By Knvul Sheikh, The New York Times, Apr 02, 2020. Across the country, as hospitals confront a harrowing surge in coronavirus cases, they are also beginning to report shortages of critical medications — especially those… Read More
By JoNel Aleccia, KHN, Mar 01, 2020. The cluster of illness is the first of its type in the U.S., where 2.2 million people live in long-term care settings and may be at heightened risk… Read More
By Phil Galewitz, KHN, Feb 25, 2020. For five years, Rasha Salama has taken her two children to Dr. Inas Wassef, a pediatrician a few blocks from her home in this blue-collar town across the… Read More
By Judith Graham, KHN, Mar 30, 2020. A wrenching conflict is emerging as the COVID-19 virus storms through U.S. communities: Some patients are falling into a no man’s land between hospitals and nursing homes. Hospitals… Read More
By Robert Preidt, U.S. News, Mar 25, 2020. Certain types of EpiPens and their generic counterparts may fail or delay injection of lifesaving epinephrine for severe allergic reactions, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns…. Read More
By Noah Higgins-Dunn, CNBC, Mar 25, 2020. Consumers should beware of buying or using products that sellers claim will help diagnose, treat, cure or prevent COVID-19 as the coronavirus continues to sweep across the country,… Read More
By Sydney Lupkin, NPR Shots, Mar 16, 2020. It took years for Leslie Miller to find the prescription drug that worked for her. But in December, she got a letter from her insurer that the… Read More
By Ayla Ellison, Beckers Hospital Report, Feb. 25, 2020. An Alabama woman received an emergency appendectomy at Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Ala., in May 2016. Three years later, the hospital sued her for nearly $37,000,… Read More
In order to improve the information available to the public about our hospitals, APRA is now accepting online reviews from patients about their hospital experience. Registered members may post reviews here. Reviews may be read… Read More
By Alia Paavola, Beckers Hospital Review, Feb. 18, 2020. Nonprofit hospitals that generated the highest net incomes provided less charity care to patients relative to their income than their lower-earning peers, according to a new… Read More