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A doctor at a hospital where several of the wounded from the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas were taken says some patients may still die.
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says North Dakota law limited his review of a merger of two large health care companies.
A Kansas commission is recommending that the state close its hospital for the mentally disabled in Topeka and move more patients into group homes.
If a third of people wind up catching swine flu, 15 states could run out of hospital beds around the time the outbreak peaks, a new report warns Thursday.
Voters have approved a property tax to keep the emergency room open and ambulances running at a rural western Missouri hospital that had warned of possible deaths if the measure failed.
Electronic medical records are a life-or-death issue at Sac-Osage Hospital — not necessarily just for the patients, but for the hospital itself.
The Shriners will continue treating children in all 22 cities where they operate hospitals, but some of the facilities may be downgraded to outpatient surgical centers and the sale or lease of real estate will be explored, the nonprofit's new CEO said Thursday.
Labor unions and Catholic leaders have reached an agreement designed to end years of bitter hostilities that often surrounded union efforts to organize workers at Catholic hospitals.
Even as the threat from drug-resistant germs continues to rise and a novel swine flu virus sweeps the country, U.S. hospitals are cutting back on staff and resources to battle potentially deadly patient infections.
Ailing from the recession, many U.S. hospitals have had to begin making painful cuts to patient services and laying off staff, as previous cost-cutting hasn't been enough, an industry survey found.
Shriners hospitals, which have provided free care since before the Great Depression, are considering closing a quarter of their facilities as donations stagnate, costs increase and the charity's endowment shrivels.
The World Health Organization called on governments Tuesday to make their hospitals disaster-proof, nearly a year after a massive earthquake devastated parts of southwest China — including scores of hospitals.
When Kate Probst learned she needed surgery to remove a brain tumor, she launched a nationwide search for the best medical care. Probst, an environmental policy analyst who lives in McLean, Va., consulted doctors in nearby Washington, D.C. She telephoned specialists at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina and sent her records to experts at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. Ultimately, Probst chose the second of two neurosurgeons she interviewed at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Her operation to remove the benign tumor was a success.
U.S. hospitals have a long way to go to join the digital age. Fewer than 2 percent have abandoned paper medical charts and completely switched to electronic health records, a new national survey found.
Nicaragua's National Psychiatric Hospital houses about 140 patients. But with little financial help from the government, it lacks the resources to help them.
The medical system in Gaza is close to being overwhelmed and the Palestinian enclave faces a humanitarian catastrophe unless a cease-fire is reached soon, a senior U.N. health official said Friday.
Gainesville's first community hospital has been on life support since the Shands Healthcare system in northern Florida bought it a dozen years ago.
Chinese provincial authorities lock up critics and complainants in mental hospitals, local media reported in a rare look at official abuse of China's psychiatric health system.
When football star Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg, police were surprised to learn of it from TV — not from the hospital, as required by law.
For more than a century, thousands of mentally disabled Americans were isolated from society, sometimes for life, by being confined to huge state institutions.
The dismal economy has American hospitals ailing, with new data showing declines in overall admissions and elective procedures, plus a significant jump in patients who can't pay for care, the American Hospital Association said Wednesday.
Power outages caused by Hurricane Gustav have forced state officials to transport scores of patients from hospitals and other medical facilities for fear they couldn't survive long without air conditioning.
One of two Missouri hospital emergency rooms reopened Sunday, a day after being shut down under quarantine when eight people sickened by a dangerous chemical's release sought treatment.
Equal parts graceful and eerie, massive brick and stone asylums once loomed over towns from Maine to California as the 19th century's ideal for the humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Road trip! What college student doesn't get a thrill from that cry?
Where Have All the Doctors Gone?I had to visit my doctor the other day. I only had a forty-minute wait before being checked into an examining room, followed by another thirty-minute wait before my doctor walked through the door. It wasn't too bad this time and I did take my latest W.E.B.
Proposed Healthcare Reform Keeps Hospital Doors ClosedIf we are to believe the nightly news reports, half of our population is eagerly awaiting the Obama Administration's healthcare reform bill to bring about lower prices, faster service and medical care to everyone.
Healthcare: So That's Why It's So ExpensiveEconomists have long believed that technology is the main reason that health-care costs are rising so rapidly. Now a young economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is challenging the conventional wisdom.
