The request is part of the Federal Trade Commission's revamp of its merger retrospective program that they hope will bolster their enforcement of physician practice mergers and hospital acquisitions of physicians.

While vaccination among residents in nursing homes has been high, there is more hesitancy among staff, leaders say.

COVID-19 continues to stretch California hospitals' space and staff, prompting them to prepare for crisis-care plans.

This week, Michigan received one of the lowest number of doses since mid-December, which resulted in fewer distributions by five-fold than what health systems, local health departments and federally qualified health centers requested, system executives said.