Healthcare industry

Fifty years ago, Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corp. issued a $1.6 million bond for a now-defunct biblical school. Since then it has handled roughly $7.4 billion in debt.

South Florida can expect Zika-related travel advisories to hurt tourism and related tax revenues, S&P Global Ratings said. The only question is by how much.

Eight years after the housing market collapse, the senior housing sector is growing with the help of near record-low interest rates that have prompted a rush to market.

Los Angeles County has given the greenlight to a public-private project for a $270 million office building for its Department of Mental Health anchored by tax-exempt bonds.

Providence Health & Services took a one-notch downgrade from Fitch Ratings, ahead of a planned &803 million revenue bond deal for Providence St. Joseph Health.

Ziegler, the oldest healthcare focused investment bank in the country, is becoming one of the biggest players in the specialty as well.

A CDC warning advising pregnant women against traveling to a south Florida neighborhood because of Zika is a negative credit factor for both Miami and Miami-Dade County, said Moody's Investors Service.

Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.’s bond outlook is positive and could lead to a rating upgrade because of its financial separation from Vanderbilt Medical Center, S&P Global Ratings said.

The University of Texas System will bring its triple-A credit to two bond deals worth a combined $609 million.

The Hawaii House and Senate overrode the governor's veto of a bill he said could lead to a downgrade of the state's bonds.

Chicago-based Presence Health Network will issue nearly $1 billion of bonds next week in a sale designed to overhaul its debt portfolio and provide some breathing room to help stabilize its balance sheet.

The Harris County Hospital District earned a two-notch Fitch Ratings upgrade to AA despite weakness in the Houston area's energy economy.

The anticipated merger of two West Coast hospital systems will not impact their AA-minus bond ratings, according to a S&P Global Ratings report.

The Illinois Finance Authority greenlighted $1.4 billion of borrowing plans at its June meeting, led by Presence Health’s preliminary plans to restructure debt as it works to stave off further credit erosion.

Ohio-based Mercy Health’s ailing collections process and the winding down of its affiliated insurance company – both of which have cut into operating profits -- drove Fitch Ratings to revise the system’s outlook to negative

Georgia’s Oconee Regional Medical Center did not make its June 1 bond payment, and although the hospital said it plans to pay the debt, S&P Global Ratings sent its ratings to the bottom of the junk scale.

The Federal Trade Commission plans to appeal a federal court judge’s refusal to block the merger of Illinois-based Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University Health System.

Good Shepherd Medical Center took a three-notch downgrade to B-minus on Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings scale as the East Texas hospital struggled to maintain its Medicare reimbursements.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded Mercy Health, Ohio's largest not-for-profit healthcare system, to A2 from A1

Chicago-based Presence Health received a Moody’s Investors Service downgrade that leaves it on the lowest rung of investment grade..