NATIONAL
- Healthcare job growth continues; hospitals add 12K positions in September
- 12 recent hospital, health system outlook and credit rating actions
- MGMA18: Physicians frustrated over lack of advanced APMs
- Want your medical records? Better be prepared to call—and pay up
- Hospitals and physician groups take on risk in BPCI Advanced model
- 10 informative Q&As with hospital and health system CISOs
- BPCI Advanced model attracts ‘robust’ interest of almost 1,300 providers
- Doximity Uses Data to Unearth Looming Oncologist Shortage
- Trump signs bills aimed at increasing drug price transparency
- CVS Health-Aetna deal OK’d by Justice Department
- BPCI Advanced to include bundled payments for 3 outpatient clinical episodes: 5 insights
- How leading health systems customize EHRs, leverage analytics to improve opioid prescribing
- For-profit hospital operator M&A update: 17 latest deals involving CHS, Tenet, HCA and LifePoint
- CMS Correcting Errors in 2017 MIPS Final Score Calculations
- CMS boosts oversight of Medicare’s accrediting organizations
- Confusion around FDA policies hinders medical device security, report suggests
- Amazon patents new Alexa skill to detect when user is sick
- Physicians push back on telemedicine reimbursement proposal
- What health execs can learn from Uber, Airbnb
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Medicare To Penalize 27 Hospitals For High Readmissions
- Report: Health care sector to lead Connecticut jobs growth
- Patient access tops new Stamford Hospital CEO’s focus
- Ascension agrees to sell Connecticut hospital
- Hartford HealthCare Moves Forward With St. Vincent’s Acquisition
- Connecticut hospital closes hospice program
- 82 percent of CT hospitals finished fiscal ’17 in the black
- Senator urges OIG to probe sterilization protocols at Connecticut VA hospital
- Hospitals healthy overall, but Rockville, Manchester lag
- Most Connecticut hospitals will see financial penalties due to readmissions
- Hartford HealthCare gives woman wrong health records
MAINE
- Mayo Regional Hospital recognized for tobacco-free achievements
- Memorial Hospital Names Interim CEO
- $5M to help community health centers combat substance use disorders
MASSACHUSETTS
- Newton doctor begins tenure as president of Boston Children’s Hospital
- Former Tufts hospital chief named interim CEO of Wellforce
- Massachusetts nurse staffing mandate could cost nearly $950M annually
- Exeter Hospital vows improved care with pending merger
- Agency: Nurse ratios could increase health costs nearly $1B
- Hospital CEOs reviewing impact of ballot initiative Question 1 on healthcare system
- Question 1 Loses Ground In Newest Poll; Incumbents Enjoy Cushion
- State officials set new conditions on Beth Israel-Lahey merger
- Massachusetts Physician Guilty in HIPAA Case
- Boston hospitals warn doctors to disclose industry ties
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- LRGH breaks ground on emergency department renovation project
- H. hospitals announce new partnership, proposed merger
- Exeter Hospital exploring affiliation with WDH, MGH
- Lakes Region General Hospital emergency department renovation begins
- New Hampshire-based Memorial Hospital selects interim CEO
NEW YORK
- These young cardiologists are opening tech-infused health clinics all over New York
- John’s CEO leaving to lead hospital near New York City
- New York healthcare network to move billing jobs to Michigan
- Cayuga Medical Center CEO John Rudd to retire
- How NYU Langone used data science to boost its care coordination strategies
- MedMen signs deal to acquire PharmaCann in $682 million stock deal
- Erie County receives $3.4M in federal funds to fight opioid crisis
- Southampton Hospital welcomes chief nursing officer
- Long Island has 2 new options for becoming a doctor
- Columbia UMC-trained cardiologists open tech-focused heart clinics in New York: 6 things to know
RHODE ISLAND
- CCRI announces CVS partnership to strengthen pharma pipeline
- SEIU: Groden Center, union reach tentative three-year contract agreement
- Southcoast Health leads nursing facility initiative to safely return elderly home
- Thundermist Health Center of Woonsocket unveils $6M addition
VERMONT
- Copley Hospital cuts costs in response to state’s concern
- VNA is now UVM Home Health & Hospice
- UVMMC opioid prescribing rates continue downward trend
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- New healthcare center to replace Milford Memorial Hospital moves forward
- Wilmington health care network to administer over 11,000 employee flu shots
- Treatment options still lag in Delaware, says AG’s report
- Delaware goes digital with 24/7 mental health and addiction referrals
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Washington Adventist Hospital Offers Innovative Heart Treatment
