Healthcare industry

Fitch Ratings said 2014 hospital medians showed surprisingly strong results, while capital spending in the sector hit the lowest point in six years.

Continuing patient losses and a 2014 Department of Justice settlement factored into Moody's two-notch downgrade for King's Daughters Medical Center in Kentucky.

Standard & Poor's placed Palm Drive Health Care District, Calif.'s revenue debt on negative watch due to lack of timely information.

Moody’s Investors Service upgrade Dayton, Ohio-based Kettering Health, saying the eight-hospital system has seen a strong financial performance in the last two years.

Washington state will be among the biggest beneficiaries of Medicaid changes under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings

The Illinois Finance Authority is rolling out a new financing program to help smaller hospitals purchase equipment and meet federal healthcare record-keeping mandates.

Standard & Poor's says Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota could win an upgrade if its operations remain on the upswing.

Moody’s Investors Service has raised Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services’ rating by one level to A2 ahead of its upcoming revenue bond sale for $120 million.

The Daughters of Charity Health System has reached an agreement with a private investment firm that will invest $250 million in the ailing California hospital nonprofit.

Tampa General Hospital in west-central Florida has been upgraded to A from A-minus by Fitch Ratings due to a "significant strengthening of liquidity metrics."

Standard & Poor's has downgraded Laramie County, Wyo.'s 2012 bonds issued for Cheyenne Regional Medical Center to A from A-plus.

A New Jersey tax court ruling stating that one of its nonprofit hospitals is not exempt from property tax payments from 2006 to 2008 is unlikely to have implications in other states, according to Fitch Ratings.

Providence Health & Services received a Fitch Ratings affirmation at AA ahead of plans to price two series totaling $356 million.

A recent New Jersey Tax Court ruling that most of the Morristown Medical Center campus did not qualify for a local property tax exemption from 2006 to 2008 is a credit negative for the state's non-profit hospitals, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Oregon Health and Science University will sell $100 Million of federally-taxable debt next week.

The Supreme Court's Thursday ruling that upheld the legality of federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act is a win for the hospital sector that provides some stability through the remainder of the Obama presidency, analysts said.

Covenant violations on lines of credit and poor operations caused Howard University's bond rating to fall with the possibility of the rating declining more if the university cannot fix operations that have been running a deficit in recent years.

If state lawmakers and Gov. Bruce Rauner can’t resolve their differences over a fiscal 2016 budget, the Illinois Hospitals Association is urging them to adopt a temporary spending plan.

Minnesota’s HealthEast Care System will make a rare appearance in the market this week with a debt restructuring aimed at strengthening its balance sheet.

Moody's Investors Service pushed a small Ohio hospital deep into junk territory amid a variable-rate debt-driven liquidity crisis and after a proposed merger with the state's largest provider fell through.