Hospitals

• Can We Really Afford to Let Health Care Get Any Worse? - With Trump’s health care cuts, I traveled to Ohio, Mississippi and Alabama — and encountered devastated families bracing for even more difficult challenges.
• Hundreds Sue Virginia Hospital and Executives Over Unneeded Surgeries - More than 500 women claimed that they had received unnecessary operations. Hospital leaders said they were not aware of a doctor’s misconduct.
• Temporarily visitor restrictions in place at area hospitals amid increase in respiratory illness - Today, 29 hospitals and health systems across the region are implementing temporary visitor restrictions amid a recent increase in respiratory illness.
• 19 States Sue to Block White House Plan to End Gender-Related Care for Minors - The coalition of states seeks to stop a Trump administration effort to cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide such care.
• Trump Moves to Prevent Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors - Proposed new rules would pull all federal financing from hospitals that continue to provide gender treatments for adolescents.
• A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk - People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.
• The Transgender Cancer Patient and What She Heard on Tape - Jennifer Capasso had endured multiple tumors. She wondered what might be said during her next cancer surgery. So, she hit record on her phone.