Public Health

Shortly after the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — while allowing states to opt out of a Medicaid expansion provision in the law — some state officials are saying they may turn down…

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health System announced it is partnering with the California Department of Public Health to run the California Cancer Registry.

The Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could put in jeopardy initiatives aimed at improving the nation's healthcare system by leaving them unfunded, according to a New York Times report.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced grants have been awarded to 219 community health centers to expand access to care and create new jobs.

Safety-net hospitals and health systems that are part of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems had nearly three times the volume of inpatient admissions in 2010 compared with other acute-care hospitals, according to a NAPH report (pdf).

The Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children in Birmingham, Ala., a $400 million facility, will be dedicated today, according to a Birmingham News report.

Only 36 percent of voters think the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a "good idea," according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll cited in a recent Atlantic article.

St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, N.Y., has seen an influx of patients following the closure of Peninsula Hospital Center, also in Far Rockaway, in early April, according to an LI Herald report.

The United States and Mexico announced at a World Health Organization assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, shared guidelines for coordinating information exchange during public health emergencies, according to an AHA News Now report.

From January to June 2011, among adults aged 18 to 64 who visited the emergency room in the past 12 months but were not admitted to a hospital, 79.7 percent visited the ER due to a lack of access to…