Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown, Pa.). Lehigh Valley Hospital is the flagship of the Lehigh Valley Health Network, comprised of five full-service hospitals, a children’s hospital, community health centers, home health and hospice services and a physician group. In 2014, the…
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A group of 50 activists from the Trauma Care Coalition chained together and blocked traffic on Michigan Avenue in Chicago Thursday night to demand the University of Chicago build a trauma center on the city's South Side, according to NBC…
Sierra Leone government ministers have lost track of more than $3 million in internal emergency funds for fighting the Ebola virus, according to Sierra Leone's national auditor general, Lara Taylor-Pearce, The New York Times reports.
As a newly minted healthcare journalist, I've had to learn a lot of information on a myriad of topics very quickly. For example, I had to learn about accountable care organizations, EMRs, interoperability and meaningful use. Most arduously, I've had…
Anyone who has ever worked in a hospital knows that things aren't always as clean as they appear, including airplanes. For those travelers taking flight during the holidays, knowing where planes are germiest can reduce the chances of getting sick.
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Despite the major blowback following the uncovering of a wait-time scandal at Veterans Affairs hospitals, wait times continue to be long for more than 600,000 veterans, or about 10 percent of all patients, according to a report from USA Today.
Forty-three rural hospitals, with more than 1,500 beds among them, have closed since 2010, with the pace of closures accelerating each year, according to North Carolina Rural Health Research Program data in USA Today.
The American Medical Association reported their House of Delegates passed a number of resolutions with a public health focus at their annual interim meeting this week. Get the scoop on the key issues they approved:
Fifty-one percent of Americans who used healthcare exchanges set up by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last year through Healthcare.gov don't plan on participating in them this year when open enrollment restarts on Nov. 15, according to a…
Rural hospitals in Virginia are in serious trouble, according to a report from the Virginia Hospital Association, with 20 of 37 of the state's rural hospitals operating with negative margins.