Not-for-profit healthcare

M. Elizabeth Walker and Jerimi J. Ullom have joined law firm Barnes & Thornburg's Indianpolis office as healthcare and public finance partners.

The largest healthcare strike in U.S. history hit Kaiser Permanente Wednesday. The nonprofit giant operates 39 hospitals and 622 medical offices.

The authority approved $1.3 billion in conduit financings at its meeting Tuesday.

Labor costs and inflation weigh on hospitals, but improvement may be on the horizon.

Eskaton, a northern California-based not-for-profit, is spinning off the trio of healthcare facilities to stem fiscal bleeding, and focus on its strengths in the senior-living sector.

Trinity Regional Hospital Sachse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after problems left it unable to pay municipal bond debt service or cover operating expenses.

The North Alabama operator priced $190 million of revenue bonds Aug. 29 to support among other things the purchase of an orthopedic physicians' practice.

Nonprofit PeaceHealth wants to close the hospital in the city that hosts the University of Oregon and consolidate it with a facility in a neighboring town.

The 32-bed Trinity Regional Hospital Sachse opened in 2021 and was funded through municipal bonds sold through the Wisconsin-based Public Finance Authority.

The state government says community hospitals will be awarded a combined total of close to $300 million of assistance.