Although I am grateful that the decision to close the birthing center at Southwest Memorial Hospital was reversed, an essential problem still remains: inadequate funding. If rural hospitals are ...

Very sick patients were at risk of losing their doctors completely once an agreement between the two systems expired. With the help of journalists, activist organizers, and allies in government, they ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The FOX31 Problem Solvers have reported on questionable “facility fees” before, but never one that was more than $2,500. “Two thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars for walking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oregon Health Authority oversees the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. (Oregon Health Authority) Late last year, a patient at ...

A task force focused on ameliorating the logjam of patients waiting to be discharged from hospitals to post-acute care settings has offered a string of legal remedies that overlap with some ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: It might sound strange, but very soon the Mahnomen Minnesota Hospital won't have hospital stays for its patients anymore. The tiny facility ...

After LEX 18 told the story last month of a woman who raised questions about the condition of her mother’s hospital beds, an expert reached out encouraging others to look out for their family members ...

Rather than pay, tenure or organization size, one determinant of hospital and health system leaders deserves outsized importance: their humanity. No one who leads or operates a hospital or health ...