The AMA will invest $2 million over two years in Chicago community development financial institutions that promote business growth, affordable housing and access to healthy foods.

Some smaller home health agencies will likely close or seek acquirers as they manage new reimbursement policies, according to a new report.

Colorado's public-option health plan would lower premiums on the individual market by 12%, but the state's hospital association balked at the propose reimbursement rates, which have a base rate of 155% of Medicare.

Sister M. Therese Gottschalk emigrated to the U.S. in 1953 and had a long career in hospital administration, including 38 years at the helm of Ascension St. John.