The Coliseum hospital in Macon is participating in recognizing today as National Healthcare Decisions Day, and it is providing information for people to give advance directives to let their wishes be known regarding health-care decisions in a crisis.

Lawton Comanche County Memorial Hospital was named a 2008 " Distinguished Hospital for Patient Safety," according to the fifth annual HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Doctors have warned an inquiry that public hospitals will soon face crippling staff shortages in some sectors because private hospitals are poaching experienced doctors.

Patient satisfaction surveys reveal Saint Luke's metro facilities provide best hospital experience.

From this month - April 2008 - there will be a dramatic expansion of UK patient choice in the NHS.

New public information created by CMS at Hospitalcompare.hhs.gov allows patients to compare which are the best hospitals in U.S.A. based on numerous factors.

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine says records at some New South Wales public hospitals are being changed to make emergency patient treatment times look faster.

A Medicare reimbursement lawsuit has resulted in a decision to pay out $666 million to 667 hospitals.

Although smoke-free policies have been introduced at all NHS Hospital Trusts a study by researchers at The University of Nottingham has found that smoking is still prevalent, even by staff in uniform.

Former Polish President and Nobel laureate Lech Walesa was discharged from a U.S. hospital Tuesday, four days after doctors successfully fitted him with a pacemaker.

Nurses won't be making home visits to their homebound patients anymore, and operating rooms at San Francisco General Hospital will be closed eight hours a day. Those are just two effects of the city Health Commission's Tuesday night budget slashing, described by the Department of Public Health as the deepest cuts officials have ever seen.

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has been selected to join an effort among select centers in the United States and Canada to collect and study information necessary to understand the possible causes and treatment of a destructive liver disease called primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).