Connecticut’s two largest health systems continue to dominate market share in the state, and their lead is likely to get even bigger in the weeks or months ahead as Yale New Haven Health tries to finalize its acquisition of three more Connecticut hospitals.
M. Elizabeth Walker and Jerimi J. Ullom have joined Barnes & Thornburg as healthcare and public finance partners in Indianapolis, Ind., the firm said Wednesday.
University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto says UK needs $2 billion in borrowing authority from the state to expand its Albert B. Chandler Hospital to treat patients who are being turned away for lack of room.
“We need … around $2 billion for a new hospital tower,” Capilouto said after meeting with Senate President Robert Stivers in Manchester, where Stivers lives.
Yale New Haven Health has asked the state to provide financial assistance in its acquisition of three Connecticut hospitals recently hit with a debilitating cyberattack, and for Prospect Medical Holdings, which owns the hospitals, to lower the $435 million purchase price.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has confirmed plans to extend the city’s redevelopment ban on the former Atlanta Medical Center site for another six months.