NATIONAL
- $2.6B tied to 28 orthopedic expansions across the country
- Amazon Expands Into Telehealth and Home Care
- Amazon Pharmacy partners with health plans for discount drugs
- ASC chain that developed 250+ centers gets private equity investment
- CMS updates COVID-19 testing rules for long-term care facilities
- Congress Passes Omnibus Spending Bill with 340B DSH Protection, Telehealth Provisions
- Conti Ransomware Group Continues to Threaten Healthcare
- Drug Shortages Worsening, Pharmacists Say
- Former CMS Chief Seema Verma Blasts Nursing Home Reform Proposals
- Health Policy Brief: Pandemic-Driven Health Policies To Address Social Needs And Health Equity
- Healthcare Scores Poorly for Practicing the Cyber Incident Response
- HIMSS22: Regulatory picture around healthcare data sharing still evolving
- HHS putting $35 million toward mental health support for children, young adults
- Hospitals and Health Systems Experiencing Severe Shortage of Pharmacy Technicians
- Housing for hospital workers called ‘crisis’
- How the PE Nursing Home Crackdown Could Affect the Home Health Industry
- New Bill Aims to Extend Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver
- New physicians want work-life balance in first job, survey says
- Nine out of Ten Healthcare Executives Say That Health Equity Initiatives Are a Top Business Priority
- Nursing home lobbyists request sit-down with Biden about reforms
- Organizations Urge CMS, HHS to Terminate New ACO REACH Model
- Over 611K Impacted in Most Recent String of Healthcare Data Breaches
- Pandemic speeded move from hospital-based care, Moody’s says
- Senate narrowly votes to get rid of COVID-19 national emergency
- Socially Determined unveils metric measuring impact of social connectedness on health outcomes, business performance
- The status of Public Health Emergency declarations
- What’s in the $1.5 Trillion Spending Bill for HHS Agencies?
- Why a federal ruling on the No Surprises Act is a victory for anesthesia providers
- Jeff Zients stepping down as White House covid coordinator; Biden names public health expert Ashish Jha as replacement
- As Nurses Quit, States Seek to Train More
- Fee for service becoming a ‘steady march to the bottom’; What’s next for ASCs?
- New Stark rule and Anti-Kickback Statute pave the way for physicians and value-based arrangements
- DOJ Settles First Case Under Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative
ALABAMA
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- Over 500,000 Patients Hit by Data Breaches at Healthcare Firms in Alabama, Colorado
- Alabama rural hospitals getting $30 million grant to bounce back as COVID-19 cases drop
- Alabama House passes General Fund Budget, includes increased mental health funding
- Health care providers for trans people debunk new Alabama legislation’s misinformation
- Two years into pandemic, long COVID and variants cloud endgame in Alabama
- These 3 Alabama cities are among America’s most obese
- $12 million drug lab, mental heath center coming to Dothan
- How the Hospice of West Alabama is changing lives for the better
- USA Health completes freestanding emergency department in west Mobile
ALASKA
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- SEARHC steps up fight against opioid epidemic in Juneau
- BA.2 subvariant of omicron gradually gaining ground in Alaska
- Becker: Time for ending Certificate of Need and let health care meet the needs of Alaskans
- Bill limiting COVID-19 vaccine requirements passes the Alaska Senate, but it faces slim odds in the House
- Permanant CEO hiring for Bartlett Hospital to be completed later in year
ARIZONA
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- CommonSpirit Health to launch online learning platform to bolster nursing retention
- Three Arizona hospitals on Newsweek’s list of the world’s best
- ASU, Mayo Clinic hosting hackathon event to accelerate innovation
- Nursing homes in Arizona are struggling to give booster shots to residents, staff
- Arizona lawmakers consider Medicaid expansion for postpartum care
- Arizona to resume disenrolling people from Medicaid program
- Gov. Ducey Proclaims March “Arizonans in Health Research Month” to Celebrate All of Us UArizona-Banner Milestone
ARKANSAS
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- Medical Center of South Arkansas names new CEO
- Arkansas hospital executives reflect on two years of covid
- Federal indictments handed down against healthcare providers in Arkansas
- CDC data shows Arkansas no longer ‘high’ COVID-19 community level
- How an Arkansas university is training students, researchers to use Epic
- David R. Fox Named CEO of Medical Center of South Arkansas
CALIFORNIA
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- 4 ways UC Davis Health is transforming digital health for its patients
- 3 health systems that outsourced RCM jobs to Optum
- Behavioral health clinic breaks ground in East Salinas
- California aims to limit health care costs with new office
- California governor proposes office to curb hospital, physician, payer costs
- California health bureaucracy prevails in nursing home dumping suit
- California physician, patient recruiter charged with $36M Medicare fraud
- L.A. Care penalized $55M for ‘deep-rooted, systemic failures’ endangering vulnerable members
- Senior living facility operator settles lawsuit with state
