
- Mercy Hospital to open new building for outpatient services in November
MARYLAND
- Capital Digestive inks deal with 34-physician practice
- Johns Hopkins planning medical office building, ASC
- Maryland OKs out-of-state nurses to practice, encourages early graduation for nursing students amid nationwide shortage
- University of Maryland Medical Center names chief nursing officer
- What Johns Hopkins employee survey reveals about pandemic’s mental health challenges
- Md. hospitals alert first responders to take patients elsewhere as some ambulance calls triple
- After Plan to Help Nursing Shortage, Health Care Groups Say Existing Workforce Needs More Support
- Prince George’s Expects New Medical Office Building to Improve Health Care in the County
- Maryland Turns To Nursing Students & Out-Of-State Nurses To Shore Up Hospital Workforce
- Maryland announces steps to increase nursing workforce
- Maryland health care payment model reduces costs and complications, study shows
MASSACHUSETTS
- BCBS of Massachusetts to pay physicians more for closing racial health gaps
- Four Skilled Nursing Facility Entities Agree to Resolve Allegations of Americans with Disabilities Act Violations
- Mass General Brigham vetoes controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm after internal review
- UMass Chief: A COVID-19 vaccine mandate may make hospital staff, ICU bed shortages worse
- Multiple bills look to address Massachusetts’ mental health care crisis
- Hospitals: Staffing Problems Are ‘Really Bad’
- Massachusetts coronavirus cases increase by 1,380, hospitalizations jump
- Over 36,000 Breakthrough COVID Cases Have Now Been Reported in Mass.
- Union representing more than 500 Saint Vincent Hospital employees calls on elected officials to intervene to resolve nurse’s strike in Worcester
- Massachusetts governor urges Saint Vincent Hospital, striking nurses to resume talks
- BCBS of Massachusetts to pay physicians more for closing racial health gaps
MICHIGAN
- Beaumont-Spectrum merger delayed by FTC backlog, officials say
- FTC asks Beaumont, Spectrum for more information on 22-hospital merger
- Hospitals launch pay incentives to attract, retain workers amid staff shortages
- Mary Free Bed expands care network to Sinai Chicago’s Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital
- Michigan ASC performs 1st procedure using kidney laser technology
- Michigan doctor convicted in $100 million-plus healthcare fraud case
- Michigan hospitals eye nurses in other countries to fill COVID shortage
- Michigan hospitals offer meals tailored to patients’ medical needs
- Michigan hospitals weigh vaccine mandates against staffing shortages as COVID cases rise
- Michigan physician convicted in $100M healthcare fraud case
- Michigan top doc Khaldun leaves state COVID role for private sector
- Munson to mandate coronavirus vaccine for staff, providers
- Some major Michigan hospitals, health systems remain without COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Michigan Medicine, St. Joseph Mercy hospitals partner with Lansing health group on Medicare plan
- Michigan nurse accused of stealing COVID-19 vaccination cards from hospital, selling online
- Michigan Gov. Whitmer deems some COVID-19 budget sections unconstitutional
- More than $1M in funding announced for 2 Upper Michigan health centers
MINNESOTA
- Mayo hires UCSF’s superstar fundraiser
- Minnesota, Wisconsin health workers file lawsuit to stop vaccine mandates
- Doctors alarmed as surge in respiratory disease leads to more children in hospital beds
- Minnesota Health Care Workers Sue to Block Vaccine Mandate
- COVID-19 hospitalizations in Minnesota reach 800
- M Health Fairview mental health workers vote to unionize
- COVID In MN: 43,000+ Vaccine Booster Shots Administered So Far
- 4 major Minnesota hospitals reveal how many COVID-19 patients are fully vaccinated, unvaccinated
- Twin Cities patients must travel for monoclonal antibodies COVID-19 treatment
- Young and younger: Minnesota’s latest COVID-19 hospitalizations
- Why Mayo’s CEO will close outpatient practices, suspend surgeries Nov. 26
MISSISSIPPI
- Mississippi asks to delay order that it create mental health plan
- Struggling Mississippi Hospital Seeks Financial Turnaround
- Mississippi State Dept. of Health Officer: Medical Marijuana Regulation a Concern
- How is vaccine outreach in rural Mississippi?
