Yesterday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg laid out a $20 billion plan to protect the city against the effects of climate change, and he said New York City's hospitals will play a key role.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency identified eight overarching trends related to emergency preparedness and response in its 2013 National Preparedness Report.
Several of California's largest healthcare providers are planning a mass demonstration next week after a federal court upheld the state's 10 percent cut to Medi-Cal payments, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.
The March of Dimes has announced a partnership with four hospitals and three universities in Ohio for a collaborative research program to identify causes of and prevent premature births.
The hospital sector has become a bigger player in the environmental and sustainability movement over the past several years, and according to a survey from Health Care Without Harm's Healthy Food in Health Care program, hospitals are ramping up their…
Direct and indirect costs of treating heart failure in America could more than double from $31 billion in 2012 to $70 billion in 2030, according to a policy statement from the American Heart Association.
Although New Orleans-based Children's Hospital leaders signed a lease agreement for the shuttered New Orleans Adolescent Hospital, they announced in a statement Thursday that they do not intend to reopen the facility to provide mental health services, according to a…
Texas has the highest percentage of uninsured adults, according to State Health Facts, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
The American Hospital Association has expanded its Sustainability Roadmap website, adding additional free resources to help hospitals reduce their environmental footprints.
Fewer than 11 percent of residents from Westchester County, N.Y., a county roughly 30 miles north of New York City, travel to Manhattan for hospital care, according to a study by the Westchester County Association Healthcare Consortium.