Category: Hospitals
In Search Of Age-Friendly Health Care, Finding Room For Improvement
For older adults, health care facilities can be difficult to navigate and, occasionally, perilous.
‘UVA Has Ruined Us’: Health System Sues Thousands Of Patients, Seizing Paychecks And Claiming Homes
UVa sued patients for as much as $1 million and as little as $13.91, and garnished thousands of paychecks, largely from workers at lower-pay employers.
#HelloMyNameIs: A simple act to improve patients’ experiences of care
The social media #HelloMyNameIs campaign is an effort to get health-care providers to introduce themselves each time they visit a patient.
Where Tourism Brings Pricey Health Care, Locals Fight Back
An alliance of locals struck a deal with the hospital system and now may be able to offer its members premiums that are at least 20% less than current rates.
Christian Hospital Dials Back Aggressive Debt Collection
Memphis non-profit hospital will raise the minimum wage it pays employees and stop suing them for unpaid medical debts.
Researchers create protein switch that allows unprecedented control over cells function
Scientists have created the first completely artificial protein switch that can work inside living cells to modify—or even commandeer—the cell’s complex internal circuitry. The switch is dubbed “LOCKR,” short for Latching, Orthogonal Cage/Key pRotein. Companion papers published July 24 in…
Millionaire CEO of Nonprofit Hospital That Sues the Poor Promises Review of Policies
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare promised a policy review after an investigation found it sued 8,300 patients — including its own employees — for medical debt
Have Cancer, Must Travel: Patients Left In Lurch After Hospital Closes
The first installment of year-long series, which follows how the closure of one rural hospital disrupts a community’s health care, economy and equilibrium.
The Nonprofit Hospital That Makes Millions, Owns a Collection Agency and Relentlessly Sues the Poor
In Memphis, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, a non-profit has brought 8,300 lawsuits for unpaid medical bills in just five years.
Can Robin Hood Plan Rescue Of Rural Hospitals?
The proposal would increase Medicare payments to mostly rural hospitals in the lowest 25th percentile and decrease the payments to hospitals in the highest 75th.
Hospitals Accused Of Paying Doctors Large Kickbacks In Quest For Patients
Federal law prohibits physicians from referring patients for services in which the doctor has an interest and bars hospitals from paying doctors for referrals.
Escalating Workplace Violence Rocks Hospitals
Across the country, many doctors, nurses and other health care workers have remained silent about what is being called an epidemic of violence against them.
‘John Doe’ Patients Force Hospital Staff To Play Detective
Identifying patients helps avoid the treatment risks that come with not knowing a patient’s medical history and find next of kin to help make medical decisions.
Will Ties To A Catholic Hospital System Tie Doctors’ Hands?
How can a public hospital that has been a leader in women’s health care partner with a Catholic system that denies such services and considers them as immoral?
Hospitals Chafe Under New Payment Rule For Off-Campus Clinics
Medicare has opted to pay hospitals with outpatient facilities that are “off campus” a lower rate, equivalent to what it pays independent doctors for visits.