Healthcare industry

The Conway City Council approved employee bonuses, equipment purchases and hospital improvement bonds on Tuesday.

Opportunities and risks face the municipal market as baby boomers retire while millennials begin to buy houses and settle down.

Patrick McCarthy, Moira Baldwin and Ian Spier join Wells Fargo’s public finance team.

Baylor Scott & White's planned merger with Houston-based Memorial Hermann would combine $5 billion in debt.

About $125 million of the new money bonds are fixed-rate, $50 million will be floating-rate notes, and $75 million are variable-rate demand bonds.

Parkview Health plans to use a forward delivery structure to refund debt for savings.

ProMedica is seeking up to $870 million in revenue bonds for construction and facilities projects.

Coalinga Regional Medical Center was felled by challenges common to many rural hospitals.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage is pushing the federal government to reverse the decisions of his state's voters and courts, and block a Medicaid expansion plan.

The Maine Supreme Court dealt a blow to Gov. Paul LePage’s efforts to slow voter-approved Medicaid expansion.

Issuance in these sectors all plummeted by 50% or more in the first half of 2018 in what was generally a weak first half for overall municipal issuance.

S&P Global Ratings dropped the Ohio-based system four notches to BBB.

S&P is the second ratings service to warn of possible downgrade because of the system's growing debt burden.

The Ohio-based operator is acquiring the operations of HCR ManorCare.

The clinic will privately place the debt with buyers internationally and in the U.S.

The Nacogdoches County Hospital District took a nine-notch downgrade as it prepares to file for bankruptcy.

Fitch Ratings says the application of its new rating criteria is not expected to result in widespread downgrades.

The firm is expanding its bond counsel practice in Virginia and the Southeast.

The tax would fund the voter-approved Medicaid expansion that was supposed to take effect July 2.

The healthcare sector has been grappling with continuous change as service delivery and financial operations remain under pressure. Lisa Goldstein of Moody's discusses the sector's negative outlook and credit implications of federal policy uncertainty. John Hallacy is host.