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Recent CVS acquisition Oak Street Health expands into four new states
After the expansion this summer, the recently acquired unit of CVS will operate in 25 states. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Ben Miller Source Type: news

UnitedHealth offers $3.2B to lure Amedisys away from Option Care merger
UnitedHealth Group Inc. is making an unsolicited, $3.2 billion bid for Amedisys Inc., a home health care provider that last month agreed to a merger with a third company. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Alyxandra Sego Source Type: news

Mayo Clinic unveils multi-year expansion plan in Rochester
Mayo Clinic unveiled Monday its multi-year expansion plan in Rochester, focused on transforming its downtown campus. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Caitlin Anderson Source Type: news

Charlotte startup HireMe Healthcare targets $2M funding raise to match more nurses with jobs
Charlotte startup HireMe Healthcare, which matches North Carolina nurses with the best available jobs, has already raised about $1.2 million of its $2 million goal, (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Symone Graham Source Type: news

Regular cannabis use could be driving up costs, stays at hospitals, says study
While the study was small, researchers say it can provide an early snapshot into some of the public health risks of cannabis and costs to hospitals. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Cassie McGrath Source Type: news

Astek Diagnostics raises $2M to commercialize urinary tract infection diagnostic tool
Astek Diagnostics is planning to move from the University of Maryland Baltimore, BioPark into a space in the Baltimore Peninsula in the wake of a $2 million funding round. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Matt Hooke Source Type: news

Shock absorber for the knee wins FDA OK for East Bay's Moximed. Here's how it's scaling the commercial hurdle
The device was cleared by the FDA in April, but the company is taking a long strategy toward educating surgeons how to use it for the right osteoarthritis patients. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 2, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news

New AMA president is Milwaukee physician concerned about hospital consolidation, gun violence: Q & A
Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld of the Medical College of Wisconsin enters his term as American Medical Association president with concerns that include addressing the impact of hospital consolidations, improving health equity for marginalized groups, including the LGBTQ community, and adopting what he calls common-sense gun laws. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 2, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Rich Kirchen Source Type: news

President Joe Biden picks former top North Carolina health official Mandy Cohen to lead CDC: reports
President Joe Biden plans to select Dr. Mandy Cohen, the former top health official in North Carolina, to be the next head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 2, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: David Purtell Source Type: news

Reports: Biden picks Mandy Cohen to lead CDC
President Joe Biden plans to select Dr. Mandy Cohen, the former top health official in North Carolina, to be the next head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 2, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: David Purtell Source Type: news

Seagen shareholders approve $43B acquisition by Pfizer
The companies still face at least one more hurdle before they can finalize the deal. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 2, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Rick Morgan Source Type: news

Health care execs on a partnership that was “a long time coming”
Beacon Orthopaedics& Sports Medicine has partnered with TriHealth for decades, but last year, the organizations came together as part of a “conversation that was a long time coming,” according to Andy Blankemeyer, CEO at Beacon, in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. “We are now co-invested in surgery centers across Cincinnati. Our existing surgery centers as well as TriHealth’s existing Evendale Hospital a re now all part of a joint venture, and we have combined our… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 2, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: TriHealth Source Type: news

Health care execs see BJC/Saint Luke's deal driven by economics
High costs of care and tight margins are driving hospitals to consider mergers, while critics say health care mega mergers almost always lead to increased consumer costs. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 1, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Brian Kaberline Source Type: news

Atrium Health breaks ground on hospital in Cornelius with eye on 2025 opening (PHOTOS)
Atrium Health is targeting mid-2025 for the opening of the new hospital, which will initially include a 170,000-square-foot space with over 30 beds. There are plans for future expansions, as well. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 1, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Collin Huguley Source Type: news

Novant Health sets opening date for $180M Ballantyne Medical Center in Charlotte (PHOTOS)
In addition to the typical health-care spaces found at a hospital, Ballantyne Medical Center will include walking trails, farmers' market space and other features aimed at honoring the site's history as Hall Family Farm. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 1, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Elise Franco Source Type: news