Diana Manos

After months of battling with hospital management, the registered nurses of Quincy Medical Center have ratified a new union contract that includes a 3 percent wage cut in hopes of getting what they consider to be safer staffing conditions.

Hospitals can support patient-centered medical homes by linking them with affiliated physicians and offering health information technology, staff and management expertise, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Hospital Association.

To celebrate the six-month anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, the White House has launched a new Web site that includes stories from every state on the positive impact of healthcare reform.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $42.5 million in funding to state, tribal, local and territorial health departments for 94 projects to improve public health.

The percentage of the nation's population without health insurance increased to 16.7 percent in 2009 from 15.4 percent in 2008, according to the latest data released Thursday by the Census Bureau.

Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), co-chairman of the GOP Doctors Caucus, has called for a Congressional hearing on healthcare reform, with hopes of repealing it.

Consumers surveyed in a new study said they hope their health insurance companies will help them understand healthcare reform and how it will impact their lives.

The administrator for the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services urged health plans Monday to join the government and other stakeholders in helping to overhaul the American healthcare system.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has once again come down on health insurers, saying she has "zero tolerance" for plans that spread misinformation and unjustifiably hike premiums.

Healthcare spending is projected to reach nearly $4.6 trillion by 2019, growing at an average annual rate of 6.3 percent over the next decade, according to economists at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.