Comprehensive health reform, pushed to the back burner since the failed Clinton administration effort two decades ago, is heating up to the boiling point.

On South Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans, where seven feet of filthy floodwater ruined the Daughters of Charity health clinic nearly four years ago, work is under way on a new building that will greatly expand the clinic's capacity.

It was at the tail end of one of South Dakota's worst blizzards in recent memory that Nancy Harrell determined she was in labor and needed to get to the hospital.

Anyone who has ever been laid low by a severe toothache understands how pain narrows a person's priorities down to one — to make the hurt stop.

Given the choice, most seniors prefer to live in their own home as long as possible rather than move into a long-term care facility.

The Mother Joseph Province of the Sisters of Providence has received Vatican approval to establish a public juridic person sponsor for the health system it oversees, Providence Health & Services of Renton, Wash.

Many churches across the U.S. have a cadre of volunteers on hand to visit parishioners who are sick.

Through a new initiative, Saint Vincent Health Center of Erie, Pa., is challenging physicians, staff members and community members to take a new look at the role that faith plays in healing.

Through a challenge grant, St. Vincent's Medical Center of Bridgeport, Conn., will receive $1 million from the Kresge Foundation if the hospital can raise the $4 million needed to close out its current capital campaign by Sept. 30, 2010.