NATIONAL
- Hospitals are fed up with drug companies, so they’re starting their own
- Here’s why Amazon and Apple are betting on medical clinics
- Drug company involving senior living parent companies now has name, CEO, financing, Rx targets
- National study finds hospital CEO compensation rates outpacing clinical employees
- Amazon, Google, Microsoft to Make Waves in Health IT Usability
- 4 more hospitals join Apple health records project
- Here are the biggest hospital construction projects that kicked off in August
- Pharmaceutical industry takes aim at hospital drug markups in new study
- 7 healthcare leaders share the industry problem they would eliminate overnight
- Hospitals band together to make drugs to combat shortages and high prices
- A modular ‘hospital room in a box’ could dramatically slash the cost of building hospitals
- Hospital stakeholders file 340B suit against HHS
- Senate votes to ban pharmacy gag clauses
- HHS sued over delay in drug pricing transparency regulations
- AHA launches center for health innovation
- Azar: Advancing value-based agenda ‘is going to mean mandatory models’
- AMGA pens letter against coding changes in CMS’ proposed physician payment rule
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- MidState at 20 — Meriden couple’s $1m gift boosted hospital fundraising
- Suit says state prescription plan fraud cost $11M
- Connecticut receives $12.2M grant to develop statewide health information exchange
- CT files lawsuit after losing nearly $11M in ‘kickback pyramid scheme’
- Trinity unites doc groups under one name
- Hartford HealthCare pursues multiple strategies to find, retain robust workforce pool
- Rosow steers Farmington medtech startup Diameter Health into growth mode
MAINE
- How Maine Medical Center leveraged data to drive healthier margins
- New St. Mary’s president focused on patients, community and collaboration
- Topsham health care facility opens
- LincolnHealth explains MaineHealth merger
- Maine is facing a nursing shortage. UMaine system unveils its plan to help.
- Central Maine Healthcare hopes Topsham Care Center can lower patient costs
- CMH’s Maine Urgent Care will open Monday in Topsham
MASSACHUSETTS
- Study: Nurse question would cost $35 to $47M
- Mount Auburn Hospital names new executive vice president and chief medical officer
- Massachusetts ICU nurse staffing regulations did not improve patient mortality and complications
- Why Boston Children’s reimagined its food court
- Massachusetts union, hospitals pour money into nurse staffing ballot question: 7 things to know
- Nurses in TV ads argue pros, cons of mandated staffing ratios in Massachusetts hospitals
- Dana-Farber’s operating income bounces back
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- New Hampshire health system rates well compared to rest of U.S., but cost concerns remain
- NH Considers new 100-bed forensic psychiatric hospital
- CMC, ClearChoiceMD team up in urgent care venture
NEW YORK
- Why NYU’s tuition-free medical school offer may not live up to its hype
- White Plains Hospital names CIO
- Buyer of Lee County hospital says N.Y. judgments won’t delay reopening
- Lawrence Health System looking to western NY for affiliation
- HealthNow exec named interim leader at BlueShield of Northeastern New York
- Northwell Health nurses rally in NYC over staffing, wages, paid leave
- New York nonprofit healthcare organization hit with $200K HIPAA fine
- Crystal Run, ORMC settle suit over OB-GYN
- Memorial Sloan Kettering CMO failed to disclose conflicts of interest in major research journals
RHODE ISLAND
- Settlement Proposed for Hospital Pensions Lawsuit
- State Orders Health Care Company to Maintain Closed Hospital
- HopeHealth expands leadership team to support growth
- New England Medical Innovation Center opens in Providence
VERMONT
- New CEO appointed to North Country Hospital
- Vermont board won’t weigh in on CEO compensation after exec pay freeze urged
- Vermont files suit: `We’re going to war with Big Pharma’
- 1-year pay freeze urged for Vermont hospitals execs making more than $500K
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Kaiser Permanente adding another local medical center, this one in Prince George’s
- Spotlight on high-reliability international transfer centers
MARYLAND
- In the C-Suite: LifeBridge’s Brian White calls for health care innovation
- Kaiser to open medical center in Maryland
- Baltimore Hospital Going Green To Help Local Environment And Their Patients
- Maryland Proton Treatment Center raises $277M in bond deal to stabilize finances
- With new program, Maryland’s ACA health insurers now seek decrease to premiums
