Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward.

You step into a story that asks how a routine hospital visit turned into a criminal investigation. Staff at Nationwide Children’s Hospital say a mother injected a visible foreign substance into her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oregon Health Authority oversees the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. (Oregon Health Authority) Late last year, a patient at ...

A Louisiana hospital did not have a duty to disclose an anesthesiologist’s drug problem in a reference to a prospective hospital employer, and therefore cannot be held liable for patient injuries the ...

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A task force focused on ameliorating the logjam of patients waiting to be discharged from hospitals to post-acute care settings has offered a string of legal remedies that overlap with some ...

Accountable care organizations are receiving a considerable amount of hype, but many experts are wary about the program’s implications. “On the surface of it, an ACO sounds like a wonderful thing. Who ...

Alejandro Quiroga of Children's Mercy Kansas City says healthcare keeps treating workforce burnout like an engineering problem when it requires hypothesis-driven leadership instead. When hospital ...