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With fewer places to turn, mental health patients are overwhelming Sacramento County emergency rooms – increasing wait times, straining law enforcement and exposing the limited ability of ERs to deal with serious mental disorders.

Small hospitals in the central San Joaquin Valley, faced with a shortage of radiologists, are turning to companies that employ doctors from across the country to remotely read X-rays and other scans.

With many in California's primary care physician community approaching retirement, the Golden State needs a significant increase in providers, particularly doctors who will accept Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, a study released July 16 said.

As the nation prepares to provide care for the increasing proportion of older adults and the widespread implications of healthcare reform, healthcare workers are aging out of the sector, revealing an increased need for skilled workers, according to a new report by the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College.

Hospitals are not just places for sick people. In many communities, they represent economic stability, a major source of community employment, and an important staple for many other businesses and jobs.

Out of all of the roughly 5,000 U.S. hospitals, only about one in 30 has deep expertise in caring for children with serious problems. This year's U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of hospitals highlight 62 different hospitals that are “the best” in at least one specialty. Two of California’s children’s hospitals made the list, including Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto.

After undergoing staggering population growth during the housing boom, southwest Riverside County is now grappling with a serious shortage of hospital beds.

While hospital care accounts for one-third of dollars spent in healthcare, overall spending for hospital care has shown the slowest growth among healthcare services, according to a new American Hospital Association report that examines spending growth on patient care.

Administrators at San Joaquin General Hospital could lay off up to 100 workers and might try to sell the place or lease it someone else to get out from under its crushing $20 million deficit.

Health care is one of the few sectors that has seen growth during the Great Recession. Now the Sacramento region is poised to add thousands of health care jobs in the coming years. We’ll meet a lab scientist working in this expanding field.