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No one can tally the full cost of caring for veterans with life-lasting wounds, but the financial price -- immeasurable compared to the emotional toll on vets and their families -- will increase as they age.
Harvard researchers find no difference in CEO compensation between hospitals that rate well in providing good care and those that do poorly.
A cottage industry of nonprofits and companies offer grades and rankings of hospitals. But they often measure different things.
Most of these patients have multiple chronic illnesses and all too often they wind up in emergency rooms because they have enormous difficulty navigating the increasingly fragmented, complicated and inflexible health-care system.
Insurance companies confirm a small number of successful signups through the federal website.
A coalition of the city's health department, county clinics and groups like the Urban League and Enroll America is trying to get the word out to Houston's 800,000 uninsured residents about the Affordable Care Act's insurance marketplaces, which will open Oct. 1.
Estes Park Medical Center escaped the flood damage that hit most of the area. But two roads leading to the town known as the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park are impassable. One snowstorm could close the remaining road and ground helicopters, leaving the hospital and its patients stranded.
Care is particularly aggressive in the Philadelphia area, according to a Dartmouth Atlas study.
Officials won't use "nuclear option" for fear of disrupting services to patients.
Nobody has a bigger financial stake in the success of Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges than hospitals. And few may work harder to sign up consumers than hospitals themselves.
A road in King Cove, Alaska would give 1,000 residents better access to emergency health care, but it would slice through a wildlife refuge. The decision rests with new Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, who toured the town in late August.
A federal proposal to reduce the number of hospitals that carry the 'critical access' designation could cost 60 Texas hospitals that status, along with their enhanced Medicare reimbursements, potentially jeopardizing their survival.
As a primary care clinician at a health care clinic in northeast D.C., Douglas Reed's life growing up in the neighborhood near the clinic prepared him to care for the residents there -- and the special needs they have.
Two years ago Pathways to Housing helped a homeless Alicia O. find an apartment and get regular medical care, the first steps on her way to changing her circumstances, and improving her life.
Advanced practice nurses say that despite growing need for primary care, they are stymied by insurers that won't credential them.
Some of the funding for Grace Hill and smaller community health centers in St. Louis may be in jeopardy, even as the number of people seeking discounted care or free is increasing in a state that will not expand Medicaid under the health law.
A study finds that a third of adult patients discharged from a hospital don't see a physician within 30 days -- and experts say this is a key reason so many of them need to come back in.
The former acting administrator of CMS, now running for governor of Massachusetts, explains his "Letter to the People of England," a call for continuous learning to improve quality within Britain's National Health Service.
But how can a law praised for expanding coverage -- one that includes an "employer mandate" to offer "minimum essential coverage" -- allow companies to offer insurance that might not even cover hospitalization?
The medical community is concerned the state's plans to produce more physicians to treat a surging population are insufficient.
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