This story is Part 10 of a 15-part series that examines health care needs in Gary, Ind.
Methodist Hospitals’ financial turnaround has impressed hospital analysts and bond ratings agencies.
In May, New York bond-rating firm Standard & Poor’s changed its outlook on Methodist’s long-term bonds from negative to stable, reflecting its “improved operating performance and an improved balance sheet in fiscal 2009.”
Dr. Carl Elliott is a brave man. A bioethicist with an MD, Elliott took on powerful interests at his own university on behalf of a woman he barely knew and a patient he could not save.
On a tie vote, state senators on Thursday rejected a proposal to require a prescription for cold and allergy medicines containing pseudoephedrine.
This story explores how a Utah hospital attempts to slow the revolving door of asthma hospitalizations. It is a sidebar to the third part of May's series on health disparities in Salt Lake City.
This story explores how freeways may cause children in certain Utah neighborhoods to be hospitalized more often. It is a sidebar to the third part of her series on health disparities in Salt Lake City.
This story is Part 7 of a 15-part series that examines health care needs in Gary, Indiana.
Every dollar invested in a community health center yields returns beyond that investment, said an official of the association representing such centers in Indiana.
“Not only do we provide care to people without access to health services, but we improve the economy,” said Phil Morphew, chief executive officer of the Indiana Primary Care Association.
This story is Part 6 of a 15-part series that examines health care needs in Gary, Indiana.
In the next three years Methodist Hospitals Northlake in Gary faces perhaps the greatest challenge of its 101-year history.
Health care reform is expected to reduce the rolls of uninsured Gary patients and expand health care access to thousands. But by 2014 the city’s only acute care hospital must figure out how to replace millions of dollars in government funding scheduled to disappear.
Why does California's governor want to take back $1 billion in money dedicated to children's health? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.
Dr. Algis Martell found a unique solution to the abortion debate.
According to the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners, he performed abortions on women who were never pregnant and, when they were pregnant, he said he was performing an abortion but did not.
With escalating obesity rates and growing interest in “buying local,” it’s a prime moment for health reporters to shine a light on how local government leaders can build momentum for a strategy many communities have long ignored.
