Across Decades US Health System In Decline

 The US Health System Was Already Falling Short.  Then Covid-19 Happened by Dylan Scott.  Vox.  July 6, 2021.  

Adapting To Aerosol Transmission In Regulations, Masking, And Ventilation Systems

Scientists Call On C.D.C. To Set Air Standards For Workplaces, Now by Apoorva Mandavilli.  The New York Times.  February 17, 2021.   

Study: 2,900 Health Care Workers Died This Year--And The Government Barely Kept Track

More Than 2,900 Health Care Workers Died This Year--And The Government Barely Kept Track by Christina Jewett and Robert Lewis and Melissa Bailey.  December 23, 2020.   

Why Have Non-Covid Hospital Admissions Dropped By Half

 Where Have All The Hospital Patients Gone?  by Pauline W. Chen, M.D.  The New York Times.  October 20, 2020.  

Some Georgia Hospitals Decide Not To Provide Data On Numbers of COVID-19 Patients and Employees

Some Georgia Hospitals Keep Pandemic Information To Themselves by Ariel Hart.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  September 29, 2020.   

Flagpole: Differing Perspectives On Athens Hospitals Coping With COVID

Athens Hospitals Are Overtaxed, Doctors And Nurses Say by Jessica Luton.  Flagpole.  August 13, 2020.

Middle Georgia Hospital Employee: "When You Have To Start Shipping Patients Out Of State, It's Bad."

Georgia Hospital Worker Sounds Alarm:  "I Have Never Ever Seen Anything Like This"  by Wayne Drash.  NPR.  July 16, 2020.

Coronavirus Pandemic Changing The Prescribing Practices Of Hospitals

U.S. Hospitals In Hard Hit Regions Step Up Use Of Steroids On Sickest COVID-19 Patients by Michael Erman.  Reuters.  June 19, 2020.

Hospital Revenue Plunges As Focus Shifts From Lucrative Surgeries To Coronavirus Victims

Hospitals Knew How To Make Money.  Then Coronavirus Happened by Sarah Kliff.  The New York Times.  May 15, 2020.

Emory Prepares For April 22 When Georgia Hospitals Will Have Shortage of 755 Beds and 84 Will Die (According To Projections)

Emory Hospital Prepares For "Super Surge Of COVID-19 Patients by Helena Oliviero.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  April 3, 2020.

Coronavirus Separates Seriously Ill Patients From Their Loved Ones In Hospitals

'A Heart-Wrenching Thing':  Hospital Bans On Visits Devastate Families by Katie Hafner.  The New York Times.  March 29, 2020.

Hospital Uses UV Light To Decontaminate Masks To Prolong Use

As Coronavirus Looms, Mask Shortage Gives Rise To Promising Approach by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  March 20, 2020.

Is The U.S. Ready For A Viral Outbreak?

U.S. Readiness For A Viral Outbreak Has Improved, But There's A Long Way To Go by Lenny Bernstein and Lena H. Sun.  The Washington Post.  January 22, 2020.

Health Care And Corruption: The Role Of Sports In Hungary

In Hungary, Viktor Orban Showers Money On Stadiums, Less So On Hospitals by Patrick Kingsley and Benjamin Novak.

Innovative Physician Recruitment For Rural Hospitals

Creative Recruiting Helps Rural Hospitals Overcome Doctor Shortages by Uyki Noguchi.  NPR.  August 15, 2019.

Art In The Hospital: Does It Have Healing Power?

'Fine Art Is Good Medicine':  How Hospitals Around The World Are Experimenting With The Healing Power Of Art by Manchem Wecker.  ArtNet.  July 29, 2019. 

Hospital Secrecy Masks Outbreaks of Drug-Resistant Infections

Culture Of Secrecy Shields Hospitals With Outbreaks Of Drug-Resistant Infections by Andrew Jacobs and Matt Richtel.  New York Times.  April 8, 2019. 

Resistant Fungi Posing Threat To Health Care

A Mysterious Infection, Spanning The Globe In A Climate Of Secrecy by Matt Richtel And Andrew Jacobs.  The New York Times.  April 6, 2019. 

Violence Against Health Care Workers: A National Epidemic

Facing Escalating Workplace Violence, Hospital Employees Have Had Enough by Marlene Harris-Taylor.  NPR.  April 8, 2019. 

More Humane Experience During Hospitalization: The Key To Recovery

The Hospitals Should Let You Sleep by Austin Frakt.  The New York Times.  December 3, 2018.