- In-hospital deaths in Mississippi spiked 40% during pandemic
- Counties with the lowest hospital bed capacity in Mississippi
- Coroanvirus deaths raise Mississippi hospital mortality rate
- Mental Health chief says agency will comply with federal order despite appeal by attorney general
- Pregnant women in Mississippi account for nearly 10% of all COVID-19 deaths among expecting mothers in US
MISSOURI
- Data: Kansas City area nursing home residents often more vaccinated than staff
- Inside the contentious aftermath of a ‘highly profitable’ urgent care operator’s sale
- Mid-Missouri hospitals not seeing a shortage of antibody treatments as some states run low
- Missouri hospital workers to wear panic buttons for assaults
- COVID-related attacks on medical workers prompt Missouri hospital to issue panic buttons
- ‘Inconsistency’ in Missouri’s 115 local public health agencies call for cash, clarity
- Missouri COVID update: 7-day case average lowest it’s been in over two months
- Centene names CEO of its Missouri health plan to lead Florida subsidiary
- Missouri health leaders keeping monoclonal antibody infusion centers open a little longer
- ‘We Have Seen Stillbirths in COVID Women – We Are Worried it Could Be Because of COVID.’
- Area hospitals begin to take action as vaccine mandate deadlines approach
- Saint Louis University, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital Receive $2 Million as Part of New Regional Pediatric Pandemic Network
- Mercy, SSM Health employee vaccine deadline Thursday
MONTANA
- Inside Billings Clinic: Hospital treats crush of new COVID-19 patients
- Kalispell nurses union secures new labor contract
- Montana healthcare providers, patients challenge state ban on vaccine requirements
- Montana hospital ICU reaches 150% capacity amid surge of COVID-19 cases
- National Guard headed to 3 Northwest MT hospitals
- Montana records 2,000th COVID-19 death, millionth vaccine
- A Montana hospital has so many unvaccinated COVID-19 patients to treat that it’s ‘running out of hallways’
- MT hospital treats crush of new COVID-19 patients
- Montana health officers leave posts in record numbers
- Montana ICU occupancy surpasses Nov. 2020 COVID peak
- Sevaro Selected by Montana Hospital Association as Preferred Stroke Care Provider
- Gov. Gianforte uses Natonal Guard, VA to assist Montana Hospitals
- Patients fund billboards in display of support for removed Montana oncologist
- Health Care Officials, Patients Sue Montana Over Vaccine Mandate Ban
NEBRASKA
- Nebraska extends suspension of some hospital surgeries
- Nebraska health centers receive over $4M in federal funding
- Restarted Nebraska hospital transfer system sees complaints
- Federal vaccine mandate will cause exodus of staff, rural hospital leader warns
- Virus growth slows in state but hospitalizations stay high
- COVID hospitalizations rise while case growth slows in Nebraska
- Gov. Ricketts extends Nebraska DHM aiming to preserve hospital capacity
- ‘We are talking more about mental health’: Healthcare workers feeling the pandemic’s toll
- South Heartland Health District Says COVID Cases Have Accelerated
- Darland tackling renovation, addition for Nebraska medical center
- Nebraska COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations Dip in Latest Pandemic Data
- Nebraska extends limit on electives amid staffing shortage
NEVADA
- Nevada hospital urges residents to take COVID-19 seriously: ‘We are pleading with you’
- COVID-19 cases statewide drop to 800 with 34 deaths, test positivity rate continues its decline
- COVID-19 cases go back over 1,000; hospital staffing still on ‘alert’ status
- Grass Valley hospital: Employees must get vaccinated
- Clark County’s key COVID-19 metrics continue recent declines
- CVS seeking to hire 300 in Nevada
- COVID-19 booster shots could roll out next week at SNHD sites
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Rockingham County mulls vaccine mandate for nursing home after COVID outbreak
- New Hampshire health providers prepare to administer COVID-19 boosters
- Forum planned for merger of health systems
- New Hampshire prioritized non-White individuals for COVID-19 vaccines: federal complaint
- New Hampshire health providers have questions as CDC makes recommendation on vaccine boosters
- Active COVID cases drop in New Hampshire; hospitalizations
