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The new, $1 billion patient-safety program comes on the heels of a recent study that found one in three Americans admitted to hospitals will experience some type of medical error or accident.
The Associated Press reports that the health overhaul - in the midst of an ongoing budget debate - has its lowest level of support since its passage.
The Boston Globe reports on new federal government findings regarding a "crisis" in the New Hampshire state mental health system. Meanwhile, KHN reports on how mentally ill patients sometimes are left to languish in hospital emergency departments.
Community health centers and a voucher program supported by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., take hits, while funding for HIV and STD prevention - despite early reports - dodges a cut.
Today's news reports come from Kansas, Florida, Maryland, Georgia, Maine, Connecticut, Oregon, California. Massachusetts, South Dakota and Texas.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including previews of what will likely be in President Obama's deficit-reduction proposal, which he is scheduled to outline at a speech this afternoon.
The $1 billion Partnership for Patients is designed to help save 63,000 lives and up to $35 billion in health care costs over the next three years.
Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on Tuesday "raised the level of severity at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from 5 to 7
Administering cholera vaccines to people in Haiti who live in high-risk areas could drive down the number of cholera infections and deaths in the country, according to a study published Monday in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature News reports. The study is the latest to weigh in on the impact such vaccination efforts could have on reducing the spread of the disease, which has sickened 274,418 people and led to the deaths of 4,787 in Haiti, according to the publication (Brower, 4/11).
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released details of the spending deal "struck with Senate Democrats and the White House to avert a government shutdown and cut nearly $40 billion in government spending," CQ reports.
While in Brussels on Monday, Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, spoke about the potential effects several countries' decisions to temporarily suspend payments to the Geneva-based fund could have on recipient countries, Reuters reports.
On Medicare, President Barack Obama is expected to provide less taxpayer money for health care providers and to allocate more costs to beneficiaries. However, his plan is not likely to "deeply" slash Medicare, Medicaid or other domestic programs.
As news outlets report on some of the specific cuts counted in the last-minute budget deal, some signs indicate that House consideration of the delicate compromise could be rocky because it doesn't place more limits on abortion funding or "defund" the new health law.
The confluence of the fifth anniversary along with Romney's informal steps toward a presidential run add interest to the developments.
The tough talk involved in Community Health's bid to take over Tenet involves fraud allegations.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
Chris Koster, the state's A.G., urged a federal judge on Monday to rule against the health law's individual mandate.
The imaging lobby is "pushing back" on recommendations that would require doctors to get prior authorization before referring patients for some imaging scans.
The Dallas Morning News reports on how software that performs "predictive modeling analysis" will help the government sift through more than $500 billion a year in Medicare claims.
Speaking at the American Hospital Association's annual meeting, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick said Medicare was "viable" and the cuts to the program were not the answer to reducing the deficit.
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