- Sutter Health defeats $411M class-action antitrust suit
- California confronts youth mental health crisis
- California Efforts to Address Behavioral Health and SDOH
- Community clinics struggle with worker turnover, staffing woes
- Nurses hold informational picket at Sutter Health facilities in California
COLORADO
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- Can physician assistants answer Colorado’s rural health problems? The question is dividing both parties
- Chief Medical Officer At Swedish Medical Center Shares What It Means To Be A Woman In Medicine
- Children going out of state for behavioral health care
- Colorado nursing homes face pandemic-worsened staffing crisis: “It’s a struggle on a daily basis”
- Personal info from 287,000 patients compromised in hack of Denver cardio practice
- Addressing Colorado’s last-place mental health finish
- Colorado board of health extends health worker vaccine mandate, with eye toward permanent decision
- Housing, behavioral health bills would put federal dollars to work
- Just 2 out of 82 Colorado hospitals among Healthgrades’ best in patient safety
- 1st day of zero COVID hospitalizations in Colorado
- Colorado health system’s email breach exposed 52,632 patients’ protected information
- Colorado has shortage of resources for kids’ behavioral health treatment
- A Colorado bill proposes medical facilities allow family visits, even during a pandemic
- Colorado Department Of Public Health To Phase Out Community COVID Vaccine Clinics
- Colorado ranks in top tier for public health preparedness by Trust for America’s Health national report
- Proposed legislation promotes physician assistants to alleviate pressure on health care personnel
CONNECTICUT
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- Nursing home background-check bill sees strong opposition
- State: Nursing home residents to be moved due to violations
- Yale researchers boost cells that fight cancer
- Hartford’s Dillon Stadium to be renamed Trinity Health Stadium under new naming rights agreement
- Yale researchers discover new gene fusions in lung, pancreatic cancers
- Can Connecticut lawmakers clamp down on ‘anti-competitive’ practices in health care?
- Deaths and safety concerns shutter a Wallingford nursing home
- Residents, loved ones and former staff comment on conditions inside state-shuttered Wallingford nursing home
- Bill requiring nursing homes to spend more on direct care won’t advance
- ‘Essential caregivers’ fight to never be barred from nursing homes again
- Yale orthopedic alum volunteers in Ukraine
- ‘They encouraged me to make a difference’: Connecticut Children’s nurse inspired by patients
- Two years after COVID hit CT, Lamont pivots gently to the future
- Lawmakers weigh “anti-competitive” practices in health care
DC
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- Fellow patient charged in slaying of man at Washington, DC, psych hospital
- How Children’s Hospitals Are Treating Mental Health
- D.C. grants religious exemption from COVID-19 vaccine mandate to Catholic nun after lawsuit
- DC Has Stopped Releasing Daily COVID Case Counts
- Bill Would Require Insurance to Cover Invitro Fertilization in DC
DELAWARE
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- 5 things to know about ChristianaCare’s ‘hospital at home’ program
- Delaware Still Has Thousands of Vaccine Doses Available
- First Delaware surgical hospital opening its doors to the community this May
- Beebe’s soon-to-open specialty hospital preview tours fully booked
- Public Health Division offers text message option for those who test positive for Covid
- Delaware Announces Additional $17M in COVID-19 Emergency Funding
- Delaware hospital’s $125M surgical hospital to employ 5 orthopedic surgeons
- Paid family and medical leave poised to become law in Delaware
FLORIDA
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- $4.4M Florida medical office building sold
- $12.35M Verdict, as Life Care Centers of America Found Largely Liable for Patient’s Bone-Deep Pressure Sore
- CHS Pays False Claims Act Settlement Involving EMR Security
- Florida lawmakers pass Medicaid plan
- HCA names CEO of 515-bed hospital
- Lee Health, Cleveland Clinic enter heart healthcare alliance
- Lee Health pays $12.7 million to resolve self-reported claims violations with federal government
- Lee Health to reinstate telehealth charges as COVID cases wane
- Florida health system updates timeline for 2 Wellness Villages
- Florida to update COVID-19 data less frequently than all other states
- 5 Florida health care bills that died, including a DeSantis priority
- Health care gets attention of Florida Legislature
- North Florida Medical Center utilizes a mobile unit
- Central Florida can expect more hospitals, services in 2022
- Health First finally to build its new mixed-use Wellness Village concepts that were delayed by the pandemic
GEORGIA
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- Georgia orthopedic ASC surpasses 10,000 procedures
- This nursing home facility is accused of Medicare fraud
- Vaccine mandate for Georgia medical workers now in full effect
- Legislation to overhaul health care in Georgia could be dead for the year
- Georgia health department stops weekly COVID-19 reporting for schools
- Georgia lawmakers promised to make mental health a priority. Did they?