- Sibley Memorial Hospital to open proton therapy center in 2019
- C. Council to do ‘everything legally possible’ to keep Providence hospital open
MARYLAND
- Washington Adventist Hospital Offers Innovative Heart Treatment
- These are Baltimore’s highest-paid hospital execs
- Johns Hopkins researchers develop tool to predict patient no-shows
- Johns Hopkins names research building after Henrietta Lacks
- Johns Hopkins Medicine names Dr. Allen Kachalia SVP of patient safety and quality
NEW JERSEY
- Insurance industry assesses the state of health care in New Jersey
- Hunterdon Healthcare looking to expand patient, family advisory council
- RWJBarnabas exec placed on administrative leave after racially charged comment
- Seasoned Health Care Executive Joins Fastest-Growing Home Care Company as CEO
- Esser named chief of staff at Hackensack Meridian Health
- Aetna settles with New Jersey over privacy breaches; HIV status may have been disclosed
- Here’s another New Jersey community hospital seeking a merger
- Louisiana hospice company buys New Jersey-based chain
PENNSYLVANIA
- UPMC-Highmark battle for market domination rattles Medicare patients, politicians
- Butler Health System appoints new CFO
- Allegheny Health Network breaks ground for 10-bed hospital in Harmar
- UPMC Hamot breaks ground on $111M patient tower
- Final beam in place at St. Luke’s Milford hospital site
- Hospital granted $46,606 for PRIME project
- UPMC workers set to strike in Pittsburgh
- Air Force health care leader joins Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health
- Pottstown Hospital nurses OK contract
- Allegheny Health hospital fire forces visitor, patient moves
- Lehigh Valley Heath Network CMIO Dr. Donald Levick: Biggest challenge & top priority in the role
VIRGINIA
WEST VIRGINIA
- Wheeling Hospital Among 40 Worldwide To Offer Heart Procedure
- CEO Michael Casdorph retires from Highland-Clarksburg Hospital
- 3 West Virginia ASCs apply for CONs
- Virtual hub to help move biomedical technologies, products into marketplace
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Iowa county close to selling struggling health care center
- Longtime UnityPoint Health-Cedar Rapids head announces retirement
- UI Hospitals and Clinics to open psychiatric crisis unit
KANSAS
- Fort Scott hospital closing revives debate over Medicaid
- Southeastern Kansas hospital to close
- Former ER Nurse Loses Whistleblower Suit Against Kansas Hospital
- $29M verdict for doctor who was fired after reporting understaffing in JoCo hospital
- Former Mercy Clinics To Stay Open Under New Management
- Menorah Medical names new CMO
- Kansas takes over 21 struggling nursing homes as the industry faces growing obstacles
MINNESOTA
- Fairview Range selects Patrick Sharp as CEO
- 9 things to know about the hospital-owned generic drug company
- Minnesota hospitalizations have quadrupled for heart valve infections among drug users since 2010
- Mayo Clinic completes Epic install at remaining campuses
- Minneapolis considers supervised injection sites to address opioid crisis
- Mayo Clinic gets $10M donation to support 5 initiatives
- Essentia to continue mandatory flu shot policy
MISSOURI
- Messenger: SLU patient calls new bill ‘a gouge dressed up as something fancy’
- There are low-cost health options in St. Louis — but not where the need is greatest
- The Longtime CEO Of KC CARE Steps Down
- 9 things to know about the hospital-owned generic drug company
- Missouri medical billing company notifies patients of HIPAA breach
- Ascension agrees to sell Connecticut hospital
- Francis touts new night telemedicine program
- SSM tackles transformation by building business models
- Marshaling change: SSM Health transformation chief tells us how
- Mayor: hospital sale proposal bittersweet
- SSM Health names Michael Richards system vice president
NEBRASKA
- Nebraska Medicine opens new neurology clinic
- CHI Health to start manufacturing generic prescription drugs
- Methodist Jennie Edmundson breaks ground for $18 million facility
- UNMC helps create road map to treat staph infections that cuts antibiotic use
NORTH DAKOTA
- North Dakota tribes join ‘historic’ court filing to detail impact of opioid crisis
- State Hospital works on staff shortages
- Tribal health initiative funding approved
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Sanford Health namesake donated over $1 billion, and he still made Forbes billionaires list
- South Dakota town tries to save nursing home
- What is telemedicine? Avera eCARE CEO explains
- PHOTOS: Avera on Louise Health Campus
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Illinois only state to get an ‘A’ for mental health parity laws
- Advocate Aurora Health enters partnership with Chicago-based health care incubator
- John’s CEO leaving to lead hospital near New York City
