Hospitals

Palliative care is treatment that helps manage side effects, symptoms and mental health issues for people with cancer and other severe illnesses.

Officials with Phelps Health say the agreement will help keep the Salem hospital afloat and maintain services in a region without many health services.

For kids in the hospital, back-to-school season may look a little different. At Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital in Maryland Heights, pediatric patients staying for weeks or months learn from special teachers and programs.

A new true-crime podcast tackles a string of deaths in a Missouri veterans hospital.

Anthem officials claim Mercy is asking the insurer to pay too much money to cover procedures. Mercy officials said Anthem is putting too many administrative barriers in its contract. If the two sides cannot reach an agreement by the end of the year, Anthem patients won't be able to receive in-network rates at Mercy locations.

Around 14% of all staff positions at hospitals were vacant in 2023, a rate that’s lower than it was at the height of the pandemic but still higher than in 2019.

With IT systems down, staff at Ascension have to use manual processes they left behind some 20 years ago. It's the latest in a string of attacks on health care systems that house private patient data.

Illinois law enforcement's burden of proof in concealed carry violations is also on the table.

The Chesterfield-based Catholic health system submitted a letter of intent to build the $650 million facility to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, which regulates the construction of new hospitals. The proposed 75-bed hospital would be where Interstates 64 and 70 meet in Wentzville.

Illinois hospitals routinely skirt one of the nation’s strongest laws protecting victims of sexual assault — including Alton Memorial and Blessing Hospital in Quincy.