Increasingly, health care providers in the nonprofit sector are being asked to justify their tax-exempt status on the basis of the value they return to their communities.

Eight of the top health systems in the country learned something startling when they participated recently in a study of hospital employee hand washing.

Prisons have rules for everything. With their large populations in tight confinement, they are designed for uniformity of conduct and treatment.

It is the mission of Catholic health care to attend to people's bodily and spiritual needs.

Daughters of Charity Health System of Los Altos Hills, Calif., is considering purchasing Downey Regional Medical Center of Downey, in Southern California. By the middle of this month, the system plans to determine whether to move forward with the acquisition.

CMS report predicts health care will take an ever bigger bite of GDP

A food pantry in East Ocean View, Va., that was shut down by a severe storm last year has recovered, renovated and reopened with the help of Bon Secours Virginia Health System and local charity groups and volunteers.

St. Vincent Health of Indianapolis has acquired Washington County Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed critical access facility in Salem, Ind., and renamed it St. Vincent Salem Hospital.

For eight employees of Mary Immaculate Health/Care Services in Lawrence, Mass., the earthquake in Haiti is a personal tragedy.

A $1 million gift from a Hartford, Conn.-area business leader and a $472,533 grant from a Hartford foundation will help to launch and fund Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center's new Men's Health Institute.

A Los Angeles-area man has created a lasting tribute to his late wife by donating a Pietà in her memory to St. Vincent Medical Center of Los Angeles.

As seniors experience the many changes that come with advanced old age, they often also face new spiritual questions and develop a new outlook on their faith.