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Reporting on Hospital Charity Care: Crunching the Numbers
Nonprofit hospitals receive millions of dollars in tax breaks each year to care for the poor and... more »
posted 11/09/11
Live online chat today on health inequities
Larry Adelman, executive producer of the "Unnatural Causes" documentary series, and Dr. Anthony... more »
posted 12/07/09
Health inequities series: Exploring life expectancy by ZIP code
Bay Area News Group will begin a four part series on health inequities Sunday that will feature... more »
posted 12/04/09

Sandy Kleffman's Work
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Project: Public hospitals carry burden of charity care despite big tax breaks for nonprofits

Some non-profit hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area receive millions of dollars in tax breaks each year to care for the poor and uninsured, yet they provide only a fraction of local charity care. Sandy Kleffman reports.

Project: Regenerating Growth

Several universities throughout California have received sizeable grants for extensive study of stem cells.

Project: Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters

The "Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters" project, produced by staff writers Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman, ran in 2009 as a four-part series in the Contra Costa Times and the Oakland Tribune, now-defunct daily newspapers in Northern California .