Ballad Health has been consolidating services in southwest Virginia and funneling those patients to Norton Community Hospital. Now it's the sole owner of that hospital.

The nurses, who went on strike Sept. 20, continue to protest alleged chronic understaffing that has impeded patient care.

Ascension and Google maintain that they followed HIPAA before sharing any patient data, but that may not be enough to gain consumer trust.

As more employers turn to high-performance networks to help control rising healthcare costs, the federation of 36 independent Blues plan companies debuts its first new program to serve a nationwide marketplace in 25 years.

Three former Outcome Health employees were criminally charged in connection with allegations of fraud by the healthcare-advertising company that was once one of the most-watched startups in Chicago.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has agreed to become part of the ECRI Institute in a move that will make ECRI one of world's largest patient-safety organizations.

Healthcare is first and foremost about people, and Bernard Tyson never lost sight of that. A true leader and healer, he realized that real well-being depended on strong, cohesive communities.

A safety improvement network for children’s hospitals serves as an example for other emerging collaborations.

The VA is among federal agencies that have been reporting the same vulnerabilities to the Government Accountability Office and the Office of Inspector General for years.

The CMS wants to simplify its hospital star ratings system, but a panel of healthcare experts worry the changes won't help patients and could let hospitals game the system.

A new report from the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare highlights the significant amount of time and money physician practices spend maintaining provider directories.

The kidney care sector needs a reimbursement system that incentivizes change and attracts the capital investment necessary to transform care.

Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Thursday that Congress will likely temporarily delay cuts to Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital funds until December.

Following the death of Kaiser Permanente longtime CEO Bernard Tyson, colleagues say they plan to continue his legacy.

As Medicaid supplemental state payments have become a larger proportion of total program payments, the CMS wants to increase transparency and oversight of the funding.

Brigham Young University-Idaho has stopped accepting Medicaid as health insurance coverage, forcing full-time students to buy a limited, university-backed plan.

Reports of the stethoscope’s demise have been circulating for years. But the 200-year-old device seems to be holding its own against high-tech rivals.

Experiencing Canada’s healthcare system firsthand gave Dr. Michael Apkon an interesting vantage point from which to assess the U.S. model.

Not-for-profits in Illinois are exempt from property taxes, in return for providing free or discounted services to poor and underinsured people. But activists are alleging the hospitals don't provide enough free care to warrant the break.

No one knows how frequently patients experience harm in healthcare settings, though nearly everyone agrees it’s far too common.

Highmark Health, the Pittsburgh-based Blues insurer that owns integrated system Allegheny Health Network, is introducing a program to deliver inpatient hospital care to patients in their homes.

Sign-ups during the first two weeks of open enrollment for 2020 Affordable Care Act exchange coverage are lower than last year's plan selections during the same period.

Although hospitals have made progress against antibiotic-resistant infections, the CDC's latest report shows they have caused more deaths than previously estimated.

At the president's urging, HHS is working on a more aggressive approach to tying payment for physician-administered drugs in Medicare to foreign drug prices.

The CEO of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford said he was disappointed the UnityPoint board failed to embrace the vision for a new health system of national prominence.

Three years after merging to create one of the largest Catholic health systems in the country, Providence St. Joseph is changing its name.

The success that the Institute of Medicine achieved by raising awareness of the seriousness and ubiquity of safety and quality problems has not been matched by our ability to solve them.

Safety experts say the recent deadly problems at top hospitals demonstrate holes in the culture of safety, transparency and measurement of errors.

In the 20 years since To Err is Human, so far as we can determine, the progress toward truly safer patient care remains frustratingly slow and spotty.

Performance measures have evolved in the past 20 years, but quality experts say they still don’t hold the industry accountable.

CEOs, not frontline staff, are at the root of the hospital industry shortfall in improving patient safety in the 20 years since the problem was highlighted by the landmark study To Err is Human.