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San Francisco eyes removing Mark Zuckerberg's name from general hospital
City officials and nurses are unhappy about having a privacy-averse billionaire's name stuck on a public hospital
11/30/2018 23:00 UTC
Hospital financial decisions play a role in the critical shortage of pediatric beds for RSV patients
"There’s no incentive for hospitals to provide money-losing services," one doctor explained
12/14/2022 14:16 UTC
Trump caught in huge lie when trying to explain why healthcare repeal failed
Trump says that a senator's hospitalization (which never happened) was why his health care bill failed
09/28/2017 15:00 UTC
A billing expert saved big after finding an incorrect charge in her husband’s ER bill
An expert in medical billing explains how to identify mistaken charges, based on her own experience
10/26/2022 15:16 UTC
"Fear of falling": How hospitals do even more harm by keeping patients in bed
Hospitals have become so overzealous in fall prevention that they are producing an “epidemic of immobility”
10/20/2019 18:59 UTC
How to build a better, safer, more welcoming hospital
Research shows that effective building design is especially important in hospitals
07/08/2018 22:59 UTC
A ground-level look at America’s health care system
In “The Hospital,” Brian Alexander chronicles the struggle to offer adequate medical treatment in small-town USA
05/31/2021 20:30 UTC
Understaffed state psychiatric facilities leave mental health patients in limbo
"The current crisis is unprecedented in the extent, severity and sweep of its national impact"
11/05/2021 12:15 UTC
Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients, yet there is a simple way to stop it
Unlike many infections that strike within hospitals, the federal government doesn’t require hospitals to report it
07/17/2022 01:00 UTC
Some hospitals kept suing patients over medical debt through the pandemic
A new study says some of the nation’s largest hospital systems — mostly non-profits — kept filing lawsuits
06/14/2021 17:40 UTC
Class-action lawsuit seeks to let Medicare patients appeal gap in nursing home coverage
Medicare’s nursing home benefit is available only to those admitted to the hospital for three consecutive days
08/14/2019 08:59 UTC
Up to 80% of hospital bills have errors. Are you being overcharged?
Surprise hospital bills and bogus charges are more common than you might think
10/03/2018 20:00 UTC
Can a community hospital stay true to its mission after sale to large corporation?
An Asheville community hospital wonders if it can keep its soul
08/02/2018 08:00 UTC
California requires hospitals to turn to a patient’s next of kin, closing a longtime loophole
California joins other states in passing a law allowing a surrogate to make decisions for a patient
02/22/2023 12:15 UTC
Health care is where the jobs are. But what kind of jobs?
Were they highly paid doctors and hospital executives or were they positions on the other end of the pay scale?
12/23/2018 02:00 UTC