While the emergency department closures were short-lived, experts say health systems need to pay closer attention to the risks of extreme weather and the resilience of their infrastructure as the effects of climate change spread and grow more intense.
Donald Lloyd, CEO and president of St. Claire HealthCare in Morehead, Kentucky, has spent more than a year dealing with higher costs for food and medical supplies for his regional hospital. Now he’s trying to prepare for another financial hit—the loss of Medicaid reimbursements for treating people in rural Appalachia.
A proposed deal between the State University of New York Upstate Medical University and Crouse Health System Inc. has become the latest of several failed attempts to merge over the last 20 years, much to the delight of federal enforcers.
A Montgomery County Court decision in 2021 certifying Tower Health’s status as a non-profit agency was reversed by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, putting Pottstown Hospital back on the tax rolls, for now.
Hospitals run by Los Angeles County could make free care available to more of their financially strapped patients under a new proposal aimed at expanding relief from medical bills.
Nearly four of 10 Americans said they had put off care in 2022 because of cost, the highest number since Gallup started asking people about delaying care more than 20 years ago.