Overall public perception of President Obama's healthcare reform law has waned, largely due to a decline in Democrats' support of the law, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.
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The American Medical Association today launched a multi-million dollar advertising campaign to highlight the importance of patient-physician relationships, according to an AMA news release.
HHS has announced new guidance to support enforcement of rules that protect hospital patients' right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic partner, according to an HHS release.
The Los Medanos Community Healthcare District in Pittsburg, Calif., will be spending $80,000 more on its own expenses instead of the community programs it was established to support, according to a Contra Costa Times report.
More hospitals are hiring “cultural concierges” to develop a firmer understanding of patients’ various cultural sensitivities, according to a Chicago Tribune report. The new position is more far-reaching than employed language interpreters, according to the report. For instance, a cultural…
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Yesterday, five national healthcare groups issued a call to action for the elimination of disparities in healthcare, according to an AHA News Now report. The five organizations participating in the initiative are: the Association of American Medical Colleges, American College…
A new analysis of healthcare equality by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation found that the vast majority of U.S. healthcare facilities don't have fully inclusive policies toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, but that is slowly changing, according to…
People who routinely use social media platforms and patient-specific websites, or “E-Patients,” are 60 percent more likely than the general population to take part in a clinical trial, according to a recent survey Marketing firm Blue Chip Patient Recruitment conducted…
An annual survey conducted by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation on healthcare in Michigan suggests that simply having health coverage does not guarantee access to care, according to a CHRT news release.
A recent survey found 75 percent of consumers’ do not have a firm understanding of how the healthcare system works, according to the survey from Deloitte. The survey included the following key findings for American consumers: • Three in four…