St. Mary’s Health Care System announced recently that a resolution has not been reached with Cigna insurance company that would give its customers access to St. Mary’s health care.
Citing declining numbers of patients and significant costs, the PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center University District officially closed its emergency department on Friday, leaving the second-largest city in Oregon without an emergency room.
California’s special emergency fund for financially distressed hospitals probably would not have passed the Legislature this year had it not been for the failure of a rural hospital off Highway 99 in the San Joaquin Valley.
The University Medical Center Burn Center in New Orleans is now home to 10 nurses who have received the country's only burn nursing specialty certification.