hospitals

More than 1.2 million pounds of food have been delivered through 55 hospital- and clinic-based food pantries since 2020.

Oklahoma health care leaders estimate state hospitals will see $6.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursement cuts as funding reductions made to the program through President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" set in.

Republican U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said he made changes to the Senate’s version of the Trump administration's reconciliation bill to soften the blow of Medicaid cuts on Kansas hospitals. But health care advocates say it won’t be enough.

The women had ectopic pregnancies, which are nonviable and life-threatening if not treated early. They say Ascension Seton Williamson and Texas Health Arlington violated federal law by not ending their pregnancies sooner.

During the pandemic, a mass exodus of employees left the medical field. Hospital leaders say they're finally starting to fill open positions with permanent workers instead of contract employees, but higher COVID cases have sent many medical workers home sick.

A North Texas epidemiologist talks about why EG.5 has spread so quickly, and whether new booster shots expected this fall will be effective against the variant.

Hospitals across the country have recruited nurses from around the world to make up for U.S. labor shortages. But demand for international workers is delaying visas and slowing the flow of nurses able to come to Kansas.

A report from an advocacy group reviewed 2,000 hospitals across the county and found only a quarter were fully complying with the federal hospital price transparency rules. In Kansas it's even less.

“I think we are just in the beginning of, unfortunately, this crisis … I think things are going to get, unfortunately, a little worse,” says San Antonio-based Dr. Mehmood Khan.

The numbers are especially bleak for rural hospitals, which are usually independently owned and were already vulnerable before the pandemic.