Richard Pizzi

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised its rating outlook to positive from stable on debt issued for UMass Memorial Medical Center, part of UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass.

National health expenditures grew in 2008 at the slowest pace in nearly 50 years yet still outpaced economic growth at large, according to a new report from the California HealthCare Foundation.

The cost for in-home healthcare has risen just 1.7 percent a year over the past five years, compared to 6.7 percent for assisted living facilities and 4.5 percent for a private room in a nursing home, according to a new survey.

St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan is poised to close for good at the end of April. But what will happen to its 3,500 employees when the hospital ceases to exist?

Overall healthcare prices increased 0.2 percent in March and were 2.9 percent higher than a year ago, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The American College of Physicians plans to launch an initiative to assess the benefits, harms and costs of diagnostic tests and treatments for various diseases.

California voters, regardless of political party affiliation or income level, feel unprepared for the costs of long-term care, according to a new poll.

Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc., has exercised its option to acquire 63 additional long-term care facilities from affiliates of CapitalSource, Inc.

Community Health Systems, Inc., the largest publicly traded hospital company in the United States, increased its operating revenues for the first three months of 2010.

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle signed a Critical Access Hospitals Bill into law this week that ensures the 59 communities that are served by Critical Access Hospitals can leverage additional state resources and federal funding.