Eastern Health shifts patients from hospital beds to care homes (CBC Newfoundland and Labrador)

Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority is considering a six-month pilot program to move hospital patients to personal-care homes to alleviate the high demand for hospital beds.

USC, hospital system launch health-care initiative (The Greenville News)

The University of South Carolina's new president came to Greenville Tuesday to help launch a new program that hopes to solve some of health care's most vexing problems.

TMC: Pioneering new standards in health care (The Daily Tribune)

The Medical City (TMC), a private, tertiary care hospital, has distilled some 40 years of experience in hospital operation and administration towards the establishment of its new world-class health care complex that serves some 40,000 in-patients and 380,000 out-patients annually.

32 percent of patients shoulder burden of health care costs (Naples Daily News)

The Lee Memorial Health System and other hospital systems throughout the United States are facing a dilemma. They have an ethical obligation to treat the hundreds of uninsured patients who walk into one of its hospital campuses in the region, but at the same time they are facing a population unable to pay.

Hawaii hospital makes tough decisions, cuts staff, slashes nonessentials in health care crunch (Canadian Business)

Karin Stanton August 25, 2008 - 11:28 a.m. KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) - Health care in Hawaii is facing a crunch, with rising costs and fixed reimbursements from medical care plans, and answers are not coming easily for the hospitals or for the state.