Nearly 90 days after Hurricane Maria took hit Puerto Rico, HHS said it has deployed nearly 3,037 personnel and assisted 31,011 patients.
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Mullins, S.C.-based Carolinas Hospital System-Marion will stop providing labor and delivery services in March, according to WPDE.
Healthcare companies and purchasers want to standardize ACO performance measurement and benchmarking in California, according to the Integrated Healthcare Association and Pacific Business Group on Health.
New Mexico is the best state for quality sleep, according to a SoClean poll.
Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network will close its nine-bed inpatient hospice unit at its West Penn Hospital, which is also in Pittsburgh, Jan. 25, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Mary Black Health System Gaffney (S.C.) will stop offering labor and delivery services March 31, 2018 as it transitions those services to Mary Black Health System Spartanburg (S.C.), according to FOX Carolina.
Dallas-based Parkland Memorial cut costs from the emergency room's highest utilizers by launching an initiative that better serves patients vulnerable to readmission, according to a Politico report.
EMS providers in Durham County, N.C., unveiled two vehicles for a community paramedics program that provides home care appointments for patients who have already been treated by an EMT, according to a Herald Sun report.
While cigarette smoking in the U.S. has been steadily declining for years, the rate of smoking among America's illicit drug users has increased significantly since 2002, according to a study published in the journal Addiction.
Patients with heart disease who are not married are at a higher risk of dying than heart patients with spouses, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.