Politics
In the aftermath of Vice President Dick Cheney’s most recent hospitalization for heart troubles, some cardiology experts are questioning why he was not treated with a new radiation technology that they say could reduce his chances of a recurrence by more than half.
March 13, 2001
California
From the outside, the stately Sepulveda Veterans Administration hospital complex looks as if it weathered the Northridge earthquake fairly well.
March 1, 1994
World & Nation
The financial future of two dozen of the nation’s most prominent municipal teaching hospitals--including County-USC Medical Center and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center here--is gravely threatened, along with the health care of masses of poorer people, according to several new studies.
July 21, 1985
From the outside, the stately Sepulveda Veterans Administration hospital complex looks as though it weathered the Northridge earthquake fairly well.
March 3, 1994
Science & Medicine
Experts say better quality controls might save countless lives. Washington, are you listening?
Dec. 5, 1999
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
As grateful Los Angeles County supervisors watched, President Clinton on Friday announced a $364-million bailout package designed to rescue the county’s teetering health care system from collapse while forcing the vast network of hospitals and clinics to fundamentally change.
Sept. 23, 1995
As hospitals battle the coronavirus, they’re baffled as the Trump administration seizes hard-to-stock medical supplies.
April 7, 2020
Medicare, Medicaid quality plan unveiled
Nov. 17, 2010
Thirty-one of the California hospitals with more than 250 Medicare patients in 1987 had higher-than-predicted mortality rates, and 10 had low overall values, according to a federal report released Thursday.
Dec. 16, 1988