Year: 2009

June 2009 By Dan Clawson

Harvard study finds 50 percent increase from 2001 Most of those bankrupted by illness were middle class and had insurance Medical problems contributed to nearly two-thirds (62.1 percent) of all… Read more »

By Kyle AlspachENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER Posted Jun 02, 2009 @ 03:56 PMLast update Jun 03, 2009 @ 08:50 AM BROCKTON — Now on a leave of absence amid allegations of… Read more »

See story below.  Hospitals go undercover to monitor how well nurses wash their hands.  It’s too bad they don’t go undercover to see how poor staffing levels prevent compliance with… Read more »

You know the drill. You schlep to the doctor’s office and wait for what seems like hours – despite having an appointment. As the time ticks away, your frustration level… Read more »

One man donated a pig "of an uncommonly fine breed." Another donated an Egyptian mummy. The founders of the state’s first hospital needed any gift they could get. In 1817,… Read more »

He’s chairman of New England’s largest healthcare company, and that position atop Partners HealthCare has tested the limits of Jack Connors’s considerable corporate dexterity. Though he has no background in… Read more »

FOR ALL THE fiscal problems the Commonwealth now faces, its three-year-old universal health insurance reform cannot be blamed for driving up state government costs uncontrollably. That is the conclusion of… Read more »

The regulations related to the establishment of a hospital Patient & Family Advisory Council (PFAC) were approved at the Public Health Council meeting on May 13, 2009. While the deadline… Read more »

The Associated Press has released a news story across the nation, which tracks how the budget crisis is compromising our nation’s ability to respond to a public health emergency, such… Read more »