patient experience

Are better solutions 3 to 5 years away?

The patient’s breaths had become labored. He struggled to pull air from his mouth to his lungs. It got so bad late one Saturday night that he decided to say something about it the next time his nurse made rounds at Jackson South Community Hospital.

A nurse who allegedly failed to properly attend to a nursing home patient who suffered a fatal fall was allowed to surrender his license to the state for three years and then reapply for reinstatement. But he did not agree to the resolution by the Jan. 8 deadline.

The screening, which requires a urine sample, can flag whether a patient is actually taking the prescribed medication and is meant to spark a more truthful conversation between patient and doctor.

Ensuring that vulnerable elderly are well-fed could trim their healthcare costs, especially for emergency-room visits, U.S. researchers say.

Shawntrel Dyess remembers the phone call that changed everything. "It was December 3rd, I will never forget that call, ever." Dyess says.  "I was here in Georgia."

KHN launches 'Pre$cription for Power,' a groundbreaking database to expose Big Pharma's ties to patient groups.

More Americans are accessing their personal electronic medical records, and find the data helpful and easy to use, but policymakers say half of the nation doesn’t see a need to do so.

Study suggests a variety of factors are at play when patients rate physicians, many of which are beyond the immediate control of the physician.