- Health care ‘certificate of need’ system up for scrutiny in Legislature
- Georgia House passes Mental Health Bill
- VA eyes major changes in health care, Georgia stands to gain Gwinnett, Macon medical centers
- CON opponents win a round in latest legislative fight over health care regulations
- Multimillion-dollar grant aims to keep doctors in Georgia
- Medical marijuana program fix passes Georgia House and Senate
HAWAII
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- Hawaii’s mental health crisis growing as demand surges
- Hawaii to lift last U.S. state mask mandate by March 26
- $10 Million Gift Helps Address Kaua’i’s Physician Shortage
- Hawaii Community Health Centers To Split $23 Million In Federal Funding
- Hawaii health centers to receive more than $25M in federal aid
- $5M to fund ongoing care to underserved at four health centers in Maui County
- Pali Momi Medical Center names new chief operating officer
IDAHO
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- Idaho hospital locks down amid far-right call for protest
- Kootenai Health’s Epic EHR goes live
- Idaho report: Mental health professionals are in demand, program hopes to fill this need
- Idaho hospital adds 5-surgeon orthopedic practice
- COVID-19: Embracing change in pandemic, Idaho eases restrictions, health measures
- Bill advances to guarantee visitors for patients, long-term care residents
ILLINOIS
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- Bill would ‘protect’ family visits to nursing homes
- CommonSpirit’s plan to curb turnover among new nurses
- Hospital owner looks to exit Illinois with $92M deal
- Missouri and Illinois nursing homes rank last in hours of care residents receive
- Nurses rally for higher staffing requirement at hospitals
- OSF HealthCare to help commercialize wireless seizure sensor
- UnityPoint Health lays out plans for youth behavioral health center at Heddington Oaks
- Westlake Hospital owner to sell last 2 Chicago area hospitals for $92 million
- Illinois legislature considers mental health days for teachers
- Health leaders say expiration dates, lack of demand leads to vaccine waste
- Mercyhealth gets OK to close 70 surgical beds in Illinois
- Springfield health care workers ask state for funding accountability, higher wages
- Illinois State Ambulance Association says paramedics in desperate need of aid
INDIANA
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- Anthem unveils corporate rebrand as Elevance Health
- Goshen Hospital Celebrates Completion of Tower
- Governor signs bill meant to boost mental health
- Hospital owner looks to exit Illinois with $92M deal
- Hospital merger bill signed by Governor Holcomb
- Indy Airport Scores High on Health Rating
- IU Health, facing profit questions, gives med school $416M
- New Castle Clinic Gets New Name
- Study from IU shows health care wage growth has fallen behind other industries, despite pandemic burden
- Union Health Foundation Gives Gift to Ivy Tech
- Study Recommends Closing Fort Wayne VA Hospital
- WGU Launches Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Degree
IOWA
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- Fort Dodge nursing home joins list of the nation’s worst care facilities
- Dementia care needs will far surpass physician, caregiver numbers in Iowa
- Grinnell Mutual partners with UnityPoint Health at Work to open on-site clinic
- MercyOne launches Circle+ wellness platform
- COVID-19 hospitalizations in Iowa drop for eighth week; new cases also down
- Capitol Notebook: Iowa House seeks to increase number of mental health practitioners
KANSAS
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- Capital Region Medical Center and Labette Health Announce Potential PHI Breaches
- Kansas health system notifies patients of October cyberattack
- Labette Health, Capital Region Medical Center Confirm Data Breaches
- Kansans strongly support state legislation granting full practice authority to nurse practitioners
- KS Patients Support Expanded Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice
- Kansas hospital reports 0 COVID patients for first time in 2 years
- COVID numbers continue to trend downward in Kansas
- ‘Bring back measles.’ Kansas legislators debate slew of COVID-inspired attacks on public health laws
- Kansas health system extends its Meditech EHR to nearby hospital
KENTUCKY
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- Four local specialty clinics merge under one name
- Lawmakers’ push to end COVID-19 emergency early will cost Kentucky millions in federal aid
- Senate bill would establish a behavioral health pilot program for some offenders
- Downtown cosmetic surgery center moving to East End location
