Andrew, a 39-year-old New Yorker who identifies as queer, says he got lucky with his first primary care provider, who was very queer friendly. "He was straight, but raised by two dads and created a ...

“He believed that everything we can do to give women control of their bodies and their fertility enhances their health and their freedom, and changes the world for the better,” writes Dr. Oge Young.

The United States spends more on health care than any country in the world, but it has made almost no progress in reducing medical error harm. Best estimates indicate ...

Before the pandemic, hospitals in the U.S. were making notable progress in the effort to address flagging patient safety and care quality metrics. And that effort paid off — adverse events and safety ...

Adverse events during hospitalization are a major cause of patient harm, as documented in the 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study. Patient safety has changed substantially in the decades since that ...

In the therapeutic relationship, the patient must fully disclose their current lifestyle habits, thoughts, feelings, signs, and symptoms for their healthcare provider to be able to assist them. But ...

When Mike Huss gets an alert from a panic button or call within Allegheny Health Network, he and his team are prepared to jump into action. “If you look at it, some of it is just verbal abuse. Some of ...

During the pandemic, we have thought a lot about the physical safety of our colleagues, staff, patients and selves. Do we have the right PPE, are we testing enough, how do we distribute the vaccine ...

REDUCE WORKPLACE VIOLENCE. NEARLY TWO WEEKS AGO, INSIDE THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT UPMC ALTOONA, A PATIENT SEVERELY BEAT A HEALTH CARE WORKER UNTIL HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS. TRAVIS DUNN SUFFERED A FRACTURED ...

At Crain's Hospital CEO Breakfast, executives said Medicaid spending cuts, combined with expired ACA tax credits, threaten ...

One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care is intensifying — even for the ...