Community Benefit

Social spending has modest but detectable effects on population health, whether or not the spending primarily targets health.

A 2013 study showed that charity care constituted only 1.9 percent of nonprofit hospitals' operating expenses.

Economic boost also included more than 160,000 jobs, with average worker drawing roughly $82,000 in salary, benefits.

Ohsumi performed pioneering experiments during the 90's that broadened the understanding of a process called autophagy.

However, the ballot measure doesn't earmark exactly how much of that money should go to doctors or other health providers.

Health centers and emergency departments are experimenting with a variety of programs that aim to divert patients with dental complaints into specialty clinics.

By 2015, uninsured rates in the state were down to 2.5 percent, compared to 9.1 percent nationwide.

A total of 1,304 health centers across will use the money expand quality improvement systems and infrastructure and to improve primary care service delivery.

Rural healthcare is receiving a $16 million boost for telehealth and quality improvement activities from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources & Services Administration, it was announced Thursday.

A report in 2012 by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse revealed that medical schools devoted little time to teaching addiction medicine -- only a few hours over four years. Since then, the number of Americans overdosing from prescribed opioids has surpassed 14,000 per year, quadrupling from 1999 to 2014.