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Clinical Care
"We Are Not Here or Funded to 'Promote the Best Interest' of the Children," Wrote the Head of a Program for Brain-Damaged InfantsA Florida program promises support to families of severely brain-damaged infants. Instead, parents have been forced to choose between parenting...
Clinical Care
Florida Plans Audit of Program That Blocks Parents of Brain-Damaged Newborns From SuingOfficials called for reforms hours after an investigation by the Miami Herald and ProPublica identified gaps in a Florida program...
Covid-19
Fauci Thanks US Health Workers for Sacrifices but Admits PPE Shortages Drove Up Death TollShortages were compounded by the federal government's failure to maintain a national stockpile of personal protective equipment.
Nursing
12 Months of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in COVID's First YearTwo-thirds of deceased healthcare workers for whom the Lost on the Frontline project has data identified as people of color.
Revenue Cycle
Q&A: Reducing Audit Risks for Short StaysThe first group of short-stay inpatients may come into the hospital and stay a few hours in the ED.
Clinical Care
I Received Tips to Look Into How a Hospital Treated Premature Babies. Getting Data Was Nearly Impossible.New Mexico limits the information it collects on neonatal centers. That makes it incredibly challenging to get reliable data, sort...
Strategy
'No Good Choices': HHS Is Cutting Safety Corners to Move Migrant Kids Out of Overcrowded FacilitiesAccording to internal government statistics and interviews with former officials, legal observers, advocates and congressional staff, those decisions came weeks...
Clinical Care
How We Investigated Death Rates for Extremely Preterm Babies in This State's Largest Maternity HospitalsThe two largest maternity centers in this state have drastically different death rates for extremely preterm babies. Here's how we...
Clinical Care
The Two Hospitals Have Similar Infant Death Rates — Until You Look at Extremely Premature BabiesLax state oversight leaves unanswered questions about the deaths of extremely preterm babies at Albuquerque's Lovelace Women's Hospital, which markets...
Strategy
It's Not Just QAnon. Democrats and Independents Also Want to Recall California's Governor.It's true that the leaders of the recall petition are connected to Republican donors, right-wing extremists and QAnon, and that...
Covid-19
To Hold the Government Accountable, We Need to Know What It's Doing. That's Why We're Tracking PPP Data.When Congress earmarked hundreds of billions of dollars for the Paycheck Protection Program, ProPublica believed the public had a right...
Covid-19
Cuomo's Nursing Home Scandal Raises Questions for One of His Senior AidesJim Malatras stood by a Cuomo administration report on nursing home deaths he knew undercounted the true loss of life....