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If only that were true for millions of family caregivers. As they shoulder more burdens at home, their own health suffers. When his wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Bill [...]

We cut costs, downsized and then opened a new 228-bed hospital, put in patient-focused care, and had the JCAHO in--all within three months,' recalls Cindy Strazis. 'It got so I [...]

'Never trust anyone over 30.' We heard that warning a lot from kids in the 1960s, but could today's elementary and high school students feel the same way? After all, [...]

Talk about timing. Just as the federal government is poised to push millions of seniors and poor people into Medicare and Medicaid HMOs, recent research shows that they often don't [...]

No employer tells the staff where to shop for groceries, so why should buying health care be any different? In Minneapolis, a powerful business coalition intends to test out that [...]

Armed with increasingly sophisticated outcomes data, large corporate purchasers of health care are beginning to demand better value from providers. And some have found that if they want the job [...]

Amish keep it simple: See the doctor, pay the bill. Only outsiders carry insurance. Health policy watchers may wring their hands over the fate of employer-sponsored insurance, but one group [...]

The word charity comes from the Latin for precious or dear, but free health care is often anything but, devalued instead by giver and receiver. In Alabama, a novel experiment [...]

At a 1997 conference on Medicare reform at Princeton University. Uwe Reinhardt observed: 'At the heart of the problem posed by the growing number of elderly lies not economic scarcity [...]

Max Michael is putting his hospital's mission first--even if that means putting its future on the line. The CEO and medical director at county-owned Cooper Green Hospital, Birmingham, Ala., is [...]

Marjorie Gellhorn Sa'adah never pictured herself sitting behind a desk, hunched over grant proposals or worrying over financial statements. She never imagined planning fund-raisers at Hollywood hangouts--and wondering aloud whether [...]

Rural elders who live alone have a poorer health profile than their counterparts in other residential settings, more difficulty performing the activities of daily living, are more likely to suffer [...]

In the complex deliberations over how to restructure health care delivery and financing in the United States, it is sometimes forgotten how solid our basic system is. We have a [...]

Most Americans would likely equate home ownership with a reasonable level of affluence. In fact, after the 1990 U.S. Census statistics on poverty were released, one columnist wrote, 'Common sense [...]