N.J. hospital mega-merger a done deal | NJ.com
The not-for-profit hospitals of Robert Wood Johnson Health System and Barnabas Health completed a merger Thursday that creates New Jersey's largest hospital and medical network, capable of reaching 5 million people.
Iowa Medicaid privatization starts today | Iowa Public Radio
At midnight this morning, Iowa's Medicaid system transitioned into the hands of three for-profit corporations. Gov. Terry Branstad says the move will contain costs, but critics say privatization leaves many patients without services.
New York Top Court Revives Suit Against Hospital That Let Man's Death Be Filmed | ProPublica
Mark Chanko's family sued NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and one of its doctors for allowing a TV crew to film his death without permission. A lower court had thrown the case out, but the New York Court of Appeals revived it.
Protesters demand McDonald's out of hospitals | Houston Chronicle
Calling it a breach of public health, about 20 demonstrators gathered Thursday in front of Harris Health System's administrative offices demanding the removal of a McDonald's restaurant from within Houston's Ben Taub Hospital.
Broward Health exec: CEO was threatened over ad contract | (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) Sun Sentinel
At a meeting last summer at a Waffle House in Fort Lauderdale, County Commissioner Chip LaMarca appeared to threaten the late Broward Health CEO Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, according to a hospital district executive who attended the meeting. LaMarca has denied doing so.