Hospitals in states most vulnerable to Medicaid funding reductions are preparing for what some leaders describe as a financial reckoning. If federal proposals to roll back Medicaid expansion move forward, hospitals could see a $31.9 billion loss in revenue and…
Author: Madeline Ashley
Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health has secured $6 million in funding to keep its two hospitals temporarily operational, but will transition out services like OB-GYN to avoid a shutdown, NBC Philadelphia reported April 10. The news comes after a lawyer for…
Houlton (Maine) Regional Hospital has shared plans to close its inpatient labor and delivery unit, effective May 2. “Over the past several years, like many rural hospitals in Maine and across the nation, we have watched our labor and delivery…
New York City-based Mount Sinai Beth Israel has closed after it received approval from the Appellate Division of New York State Supreme Court, a spokesperson for Mount Sinai said in an April 8 statement shared with Becker’s. Beth Israel had…
In March 2024, Milwaukee-based Froedtert ThedaCare Health broke ground on an $84 million hospital in Oshkosh, Wis. The facility will bring around 60 new jobs and is expected to be complete in late 2025. Becker’s connected with Robert Cavagnol, MD,…
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A merger of Danbury, Conn.-based Nuvance Health with New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell has been approved by the Connecticut Office of Health Strategy through a certificate-of-need application. Northwell and Nuvance shared plans to integrate into a nonprofit, regional system in…
Martins Ferry-based East Ohio Regional Hospital and its owner and CEO, John Johnson, MD, have been hit with a lawsuit following the hospital’s March 14 layoffs and March 21 closure. The lawsuit alleges that the hospital violated the Fair Labor…
Harry Wiggins has been named CEO of Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Petersburg, Va. The hospital is part of Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health. Prior to his new role, Mr. Wiggins served as senior chief nursing officer for Encompass Health’s MidAtlantic…
Piedmont Athens (Ga.) Regional Medical Center will lay off 95 environmental services department employees, effective June 2, according to an April 2 WARN notice. The hospital is part of Atlanta-based Piedmont, a health system that comprises 25 hospitals, according to…
Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., has expanded through a $378 million, five-floor patient tower as part of the system’s “Bold. Forward. Unbound.” investments. The tower adds 166 new patient beds to the hospital’s medical and surgical nursing units, bringing its…