How Veterans' Hospitals Became the Best
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No longer a nation's shame, veteran care is acing competitors - and showing that maybe national health care isn't such a bad idea after all
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The staff at the Veterans Benefits Clearinghouse knows many of the homeless men and women who roam Boston's streets once served in the armed forces. For years, the small Roxbury nonprofit has helped by finding them jobs.
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By Robert J. Thompson  A hospital is a perfect setting for a TV show.
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Substandard care at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital may have contributed to 19 deaths over the past two years
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St. Francis Heart Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., was built to be digital from the ground up. By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee. While many existing hospitals across the country are attempting to transform from paper-burdened
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Going boldly where "The  Best Years of Our Lives" and "Coming Home" have gone before,  "Home of the Brave" examines the personal battles fought on the  home front by returning war vets.
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Spurred by the scandal at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and what some call other federal failures to provide care to returning soldiers, several Maryland lawmakers and Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration have introduced legislation to create new benefits and enhance services for veterans.
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RAMSTEIN, Germany The largest US military hospital overseas has had to add beds to handle the number of wounded soldiers coming in from Iraq.
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Seven weeks after a public hearing exposed the desperate state of Greater Southeast Community Hospital, the facility is making such strides in staff hiring, equipment purchases and repairs that District officials lauded its "impressive turnaround" yesterday.
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Bee Staff Writer. Slowly and deliberately over the years, the grounds of the old Sacramento County Hospital have been morphing into the modern campus of the UC Davis medical school.
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Hospitals are renovating, rebuilding and expanding in part because they remain vital points of entry for paying patients whose eventual admission accounts for needed revenue.
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As the nation struggles to improve medical and mental health care for military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, about 1.8 million  U.S. veterans under age 65 lack even basic health insurance or access to care at Veterans  Affairs hospitals, a new study has found.
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Ray Oliva went into the spare bedroom in his home in Kelseyville, Calif., to wrestle with his feelings. He didn't know a single soldier at Walter Reed, but he felt he knew them all. He worried about the wounded who were entering the world of military health care, which he knew all too well. His own VA hospital in Livermore was a mess. The gown he wore was torn. The wheelchairs were old and broken....
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NEW YORK  - Rankings of the top 50 "America's Best Hospitals" for heart care and heart surgery by the US News and World Report are for the most part in line with outcomes of patients.
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One of the most successful businesses in the Washington area isn't technically a business at all -- it's a not-for-profit named Inova Health System. Over the past 40 years, what started out as a loose affiliation of three community hospitals in Fairfax County has transformed itself into the dominant...
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Substandard care at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center appears to extend to the nation's vast network of veterans hospitals, the head of a House panel investigating the situation said Thursday.
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When the doors of a health center in Loudoun County opened for the first time yesterday, offering many uninsured residents their first medical home, it was in part because of a small, now-defunct hospital in Alexandria and a complex court case dating back a dozen years.