Many safety-net hospitals in the United States are struggling to keep their heads above water, and a “tsunami of financial challenges” associated with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ...

Of all American healthcare organizations, safety-net hospitals are facing one of the largest curveballs, as nearly 30 million Americans stand to gain coverage under the Patient Protection and ...

In Detroit, a fragile safety net serves the vulnerable. Dean Carpenter's death before COVID-19 left In Detroit, where health infrastructure crumbles, a fragmented safety net serves the city's most ...

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North Country HealthCare is the “only game in town” for care delivery in some of the regions it serves, said Dr. Jennifer Cortes, quality and population health medical officer at the federally ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Cook County Health and other safety-net health providers ...

Hospital groups warn the 340B rebate pilot would force safety net providers to front tens of millions of dollars for drugs and drain resources from vulnerable patients. The American Hospital ...

Parts of Easthampton, an old mill town in western Massachusetts, look like relics of industrial New England — the old workers’ rowhouses, for instance. In other parts, it seems like a place in ...

When the federal government chose to slash $186 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, it wasn’t just trimming a budget line, it was abandoning families and dismantling ...