- Baltimore Health Commissioner Leana Wen leaving to lead Planned Parenthood
NEW JERSEY
- New Jersey’s Out-of-Network Healthcare Billing Law Goes Into Effect
- Would you pay a monthly fee for unlimited primary care visits? R-Health is betting you would
- New Jersey would have to offer affordable payment plans- proposed law
- New Jersey Health Information Network Adds Camden Coalition HIE
- NJ Hospital Association Launches Big Data Analytics Center
- Hospital association aims to use big data to spot bigger trends
- Smart Hospital Challenge seeks to improve hospital ops
PENNSYLVANIA
- Oak Street Health expands into Philadelphia market with acquisition
- Amazon-backed health venture hires Philly exec as No. 2
- Center City health-tech startup raises $1.2M to fuel growth
- Disinterested clerks, yawning doctor, contribute to $1M in Geisinger refunds
- Doylestown Health Gets $1M Grant For New Vascular Care Center
- Nashville company acquires Lehigh Valley anesthesia group
- Penn Medicine extends global reach to Vietnam
VIRGINIA
- Buyer of Lee County hospital says N.Y. judgments won’t delay reopening
- Evolent Health to acquire specialty care company for $217M
WEST VIRGINIA
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- For University of Iowa Children’s Hospital debt, contractor eyes Pollock’s ‘Mural’
- Judge allows U of Iowa to defer debt payment to children’s hospital contractor until appeal is settled
KANSAS
- Tara Ramlochan appointed Artesian Valley Health System CEO
- Artesian Valley Health System appoints permanent CEO
- Stormont Vail adds providers, plans to add clinic space
- KU Hospital gets record $66 million gift to expand blood cancer treatment
- Proposed nurses strike at Research and Menorah could postpone some surgeries
- U of Kansas Health gets record-breaking $66M gift
MINNESOTA
- Mayo Clinic joins nonprofit consortium that makes generic drugs
- West-central Minn. hospital is state’s first critical care facility to invest in robotic surgery
- Children’s Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota bolsters health of children with on-site attorney
- Mayo Clinic plans $800M expansion in Arizona, Florida
- Allina Health to launch mobile primary care clinics
MISSOURI
- MU Health Care’s revenue hits $1 billion
- Landmark hospital to ask city for approval on new facility
- Missouri Hospital Association Anticipates Primary Care Physician Shortage In Rural Missouri
- Boone Hospital expects decision in 6 months
- MU Health CEO says talks with SSM Health “progressing nicely”
- SSM partners in new not-for-profit generic drug company
- 400% price hike for generic drug a ‘moral requirement,’ Missouri pharma CEO says
- Lee’s Summit Medical Center names new CEO
- Proposed nurses strike at Research and Menorah could postpone some surgeries
- Louis health monitoring startup raises $4 million
NEBRASKA
- Richmond Named President and CEO for Methodist Fremont Health
- Local hospital is “Golden” for stroke patients
- Catasys Expands OnTrak-A Solution to Iowa and Nebraska with Leading National Health Plan
- Nebraska’s top court: Voters to decide on expanding Medicaid
- Nebraska nonprofits receive BCBS grants
SOUTH DAKOTA
- South Dakota hospital no longer in ‘immediate jeopardy,’ but problems persist
- South Dakota hospital gets 2 months to address problems
- Regional Health names new president & CEO
- Judge: Avera can pursue payment for unpaid medical bills
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Geneseo hospital plans for $1.3 million renovation
- Developers want to return healthcare services to vacant Illinois hospital site
- Illinois hospital closes
- Mercyhealth to name new Rockford hospital after CEO
- Aurora’s old Copley Hospital could become a medical center again
- Advocate Aurora’s operating income down 20%, in part due to Epic EHR implementation
INDIANA
- Community Healthcare System’s parent taps new CIO
- Community Health Network Names VEI President
- New app helps Indiana paramedics communicate with the ER
- NorthShore Health Centers Breaks Ground on New Facility in Portage
- Franciscan Health plans new orthopedics specialty hospital in Carmel
KENTUCKY
- Skilled Nursing Operator Signature Almost Didn’t Survive Malpractice Suits, CEO Says
- Norton Healthcare ventures into health clinics
- Baptist Health names chief strategy officer
- Kentucky names new Medicaid commissioner
- Kentucky ASC utilizing Ngenuity 3D Visualization system
- Future of midwife role at Baptist Health Madisonville to be decided
- Louis company looks to build assisted-living facility near hospital
- Humana’s Broussard to sell millions in company stock
