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AHCJ fellow tells how she examined hospital community benefit, post-ACA
Beth Kutscher, a Modern Healthcare reporter who recently become the publication’s California bureau chief, has covered health care finance for…
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Local stories add color to data-driven reporting on hospital financial performance
Not-for-profit hospitals are required give back to their communities to justify their tax exempt status. Those efforts usually take the…
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How the Flint water crisis has further exposed health disparities
The ongoing water quality crisis in Flint, Mich., highlights many public health issues, but shines its brightest light on health…
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New tip sheet offers assistance in covering LGBT aging issues
Covering LGBT aging can be an exercise in frustration for journalists. Though more older adults are living openly as LGBT…
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Trade group’s dispute with FDA highlights need to watch for report revisions
The nation’s clinical laboratories have pushed back hard against a proposal by U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October 2014…
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Celebrity deaths and moving end-of-life conversations forward
It’s been some month. With so many high-profile deaths reported this January — David Bowie, Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, Dan…
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Time to take a look at local efforts to tackle health, poverty
Perhaps 2016 will be the year of the gap – tackling the issue of the working poor who fall between…
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Common respiratory virus often flies under diagnostic radar, especially for seniors
While waiting for a shuttle bus at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in Orlando, I met…
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Weaving data, human stories into compelling series on dental deaths
In early 2014, a 4-year-old Dallas boy named Salomon Barahona Jr. died after undergoing sedation for a dental procedure. The…
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Covering the special health issues that LGBT seniors face
A growing subset of the senior tidal wave known as the “gray tsunami” are those who identify as gay, lesbian,…
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