President Barack Obama is spending almost $600 million to build community health centers and to make medical records easier to find.
The White House on Wednesday painted the spending — part of the $787 billion stimulus bill the president championed during his first days in office — as a way to add jobs to a [...]
Fewer Americans are afraid that they will be unable to pay for health-care services and fewer expect to postpone medical treatments due to costs, according to a Thomson Reuters survey published on Monday.
Researchers found a steady increase in people’s confidence about their ability to pay for health-care services — it rose 12 percent between March [...]
The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals National Benchmarks study unveiled its latest list this week, many of them returning honorees mixed with a few new names. The Reuters study is based on the National Balanced Scorecard that evaluates performance in nine areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, [...]