- NH COVID-19: Active cases, hospitalizations rise on Wednesday
- University of New England to Become Telehealth Education Hub
- New Hampshire to Join $21 Billion National Opioid Settlement with Distributors McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health and Amerisource Bergen
- Coos Health up and running after ransomware attack
NEW JERSEY
- $17 million settlement resolves kickback allegations tied to senior living operator’s sale of 2 home health agencies
- Five NJ Hospitals Will No Longer Accept Major Health Insurer
- New Jersey Department of Health Releases Statement on CDC Approval of Pfizer Booster Dose
- FTC’s challenge to New Jersey health system merger is flawed, hospital groups say
- Jefferson Health Expands Project SEARCH Program At New Jersey Hospitals
- Loopholes and ‘profiteering’ off the pandemic: Why NJ has nation-high COVID test costs
- After quiet flu season in last year, South Jersey medical experts wary of ‘difficult’ return
NEW MEXICO
- New Mexico continues decline in average number of new COVID-19 cases
- Vaccination deadline nears for health care workers
- New Mexico COVID-19 hospitalizations at a six-week low while pressure continues
- Primary care-focused health care firm opens first ABQ location
- 13 NM health centers receive federal COVID-19 funding
- State passes 70% mark for vaccinations
- Presbyterian Hospital redesigning elements of its $170 million tower due to COVID-19
- Making room: Major expansions at Presbyterian, UNMH well under way
- NM COVID-19 Transmission Remains High as Cases, Hospitalizations Drop
- New Mexico sees comparatively high number of COVID deaths in September
NEW YORK
- Area hospitals not drastically impacted as state’s COVID vaccine mandate takes effect
- Catholic Health hospital halts some surgeries, labor and delivery, as strike date nears
- Gov. Kathy Hochul preparing for possible staff shortages at NY hospitals, nursing homes
- Memorial Sloan Kettering launches center for unique needs of adolescents, young adults with cancer
- Monday could be last shift for hundreds of unvaccinated workers at Syracuse’s biggest hospital
- Most New York healthcare workers fired over mandate won’t get unemployment insurance
- New York Hospitals Face Possible Mass Firings as Workers Spurn Vaccines
- New York hospitals, officials prepare for potential staff shortages ahead of vaccine mandate deadline
- New York may tap National Guard to replace unvaccinated healthcare workers
- New York sets staff shortage plan amid COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Rensselaer County nursing home is now short 29 employees over vaccine mandate
- St. Joseph’s consolidates operating rooms following vaccine mandate
- St. Peter’s nursing home sued over COVID death
- Staff at New York hospitals to receive overtime pay increase
- Syracuse hospital suspends 122 unvaxed workers who will be fired if they don’t get shots
- These Health Care Workers Would Rather Get Fired Than Get Vaccinated
- Three WNY hospital systems to put unvaccinated workers on leave
- Unvaccinated ECMC nurse placed on leave over mandate: “It has been a very, very difficult decision”
- Unvaccinated workers will be fired from SUNY hospitals, chancellor says
- Willow Point Nursing Home Loses Staff Over Vaccine Mandate
- WNY has second-lowest nursing home staff vax rate of any region in the state, as mandate approaches
NORTH CAROLINA
- Cone Health extends employee vaccination deadline to Oct. 28
- Duke Health ASC hits 1,000th case milestone
- ‘Necessary relief’: NC gets 25 ambulances from FEMA to address staffing shortages
- North Carolina hospital system fires over 175 employees for not getting COVID vaccine
- UNC Health employees must be vaccinated by November in order to keep their jobs
- UNC nurse says healthcare worker shortage could be next pandemic
- ‘We’re doing all we can’: Health care workers worn down by COVID-19 ICU patients
- September becomes deadliest month of pandemic since January in North Carolina
- NC Coronavirus update September 29: Duke Health says ‘fewer than 20’ workers fired over vaccine mandate
- ‘Incredibly proud’ Duke Health says it fired very few workers over COVID vaccine mandate
- Duke Health worker speaks out after she’s placed on leave for not getting COVID-19 vaccine
