Category: “Regional News – Southwest”
- In response to Prime lawsuit, SEIU goes on the attack
The Service Employees International Union-Healthcare Workers West is stepping up its campaign to block the sale of Daughters of Charity Health System to Prime Healthcare Services, which is accusing the union of racketeering and extortion.
- Prime finalizes purchase of St. Mary’s Hospital
Prime has agreed to invest more than $80 million into the hospital, including $30 million for capital improvements. Additionally, Prime will maintain St. Mary's as a 269-bed acute-care facility, maintain charity care levels, hire all existing employees and retain the hospital's physician base.
- Blue Shield of California, Anthem Blue Cross to create massive HIE
- Arizona’s ownership earthquake – major hospital ownership changes
Ascension Health partners with Tenet Healthcare Corp. and Dignity health by sharing ownership in the Carondelet Health Network in Arizona. AZ has seen big changes – with large IDNs buying other IDNs and Banner’s expansion.
- MemorialCare Health System of Los Angeles, CA shakes things up for population health
Helen Macfie, PharmD, Chief Transformation Officer, and Regina Berman, MA, BSN, Vice President of Population Health, have been hired to improve outcomes, reduce hospital readmissions, and coordinate care throughout the community.
- Sales Opportunity = Banner Health to acquire Arizona’s academic health system
Banner will spend at least $500 million toward capital projects in the next five years, and it will pay $300 million to establish an academic endowment. UAHN’s long-term debt, totaling about $146 million, will also be paid off.
- Los Angeles goes after patient-dumping for a third time
Glendale Adventist's settlement is the third Los Angeles has filed so far this year. In January, 102-bed Beverly Hospital in Montebello, Calif., paid $200,000 in a patient-dumping case. Pacifica Hospital of the Valley, a 231-bed facility in Sun Valley, Calif., agreed to a $500,000 settlement. The city has been working with the Hospital Association of Southern California to help hospitals communicate with all patients and carry out proper discharges for them.
- Prime Healthcare said to be pursuing acquisition of six California hospitals
- Bay Area powerhouses to create joint company, ACO
- 10 of the Biggest Rivalries tells us a lot about Healthcare under ACA
Carolinas HealthCare System vs. Novant Health (Charlotte, N.C.)
Cerner vs. Epic
Cleveland Clinic vs. Mayo Clinic (National)
Community Health Systems vs. HCA (National)
Duke Medicine vs. UNC Healthcare (Raleigh-Durham, N.C.)
Highmark/West Penn Allegheny vs. UPMC (Pittsburgh)
Houston Methodist vs. Memorial Hermann vs. St. Luke's Health (Houston)
Kaiser Permanente vs. Sutter Health (Northern California)
NorthShore University HealthSystem vs. Northwestern Medicine (Chicago)
Saint Alphonsus Health System vs. St. Luke's Health System/Treasure Valley Hospital (Boise, Idaho)
- Sutter Health – big healthcare provider creates its own HIE
CMIO Dr. Christopher Jaeger discusses why Sutter has decided to launch its own Healthcare Information Exchange. HIE’s are gaining traction and may become a major IT driver in an ACO world.
- S&P lowers faltering Daughters of Charity Health System in California six notches
- Prime Healthcare Services sues California union
- Kaiser, Dignity, Sutter oppose California bill to define “community benefit”
When you think our business can't get any crazier it does. Siemens IT sells out. The most expensive rooms in Radiology get KLAS rating (cause I suppose money doesn't matter). Now California wants to make it harder even harder for hospitals struggling under ACA revenue constriction. CA wants not-for-profit hospitals to give more money away. Perhaps it's like the Federal government - we're in debt and borrowing 50 cents of every dollar so lets give more away. CA - good luck with that.
- Some Texas hospitals don’t have money as their owner goes on trial for fraud
- Urgent Care for Kids Expands to Largest Pediatric Urgent Care Provider in Texas
- How Chris Van Gorder turned Scripps Health around