- Louisville-based Nazareth Home adds to its C-suite
- Gov. Beshear vetoes bill to end COVID state of emergency
- CEO retiring from Kentucky hospital
- Kentucky House Bill to bring new healthcare teaching center to Owensboro
- KMA takes stand against Girdler-sponsored immunization bill
- St. Louis-based podiatry practice management group expands in Kentucky
LOUISIANA
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- Louisiana Governor: COVID-19 emergency declaration ending
- Allen Parish hospital plans $40M expansion project
- Dr. James Andrews, Ochsner Health to create sports medicine institute: 9 details
- Louisiana ASC 1st in region to use minimally invasive lumbar fusion device
- LHC Group Still Sees Plenty of Upside to Joint Venture Strategy
- ‘Cautiously optimistic,’ City health, hospital leaders reflect on ‘good’ Covid numbers following Mardi Gras
- DA refuses charge against man accused in attack of Ochsner ICU nurse
MAINE
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- MaineHealth to enter into partnership with Texas health company
- MaineHealth CEO shares vision for Maine health care
- Sen. King stresses importance of federal funding in Maine’s COVID-19 fight
- COVID-19 hospitalizations tick up in Maine but are still low
- Transgender woman, 79, can claim Maine nursing home discriminated against her
- VA recommends sweeping changes for medical facilities, including in Maine
- Gov. Mills proposes $3.5M to keep Maine Veterans’ Homes open
- MaineHealth, agilon health agree to form partnership supporting primary care for Medicare Advantage patients
MARYLAND
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- Maryland reports lowest covid case rates nationwide
- Feds say test-to-treat program underway in Maryland, but it’s unclear which pharmacies have it
- Emergent BioSolutions appoints new executives to leadership team
- Rockville biotech continues buying spree with yet another acquisition
- CareFirst hires former FBI official as next diversity, equity and inclusion director
MASSACHUSETTS
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- $14.6M settlement awarded in overlapping surgery case
- UMass Memorial faces employee wage lawsuit from Kronos attack
- COVID-19 deaths in Massachusetts to drop under new counting method
- Post-acute care facilities in MA disproportionately reject referred patients with opioid use disorder
- Mass General Brigham seeks more time to submit a plan to lower costs
- Mass General Brigham wants more time to file a spending plan
- Dana-Farber names chief innovation officer
- UMass Chan researchers identify toxin linked to ALS
- Mass. COVID deaths were overcounted, DPH reports
- Beth Israel Lahey Health plans to acquire NH hospital
- Baker proposes $1.4B funding for behavioral health care
- Fallon sent 24K winter health care packages
- UMass Chan looking to fill 600 positions
- Gov. Baker’s health care bill prioritizes primary, mental health care
- Group seeks probe of East Boston health center over patient care
- 5 biotech startups selected for new MassBio accelerator
- SALMON expanding into home health care
- Gov. Baker tries again to mandate greater behavioral health care spending
MICHIGAN
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- Dickinson’s Marshfield Medical era begins
- Michigan law enforcement participates in mental health crisis training
- Rural Michigan embraces telemedicine
- Michigan hospital parts ways with president
- Michigan hospital names new chief nursing officer
- ‘Beloved’ Michigan Health System CEO and Husband Killed in Florida Plane Crash
- Spectrum Health, MSU partner to identify current and future COVID-19 variants
- An inauspicious anniversary; Michigan doctors reflect on two pandemic years
- More than a dozen Michigan hospitals receive awards from Economic Alliance for Michigan
- Advocates press Michigan for $25M to open 100 school health centers
- Two Years Into COVID-19: How Northwest Michigan Health Services Stepped Up
- Health system’s employee pitch competition yields new plan for prescription renewals
- Spectrum Health United Hospital honored with top patient safety award
- MyMichigan Health names new CEO
MINNESOTA
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- Mayo Clinic, Kaiser’s Care at Home Coalition urges lawmakers to extend waivers
- Children’s Minnesota promotes equity chief to senior vice president role
- ASU, Mayo Clinic hosting hackathon event to accelerate innovation
- Essentia Health to open pharmacy
- Gov. Walz unveils revised Minnesota state budget
- COVID-19 aid buoyed Minnesota hospitals, but staffing crisis looms
- Kids suffering mental health crisis would have place to go under new proposal
