Healthcare plans

The well-regarded pediatric hospital system is not alone in facing downgrades amid the myriad challenges healthcare has experienced in recent years.

The Pennsylvania healthcare system is touting plans to grow its network as it funds an expansion for its largest hospital, in York.

Republicans established the fund to ease pressure on rural providers facing Medicaid and ACA insurance cuts.

The House oversight subcommittee hearing was titled "Virtue Signaling vs. Vital Services."

Hunt Memorial Hospital District's distressed finances led to downgrades to Ba3 by Moody's Ratings and B-plus by S&P Global Ratings, with both giving it a negative outlook.

Medicaid cuts and tariffs are expected to pressure already struggling small rural and urban hospitals, including 18 in California that borrowed from the state.

The rating agency cited concerns about limited unrestricted reserves for lowering its rating outlook for more than $1 billion of debt.

The rating for Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas was upgraded, while Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico was downgraded by Moody's.

A federal court has given an outside debtor-in-possession loan "superpriority" over the bondholders' lien.

The ratings agency cited weaker than expected financial performance in fiscal 2024 and a slow anticipated recovery in coming years.

The San Diego County-based hospital system's financial woes were dire enough to earn junk ratings from Fitch Ratings, Moody's Ratings and S&P Global Ratings earlier this year. Fitch further downgraded the already junk ratings on Wednesday.

Something less than $400 million of the bonds will be taxable bonds.

Bondholders are prepared to loan up to $22 million to the hospital.

Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital plans to sell about $222 million of tax-exempt, fixed-rate revenue bonds this week.

Eisner Advisory Group Partner Allen Wilen is the chief restructuring officer for Jackson Hospital & Clinic.

The county commission gave final approval to a nonprofit hospital bond and preliminary approval to a county government bond.

The system, along with UT Southwestern Medical Center, plan to build a $5 billion pediatric health campus in Dallas.

The 0.34% sales tax rate increase would raise an estimated $70 million annually for Colorado's only safety net healthcare provider.

The bankruptcy of Iowa City's Mercy Hospital is closer to an end with the resolution of a dispute between unsecured creditors and the trustee and bondholder.

The Washington state island hospital's financial turmoil brought rating downgrades from Moody's Ratings.