MICHIGAN
- Court Appoints Receiver for 33 Atrium Health and Senior Living Properties
- Michigan ACOs reap profits in savings program
- Henry Ford Health System Appoints New CEO Of Henry Ford Hospital
- MI program to help put more health care professionals in underserved communities receives funding
- Patients Protest In Hopes Of Helping Doctor Regain Position At Munson Healthcare Grayling Hospital
- Beaumont Health opening 2 outpatient campuses with surgery centers
- Joseph Cacchione named Ascension Michigan CEO
- Ann Arbor native leaving Johns Hopkins to be CEO at Henry Ford Hospital
- Former McLaren Central Michigan CNO obtains new position
- Nurses file lawsuit against U-M health system in midst of strike vote
- Michigan Medicine nurses file federal lawsuit as potential strike looms
OHIO
- Beavercreek hospital starts work on five-story tower
- Controversial bill could increase medical care in Ohio
- Ohio nurses, Steward Health Care reach tentative deal
- More hospital beds are staying empty in the region. Here’s why.
- Ohio State Ross Heart Hospital hits transplant milestone: 500 beating hearts
- Northside nurses reach tentative agreement with Steward Health Care
- First look: OhioHealth to open wellness center for stroke, neurological rehabilitation in 2019
- Business roundup: Firelands Health System names new president-CEO
- Lakewood plans on selling former hospital property equipment for $455,000
- What could Massillon’s Affinity hospital look like under new operator Paramount Matrix?
- Two millennials climb into driver’s seat for Massillon’s hospital revival
- Northside nurses say they are fighting to keep hospital open
- Catholic health network gets 22 percent stake in Premier
- Hospital closes psychiatric unit after regulation changes
- BGSU and Mercy Health announce partnership
- Mercy Health makes another leadership change
- How this Cincinnati trauma center responded to city’s worst mass shooting since 2013
- Shuttered Ohio hospital considering surprise purchase offer
WISCONSIN
- Ascension Wisconsin to expand care in Shorewood community
- Court Appoints Receiver for 33 Atrium Health and Senior Living Properties
- Froedtert to build 2nd Wisconsin neighborhood hospital
- Ascension Wisconsin to open clinic at former Sendik’s in Shorewood
- Froedtert & the Medical College plan neighborhood hospital in Oak Creek
- Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Named Top 20 Most Innovative
- Wisconsin health care company joins new generic drug manufacturing coalition
- Wisconsin’s Atrium senior living facilities ordered into receivership
- Biomanufacturing initiative launched in partnership with UW-Madison
- Ribbon-cutting ceremony held for Marshfield Medical Center-Eau Claire Campus
- Cormier named new Bellin Health Oconto Hospital CEO
- Advocate Aurora’s operating income down 20%, in part due to Epic EHR implementation
- Menomonee Falls health center sold for $68.9 million
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- Lincoln, Huntsville health systems enter strategic affiliation
- Medical Center Barbour’s new CEO is Justin Harris
- Birmingham tech platform partnering with national health agency
- NICU volunteer donates $1M to Alabama hospital
FLORIDA
- People on the move: Nursing Consortium of South Florida announces new president
- Orlando Health hit with $100M defamation suit by fired physician
- Uninsured and Indigent Patients Cost Jackson Memorial Hospital $884 Million a Year
- Proposed hospital projects go to state regulators
- North Florida Regional plans $110M in upgrades
- Florida Hospital Celebration opening infusion center
- Mayo Clinic plans $800M expansion in Arizona, Florida
- Jonathan R. Turton Named CEO of Broward Health Medical Center
- Future hospital site: Orlando Health to develop 570,000-square-foot complex near Medical City
- Orlando Health hit with $100M defamation suit by fired physician
- One year after Irma, this Keys hospital is open but awaits a $40 million rebuild
- Florida Hospital to break ground on $15.6M Waterford Lakes freestanding ER
- Jackson Health System faces hearing on opening Doral hospital
- LRMC debuts sleek new emergency department
- Baptist Health South Florida has a new CFO
GEORGIA
- Here are DeKalb Medical’s new hospital names after Emory merger
- Georgia physician allegedly submitted 4,500 false claims for unnecessary lead poisoning treatments
- Colquitt Regional Medical Center receives over $2 million in various donations
- Clover Health to expand in Savannah
- The most innovative children’s hospital is right here in metro Atlanta
- Henry County hospital raises $200K for emergency dept.
