Republican Senate candidates aren’t on the same page about extending Obamacare subsidies, reflecting a broader tension that is creeping into House and Senate races.

Primary care is crucial for improving health outcomes and lowering overall healthcare costs. According to a 2021 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “People in countries and health systems with high-quality primary ...

AHA's 2026 Workforce Scan highlights six pressures that will define workforce strategy in the coming years: financial stress that limits flexibility; demographic shifts that increase demand; rapid technological transformation;

Full-time caregiving is an around-the-clock job, but respite care can give live-in caregivers a short-term break. Caregivers are often managing caring for a loved one with work, other family responsibilities, their own health, home upkeep, and more.

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. This issue stemmed largely from gaps in ...

Burnout is a growing crisis in health care: More than 50% of health care professionals report symptoms of it. Addressing the trauma they face at work can help. Halting burnout straddles the tension between addressing the individual factors versus the ...

Culturally competent care is healthcare that considers a person’s cultural and faith-based beliefs. It can help ensure that the care being given is compassionate and effective. Culture refers to the shared beliefs and values of a group of people ...

Racial and ethnic inequities in health care are found in every state in the U.S. despite the passage of legislation intended to improve health outcomes for minorities and increased awareness of health care disparities over the past two decades, according ...

Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.