May 20 In rural Tennessee, a hospital turns to crowdfunding to stay afloat By Max Blau, STAT The Copper Basin Medical Center has launched a GoFundMe campaign to try to raise enough money to serve its rural community. It's not going well. Continue reading
May 09 Medicare failed to investigate suspicious infection cases from nearly 100 hospitals By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News Ninety-six hospitals reported suspicious data on dangerous infections to Medicare officials, but the agency did not follow up or examine any of the cases in depth, according to a report by the Health and Human Services inspector general’s office. Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch 3:29 Hospitals are cutting jobs across the nation By PBS News Hour Under mounting financial pressures, hospitals across the country are slashing jobs and clinical services. The reasons range from financial to political, and among them are escalating costs and uncertainty about the Affordable Care Act. Casey Ross, who reported on this… Continue watching
Sep 17 Bedless hospitals treat patients and send them home the same day By Casey Ross, STAT As treatments get less invasive and recovery times shrink, a new kind of hospital is cropping up — the “bedless hospital.”… Continue reading
Sep 08 Doctors fight to bring hospital ICUs into the modern era By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT Many ICU physicians say that ICUs are woefully — and often dangerously — out of date. Continue reading
Aug 15 Watch 11:41 Repeatedly targeted by airstrikes, Syrian doctors feel abandoned By Marcia Biggs In Syria’s ongoing war, doctors are under attack in the very places they expect to be safe: their hospitals. Last week, pro-government forces bombed a maternity hospital in the northwestern city of Idlib -- just one of the more than… Continue watching
May 26 WHO: Some 1,000 killed in attacks on hospitals in 2 years By Maria Danilova, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Nearly 1,000 people have been killed worldwide in attacks on medical facilities in conflicts over the past two years in violation of humanitarian norms, the World Health Organization said in a report Thursday. Continue reading
Apr 29 16 blamed for mistakes in deadly U.S. attack on Afghan clinic By Robert Burns, Associated Press WASHINGTON — A U.S. aerial gunship attack on a hospital in Afghanistan that killed 42 people occurred because of human errors, process mistakes and equipment failures, and none of the aircrew or U.S. ground troops knew the target was a… Continue reading
Apr 28 Watch 5:47 Hospitals and doctors under attack in Aleppo ‘difficult to replace’ By PBS News Hour Twenty-seven people were reportedly killed by a suspected Syrian government airstrike on a hospital in Aleppo. Hari Sreenivasan learns more about the bombing and the medical facility that was targeted from Pablo Marco of Doctors Without Borders. Continue watching
Apr 28 Airstrike destroys hospital in Syria as cease-fire falters By Larisa Epatko Airstrikes in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo destroyed a hospital Wednesday night, killing at least 27 people including 14 patients and staff. Continue reading