Hospital Review

Anthem changes coverage policy for MRIs, CT scans at hospitals | Tenet to replace CEO Trevor Fetter, 'refresh' board and adopt poison pill | Advisory Board sells healthcare arm to Optum in $1.3B deal | Physician canoes through Houston floodwater to perform surgery

Tenet seeks replacement for CEO Trevor Fetter, adopts poison pill, refreshes board | 8 healthcare layoffs | Carolinas HealthCare, UNC Health ink LOI to merge | 34 ways to help Texans recover from Harvey | Court sides with Geisinger, reverses $1M award to nursing student who declined drug test

UPMC reports $14B in revenue | 90% of Texas hospitals expected back to full service by October | Roper St. Francis eliminates COO role | 12 CEO moves | 6 health systems' philanthropic responses to Harvey

Houston-area hospitals evacuate 1,500 patients: 5 updates | Cleveland Clinic more than triples operating income in Q2 | Dr. Steven Altschuler resigns after 18 months as CEO of U of Miami Health | Aetna faces lawsuit after windowed envelopes showed customers' HIV status

Flooding forces MD Anderson to close, Ben Taub to evacuate | Advisory Board sells healthcare arm to Optum in $1.3B deal | Anthem changes coverage policy for MRIs, CT scans at hospitals | 61 critical access hospital CEOs to know

August 29, 2017 1. Flooding closes MD Anderson, Memorial Hermann Sugar Land; Ben Taub evacuates Full story 2. Advisory Board sells healthcare arm to Optum in $1.3B deal Full story 3. Anthem changes coverage policy for MRIs, CT scans…

How Texas hospitals are faring amid Harvey's catastrophic flooding | Dr. Peter Pisters to head MD Anderson as president | Patient stabbed at NYC hospital | Aetna reveals customers' HIV status in envelope window

Tenet board upheaval could lead to activist campaign | CHS investor calls for ouster of CEO Wayne Smith | Nurse sues CHI St. Luke's over break policy | Patient jumps to his death from California hospital window

Northwell to shut down insurance arm | Cone Health operating income grows 78.3% | Texas hospitals and Hurricane Harvey: 8 things to know | Martha's Vineyard residents still want reasons for firing of local hospital CEO

Partners to examine Care New England acquisition amid financial issues | Providence Health & Services lays off 210 | 4 thoughts on the hospital, health system, political and economic world + good vs. bad lawyers — a core distinction | UK hospital rejects donation from men dressed as female nurses, calls portrayal 'demeaning'

BJC Healthcare sells shuttered 127-bed hospital for $13 | Weak admissions set to trouble hospital operators | Ascension inks LOI to buy troubled Presence Health | BCBS expands discretionary ER coverage to Ind.