Kara Hartnett

The Special Focus Facility program was meant to fix the most troubled nursing homes in America. It’s not living up to its mission.

The new rule, which takes effect on July 1, will require hospitals to retrofit their facilities to improve access and remove biases in their operations.

A new Commonwealth Fund report urges governments and providers to "look under the hood" to address health disparities across the country. 

Does giving diabetes patients fresh fruit and vegetables improve health outcomes? Providers, researchers and farmers in rural Mississippi teamed up to find out.

Healthcare consolidation is on the rise, driven in part by the growing role of private equity. The deals are also attracting increased regulatory scrutiny.

Teaching hospitals and medical schools must get consent to perform pelvic, breast, prostate and rectal exams on anesthetized patients, regulators wrote in a guidance document.

Dealmakers are paying extra attention to cybersecurity and the financial health of companies hammered by the Change Healthcare outage.

Hospitals across Massachusetts are building infrastructure to examine disparities, with the opportunity to collectively reap billions of dollars.

The Health and Human Services Department plans to require that healthcare facilities be accessible to people with disabilities, which often would entail buying and retrofitting equipment.

Hospital opposition and certificate of need laws have stymied efforts to launch birthing centers in several states.

Pressed by regulators and accrediting organizations, more healthcare providers are gathering data and implementing solutions to promote health equity.

New York became the most recent state to receive CMS approval to pay for a wide range of non-medical services for high-risk patients.

Seventeen distressed hospitals got $300 million in no-interest loans. For some, the money has been a lifeline. For others, merely a Band-Aid.

Since the George W. Bush administration, federal policy on healthcare providers with religious or moral objections to treatments such as abortion has yo-yoed under each new president.

Financial, social and legal challenges are leading labor and delivery units to shutter, potentially limiting access to care among vulnerable communities.