Community Benefit
The Baltimore health system put Robert Peace back together after a car crash shattered his pelvis. Then it nearly killed him, he says.
Dr. Samuel Ross had been CEO of Bon Secours Health System for three months when he went to a dinner party in 2006 and first heard the name some Baltimoreans use for the hospital.
10 hospital outreach programs have been recognized for their unique approaches to helping underserved communities around the country with national Hospital Charitable Services awards from Jackson Healthcare. The winning programs got equal shares of $100,000 of unrestricted funds offered through the Hospital Charitable Services Awards, Jackson Healthcare said in a statement.
A new study on death rates and readmissions suggests that when it comes to treating older men for heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia, veterans' hospitals compare well with others.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced access to preferred cost-sharing pharmacies has improved, with the bottom 10 percent of plans so far this year offering access within two miles of 71 percent of urban beneficiaries. That's compared to 40 percent of beneficiaries who had similar geographic access in 2014.
DignityHealth next month will break ground on one of four small hospitals in Las Vegas, part of a plan to bring more care to underserved neighborhoods of the famous desert city.
While the medical importance of vaccines is largely known, a pair of researchers is looking to define just what economic value vaccines play in the realm of global healthcare.
Colorado hospitals and health systems provided more than $2 billion in community benefits in 2014, according to data recently released by the Colorado Hospital Association.
In its annual Community Benefit Report, the Minnesota Hospital Association announced that the state's nonprofit hospitals and health systems chipped in more than $4.3 billion in programs and services in 2014 to benefit community health. That's an uptick of 4.6 percent compared to the previous year.
California voters will weigh in this November on a high-stakes ballot proposition intended to help control the cost of prescription drugs - the latest attempt to limit soaring prices that have prompted public criticism nationwide.