- Jury awards $50M in Northside Health malpractice suit
- Man sentenced for defrauding Southern Illinois Healthcare of almost $600,000
- Northshore University HealthSystem selects new CFO
- Advocate Aurora Health breaks ground on $130M outpatient facility
- Here’s what’s wrong with Chicago’s health scene
INDIANA
- IU Health Team Members Give Time For Community Service
- Kentucky man faces charges for hacking into Community North computer network
- Vincent Evansville to adopt Ascension as part of its name
- Hospital profits in Indianapolis were high, study finds. Why that’s not good for us
- Vanderburgh Co. Health Department employee accused of violating HIPAA laws
- Hospitals in Indianapolis overcharge insurers, study suggests
- New consumer concussion app may let parents and trainers rapidly test for brain injury
- Union Hospital receives special certification from the state of Illinois
- Beacon Health to build offices for 160 staff in Mishawaka
- Health insurers for Indiana hospitals are paying 3 times what Medicare pays
- 66 Indiana hospitals hit with $12M in readmission penalties from Medicare
- Where Deaconess Health System CMIO Dr. Diane Hunt will focus in 2019: EHR driving physician productivity metrics, consumer-driven apps & more
KENTUCKY
- Value of KentuckyOne Louisville assets dive; Jewish Hospital organization losses mount
- Problems in Kentucky’s nursing homes are matter of life, death. Time for state to act.
- Jewish Hospital, affiliated facilities financial woes continue
- Kentucky takes steps to address lack of adequate ambulance service in 6 counties
- Kentucky hospital’s ex-chief of staff fails to halt $361M sale to Baptist Health
- BrightSpring sale rumors swirl again
MICHIGAN
- DMC’s cardiology program faces problems
- CEO of McLaren Northern Michigan announces retirement
- Spectrum Health merger bringing jobs to West Michigan
- U of Michigan raises $5B in funding; $1.4B will support academic medical center
- New York healthcare network to move billing jobs to Michigan
- 2 of 4 cardiologists claim DMC pushed them out of leadership roles in retaliation
- Trinity Health’s financial results weighed down by EHR costs
- How streamlined data exchange in Michigan provided a boost to population health
- Michigan Medicine nets $1.4 billion from massive university fundraising campaign
- Michigan Medicine Reports 2nd Healthcare Data Breach This Year
- Tenet hospital in Michigan accused of unfair labor practices
- Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital charged with unfair labor practices, hearing set Nov. 5
- Spectrum Health finalizes merger with 3-hospital system
- Trinity Health’s operating income grows 50% in FY 2018
OHIO
- Dayton Children’s seeks hundreds of workers
- Southeastern Med and OhioHealth announce management agreement
- Analysts say Summa is an intriguing partner
- Dayton Children’s Hospital weighing large outpatient project
- OhioHealth assumes management of southeast Ohio hospital
- Cleveland Clinic adds another Florida health system to its footprint
- Ohio Surgery Center celebrates 20th birthday
- Mount Carmel sets record revenue, widens margin in year of hospital construction
- Fort Hamilton Hospital has new leader, Kettering Health Network announces
- U of Cincinnati Health hiring 250 nurses
- Akron Children’s Hospital to operate Aultman Hospital NICU, maternal fetal medicine practice
- OhioHealth to assume management of 84-bed hospital
- OhioHealth searching for CFO, names new VP of customer experience in latest leadership moves
- OhioHealth’s annual revenue tops $4B as operating income declines
WISCONSIN
- Wisconsin hospitals see unpaid medical bills rise to $1B
- Advocate Aurora Health enters partnership with Chicago-based health care incubator
- Care coordination tools cut non-emergency ER use by 44% at Milwaukee Health Care
- Froedtert South plans Foxconn-area hospital neighboring Advocate Aurora project
- Hospital uncompensated care surges 14% to $1.1B in Wisconsin
- Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin expanding clinic for outpatient orthopedic services
- Advocate Aurora Health breaks ground on $130M outpatient facility
- Wisconsin shelled out $1.1B for uncompensated care in FY17
- Community Memorial Hospital ranked first among nation’s complex teaching medical centers
- Children’s to move outpatient orthopedic services to expanded Greenfield clinic
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- Alabama Nurses Association concerned about state nursing shortage
- New urgent care facility to open at Northside Medical Associates
- UAB center dedicated to pancreas and bile duct diseases established
FLORIDA
- Florida Hospital to expand cardiovascular institute
- AdventHealth will be official sponsor of Daytona Speedweeks
