Vanderbilt Health has announced the completion of its acquisition of Tennova Healthcare-Clarksville Hospital and freestanding emergency room Tennova ER-Sango, along with the hospital’s related businesses including physician clinics and outpatient services, from Community Health Systems. Vanderbilt Health had held a 20% minority interest in the operations since 2021, while Community…
Iowa newspaper The Messenger, along with hospital employees and donors, last week got a behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing construction of a new surgery center just west of the main entrance of UnityPoint Health Trinity Regional Medical Center in the town of Fort Dodge. The $39.8 million project, which began…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking public input on “strengthening the domestic supply chain for PPE and essential medicines.” The federal agency last week issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking public feedback by March 1 on “potential approaches to strengthen the American-made supply…
Delaware’s hospital oversight board, formed in 2024 to reduce hospital spending in the state, is on the ropes. According to Spotlight Delaware, the Diamond State Hospital Cost Review Board has “lost one of its principal enforcement levers” after the state’s House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that would…
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN)’s first “neighborhood hospital” in the Poconos, and third overall, has opened in Bartonsville, Pa. Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH) – Pocono Creek, like all things LVHN now part of Jefferson Health, offers many things you’d expect in a hospital -- except for a perioperative suite. But…
CMS’ pending elimination of the inpatient-only (IPO) list of surgeries is often framed as a breakthrough for ASCs, which will gain volume; payors, who will pay less; and patients, who will enjoy greater access to care. But there’s a correspondingly negative impact that isn’t discussed as much: inpatient hospitals, many…
National attention has been focused on Minneapolis, where federal immigration agents and the local community have been at odds. But there has been trouble about 150 miles north in the city of Duluth, Minn., as well. This week, the local delegation of state legislators from the state’s dominant Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL)…
WALB-TV reports that the city of Ocilla, Ga., cut off water services to Irwin County Hospital on Monday over an unpaid water bill totaling over $20,000, according to local officials. The TV station reports that, according to a hospital official, city workers entered the property and turned off a valve, with hospital…
A new analysis prepared by healthcare consulting firm Kaufman Hall for the Indiana Hospital Association (IHA) details a worsening financial outlook for the state’s hospitals, with the association calling for help from legislators. IHA says the analysis shows “margins remain below national averages,” and quoted numerous hospital leaders who warn that…
If you’re looking for a model to handle the devastating but all-too-common complication of postoperative neurocognitive disorders (P-NCD, popularly known as delirium) experienced by your patients, some friends to our north have created a program that might be of interest. Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre this month welcomed the first…
