Richard Pizzi

Cancer patients can face severe challenges paying for life-saving care, even when they have private health insurance, says a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the American Cancer Society.

A poor economy and crisis in the financial markets put strong downward pressure on credit ratings for not-for-profit hospitals in 2008, according to a report this week by Moody's Investors Service.

Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., will complete an emergency department expansion project over the next three years and use high-tech software to do it.

The Leapfrog Group has identified the “Highest Value” hospitals in the United States based on a review of more than 1,220 hospitals participating in the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey.

The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services has awarded $44 million in Health Care Stabilization Fund grants to six financially distressed hospitals in order to maintain healthcare access in underserved communities.

In late 2008, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the state of Louisiana selected adjacent sites in downtown New Orleans for the construction of two medical centers to replace hospitals damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

David Bachman is a healthcare analyst for Longbow Research.

As a new administration takes power in Washington, D.C., backed by a Congress controlled by the same party, the healthcare industry braces for change.

According to a new survey from the American Hospital Association, the ability of U.S. hospitals to obtain funds to upgrade their facilities or invest in new clinical and information technologies is severely restricted due to the "capital crunch" and the recession.

A new Commonwealth Fund report finds that policies in Switzerland and the Netherlands that achieve near-universal coverage and low administrative costs can help inform the U.S. healthcare reform debate.