- Cleveland Clinic Florida to gain ‘anchor institution’ Indian River Medical Center
- Florida Hospital Winter Garden to add 100-bed pavilion
- 206 Florida hospital patients notified of bill-printing error
- How Florida’s HCA-dominated for-profit market affects insurance payments
- Mayo Clinic completes Epic install at remaining campuses
- How Florida’s HCA-dominated for-profit market affects insurance payments
- Lakeland Regional Health Named Best Large Hospital Workplace in Florida
- Chiropractors allege in suit that Florida company using illicit kickbacks to steer patients
- Medical building boom continues in Ocala
- Miami medical company will move to Tampa after Dr. Kiran Patel’s $60 million investment
GEORGIA
- Savannah’s Memorial hospital, Blue Cross renew network deal
- Georgia’s system for choosing ambulance service under fire
- HCA, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Georgia salvage contract to cover Eastside General Surgery & other facilities
- Telemedicine a good step for patients in rural Georgia nursing homes
- HCA, BCBS of Georgia break ties
- Grady Hospital’s $180M expansion latest intown project to serve growing population
- Georgia OKs Piedmont Athens’ $171M expansion, renovation project
MISSISSIPPI
- ECMHC awarded $285k grant
- Mississippi’s first robotic navigation spine surgery performed
- Forrest General’s Hospice receives Best Superior Performer Award
NORTH CAROLINA
- New Wilson Medical Center CEO focusing on emergency room issues
- North Carolina finalizes plan that could spur ASC, hospital developments — 5 takeaways
- Mission Health System CMIO Dr. Charles Sawyer: Key opportunities for innovation & technology today
- Broughton reuse plan updated, presented
- SRMC partnership to help save patients money
- Novant forms urgent-care center partnership with GoHealth
- State regulations determine who can buy medical imaging machines
- State Health Plan Launches New Provider Reimbursement Effort
- FirstHealth Convenient Care Opens Second Location in Sanford
- A new family medical building is coming to Cramerton.
- WakeMed coming to Raleigh’s Cameron Village
- Hurricane Florence has $4-million impact of Dosher hospital’s bottom line
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Another SC firm to offer ACA health coverage; rates hike about 5%
- Why some South Carolina hospitals struggle to establish mass shooting protections
- Charleston doctors, patients push insurers to cover ‘cold cap’ therapy for cancer patients
- New senior living facility planned for Lexington
TENNESSEE
- Saint Thomas faces EEOC suit
- CHS shares sink to new low
- 9 things to know about the hospital-owned generic drug company
- Tennessee hospitals partner for a statewide, in-network system
- Health care firm raises funding, names new CEO
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Sale of health care provider’s assets finalized
- ‘Changing tides’ will help Arkansas’ medical education outlook
- Ascent Children’s Health Services to close in Mountain Home, Arkansas
- Baptist Memorial Hospital In West Memphis Prepares For Grand Opening
- Preferred Family Health’s Ex-Billing Clerk Charged with Medicaid Fraud
- New Hospital An Upgrade to Crittenden County Health Care
ARIZONA
- Work progressing on Arizona hospital’s outpatient pavilion
- Northern Arizona Hospice opens to high country patients
- Phoenix Medical Office Vacancy Hits 10-Year Low
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital distributes nearly 4,000 flu shots to employees
- Phoenix VA hospital gets lowest one-star rating for third straight year
- CHS hiring in Arizona
- Mayo Clinic completes Epic install at remaining campuses
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital Foundation raises record $1.8M in September
- Leadership responsibilities of a CMIO & improving patient care: Q&A with CMIO Dr. Sarah Kramer
LOUISIANA
- Ochsner takes the reigns of North Louisiana’s charity hospitals
- Louisiana health system stuck in antitrust suit brought by ex-hospital operator, health plan
- Ochsner gets $1.6M for chronic pain management study
- Slidell Memorial Hospital names Tirman new CEO
- Louisiana hospice company buys New Jersey-based chain
- Louisiana hospital enters negotiations with Ochsner as LifePoint exits market
NEW MEXICO
- Major health care company gives notice of 381 layoffs
- UNM doctors write book on heart health
- Drug treatment outshines arrests in New Mexico pilot effort
OKLAHOMA
- Struggling Oklahoma hospital solicits donation from country music star
- In Pauls Valley, a Rural Hospital Struggles Again to Survive
- Hospital recognized for vaccinating staff with flu shots
- Amid struggles, Pauls Valley hospital owes Medicaid fees
TEXAS
- Why Texas hospitals’ urge to merge takes precedence
- Can the Baylor-Memorial hospital merger lower the costs of health care for Texans?
