Susan Stacey, CEO of Sacred Heart, downplayed the role of finances in her decision to close the inpatient unit. She said she moved forward only after careful consideration of stakeholder feedback, and ...
Oregon hospitals are operating at a loss or often with thin profit margins, with patients boarding in emergency rooms and rural facilities forced to consider closing maternity wards. The space between ...
The state health plan currently has a $507 million deficit. Pharmacy benefit managers, the intermediaries in the drug supply chain, are supposed to use their bargaining power to negotiate lower drug ...
The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti. For many Asian ...