- Iora Health to open 10 primary care clinics
- Here’s why CMO Dr. Adedapo Odetoyinbo says his hospital’s CEO posts her cellphone number in each patient room
MISSISSIPPI
- Corinth Hospital looks to retain Level III trauma center designation
- ‘Obamacare’ insurance rates will stay level in Mississippi
NORTH CAROLINA
- Rural North Carolina hospital uses Walmart clinic to ease pressure on ED
- We have the Mission Health-HCA contract. Here’s what we know about the $1.5B deal.
- New Broughton Hospital to be turned over next month
- How hospitals, health organizations are preparing for Hurricane Florence
- Erlanger expands in North Carolina
- UNC Health Care divests 351-bed hospital
- Duke Health expands care in Wake Forest, Durham communities
- Health care offers more jobs this month in Raleigh, but internet tech rates higher among employees
- Eastern Hospitals Not Taking Any Chances with Florence
- A look inside Novant Health’s $80M Mint Hill Medical Center
- Atrium Health names new head of acute care surgery
- Durham health providers plead guilty in Medicaid scheme
SOUTH CAROLINA
- How hospitals, health organizations are preparing for Hurricane Florence
- Lowcountry hospitals prepare for impacts from Hurricane Florence
- Dorchester County lawsuit says campaign of misinformation led to costly opioid abuse
- Upstate hospitals taking medical evacuees
- Cancer doctor resigns over failure to disclose pharma ties
TENNESSEE
- HCA CEO Johnson to retire, company lays out succession plan
- HCA’s Milton Johnson to retire, next CEO revealed
- Lincoln, Huntsville health systems enter strategic affiliation
- Nashville’s General Hospital Scolded For Loose Use Of Credit Cards
- Janelle Reilly Named Market Chief Executive Officer For CHI Memorial
- Tennessee hospital wants to privatize $75M in debt
- Erlanger expands in North Carolina
- New cancer care company lands $200M from former Emdeon owner
- How Nashville Changed Health Care for the Nation
- HCA preps CEO change
- Dan Miller to serve as CEO of HCA’s Methodist Hospital
- Tennessee hospital wants to privatize $75M in debt
- Equity firm invests $200M to launch independent cancer care network
- CHI Memorial selects new CEO
- Quorum Health expands board of directors
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Baptist Health Medical Center partners with U of Arkansas to open new orthopedic clinic
- Izard County Hospital Gets Restraining Order After Computer Company Threat
ARIZONA
- Banner Health to hold career fairs, aiming to hire 1,500 statewide
- Arizona health department receives $1M to address health care shortages
- Mayo Clinic to nearly double size of Phoenix campus in five-year, $648 million project
- Iora Health to open 10 primary care clinics
LOUISIANA
- New management for north Louisiana safety-net hospitals OK’d
- Possible new ASC one step closer after Louisiana city council passes ordinance
- Ochsner Health to become minority member of CHRISTUS Health Southwestern Louisiana
- See the early Charity Hospital redevelopment proposals
- Lakeview Regional Medical Center selects Scott Montgomery as COO
- Ochsner, Christus Health leaders say joint venture will focus on physician recruitment, telemedicine
NEW MEXICO
- Rio Rancho voters to decide on reviving tax for hospital
- Vote 4 NM: The Medicaid buy-in debate
- AG probing deaths of 36 patients in doctor’s care
OKLAHOMA
- Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Hospital now open in Western Oklahoma
- Community worried Pauls Valley hospital could be closing
- Over 3K patients treated at Oklahoma Dual Entity Heart & Vascular Center
- South Central Oklahoma copes with Health Department cuts
- Hospital focus of town meeting
TEXAS
- Doctor resigns from leadership posts at Texas Health Plano after remarks about female physicians
- Killeen: CEO named for Metroplex Health System
- John Phillips is Methodist Dallas Medical Center’s new president
- Famed Baylor St. Luke’s surgeon linked to 2015 heart transplant patient deaths
- Medical City Weatherford names new CEO
- HCA pays $148M for Texas hospital
- Physician pleads guilty in $60M fraud scheme allegedly linked to patient deaths
- USMD Hospital at Fort Worth appoints CEO, CNO
- Ochsner, Christus Health leaders say joint venture will focus on physician recruitment, telemedicine
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Federal regulations add to Alaska’s already high health care costs
- Providence nurses approve new contract
IDAHO
- Luke’s McCall now a Level 4 trauma center
- National shortage of primary care doctors affecting rural Idaho
MONTANA
- Report: Montana health care, leisure, finance and craft beer industries thriving
- Kalispell hospital CEO to step down
- Montana loses final health navigator after cuts and added rules
- Montana health insurer wins lawsuit over cost-sharing reduction payments
OREGON
- OHSU Closed Its Heart Transplant Program. Now What?
