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- For sale? The latest hospital chain that owns St. Petersburg's Bayfront Health needs a bailout (Tampa Bay Times)
- CPOE effectiveness varies among pediatric hospitals (Fierce Health)
- Would You Like Some Insurance With Your Insurance? (KHN)
- UPMC-backed company to offer telemedicine in nursing homes (Pittsburgh Business Journal)
- Troubled hospital chain Community Health explores options (St. Louis Dispatch)
- CFour Metro Detroit hospital systems push for public transit millage (MLive)
- Judge dismisses federal lawsuit accusing Florida of 'warehousing' kids in SNFs (McKnights)
- MS: Public health agencies/registries must report data to EHR readiness repository (AHA News)
- Four Delaware health systems form new alliance (The News Journal -Delaware Online)
- Infographic: Hospital Health IT Use in Maryland (HIN)
- New ER will increase access to health care in north Baton Rouge, OLOL officials say (Baton Rouge Business Report)
- Get a new body part and go home the same day: the rise of the ‘bedless hospital’ (STAT)
- CMS Issues Final Rule to Increase Facilities' Emergency Preparedness (OH&S)
- Health Care Providers Scramble to Meet New Disaster Readiness Rule (NYT)
- Gaps in Care Persist During Transition From Hospital to Home (EMSWorld)
- Extending primary care hours is linked to fewer emergency department visits (AAAS)
- Chicago hospital tries to improve health of ER 'super-utilizers' — with housing (Chicago Tribune)
- Patient care can improve with technology in nursing homes (Scienmag)
- Hospice care improves patient experience (Business Insider/Rueters)
- Trial begins in antitrust suit against Brevard's Health First (Orlando Sentinel)
- Aetna joins other health insurers in scaling back Obamacare participation (The Post Standard)
- Highmark ranks nursing homes, will cut out bad ones (Penn Live)
- Maryland health chief says it was mistake not to seek more money for mental health beds (Baltimore Sun)
- Do Hospital Rankings Really Matter? (Boston Magazine)
- Unregulated Growth of Trauma Care Centers Results in Poorer Outcomes (HealthLeaders Media)
- Hospitals get hit with Medicare penalties (Naples Daily News)
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CON Map Books
The Map Book illustrates the geographics distribution of CON coverage.
 CON Mapbooks
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CON Matrix
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The CON matrix identifies facilities, services & equipment subject to regualtion in each states with a CON program. The Map Book illustrates the geographics distribution of CON coverage.
CON Matrix
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- Study: Minnesota hospitals overused for mental health care (Duluth News Tribune)
- How much are you saving for retirement? Did you include $130K for health care? (Kansas City Star/Bloomberg)
- Banner Health alerts 3.7M potential victims of hack of its computers (PC World)
- Trauma Center Outcomes Are a Function of Patient Volume (Science Daily / Univ. of Pittsburgh)
- Long-Term Acute Care: Where Does It Fit in the Health Care Continuum? (AJCC)
- Texas hospitals to get more than $9.5 million to expand health care workforce (Dallas Morning News)
- $1B Medicare Fraud Scheme, Biggest So Far (CBS Miami)
- Massachusetts Set to Slash Funding of Its Healthcare Cost Containment Agency (The Boston Globe)
- Budgets Strained, States Move More Patients Out of Nursing Homes (RI NPR)
- More Older Americans Cared for at Home (USNews)
- Direct contracting with hospitals cuts employers’ health care costs (Dallas Business Journal)
- Home health becoming extension of hospital care (Lexington Herald)
- Oklahoma Department of Health steps in to make sure nursing homes not impacted by financial troubles (KOCO.com)
- Montana Negotiates Cost-saving Pricing with Large Hospitals (Flathead Beacon)
- Hospital groups demand CMS postpone star ratings ... again (Modern Healthcare)
- Insurer says Vermont’s two largest hospitals should cut prices (vtdigger.org)
- Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform health care supply chain (Phys.org)
- Northwell takes over Coney Island Hospital's troubled lab following fatal mistake (Modern Healthcare)
- Texas A&M planning to create medical school for physician engineers (KBTX.com) JS Hospital to improve health care delivery (The Express)
- Oregon Hospital report shows success in some areas (The Bulletin)
- U-M Health System to affiliate with Metro Health (Detroit Free Press)
- UF Health Jacksonville challenges Orange Park trauma unit in continuation of long-running dispute (Florida Times-Union)
- The Top Five Most Costly Inpatient Conditions (Medscape)
- Statistical Brief 204: National Inpatient Hospital Costs: The Most Expensive Conditions by Payer, 2013 (HCUP)
- Healthcare service providers Envision, AmSurg to merge (Reuters)
- Cuts threaten financial health of Kansas hospitals, physician practices (Opinion: The Emporia Gazette)
- Officials: Labor dispute won't hurt state hospital services (AP)
- Maryland health regulators approve hospital rates increase (WTOP)
- Maryland State panel to consider increases in hospital rates (Baltimore Sun)
- Paramedics face hard choices at nursing homes (Rueter's)
- Number crunchers caught up in health care wars (The Bulletin)
- Healthcare Moving From Hospital to Home (MSN)
- Hospitals' biggest deadbeat: Illinois (Crain's)
- Legislative Changes to CON in TN (Herald Citizen)
