Laundromats offer a promising outreach setting for Medicaid payers because Medicaid enrollees represent a majority of laundromat users and have disproportionately high levels of unmet needs.

Culturally competent care is healthcare that considers a person’s cultural and faith-based beliefs. It can help ensure that the care being given is compassionate and effective. Culture refers to the ...

If there’s anything worse than being sick, it’s being sick while dealing with insurance issues. But unfortunately, that situation is all too common. Recent research from the Commonwealth Fund, a ...

Health care systems and affordable housing developers have a mutual financial interest in helping communities live healthier. By Patrick Sisson Ce’Yann Irving, a mother of a 1-year-old daughter, pays ...

Compassionate care is a person-centered approach to delivering healthcare. It emphasizes empathy, respect, and support, which can help improve health outcomes. Compassionate care is a holistic ...

News watchers around the U.S. have likely seen the warnings: without certificate of need (CON) laws, hospitals will be forced to close their doors when for-profit organizations open and cherry pick ...

Universal health care (UHC) is a system under which "all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship," said the ...

Regarding "NJ has a huge health care gap for people with disabilities. Dig into our series," NorthJersey.com, Nov. 18: The recent series, "Hurdles to Health Care," shines an important light on ...

Health-care organizations need to up their defenses as cyber attacks increasingly hit the sector. Focusing on identity and access management, patching key vulnerabilities, providing training on ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have already demonstrated tremendous potential to transform medicine, with almost 1,000 AI-enabled medical devices approved as of 2024, ranging ...

Health spending in the U.S. has reached an all-time high of $4.5 trillion per year. That means about $1 out of every $5 spent in the U.S. is going toward health care, and consumers across the country ...

A Sun-Times investigation found the state’s new prison health care provider comes with a disturbing track record.