Determination of Need (DON)

State and federal rules and regulations related to facility changes. 
01.27.2020  | Leonard Morse Hospital to Focus on Behavioral Health
MetroWest Medical Center’s Leonard Morse Hospital announced last Tuesday that it would narrow its focus almost exclusively on behavioral healthcare.
01.20.2020  | Hospitals: Move on McGovern’s Social Determinants Bill
Hospitals and other advocates are urging the U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee to move forward on a social determinants of health bill.
06.03.2019  | Closure Bill Just Goes Too Far, Conflicts With Integrated Care Model
A bill relating to closure of hospital services just goes too far in what it requires, MHA says.
03.04.2019  | Hospital Developments of Note
New developments involving Baystate Health and South Shore Health.
02.11.2019  | A $50 Million Gift; New Hospital; New Building; New Affiliation
Hospitals and health systems reported gifts, new facilities, planned expansions.
01.28.2019  | Hospitals Build and Adapt to Meet Patient Needs, Improve Facilities
As the healthcare sector rapidly evolves, hospitals are upgrading or expanding their facilities to meet the demands of patients.
12.03.2018  | Beth Israel Lahey Health Gets State & Federal Approval for Merger
Perhaps the largest and most complex healthcare merger in state history is all but final after Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office ok'd the merger with conditions.
10.15.2018  | Health Council Sets Further Conditions on BIDMC-Lahey Deal
The Massachusetts Public Health Council last week weighed in on the proposed Beth Israel Deaconess-Lahey merger.
10.01.2018  | HPC on BID-Lahey Merger: AG Review Needed
The HPC has released its final report on the proposed large merger of hospitals and physician practices that would be known as Beth Israel Lahey Health.
03.12.2018  | Merger Takes Big Step to Fulfillment
The deal involving Lahey Health, the Beth Israel Deaconess system, and other entities received a favorable report from DPH.
01.08.2018  | HPC Refers Partners-Mass Eye and Ear Merger to AG
The Health Policy Commission (HPC) last week issued its final review of the proposed merger between Partners HealthCare and Massachusetts Eye and Ear.
12.18.2017  | HPC to Review Multi-Hospital Merger
The deal involving Lahey Health, the Beth Israel Deaconess system, and other entities will get a full cost and market impact review from the HPC.
11.06.2017  | HPC Casts Cold Eye, Preliminarily, on Partners, MEEI Merger
The Health Policy Commission’s (HPC’s) preliminary Cost and Market Impact Review (CMIR), on the merger between Partners HealthCare and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and its Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates physician organization was re
07.17.2017  | Mega Deal: BIDMC, Lahey, Mount Auburn, Anna Jacques, The Baptist
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lahey Health, along with New England Baptist, Mount Auburn, and Anna Jacques hospitals this week inked a formal agreement to create a new healthcare system.

Resources

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