- Md.'s Onetime Mental Hospitals Cost the State Millions of Dollars Annually (Southern Maryland Online)
- Rural Colorado hospitals fear veto of mental health bill (Durango Herald)
- Interdisciplinary rounds: A must for hospitals committed to quality (Fierce Health)
- Hopeful Medicaid 'Direct Primary Care' Pilot Embraced by Senate, Gutted by House (Michigan Capitol Confidential)
- School health insurance consortium extends Highmark contract (PPG)
- Assaulting a health care professional in Utah may now carry a felony charge (Deseret News)
- When It Comes to Making Patients Safer, Is a Hospital's 'Safety Culture' That Important? (Science Daily)
- Hospital pricing compromise bill slashes funding for health research agency (Mass Live)
- Insurer’s Decision To Drop Bronze Plans Prompts Concerns (KHN)
- Health system grows heart and lung transplant program (Grand Rapids Business Journal)
- Health Care Providers Embrace Telemedicine (Twin Cities Business)
- Oklahoma Health Care Authority: No Cuts To Nursing Homes (News on 6)
- An inside look at Ohio co-op InHealth's demise (Columbus Business)
- How value-differentiating strategies can address healthcare cost and quality (Becker's Healthcare)
- State Approves Plantation General Hospital’s Move To NSU (CBS Miami)
- FTC Suffers Setback in Campaign to Slow the Rising Tide of Healthcare Consolidations (JDSupra)
- How Oregon patients can get a better read on their hospital costs (Portland Business Journal)
- Senators hear about health care cuts proposed for next year (Miami Herald)
- For hospitals, prestige leads to profits (Cincinnati.com )
- Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in the US (CBS Philly)
- Half of US Hospitals Lose Money on Patient Care (NPQ)
- Health Care Price Transparency Tool Fails To Decrease Costs (Twin Cities Business)
- Rounds, tribes demand Indian Health Service audit (Argus Leader)
- The nation’s teaching hospitals are under threat (Washington Post)
- Southcoast Health, Care New England hospital groups take big step in merger talks (Southcoast Today)
- Internists Say GME Funding Undermines Primary Care (Medscape)
- Health care is being upended and it’s having a big impact in Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
- 6 new nursing home quality measures to shed light on short-term stays (Healthcare Dive)
- Verizon, striking unions at impasse as health benefits to expire (Yahoo News)
- Healthcare agencies, local officials celebrate opening of C3356 Comprehensive Care Center (Mountain Xpress)
- Hospitalists: Riding the Wave of Changes in Healthcare (Medscape)
- Healthcare shocker: These insurers are making money on Obamacare (LA Times)
- When a nonprofit health system outsources its ER, debt collectors follow (St. Louis Dispatch)
- Vaccine-preventable diseases: Hospitals faced with new challenges as illnesses return (Fierce Health)
- Medicare Delays Plans For New Star Ratings On Hospitals After Outcry (US News)
- Colorado Marijuana Report Reveals Increase in Hospital Visits After Legalization (ABC News)
- UnitedHealthcare to exit most Obamacare exchanges (CNN)
- At Teaching Hospitals, Aggressive Screening May Lead To Medicare Penalties (KHN)
- LSU Hospital Operator May Proceed with Antitrust Suit Against Competing Health System (National Law Review)
- Kidney stone patients hospitalized on the weekend may get delayed treatment (Science Daily)
- Excellus BCBS study explores alternatives for preventable emergency room visits but ACEP says findings are misleading (Fierce Health)
- Cancer Care Has Not Overtaken Overall Healthcare Costs, Clarifies Milliman Study (AJMC)
- Colonoscopies, Mammograms And Childbirth Are Americans’ Most-Shopped Health Services (WBUR - NPR)
- Montana suppliers struggle with Medicare payment, bidding program for certain medical equipment (Missoulian)
- Uphill FTC fight for big Chicago-area health systems (Crain's)
- Medicare Payment Reform: Hospitals Cannot Succeed Without Medicare Data (Health Affairs Blog)
- Hospital readmission penalties approaching for nursing home patients (MedicalXpress)
- Elements of MedStar Health attack mirror ransomware warned about by FBI (Fierce Health)
- Hospital Cyberattack Highlights Health Care Vulnerabilities (ABC News)
- New federally led task forces to crack down on nursing home abuses (Modern Healtcare)
- Unplanned hospital readmissions remain a problem (Leominster Champ)
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 Archive of Selected Older News Articles
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2012 National Directory * Certificate of Need Programs * Health Planning Agencies (more. . .)
A new 2016 Edition of the complete National Directory
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Health Reform Planning Tool for State and Local Health Departments (CDC) The
Georgia Health Policy Center has released "Leading Through Health System Change: A Public Health Opportunity," a new tool to help public health organizations adapt to the changing health-care environment. The tool's interactive website can be used to examine the basics of health reform, apply adaptive thinking to questions of health system change, and create a simple implementation plan to increase opportunities for improving population health. The tool was created through a cooperative agreement with CDC and the National Network of Public Health Institutes.
The tool is available at https://acaplanningtool.com/ghpc/app/
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