- How a Not-So-New Concept Buoyed Mayo, Advocate Aurora Amid a Crisis
MISSISSIPPI
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- Mississippi advances bill against COVID vaccine mandates
- Top Mississippi health official resigning at end of July
- COVID-19 in Mississippi: Cases down dramatically
- Potential medical marijuana patients hopeful as program takes shape in Mississippi
- Medicaid Expansion In Mississippi Closes The Health Insurance Gap
- Mississippi health care providers refocus on obesity and diabetes
- Delta Health growing doctors who want to stay and work in the Mississippi Delta
- USA TODAY’s Women of the Year: Dr. Ailean Stingley served in public health over 30 years
MISSOURI
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- 3 health systems that outsourced RCM jobs to Optum
- Beyond the List: Where urgent cares are located in St. Louis and how they’re staffed
- Capital Region Medical Center and Labette Health Announce Potential PHI Breaches
- Labette Health, Capital Region Medical Center Confirm Data Breaches
- Missouri and Illinois nursing homes rank last in hours of care residents receive
- Missouri hospital notifies patients of December cyberattack
- Report says Missouri needs to boost its level of workers caring for the elderly
- Missouri orthopedic group sees jump in patients using digital care platform
- Hospital Populations Do Not Reflect Communities, Imperil Health Equity
- Missouri Tried to Fix Its Doctor Shortage. Now the Fix May Need Fixing.
- $8.3M medical office building planned in Missouri
- Hospital leaders, community members reflect on 2nd anniversary of COVID-19 pandemic
- Community spread primary cause of COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care facilities
- St. Louis-based podiatry practice management group expands in Kentucky
- Missouri must add thousands of senior care workers, new report says
- Missouri records 566 new COVID-19 cases, 8 additional virus deaths
- St. Louis urgent care operator to merge with Nashville provider
- Where urgent cares are located in St. Louis and how they’re staffed
MONTANA
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- Logan Health sued after data breach exposed 174,761 patients’ health information
- Montana State Hospital spending is $7 million over budget
- Vacancies hamper state hospital workforce
- Fort Harrison VA receives 5-star patient experience
- Montana State Hospital gets an extension to fix problems tied to deaths
NEBRASKA
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- Nebraska Medicine returning to normal operating status Monday
- Report calls for replacing Omaha VA Hospital with new building
- Bryan Health remembers those lost due to COVID-19
- Local COVID-19 situation continues to improve, but risk dial stays in low-yellow
- Influenza cases increasing throughout Nebraska
- Hansen recognized as a top rural hospital CEO
- Nebraska long-term care facility announces closure
NEVADA
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- Las Vegas hospital memo about mandating overtime sparks pushback from nurses
- Renown Health fires CEO
- UMC pushes back start date of mandatory shifts, requires nurses to work an extra 12 hours per week
- Valley Health to break ground on new hospital in west Henderson
- Nevada health officials ease COVID-19 reporting amid decline in cases
- Renown Health Ousts CEO-President After Probe of ‘Concerns’
- Las Vegas nurses: Don’t blame us for staffing shortages
- Top-rated hospitals for patient experience: Nevada
- Nevada shifts COVID-19 response to hospitals, most vulnerable people
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- Hospital gets $2 million gift, largest ever
- NH Health Organizations Are Trying New Strategies To Reach Those Who Are Hesitant To Vaccinate
- New Hampshire system looks to join Beth Israel Lahey Health
- Beth Israel Lahey Health plans to acquire NH hospital
- New Hampshire hospital chief administrator leaving
- Walgreens, VillageMD to open practices in New Hampshire
- Pharmacy and health organizations see problems with ‘Test to Treat’ program
- New Hampshire records more than 300,000 COVID-19 cases during pandemic
- 7 more COVID-19 deaths announced in New Hampshire as cases fall
NEW JERSEY
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- Advocates can access Woodland nursing home to investigate abuse, NJ judge rules
- Judge grants disability advocates access to N.J. nursing home residents to investigate abuse, neglect
- Virtua CEO Dennis Pullin on how Lourdes deal fueled health system’s growth in South Jersey
- Why is this N.J. nursing home ranked so poorly? Look at the troubling numbers.
