Santa Clara County and HCA Healthcare have reached an agreement that will let the county pursue the purchase of Regional Medical Center following the hospital’s decision to downgrade its trauma …
By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Reem Abu Hayyah, just three months old, was the only member of her family to survive …
When 20-year-old Paco Rojas woke up in his hospital bed at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, the catastrophic crash that landed him there on Nov. 3, 2023 was a blur. …
For most of the summer, COVID levels in California and the Bay Area have been high. Test positivity rates have reached 14.3%, growing over 2 percentage points from the week …
One owns a for-profit insurer, a venture capital company, and for-profit hospitals in Italy and Kazakhstan; it has just acquired its fourth for-profit hospital in Ireland. Another owns one of …
California’s COVID positivity has continued to leap forward with each weekly update from the state’s health department. Now, the state has reached the second highest positivity rate of any summer …
Optum, a healthcare company owned by UnitedHealth Group, is laying off 525 people in multiple locations, many of them at urgent care facilities in Southern California. The company, in a …
UC San Diego Health became the first major local medical provider to reinstate masking requirements for employees as the county added free coronavirus testing Thursday, responding to a summer COVID-19 …
If you thought COVID was a thing of the past, this summer’s surge should make you think twice. The whole Bay Area seems to be coming down with the virus …
(NewsNation) — A recent decision by the U.S. State Department to stop granting visas to international nurses for the rest of the year could possibly make a current shortage of health …