- Portland’s psychiatric ER has 7 more weeks to fix serious safety problems
- OHSU announces outside review of suspended heart transplant program
- Health Care of the Future program promises deep digs into medical business philosophies
- Oregon’s Uninsured Rate Stagnates
WASHINGTON
- Ascension exits Northwest with sale of Washington hospital
- Healthcare Tech Culture Underdeveloped In Seattle
- Seattle Children’s New North Clinic Opens In Everett, Wash.
- Process begins to guide Kaiser Permanente’s $400M Capitol Hill campus renovation
- PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center inpatient rehab unit closing
- Swedish cuts 550 jobs as part of ongoing reorganization
- Iora Health to open 10 primary care clinics
- Amazon VP Mark Mitchke Named CEO of Delta Dental of Washington
WYOMING
- Hospital on the hill: Weston County Memorial Hospital
- CCH Volunteer receives award from Wyoming Hospital Association
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Public can weigh in on proposed Dignity Health-CHI hospital merger
- How hospital consolidation in California increased healthcare costs
- Dignity Health merger with Denver firm supported
- Patrick Soon-Shiong failed to turn around Verity Health: 7 things to know about where the system stands now
- Closed California hospital files for bankruptcy, owes $250K to employees
- California health system’s bankruptcy challenged by employee union
- California: A Health Care Laboratory With Mixed Results
- Despite hospital closing, Bay Area health care market is booming, officials claim
- Bill Would Exempt HIPAA Covered Entities from California Privacy Law
- Timekeeping software won’t let Dignity Health nurses log any overtime, lawsuit says
- Dignity Health’s timekeeping software denies nurses overtime pay, lawsuit alleges
- Nurses claim staffing crisis at 2 California hospitals
- Cash-strapped California hospital to close ER Sept. 16
- Hospital drops Envision over out-of-network charges
- Alameda Health System names CIO
COLORADO
- New Colorado Springs hospital CEO readying ambitious expansion plan
- Paladina Health expands direct primary care offering to Fort Collins
- Dignity Health merger with Denver firm supported
- Colorado Plains Medical Center selects new CEO
- Colorado medical group acquires Rocky Mountain Orthopaedic
- Fitzsimons Innovation Community turns CU Anschutz Medical Campus into thriving biotech hub
HAWAII
- Hawaii Pacific Health to open $3.1M clinic at Ward Village
- Hawaii Pacific Health to open clinic at Kakaako tower
NEVADA
- Carson Tahoe Health celebrates 100 robotic-assisted surgeries
- Nevada city’s sole hospital to end labor and delivery services Oct. 1
- Mesa View Regional Hospital to stop inpatient labor and delivery services
- Mountain’s Edge Hospital adding $7M orthopedic surgery center in rapidly expanding area
- Nevada HIE Wins $1.2M to Expand Health Data Exchange Capabilities
- Three file suit against Dignity Health, company that runs Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
UTAH
- Hospital group based in Utah will make own generic drugs, promising to save patients millions
- Dixie Regional Medical Center puts final touches on $300 million expansion
- Castleview names interim CEO
- Intermountain Life Flight celebrates 40 years of saving lives
- Intermountain Healthcare Now Delivers the Nation’s First “One Stick” Hospitalization for Inpatient Blood Draws