- New Jersey Ranked Best State in US for Positive Mental Health
- New COVID variant spreads quickly in NJ. Here’s what you need to know about BA.2
- New Jersey Hospital Association donates 40,000 doses of medicine for Ukraine
- Amid pandemic, N.J.’s 2022 Top Hospitals continue to set the standard in care
- New Jersey hospital executive, former Pennsylvania congressman among VA health, review commission appointments
- U.S. Justice Dept. needs to investigate troubled N.J. nursing home, says U.S. Sen. Grassley
NEW MEXICO
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- Albuquerque hospitals are operating at high capacity, but it’s not because of COVID-19
- Telehealth’s importance grows amid coronavirus pandemic
- Two years after the start of the pandemic, Albuquerque hospitals are still operating at high capacity
- New Mexico hospital staff want management ousted as employees exit
- Experts: New Mexico’s health care workforce problem is here to stay
- 2 years of COVID-19: New Mexico health officials provide update on pandemic
- N.M. Health Department relaxing intensity of virus message as cases decline
- Albuquerque hospitals are operating at high capacity, but it’s not because of COVID-19
- VA proposal to close rural health clinics spurs opposition
NEW YORK
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- 3 health systems that outsourced RCM jobs to Optum
- At Niagara Falls nursing home, troops are ‘doing things we never thought the National Guard would do’
- Harckham Introduces the Ensuring Access to Behavioral Health Act
- More answers sought after audit shows New York undercounted COVID-19 nursing home deaths
- State health department didn’t report thousands of nursing home deaths, audit confirms
- WCCHS: Former board members pose conflict of interest, residency questions
- New York hospitals with a 5-star patient experience rating
- NewYork-Presbyterian to repurpose $83.5M property into outpatient campus
- Ellis Medicine pauses overnight emergent care services at medical center over staffing
- New York hospital taps former WellSpan physician as chief medical officer
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to build new pavilion
- Brooks-TLC Hospital workers approve deal with 10% wage boost
- New York health department under Cuomo administration undercounted nursing home deaths by about 4,100, audit shows
- Athenex reducing workforce, shifting research focus in effort to boost profitability
- Mercy Flight makes $8.5M investment in new aircraft
- Montefiore posts $316.9M net loss, launches $500M cost savings plan
- With a new Buffalo VA years away, $200 million worth of projects moves ahead
- Despite financial struggles, Catholic Health gets investors for Lockport hospital bonds
- Among $1.5B in Veterans Admin proposals: Close and replace Albany Stratton hospital
NORTH CAROLINA
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- ASC chain that developed 250+ centers gets private equity investment
- Atrium Health breaks ground on new radiation therapy facility
- Can health care innovation turn the tide for the Triad?
- North Carolina lawmakers hear support for Medicaid expansion
- CEO leaves HCA hospital in North Carolina
- Gov. Cooper to discuss ‘next phase’ of COVID-19 in NC as cases, hospitalizations drop
- WNC part of ‘groundbreaking’ pilot addressing social, environmental health determinants
- Attorney general had ‘great concerns’ about Mission Health-HCA deal, internal document reveals
- NC will soon have its first addiction psychiatry training program
NORTH DAKOTA
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- Demolition on three State Hospital buildings priced at $3.5 million
- Health officials reflect on two year mark of COVID-19 pandemic
- New COVID-19 cases at an 8-month low in North Dakota; 3 deaths reported over weekend
- North Dakota insurance commissioner to scrutinize Sanford Health Plan
- North Dakota shifting to endemic status, but vaccinations are still going to be available in Williams County
OHIO
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- Lee Health, Cleveland Clinic enter heart healthcare alliance
- New healthcare type settles into Dayton region
- Ohio hospitals could not stop family visitation under proposed legislation
- Five takeaways for consumers and patients from Ohio’s consolidated health-care system
- Dial 988: Ohio prepares for new mental health hotline
- Ohio State’s new hospital is biggest building project in OSU history, but is it needed?
