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Clinics partner with a local hospital, a federally qualified health center and other community-based health organizations to reach a down-on-their-luck population sometimes struggling for basic survival.

An estimated 45,000 American adults die each year because they have no health insurance, according a 2009 study in the American Journal of Public Health.

"Would incentives for improvement be greater if all pay-for-performance programs specifically considered improvement as part of scoring hospital performance?" authors ask.

So far wildfires have not forced any hospital evacuations, but they are ready if they have to.

Hospitals led with hiring, adding 15,700 jobs in the month, while ambulatory centers added 8,900 jobs, far less than the 22,000 jobs ambulatory centers added in June.

Nearly three years after Hurricane Sandy essentially destroyed the Long Beach Medical Center, parent company South Nassau Communities Hospital is preparing to open a new emergency department near the site of the former medical center.

Iowa's governor, Republican Terry Branstad, is moving full speed ahead with a plan to put private companies in charge of managing Medicaid's services.

Healthtrust will track supply chain costs and the degree to which Tenet shares supply chain services across the healthcare provider's network of 81 acute care and 19 surgical hospitals.

Medicaid paid $7.4 million to 94 providers for services performed by providers that had been barred for reasons such as fraud, waste or quality.

The overwhelming majority of patients were not homebound and did not need home health services, according to authorities.