World & Nation
Recession is squeezing the life out of money-strapped hospitals
Jan. 2, 2009
Coronavirus hospitalizations are once again surging as the coronavirus’ more potent Delta variant cuts across the country.
Aug. 7, 2021
Business
Jimmy Lee Jr., whose Pepsi plant in Birmingham, Ala., is the biggest family-owned bottling operation in the United States, says he routinely “fights like hell in the marketplace” with Elbert Mullis, boss of the rival Coca-Cola bottling company across town.
Feb. 12, 1993
Politics
Skyrocketing coronavirus case levels threaten to overload medical systems in Texas, Florida and other states seeing new infection waves.
June 26, 2020
Gov. Kate Brown announces a statewide indoor mask requirement, warning that the COVID surge could overwhelm the state’s healthcare system.
Aug. 11, 2021
Science & Medicine
Mary Southwick was 34 when she developed pain on the bottom of one foot.
July 26, 2013
California’s private hospitals provide less charity care than similar institutions studied in four other states, according to a report released today The study, which examined 1984 and 1985 figures, found that such “uncompensated care” accounts for about 3% of expenses among California’s private hospitals, contrasted with up to 10% of hospital budgets in other states.
May 5, 1988
Re “Florida Is Gripped by Terrorist Scare,” Sept. 14: Perhaps Eunice Stone did hear two Arab Americans and a foreign student making joking remarks about 9/11 and commenting about a potential attack on Sept. 13.
Sept. 18, 2002
Just before Sylvia Ann Gallegos was due to undergo knee replacement surgery last month at Orthopaedic Hospital in Los Angeles, the 38-year-old rheumatoid arthritis patient grabbed a pen and scribbled some last-minute instructions in a place that couldn’t be missed.
April 5, 1995
Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. pursued a “systemic corporate scheme” to defraud federal health insurance programs, according to an FBI affidavit unsealed Monday in U.S.
Oct. 7, 1997