Jack Hays has stayed in the hospital for more than a year – including more than 250 days in a windowless room in the emergency department – as he waits for long-term care.
Healthcare Regulation and Reform
Chief health equity officers are growing more common. But experts say companies need to empower them
But the people in these prominent positions — and the ones hiring them — say they’re still defining the role, and in some cases, fighting for buy-in and resources from others in their organizations.
Choctaw Nation and other tribal nations have made big investments in tribally run mental health care in the wake of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
There's little discussion of the impact on fertility, and the broader lack of reproductive and sexual health care for young people living with this complex disease.
Four years after the rape of a woman at Hacienda HealthCare launched reforms, critics say the state is still not doing enough to protect people with IDD from abuse.
As the waitlist for a state hospital bed in Texas continues to grow, mental health leaders remain dedicated to the widespread adoption of a strategy known as “Eliminate the Wait.”
Abuse can take place anywhere, and the perpetrator can be anyone.
The goal is to keep patients from falling through the cracks in the health care system — cracks that can be more dangerous for Latinos in San Antonio's South Side.
But as California moves to decriminalize street vending, many wonder if aggressive policing will stop.
A review of internal records and interviews with a dozen current and former health department staff show what expertise it possesses has long been muzzled or ignored.