Care Coordination

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has partnered with Lyft to offer its patients and employees customized transportation programs.

Even with access to an established safety-net health system, low-income adults in Southern states that expanded Medicaid saw higher health benefits than residents of states that didn't expand the federal health insurance program, according to a study published in Health…

Local healthcare services are working to coordinate care while Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital operates at reduced capacity more than a month after a burst water pipe flooded the facility, according to NPR's affiliate radio station WABE. 

A common claim, that use of e-cigarettes is "95 percent less risky or harmful" than smoking cigarettes is misleading and invalid, according to an editorial published in the American Journal of Public Health.

Hundreds of Seattle Public Schools students without proof of a complete vaccination record were barred from attending class Jan. 8, the Seattle Times reports.

An examination of U.S. death certificate data shows that alcohol-related deaths doubled over the last two decades, from 35,914 in 1999 to 72,558 in 2017.

HHS has declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico after a series of earthquakes and aftershocks in the region this week.

As today’s healthcare system evolves in response to clinical, economic, and political pressures, the role of Emergency Departments (EDs) is evolving as well.

Local hospitals were notified of a "mass casualty event" Jan. 4 after a bus accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike left five dead and 60 injured, local CBS affiliate KDKA-TV reports. 

Physicians, paramedics and other healthcare professionals are accustomed to treating medical conditions. But they are also increasingly part of efforts to end human trafficking, according to The Washington Post.