- As Ohio hospital systems merge, what does that mean for patients?
- Ohio has a severe shortage of behavioral health workers
- Ohio hospital COO promoted to CEO
- Ohio invests $26 million in school health centers
- Ohio National Guard’s hospital mission cost tens of millions
- Hospitals could not stop family visitation under legislation passed by Ohio House
- VA proposes construction of new Akron health center to consolidate veteran healthcare services
- 6 things to know about opening this month of the $1 billion Cleveland Clinic London Hospital
- Ohio hospital names chief medical officer
- Report: Workforce shortages a concern as Alzheimer’s disease projected to grow in Ohio
- Ohio Department of Health to stop providing daily COVID-19 reports
- Zoll, Ohio healthcare system make portal that lets providers track patients’ progress
- Ohio hospital plans $45M surgical center
OKLAHOMA
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- CHS to cut ties with Oklahoma hospital
- Civica, co-founded by SSM Health, plans to make affordable insulin
- SSM Health Oklahoma takes over operations of AllianceHealth Seminole
- Man charged in shooting of Oklahoma hospital employee
- Lawmakers approve $106 million in federal funds to expand Oklahoma nursing, water projects
- ‘We’re in this together’: Oklahoma City hospital staff marks two years of COVID pandemic
OREGON
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- $536,533 Investment: Mental health care, substance use disorder treatment funding
- Doctors warn of behavioral health crisis in emergency rooms
- Omicron may be over, but Covid is here to stay, OHSU forecaster says
- The University of Oregon plans to use the Portland property to house its new Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health
- New hospital CEO brings some slices of KC to Oregon
- Hundreds of Oregon nurses expected to picket in Southwest Portland
- Oregon Man Sues for $43.5M Over Brain Surgery Paralysis
- OHA looks to distribute surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses before it’s too late
- Oregon Guard winds down hospital support mission
- Oregon Legislature paves way to increased access to primary and behavioral health care
- Oregon Nurses Association pickets outside Providence St. Vincent
- Oregon senior living company first to earn health, wellness standards on special scorecard
PENNSYLVANIA
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- Behavioral Health Orgs: $12 Wage a Challenge without Funding Boost
- Grand View Radiology pledges $100K to hospital expansion
- Jefferson Health President Dr. Bruce Meyer on $762M Specialty Care Pavilion, Einstein merger
- Lankenau Medical Center president retiring after 12 years at the helm
- Penn Medicine planning North Wales outpatient center
- What will health care will look like in 10 years? Philadelphia-area hospital leaders make their predictions
- Pennsylvania’s former Health Secretary named one of USA Today’s ‘Women of the Year’
- Pennsylvania health systems may be compelled to unionize by Medicaid contracts
- Pennsylvania hospital nurses staging 5-day strike
- Pennsylvania embracing innovative models of care that don’t always include a doctor on site
- Geisinger medical school granted $30 million for medical marijuana research
RHODE ISLAND
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- Rhode Island’s vaccine rule for health care workers expires
- ‘There’s virtually a job for anyone’: Lifespan CEO aims to fill 2,400 jobs
- RI Considers Loosening Health Care COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
- With 2,300 openings, Lifespan turns to employees for help with recruitment
- Women & Infants OB-GYN to lead $6.9M study on urinary incontinence treatments
- Study co-authored by URI professor may link faulty brain drainage systems to Alzheimer’s
- South County Health opens new wellness center in Warwick
- CVS fires several employees, executives following sexual harassment investigation
- NIH provides $16M grant to Alzheimer’s research group led by Brown University professor
SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Hospital-at-Home programs may help some patients, but face roadblocks in SC
- SC Senate begins debate on bill to split up health agency
- South Carolina pharmacy is state’s hot spot for outpatient COVID-19 treatments
- VA recommends expanding South Carolina hospital
- South Carolina health department cutting COVID case reporting, testing sites
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
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- Ascension Saint Thomas Announced as Official Healthcare Partner of Nashville Yards, Reveals Name of New Downtown Plaza/Green Space
- Ascension Saint Thomas to open clinic inside Nashville Yards development