Swine flu ban: No young visitors at Stroger, other county hospitalsStarting today, the Cook County Health and Hospitals System joins the ranks of Chicago-area hospitals that are banning visitors under the age of 18 in an effort to limit the spread of H1N1 swine flu.
Bankruptcy and Medical Debt, 2003 and 2004 just over 50% of filings resulted from medical debtAccording to BCS Alliance.com, credit and debt solutions, nearly 50% of personal bankruptcies filed in 2003 and 2004 were the result of medical debt but a surprising number of those that filed had insurance and there were other options.
Hospitals delay response to cardiac arrestThe first major study of how quickly hospitals respond to in-house cardiac arrests found delays in almost a third of cases, doctors report Thursday.
Navigating the Health Care System: Does Your Hospital Do A Good Job?Compare your hospital with others in the area.
Father fights to keep son aliveA father is fighting a hospital's attempt to withdraw support keeping his baby son alive.
Obama to Lift HIV/AIDS Travel BanIt appears that President Obama is doing everything in his power to enforce laws against the majority of Americans.
Hospitals Accused Of 'Dumping' PatientsSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- When workers arrived at Sacramento's Loaves and Fishes shelter one morning in late September, they found Jean Miller on the doorstep. She was cold, confused and abandoned.
A Manufactured "Epidemic"Excerpts from Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Hospitals restrict visits over H1N1 concernsConcerns over the H1N1 flu virus have prompted two more west suburban hospitals to restrict visitors.
President Obama declared a "National Emergency" today, October 24, 2009, because of the Swine Flu, but can that declaration lead to the U.S.
Judge Halts Mandatory Flu Vaccines for Health Care Workers Updated, 4:21 p.m. | A judge on Friday morning halted enforcement of a New York State directive requiring that all health care workers be vaccinated for the seasonal flu and swine flu.
Hub Hospital To Workers: No Tweeting For YouBOSTON -- New England Baptist Hospital, which has treated members of the Boston Celtics and other athletes, said it is blocking access to social networking Web sites on its computers because of concerns that workers could share information that might violate patient privacy rules …
ARE YOU SICK AND TIRED OF LETTING HOSPITALS GET AWAY WITH DOING HARM TO YOURSELF OR DEATH TO A LOVED ONE WE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT! AND AS IF THAT ALONE WAS NOT ENOUGH THEY ADD INSULT TO INJURY BY CHARGING YOUR INSURANCE COMPANY AND OR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EXUBRANT AMOUNTS …
Nurse Exposes Over 1800 Patients To HIV, HepatitisFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- More than 1,800 patients treated by one nurse at a South Florida hospital may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis.
Hospitals Find Way to Make Care Cheaper -- Make It Better Patients rarely know which hospitals offer top-quality lung or aortic surgery, and which are more likely to harm them. Hospitals don't compete on price and rarely publish measurements of their quality, if they measure it at all.
Hospital employees protest vaccination ordersSt. Petersburg General Hospital lab assistant Pat Putman has already received a seasonal flu vaccination and will also get the H1N1 flu shot when it is available.
Atlanta Judge Rules Dialysis Unit Can Be Closed - Hospital will continue to assist the indigent patients, many of them illegal immigrantsFederal law generally prohibits coverage of illegal immigrants by Medicaid and Medicare (which pays for dialysis for citizens regardless of age).
Swine flu vaccine arrives, and the scramble begins Vaccine for the H1N1 flu will begin arriving in the nation's hospitals, clinics and schools as early as Tuesday, the start of an effort to protect Americans against a swine flu virus that emerged this past spring and quickly circled the globe.
Patient billed $58,000 for one night in hospital - charged $497 for two tablets of a drug he usually pays 8 dollars forJim Bujalski spent one night in the hospital and got a bill for more than $58,000. "I was surprised at the amount of the bill," Bujalski told CBS4.
Tie to Pets Has Germ Jumping to and FroFor decades, the drug-resistant germ called MRSA was almost exclusively a concern of humans, usually in hospitals and other health care settings.
I have heard from many that they do not want illegal immigrants to benefit from President Obama's healthcare reform legislation.
Hospital bans nurse's crucifix - employee risks job in fight to wear cross at workA NURSE says she has been banned from working with patients because she refuses to remove her crucifix necklace on the wards.
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