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Attilio Cecchetto (right), pictured here with his son Gino. Attilio was born on a farm in Italy and lived in California since the 1960s, working as a tile journeyman and contractor for decades. Marco Cecchettohide caption

In this “How Would You Fix It?” interview, Julie Rovner, KFF Health News’ chief Washington correspondent and host of the What the Health? podcast, sat down with Elizabeth Mitchell, the president and CEO of the Purchaser Business Group on Health, which represents many large employers and other institutional buyers of healthcare coverage

The opening of the Triton Health and Wellness Building on July 14 was more than the inauguration of a new campus facility. It marked the next chapter of student and community wellness at UC San Diego

New Brunswick’s health minister says improvements are being made to the province’s new virtual health-care system after criticism from some patients about delays in getting prescriptions renewed

Wellpath, the private health contractor providing healthcare treatment at Santa Barbara County’s jails at annual cost of $26 million, reported a dramatic increase — 68 percent — in the number of inmates enrolled in Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) for addiction issues in both county jails in the past year. MAT refers to treatments in which…

Three Winnipeg-area personal care homes do not have fully functioning air conditioners amid an intense heat wave

Against that backdrop, Home Health Care News has identified a group of providers worth watching in the year ahead. Some are beginning a new chapter under new ownership. Others are backed by fresh capital, building momentum through M&A or making bets on technology and operational transformation

While recent actions by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could incrementally move the needle on palliative care access, they could also come with many limitations. 

The discovery of 16 siblings who authorities say were held at a home for years in squalid conditions is straining their rural Ohio county’s res and address the needs of so many children

Kelly Haggett figures that a mandatory surcharge added to Washington state’s payroll tax cost her about $500 last year. But she doesn’t really mind