- Executive pay at HCA: 5 things to know
- HCA Healthcare hospital buys Lake County land
- How HCA Healthcare’s ‘Conservative’ Covid Strategy Reaped Dividends
- St. Louis urgent care operator to merge with Nashville provider
- Tennessee Children’s hospital hit by IT security issue
- East Tennessee Children’s Hospital Experiencing Security Issue
- Community Health Navigators work to raise vaccination rates in high-risk communities
- Federal COVID-19 test-to-treat program arrives in some East Tennessee grocery stores
- Dr. Donald Pinkel, 1st medical director of St. Jude Children’s, dies at 95
TEXAS
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- AHA, FAH urge CMS to deny physician-owned hospital expansion
- HHSC launches $23.2 million substance use prevention campaign effort
- New HHSC substance use disorder awareness campaign will target the most at-risk Texans
- U of Texas Medical Branch renames med school to honor $1B lifetime donor
- Texas hospital taps new COO
- Where ASC chains’ growth is headed
- Texas judge blocks investigations of trans youth parents
- Transgender Care on Hold at Largest Children’s Hospital
- Texas Health Resources taps 2 leaders to oversee operations, consumer strategy
- Executive pay at CHS, Tenet and HCA: 8 things to know
- Miao, Irvine to Lead Texas Health Resources’ Operations, Consumer Strategy
- New initiative aims to boost regional public health equity and preparedness
- UT Health doctor lands business grants to develop new cancer-fighting drugs
- Memorial Hermann, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas reach new agreement to restore in-network access
UTAH
VERMONT
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- UVM Health Network investing $2.8M in apartments for hospital staff
- U of Vermont Medical Center seeks to build staff housing
- Vermont hospitals take a DIY approach to the housing crisis
- Workers protest staff shortages, patient safety issues at UVM Health’s 2nd-largest hospital
- Vermont’s largest hospital system and a massive insurance company are deadlocked. Thousands of patients are caught in the middle
- Former Green Mountain Care Board chair Anya Rader Wallack to head OneCare board
- Why some nurses face months in ‘licensing limbo’
- Vermont relaxes Covid-19 masking and isolation guidance
- VDH: COVID cases more than double to 216, one more death
VIRGINIA
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- UVA Health orthopedic supercenter becomes 1 of 4 on East Coast
- Virginia county sues state behavioral health system for failing to admit psychiatric patient
- Virginia hospital opens $6.8M joint venture orthopedic ASC
- Virginia ranks among states best prepared for public health emergencies
- Opioid deaths declared a public health crisis in Richmond
- VCU Health makes interim CFO permanent
- Virginia teens press General Assembly for action on mental health
- New bike share station likely coming to Virginia Hospital Center expansion
WASHINGTON
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- Amazon hires Providence hospital executive for health role
- Gov. Inslee to have ‘further discussions’ about vaccine mandate for state employees
- Hospital staff shortages, health equity, pandemic response among issues tackled by WA legislators
- Washington health leaders look to prepare for possible next wave in COVID-19 pandemic
- Two years later, Providence staffers reflect as the ‘human tragedy’ of a pandemic leaves its mark
- Washington eye chain opens 8th location
- Washington hospital’s interim CEO defends record amid scrutiny
- How omicron fueled an unprecedented wave of breakthrough infections in WA
WEST VIRGINIA
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- West Virginia Health Department Split Heads to Governor
- W.Va. hospitals will try to catch up on elective surgeries as COVID declines
- Hospital deployments end for W.Va. National Guard
- Grant Memorial Hospital preparing to launch telemedicine cancer care
- Hospital leader wants PEIA reimbursement rate issue on special session agenda
- CDC data: COVID-19 decline taking longer in North Central West Virginia
- Fairmont doctor named medical director of West Virginia DHHR’s OEMS
- Mountain Health Network continues growth despite pandemic
WISCONSIN
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- Wisconsin Hospital Association: ‘The nursing shortage has arrived’
- ‘Their mental health may be destroyed:’ 2 years into pandemic, state’s health care workers are burned out
- As pandemic winds down, hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites will lose Medicaid coverage
- Naturopathic doctors can now be licensed in Wisconsin
- Health care providers support bill to protect workers from violent threats
WYOMING
