Health Care

Hahnemann University Hospital is making progress with its closure plans. Its owner was in U.S. Bankruptcy Court Friday setting bid procedures to sell St. Christopher’s.

An audit of Pennsylvania nursing homes warns that staffing levels at these facilities are insufficient and on track to get worse.

Bayhealth and Beebe hospitals have made their case for stand-alone emergency departments in the Georgetown, Delaware, area

The Biden plan released this week is an update of the Affordable Care Act with controversial differences. Among them: a "public option" that covers abortion.

When you have a serious health problem that calls for surgery, the last thing you need is the stress of navigating the health care system to find a skilled surgeon.

The hospital's lawyers could not agree on a closure plan with city and state health officials in time for Friday’s scheduled hearing, and the matter was pushed to next week.

Researchers are prescribing exercise as if it were a drug in a study that aims to see if it can prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Hahnemann Hospital’s owner is due back in U.S. Bankruptcy Court as Drexel lays off physicians and clinicians and St. Christopher’s gets an offer.

The proposed closure timeline released Tuesday still needs official approval from the city Health Commissioner’s Office and the state Health Department.

After three days of complaining of severe stomach pain, Delaware inmate died without receiving proper medical attention, lawsuit alleges.

The Democratic presidential candidate is using the announced closure of Hahnemann University Hospital as a case in point for his Medicare for All plan.

The hearing on the overall closure plan is now scheduled for Friday, July 19.

Protesters slammed Joel Freedman, Hahnemann’s owner, for what they see as an attempt to encroach on a vulnerable hospital for real estate profits.

Area nurses, midwives and other medical providers said the loss of a hospital like Hahnemann that takes many Medicaid-dependent patients is unfathomable.

Drexel College of Medicine and Hahnemann Hospital announced a shift of most residency programs to Philly region facilities managed by Tower Health.