A man was arrested Monday after allegedly threatening violence against the UnitedHealthcare corporate campus in Minnetonka. The incident prompted a large police response to the building late Monday morning. Security at UnitedHealthcare has been heightened since its CEO, Brian Thompson, was fatally shot in New York last December. There were no reports of injuries stemming from Monday's incident in Minnetonka. The suspect remained in custody at the Hennepin County Jail as of early Tuesday, pending charges.
Orlando Health on Monday said it will be spending more than $750 million over the next four years on a new hospital at a still-to-be-announced location in Brevard County; free-standing emergency departments in north, central and southern Brevard; and physician offices.
For the first time in 25 years, a new hospital is opening its doors in the District. Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center is officially open in Ward 8 on Tuesday, bringing much-needed healthcare services to Southeast D.C. The new hospital replaces United Medical Center, which was Ward 8's only hospital, but it's closing on Tuesday after its maternal ward was shut down due to poor services.
As healthcare gets more costly, and hospitals close in rural regions, states have moved to allow controversial, anti-competitive mergers of existing healthcare systems. Virginia is one of 18 states that allows such mergers, and a bipartisan effort that sailed through the 2025 session could see those mergers become more frequent. Virginia has a law that allows competing health systems to merge with the approval of the legislature. The only such system created in Virginia is Ballad Health, a network of 20 hospitals in the state's southwestern corner.
The cases, performed by Dr. Erik Wilson, mark the first clinical experience with the highly anticipated robotic platform. Wilson, chief of minimally invasive surgery and elective general surgery at UT Health Houston, performed Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery using Ottava at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.