- Changes for NC’s state veterans nursing homes proposed in pending budget bill
- Vidant Health says small group of managers, doctors, providers unvaccinated ahead of Friday deadline
- Wall Street’s Buying Up U.S. Health Care — Including In North Carolina
- UNC Health gets green light for contested $252M hospital in Research Triangle Park
- North Carolina denies proposed $12M ASC
NORTH DAKOTA
- Sanford Health welcomes nurses as capacity nears
- NDDoH extends temporary nurse aid registration
- North Dakota tops 4,000 active COVID-19 cases
- North Dakota surpasses 1,600 COVID-19 deaths
- Shaw: COVID-19 is out of control in North Dakota
- NDDoH Ambulances on Standby For Hospital Transfers
- North Dakota baby’s nearly fatal fight with COVID-19 signals new risk to children
OHIO
- Cleveland Clinic in the past 90 days: 4 ASC updates
- ‘Esther’s Law’ a step closer to allowing cameras into Ohio long-term care residents’ rooms
- Federal judge upholds Cincinnati health care system’s COVID vaccine mandate
- Northern Ohio COVID-19 hospitalizations set to hit peak soon, per Cleveland Clinic model
- Short-staffed Summa Health to close 121 beds
- U.S. court upholds hospital employee COVID-19 vaccine rule in test case
- Health experts have slight level of optimism with COVID-19 cases in Ohio
- Ohio health care workers warn of ‘astronomical’ COVID-19 pediatric surge
- Northeast Ohio hospital leaders warn of few beds, long wait times
- Ohio health centers awarded over $30 million by HHS
- Staff shortage: Summa reducing hospital beds by 20%
- COVID-19 surge: NE Ohio hospital execs urge vaccinations as health community fights misinformation
- Historically underfunded, home and community-based care in Ohio finally will get $517 million boost
- More hospital beds available in Ohio, but few open in Valley
- Nursing in the age of COVID: Ohio University president discusses stress and the need for more health care workers
- Ohio State Wexner Medical Center limiting patient visitors to reduce risk of COVID-19 spread
- Hospital capacity worsening amid increasing COVID-19 cases
- Mount Carmel invites Ohio lawmakers to tour ICU to see ‘devastation’ of COVID-19
- WEWS: Staffing Shortages Force Ohio Health System To Cut Back On Care
- ‘More than we’ve seen ever’: Northeast Ohio doctor addresses grim first in COVID-19 pandemic
- California to ban state-sponsored travel to Ohio due to recent law allowing medical providers to deny care to LGBTQ Ohioans
- Reduced Capacity, Less Beds At 2 University Hospital Locations
- Weary Medical Staff + More Patients = Looming Ohio Healthcare Crisis
OKLAHOMA
- Oklahoma health system spends $20M on retention bonuses
- Deadline approaching for some Oklahoma health care workers to get COVID-19 vaccine
- Oklahoma doctors say we are beyond the delta surge
- Health officials: Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster doses available immediately in Oklahoma
- Oklahoma’s nursing shortage worsened by COVID-19
- Oklahoma health commissioner ‘cautiously optimistic’ as cases, hospitalizations trend down
- Officials: 91% of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Oklahoma unvaccinated
- Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford introduces Stop Vaccine Mandates Act
OREGON
- How OHSU and other providers are navigating the monoclonal antibody shortage
- Oregon Nurses Association: Over 80 nurses to leave Asante after Oct. 18 deadline
- Three Oregon hospitals are high in equity metrics in new rankings
- Oregon Health Authority reports 79 schools with active COVID-19 outbreaks, up from 48
- Oregon Health Authority reports decline in weekly COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths
- Thousands of Oregon healthcare workers remain unvaccinated as deadlines loom
- Legacy Health workers refusing COVID-19 vaccine prepare to be fired
- Oregon hospitals dig In for long COVID-19 surge
- Oregon health care workers among those now getting third COVID shot
- National Guard and contracted health workers are “phenomenal” at assisting Oregon hospitals
- Eastern Oregon counties declare state of emergency over COVID vaccine mandates
PENNSYLVANIA
- Jefferson Health, Novartis launch $3M program to improve heart care in underserved neighborhoods
- Penn Medicine to open $1.6B hospital in October
- Pennsylvania hospitals asks court to block sale of multispecialty physician group
