Easton, Md.-based University of Maryland Shore Regional Health has filed for a certificate of need to build a new 142-bed hospital in Easton, The Daily Record reported Jan. 9.

A Zelis survey of 800 patients who had at least one medical billing error in the last five years found that only 30 percent felt "extremely confident" in their ability to identify a billing error. 

Marriottsville, Md.-based Bon Secours opened a new medical office building on its Richmond (Va.) Community Hospital campus Jan. 10. 

The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, the charity of Best Buy founder Dick Schulze, donated $4 million to the Minneapolis-based Children's Minnesota neurosciences program and committed another $1.5 million to a matching donation challenge for the pediatric health system.

HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital opened a new cardiac rehabilitation center clinic, nwfdailynews reported Jan. 9.

Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health's board of directors has approved the proposal to increase the size of its downtown hospital and expanded medical campus project. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has purchased a 56.6-acre plot of land in Las Vegas for $62.3 million from Station Casinos, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported Jan. 6.

Union Community Care's New Holland (Pa.) Health Center is temporarily closing because of a sprinkler, heating, ventilation and air conditioning malfunction that caused "significant water damage," ABC27 reported Jan. 6.

Nonprofit group RIP Medical Debt is aiming to eliminate more than $800 million in medical debt held by Michigan residents, NPR affiliate Michigan Radio reported Jan. 3.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is looking to build a new $233.6 million, 60-bed hospital in Ashland, Va., Richmond BizSense reported Jan. 6.

Health systems are finding it difficult to recruit and retain talent — and in many places, high housing costs contribute to the problem. 

Startup healthcare technology company Herself Health landed $7 million in seed round funding and opened its first clinic in Minneapolis.

The Asheville, N.C., Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously to approve a three-building project on a lot that Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth had won approval to build a new hospital, the Asheville Citizen Times reported Jan. 5.

A controversial new hospital project in North Liberty, Iowa, is once again making the news as its University of Iowa Health Care operators are highlighting the location's future use as a major orthopedic center against local community wishes, The Gazette reported Jan. 4.

MultiPlan, a healthcare analytics and revenue analysis company, awarded its 2022 Rural Health Grant to Boise City, Okla.-based Cimarron Memorial Hospital and Cheyenne County Hospital in St. Francis, Kan.

El Segundo, Calif.-based Pipeline Health System has completed the sale of two Chicago-area hospitals as part of its bankruptcy proceedings, according to a Jan. 3 Wednesday Journal report.

Wabasha, Minn.-based Gundersen St. Elizabeth's Hospital is set to use $250,000 in earmarked federal funding to upgrade its 100-bed long-term care unit, the Post Bulletin reported Jan. 2.

Athens-based University of Georgia is collaborating with Catoosa County to develop future uses for the CHI Memorial Hospital Georgia building as the hospital plans to move to a Fort Oglethorpe location, the Chattanooga Free Press reported Jan. 1.

Lewiston, Idaho-based St. Joseph Regional Medical Center is beginning construction of a new $6 million rehabilitation unit, which will be the only one of its type within a 100-mile radius. The unit should be complete by mid-June 2023, the hospital said Dec.29.

Dallas-based Medical City Healthcare plans to build a new 65,000-square-foot mental health hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, to meet growing demand for such facilities in the area.