Category: Press Release

Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. KFF Health News received dozens of letters in response to an article last month describing how state budget shortfalls have led to cuts targeting therapies that many families of autistic people […]

Cynthia Freeman, una artista de 61 años que vive en Nueva York, lleva tiempo tratando de encontrar la manera de mantener el plan médico de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA, en inglés) del que dependen ella y su esposo. “Si no tuviéramos problemas de salud, volvería a lo que hacía […]

Incentivizing high nursing home staffing levels in the U.S. could result in 6,142 fewer hospitalizations each year, according to a study published Jan. 16 in JAMA Health Forum.  The study was conducted by researchers from Bethlehem, Pa.-based Lehigh University, Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown University and the University of California, Los Angeles.  Researchers […]

As rural hospitals across the nation continue to face mounting financial challenges and closures, East Adams Rural Healthcare’s Ritzville (Wash.) Hospital is emerging as a success story through aggressive operational and financial changes, with hopes to become the state’s first rural emergency hospital by April 1. “We just don’t have a big enough population to […]

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has begun construction on a cancer center in Modesto, Calif.  The Advanced Cancer Center and Care Complex will cost an estimated $380 million and is part of the health system’s larger multiyear expansion plan in the Modesto area, according to a Jan. 15 news release from Sutter Health. The center will […]

Microsoft has been working with startup founders and health systems on AI and augmented reality projects. The tech giant collaborated with augmented reality startup Strolll and Cleveland Clinic to develop a solution to help patients with Parkinson’s disease overcome gait freezing, which limits mobility, according to a Jan. 15 blog post. The tool, built with […]

As health systems enter 2026, chief medical information officers say the biggest IT risks are operational, financial and clinical — and many are converging at once. From ransomware threats to unchecked AI adoption, CMIOs describe a landscape in which the margin for error is shrinking just as digital dependence deepens. Here are five IT risks […]

The influenza positivity rate in the U.S. fell to 18.6% during the week ending Jan. 10, down from 24.7% the previous week. At the same time, the deaths attributed to influenza rose to 2.1% from 1.9%, according to CDC data published Jan. 16. Some hospitals are postponing elective procedures to preserve capacity as a severe […]

Members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals are set to begin a strike Jan. 26 at more than two dozen Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics across California and Hawaii. The union added that the strike “will continue until an agreement is reached.” Five things to know: 1. The union said […]

All four astronauts from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission were transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla in San Diego after landing off the coast of Southern California on Jan. 15. CBS News reported the crew’s arrival at the hospital shortly after splashdown. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya […]