Healthcare industry

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.

Two weeks after El Paso Children’s Hospital filed for bankruptcy, the county hospital district that issued $120 million of bonds filed a voluntary disclosure of the filing on the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA Web site.

Moody's says that hospitals in Medicaid expansion states saw big drops in bad debt and that furthermore, providers across the entire sector saw improved financials in fiscal 2014.

St. Louis University is buying SLU Hospital from Tenet Healthcare and transferring it to SSM Health, one of the state’s largest providers.

The Florida Legislature will attempt to bridge an impasse over low income healthcare funding that has left the state without a fiscal 2016 budget and facing a government shutdown.

Standard & Poor's has revised its outlook to positive from stable on Illinois-based Blessing Hospital's A-minus rating in recognition its solid operations.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded WakeMed, N.C.'s bonds to A2 from A1 due to its weakened financial performance.

El Paso Children’s Hospital's bankruptcy filing led to board resignations and the threat of a rating downgrade, though $120 million of bonds appear well secured by a general obligation pledge.

The Puerto Rico government and a healthcare coalition are lobbying to prevent cuts in healthcare spending that they say would hurt the island's economy.

El Paso Children’s Hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 19 after negotiations over a debt to county-owned University Medical Center fell apart, officials said.