- Pennsylvania nurses union holding rallies to push hospitals for improved staffing levels
- Tower Health to close 1 hospital, sell another
- Pennsylvania Lawmakers Keep COVID-19 Regulatory Waivers For 6 More Months
- Regulations suspended to help Pennsylvania’s health care industry
- Tower is selling Chestnut Hill Hospital, closing Jennersville, as it digs out from massive losses
- Tower Health postpones deadline
- Pa. nurses hoping ratio mandate would provide much-needed healing to a hurting system
- New hospital set to open as hospitalizations continue to feel pressure across Pennsylvania
- Pa.’s upward trend of COVID-19 hospitalizations continues over weekend
- At last minute, Pa. lawmakers vote to extend dozens of COVID-19 waivers
- University of Pennsylvania commits $100 million to launch engineering and health center
- Mental Health Clinic Notifies Patients 6 Months After Hack
- Tower Health vaccine mandate delayed as some employees consider job loss
RHODE ISLAND
- Health care workers challenge Rhode Island’s COVID vaccine mandate
- Rhode Island Hospital closes part of ED over staff shortage
- Disabled veteran denied MRI at ‘too busy’ Rhode Island Hospital
- Rhode Island woman is awarded $1.3M after botched surgery
- Rhode Island Hospital awarded nearly $2M grant for sepsis research
- Judge considering health care workers’ lawsuit over vaccine mandate
- McKee plans to keep Oct. 1 deadline for health care workers vaccine mandate
- Part of Rhode Island Hospital closed due to nursing shortage
SOUTH CAROLINA
- AARP calls for nursing home vaccine mandate as South Carolina’s resident cases, deaths sharply rise
- Report shows SC has second-highest rate of COVID-19 cases in children across US
- Why a South Carolina hospital CEO changed his mind about vaccinations
- Over $15 million in federal funds awarded to 21 SC health care centers
- A rise in forged COVID vaccine cards has SC health officials calling investigators
- State health officials confirm over 100 additional COVID-19 deaths in S.C.
- Over $15 million in federal funds awarded to 21 SC health care centers to expand services in underserved communities
- MUSC doctors notice an alarming rise in COVID cases among children
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Sanford Health hires more bilingual doctors to serve Sioux Falls’ Spanish-speaking population
- South Dakota to use up to $5M federal grant to improve rural health access
- Counties with the lowest hospital bed capacity in South Dakota
- SD Part of Grant Program to Boost Rural Health Care
- COVID-19: The story of two pandemic peaks so far in South Dakota
- South Dakota to use up to $5M federal grant to improve rural health access
- South Dakota COVID-19 recoveries outpace new cases, but hospitalizations rise
- Non-Coronavirus Patients Wait for Intensive Care Unit Bed
- Labor shortage and COVID-19 costs causing crisis in long-term care industry in South Dakota
TENNESSEE
- COVID-19 update: Hospitalization down 23% in two weeks
- Life Care Centers of America Inc. Agrees to Pay $145 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to the Provision of Medically Unnecessary Rehabilitation Therapy Services
- Metro Health defends decision not to issue mask mandate, will continue to ‘follow the science’
- Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital president to testify in front of Congress
- Nashville Health Care Council releases economic impact study
- Tennessee National Guard administers over 1.3 million COVID vaccinations and counting
- Tennessee sees decrease in COVID cases, but deaths sharply rising; doctors say remain vigilant
- Tennessee, Georgia health centers to receive $39 million to help underserved, aid vaccinations
- Tennessee Health commissioner worried about ‘unintended consequences’ of vaccine mandate
- COVID eases its grip on Tennessee
- Despite fears, Tennessee hasn’t run low on monoclonal antibodies after all
- Nashville health care grows by over 70 percent
- Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford breaks ground on neighborhood hospital
- Nashville General Hospital targeting social determinants of health and health equity
- 5 deals involving LifePoint Health
TEXAS
- Houston ASC real estate sold
- A Texas man took COVID-19 tests at an emergency room. Then, he got a bill for $54,000.
