ER visits rose 18% from 2012 to 2017, posing financial and operational difficulties.
Community & Public Health
The gap between African Americans and whites in controlling hypertension decreased by 58% from 2009 to 2017. Explaining why is trickier.
Three days after Hurricane María, Isolina Miranda stared in disbelief at what was left of the two-story building where a community health center once stood in the heart of San Lorenzo, a town in Puerto Rico.
Discomfort with end-of-life care discussions is not uncommon among many older immigrants in the United States.
A journalist decided to write letters to 103 young people serving sentences in Florida prisons for murders. Could their stories shed light on what made Duval County Florida's "murder capital"?
How Congress and the White House refuse to fund health care to the hurricane-ravaged island’s desperately poor.
Ballad Health in October stopped performing surgeries at a Norton hospital, but it is unclear if and when patients or state regulators were notified.
Butte County’s Oroville City Elementary School District, which has a suspension rate that is three times the statewide average, is under state investigation for its discipline policies and practices.
A long-running dispute between two major health care companies is coming to a head in western Pennsylvania, with consequences for future hospital-versus-insurer showdowns across the country.
Some life journeys start at a good day care center and end at the heights of academia. Some journalistic journeys go the other way.