Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday confirmed that Yale New Haven Health plans to end its bid to buy Prospect Medical Holdings' three Connecticut hospitals, even as his administration worked with lawmakers to speed any potential future deals. "I think it's over," Lamont said of Yale's bid at a news conference at the state Capitol on Monday afternoon.
Tampa General Hospital has opened a primary care clinic dedicated to treating only military personnel and veterans. The Military & Veteran Primary Care Center offers primary care, behavior health, labs and pharmacy services, the hospital said in a Friday news release issued. The facility was carved out of a portion of a longtime Tampa General Medical Group clinic in South Tampa. Reservists, National Guard members and veterans will have exclusive access to the medical group's providers, by appointment.
The West Florida division of AdventHealth, a Seventh-Day Adventist nonprofit healthcare system, formally announced the acquisition Monday of the former ShorePoint Health Port Charlotte hospital, a 254-bed full-service hospital, as well as its related businesses. It will rename the facility AdventHealth Port Charlotte. The $265 million purchase of ShorePoint Health's hospitals in Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda was announced last December. The Punta Gorda facility – which closed before Hurricane Helene last September and never reopened – will not be reopened. The West Florida Division of AdventHealtlh currently operates about a dozen hospitals in Florida; the facilities in Charlotte County would be the chain's southernmost.
Sutter Health has agreed to settle a massive class-action lawsuit accusing the nonprofit health system of illegally wielding its market power to drive up Californians' health care costs by more than $400 million. The long-running federal lawsuit was settled on the eve of trial on Sunday. It would have been the second time the case, Sidibe v. Sutter Health, was tried before a jury. In 2022, a U.S. appeals court determined that a judge's error caused the jury to miss out on crucial details and overturned Sutter's win. Terms of the settlement were not immediately released on Monday, but it's likely sizable given the scope of the case. The individuals and businesses suing Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter want to be repaid for the money they spent on health insurance from 2011 through 2020.
Organizers of a conference that brings Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs health leadership and military medical professionals together to share ideas excluded "independent media" this year, despite having allowed -- and welcomed -- press coverage for more than a decade. Reporters who tried to sign up to attend the annual meeting of the AMSUS Society of Federal Health Professionals were told that the media was being excluded this year. Those who managed to sign up received emails that their registrations had been canceled.
HHS told employees on Monday they could apply for early retirement over the next 10 days and should respond to a request for information on their accomplishments of the past week, according to emails seen by Reuters. The HHS told employees in an email that it received authorization on Monday from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to offer early retirement under the Voluntary Early Retirement Authority, which impacts agencies "that are undergoing substantial restructuring, reshaping, downsizing, transfer of function or reorganization."