- Central Texas Market established for military health care
- University Health to buy 68 acres for new hospital in Texas
- Southeast Texas veterans say they need hospital closer to home instead of going to Houston
- Texas A&M Health, Houston Methodist Formalize Agreement
- New UTEP partnership aims to improve mental health access in rural Texas counties
- As Austin moves down to Stage 4, ICU capacity remains low in the area
- Texas at-home care providers requesting $412M of state’s $16B in COVID-19 relief
- Texas nurse faces capital murder trial for 4 patient deaths
- ‘Moving in the correct direction’: North Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations declining, officials say
- More Texas hospitals, medical facilities, facing staffing shortages over vaccine mandate
- COVID-19 at UT Health East Texas: Hospitalizations falling, more incentives planned for health care workers using funds from Smith County
- Texas Health Southlake Ranked As One Of The Best Places To Work In 2021
- Worcester mayor calls on Tenet CEO to visit from Texas to end nurses strike
- Montecito expands Texas footprint with another ASC acquisition
UTAH
- HCA Healthcare to lease Medical Properties Trust hospitals in Utah
- Intermountain launching outpatient imaging company
- Intermountain’s outpatient imaging company to offer lower, flat-rate prices
- ‘A casualty of the pandemic’: Utah health leaders say COVID-19 politics have damaged public’s trust in them
- Utah COVID-19 hospitalizations drop by more than 100 on Wednesday
- As COVID-19 cases surge in Utah, Intermountain Healthcare to provide update
- Utah surpasses half a million coronavirus cases since pandemic began
VERMONT
- U of Vermont gets approval to plan ASC
- Vermont is struggling to provide mental health counseling, especially for young people
- Vermont health care organizations help vaccinate migrant farmworkers
- Vermont reports six new Covid-19 deaths over the weekend
- All Vermont counties experiencing high virus transmission
- State to get $6.9 million for Vermont Community Health Centers infrastructure investments
- UVM Health Network becomes sole parent organization of OneCare Vermont
- Vermont ramps up vaccination efforts; ‘test to stay’ program to keep more kids in school
VIRGINIA
- Capital Digestive inks deal with 34-physician practice
- Sens. Warner, Kaine: Virginia gets $28M+ in federal funding for health care facilitiesf
- Virginia takes steps to address maternal health disparities
- Child in eastern Virginia dies from COVID-19, VDH reports
- Antibody treatment is rising in Virginia, raising hopes
- Hampton Roads health districts’ percent of positive COVID-19 cases continue to go down in most areas
- Virginia Doctor Pleads Guilty to $1.8 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
- Vaccine mandates don’t appear to be driving the current nursing shortage in Virginia
WASHINGTON
- As COVID-19 mandate looms, 68% of Washington state workers verified as vaccinated
- COVID-19 outbreak at Washington nursing home leaves 5 dead
- COVID hospital numbers looking better in Washington state
- Dual-CEO model ending for Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
- Seattle nurse describes burnout and abuse pushing many healthcare workers to their limits
- The skills hospital CFOs need to thrive, according to Providence CFO Greg Hoffman
- UW Medicine’s Valley Medical Center names CEO
- WA Dept of Health asks for retirees, volunteers to help fill hospital staffing shortage
- ‘We are on a razor’s edge’: Hospitals nearing crisis standards with staff burnout, abuse from patients
- Slammed by COVID, statewide system helps transfer rural Washington patients to available hospital beds
WEST VIRGINIA
- Princeton Community Hospital CEO focuses on path ahead
- West Virginia hospital metrics improve slightly
- West Virginia health centers receiving more than $18M in federal funds
- West Virginia Attorney General issues opinion distinguishing legal roles of local health boards, officers
- West Virginia counties with the lowest hospital bed capacity
- Mon Health holds ribbon cutting for new Fairmont, West Virginia, based medical offices
WISCONSIN
- Minnesota, Wisconsin health workers file lawsuit to stop vaccine mandates
- New cases up 80% in Wisconsin
- Wisconsin’s Covid Condition: Hospitals Increasingly Strained as Delta Cases Multiply
- Wisconsin health officials urge thousands who got the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to get a booster shot
- COVID-19 spread “critically high” in 21 Wisconsin counties
- Wisconsin reports 34 new COVID-19 deaths as daily vaccine rate continues to decline
- Wisconsin Assembly to vote on $100 million for mental health
- Wisconsin Health Information Organization: Identifies the financial impact of COVID-19
- Statewide hospital capacity problems as COVID-19 numbers rise
- Agnesian Healthcare Officially Now SSM Health
WYOMING
- Wyoming Vaccine Mandate Could Stretch Hospital Staffing, Officials Say
- Ten Wyoming hospitals down to one or fewer ICU beds; only 5 of 47 open at two biggest hospitals
- Wyoming Spending Over $1.5M to Convince 59 Percent Still Unvaccinated to Get COVID Shot
- Wyoming health system offers employees $600 to get vaccinated
- Wyoming guardsmen help St. John’s cope with COVID-19
- Active coronavirus cases in Wyoming fall below 4,000
