The donation, from the Smidt Foundation, is the largest Cedars-Sinai has received in its 116-year history, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Alaska, Arizona, and California.
Some hospitals are promoting bank loans or credit cards in an effort to ease patients' cost concerns and ensure payment for services—but financial experts have raised questions about the practice, citing high interest rates and other fees for patients.
Home health aide is the hardest health care job to fill on CareerCast's list of the "Toughest Jobs to Fill in 2018." Here's our take on why some health care jobs are so tough to recruit for—and how you can find the right candidates for those roles.
Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio), who helped draft the bipartisan health reform proposal, says governors are "looking for ways to continue to provide great health care for lower prices."
Experts say technology-related upgrades and hiring new personnel will account for major costs associated with implementing changes, such as work requirements, to states' Medicaid programs.
As the #MeToo movement gains traction, some in medicine are seeking to raise awareness of and reduce sexual harassment in the field, which they say is too often accepted as part of the job.
Pneumonia is the most-common hospital-acquired infection in the United States, but some hospitals are fighting it with a simple solution: toothbrushes, Lucette Lagnado writes for the Wall Street Journal.
