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Young diverse group of elementary students with a teacher attending school wearing protective face mask during coronavirus, covid-19 pandemic.

Familias apoyan tapabocas en las aulas, pero se oponen a la vacunación obligatoria

August 12, 2021 at 4:05 p.m.

Mientras la propagación de la variante delta amenaza la seguridad de las aulas, una nueva encuesta reveló que casi dos tercios de los padres apoyan que las escuelas exijan a...

Una instalación de Baylor Scott & White Health en Austin, Texas.

Pese a COVID-19, muchos hospitales ricos tuvieron un gran año con el rescate federal

April 7, 2021 at 3:28 p.m.

En mayo pasado, Baylor Scott & White Health, el mayor sistema hospitalario sin fines de lucro de Texas, despidió a 1,200 empleados y puso en licencia temporal a otros mientras...

A medida que se abren bares y otros lugares públicos, aumentan las tasas de infección en los adultos más jóvenes.

Nueva ola de contagios de COVID por bares atestados

June 25, 2020 at 4:11 p.m.

A medida que los estados alivian sus bloqueos, las barras de los bares están emergiendo como zonas fértiles para el coronavirus. Crean un cóctel peligroso de espacios estrechos, adultos jóvenes...

As coronavirus spreads widely, millions of older Americans live in counties with no ICU beds

March 25, 2020 at 5:46 p.m.

More than half the counties in America have no intensive care beds, posing a particular danger for more than 7 million people who are age 60 and up older patients...

Alisha Colyer applied for St. Joseph Medical Center's charity care around 2007 when her husband went to the emergency room for pneumonia. But the issue was never settled and years later a collection of medical bills helped push the couple into bankruptcy.

Patients eligible for charity care instead get big bills

October 18, 2019 at 5:53 p.m.

When Ashley Pintos went to the emergency room of St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., in 2016, with a sharp pain in her abdomen and no insurance, a representative...

Howard University, May 12.
"I don't know what your future is. But if you are willing to take the harder way, the more complicated one, the one with more failures at first than successes — the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory — then you will not regret it. Now, this is your time. The light of new realization shines on you today. Howard's legacy is not wrapped up in the money that you will make but the challenges that you choose to confront. As you commence to your paths, press on with pride, and press on with purpose."

Medicare takes aim at boomerang hospitalizations of nursing home patients

December 13, 2018 at 12:53 p.m.

"Oh my God, we dropped her!" Sandra Snipes said she heard the nursing home aides yell as she fell to the floor. She landed on her right side where her...

Home health agencies get star ratings from Medicare

August 19, 2019 at 1:03 a.m.

A new five-star rating system for home health agencies gives Illinois consumers a chance to see how nearly 700 agencies in the state perform at helping patients regain mobility, stay...

Jackson Park Hospital was among the Chicago-area hospitals that received the lowest possible score in a new Medicare rating system.

Few Chicago-area hospitals shine in government’s new patient star ratings

August 19, 2019 at 12:15 a.m.

The federal government has adopted a new patient satisfaction metric to rate the nation's hospitals, awarding each institution one to five stars after synthesizing the responses to consumer surveys. In...

The emergency entrance at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Infection rate penalties hit Chicago-area hospitals

June 18, 2018 at 7:46 a.m.

Nine Chicago hospitals ranked among the nation's worst on new measures of infection rates and other patient injuries, drawing federal penalties and raising questions about the way the hospitals are...

Medicare costs higher at rural hospitals

June 17, 2018 at 11:50 a.m.

Many Medicare beneficiaries treated at primarily rural "critical access" hospitals end up paying between two and six times more for outpatient services than do patients at other hospitals, according to...

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