Hospitals caring for large shares of Black patients were paid $283 less for each day of a patient’s hospital stay compared to other hospitals. As a result, while many hospitals realized profits ...

Stranded in her hospital bed, she missed college classes ... He and Mueller found in one study that Black patients were less likely to be transferred out of hospitals than white patients, as ...

MLK Community Hospital employs midwives to try to improve births for Black women, a practice that hospital officials fear could be difficult to sustain. News Today's news US Politics World Tech Audio ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — This week, patients at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital celebrated Black History Month for the third year. Three patients and four Mary Free Bed therapists shared ...

The data was used to analyze what percentage of each hospital’s Medicare patients were Black, the average severity of illnesses among a hospital’s patients and hospital claims submitted to ...

When there are mental health patients staying in the emergency department, that can back up the beds in other parts of the hospital, creating a downstream effect, Hsu said. “For example ...

They wheeled in a large yellow box, along with a black one; next ... nurses need about half an hour to settle new patients into beds on their hospital wards, but creating a hospital room in ...

When discharging Black patients from the hospital, nurses are less likely to refer them to home health care than white patients, a new University of Michigan study found. About 22% of Black ...

"Our findings agree with other reports of race-based differences, such as evidence that Black patients have higher odds of having a security response called on them in the hospital," Eswaran and ...