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New Hampshire’s hospitals and top state officials have brokered a seven-year deal over uncompensated care payments, ending for now a yearslong dispute from hospitals who said they were underpaid. The agreement, negotiated by Senate President Chuck Morse, R-Salem, and others, halts a period of uncertainty for the state after a key federal court ruling in March. (DeWitt, 5/28)

Three patients at Boston Children’s Hospital suffered from medication errors in 2017, including one who waited hours for an antibiotic and later died, according to a state and federal inspection report. The mistakes, which occurred between January and November and involved two drugs, prompted regulators to threaten the hospital with potential termination from the federal Medicare program. (Kowalczyk, 5/27)

The city home to Washington’s main psychiatric hospital is fighting to stop patients from being discharged to residential treatment centers within its borders. Lakewood approved a moratorium last week on city business licenses for new adult family homes and authorized a lawsuit against the state to end what it calls the unsafe release of people with histories of violence or sexual offenses into its city. (Orenstein, 5/28)

Froedtert Health plans to test a new model of providing care by building what it calls a “neighborhood” hospital in Mequon that would have eight overnight beds and an emergency department. The hospital, which would not provide surgical services, would be built across the street from a clinic at 11430 N. Port Washington Road opened last year by the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin Health network. (Boulton, 5/25)