- Texas Workforce Commission donates $300K to train Valley nurses
- Clements University Hospital recognized for quality, safety achievement
- Hospital merger will shift power to Dallas
- Texas patient recruiter sentenced to 9 years in prison for $3.6 million home health-care fraud scheme
- Ground Breaking for Micro Hospital in Weslaco
- New Name and Headquarters For Baylor Scott and White, Memorial Hermann?
- Amarillo VA Health Care System building outpatient clinic
- HCA closes freestanding ER in Texas
- Tenet Healthcare Joins Federal Program for Bundled Payments
- An Irving health tech company is one of CNBC’s most promising U.S. startups
- This new Mansfield hospital will add 280 jobs, offer unique approach to patient care
- Driscoll Health System appoints CEO
- The First Spina Bifida Open Fetal Surgery in North Texas
- Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton expansion to include new neonatal ICU
- Midlothian Breaks Ground On New Methodist Medical Center
- Baylor wants a merger to cut costs, even as its main Dallas hospital tops all in profits
- CMS to terminate Texas hospital’s Medicare contract over patient safety issues
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Premera awards $450K grant for rural services
- Davidson tapped as AFN keynote for broadening health care
IDAHO
MONTANA
- Hospital settlement: two sides maintain different verdicts
- Big Horn County hospital receives $10 million to renovate, expand
- Eastern Montana hospital facing backlash for hiring nurse who spent 6 years in prison for receiving child porn
- CMS ordered to pay Montana Health Co-op $1.2M in canceled CSR payments
- CMS to pay $1.2M to Montana insurer in cancelled cost-sharing reduction payment lawsuit
- Montana health system, orthopedic group pays $24M to settle Anti-Kickback violation allegations
OREGON
- Asante CMIO Dr. Lee Milligan’s top priority for 2019 + the biggest need for innovation in healthcare delivery
- Charles Bend nurses allege unsafe staffing in operating room
WASHINGTON
- Harrison Medical Center marks its centennial as relocation to Silverdale nears
- Yakima hospital reverses decision on Medicare Advantage Plan
- PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center names new COO
- Smokey Point Behavioral Hospital names new CEO
- Seattle Children’s appoints chief academic officer
WYOMING
- Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County almost breaks even
- Washakie Medical Center raises the bar in services offered
- Opioid bill would limit doctors to 14-day prescription for new patients
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- New CEO Named For Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
- California hospital to reopen Oct. 15 after striking deal with Adventist
- Dignity Health reports FY18 income boost
- Fight over California dialysis profits initiative heats up
- Hospital management company CEO wants money, property released amid investigation
- County offers $235M for local hospitals
- California bond would raise $1.5 billion for children’s hospitals
- California law to regulate homeless patient discharges
- UC San Diego Health to open at least 10 primary care sites
- Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital names CEO
COLORADO
- DaVita Celebrates Recent Awards
- 9 things to know about the hospital-owned generic drug company
- UCHealth has about 285 job openings for Colorado hospital opening next year
- Hospital Prices in Colorado Increase 76% As Expansions Continue
- Local foundation gives $1 million to new Children’s Hospital Colorado in Colorado Springs
- Kaiser Permanente blames hospitals, “unfair business practices” for $65 million loss in Colorado in three years
- Philadelphia-area company acquiring Denver’s Perfect Teeth brand in $39M deal
- Women’s Clinic of Northern Colorado opening Greeley operation
- Centura hospitals ranked by Heart Association
- Health insurance increases to be smaller in 2019
HAWAII
- Employees of Hawaii Pacific Health come together to raise over $1M
- Puna health clinic teams up with Ka‘u Hospital
NEVADA
- Report: Nevada doesn’t make the grade for health care
- Nevada hospital breaks its record for flu shots given in a day
- Las Vegas health care professionals weigh in on Mesquite hospital closing labor and delivery unit
- Residency program launches with renovated Nevada Health Center
UTAH
