Healthcare industry

Texas Children's Hospital plans to add a 19-story tower to its Texas Medical Center campus in Houston as part of a $475 million expansion plan.

Moody's Investors Service affirmed its A1 rating for Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and revised the hospital's outlook to positive from stable affecting $404 million in outstanding debt.

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing bonds issued in 2006 by the Orange County Health Facilities Authority in Florida for Orlando Regional Healthcare System, now Orlando Health Inc.

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing two bond issues sold in 2007 by Colorado authorities for a university and a health care borrower.

Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Services Inc. will refund $180 million of bonds Wednesday shedding some of its floating rate exposure.

Good Shepherd Medical Center's failure to complete an assets sale brings a downgrade to BB-minus and a negative outlook from Standard & Poor's.

Missouri-based Mercy Health will sell $355 million of revenue bonds as soon as Tuesday to cover the costs of various projects including the ongoing construction of a replacement hospital for one destroyed by the May 2011 Joplin tornado.

Wisconsin's Mercy Health System and Illinois' Rockford Health System plan to join forces as soon as December pending regulatory approval.

Moody's Investors Service changed its outlook on the Baa2 rated Albert Einstein Healthcare Network to negative from stable.

Standard & Poor's on Friday announced that it would take no rating action on Texas Health Resources as two nurses who contracted Ebola from a patient at its Presbyterian Dallas hospital were declared cured.

Good Shepherd Medical Center faces another possible downgrade on its junk-bond rating from Moody's Investors Service after missing a deadline to sell assets, analysts warned.

Fitch Ratings has upgraded the ratings on debt issued for the Sky Lakes Medical Center in Oregon to A-minus from BBB-plus.

Containment of the Ebola virus in the U.S. could minimize financial impact on U.S. healthcare providers, but continued spread would raise a large number of unknowns, Standard & Poor's reports.

Moody's Investors Service upgraded St. Joseph's Healthcare System (N.J.) to Baa3 from Ba1 on Oct. 17.

Moody's Investors Service affirmed Loma Linda University Medical Center, Calif.'s Baa3 revenue bond rating.

Moody's Investors Service shifted its outlook on Texas Health Resources to "developing" from "positive" after its Dallas hospital's handling of the nation's first Ebola case.

Fitch Ratings upgraded Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center in San Diego to AA-minus from A-plus.

Standard & Poor's has bumped Howard Young Health Care Inc. firmly into single A category with a two notch upgrade in recognition of tis strong financials and its parent's relationship with Ascension Health Alliance last year.

The California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission is conducting an analysis of bond disclosure information provided by conduit borrowers including nonprofit hospitals when significant events occur.

A Brooklyn judge may have brought light to the end of the tunnel for financially struggling SUNY Downstate with a ruling that could facilitate the already agreed transfer of Long Island College Hospital to New York University.