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Hospitals that treat many poor people face challenges in managing their care. The problem is compounded by the fact that the same hospitals often have fewer resources at their disposal.

Move over restaurants. Now hospitals are getting letter grades based on their patient safety performance from the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit that's looking to improve the quality and safety of health care.

States and the federal government have a big job to do when it comes to explaining to the uninsured how to buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The success of the law will be judged in part by how many Latinos sign up.

The latest health debate in Washington centers on which expenses insurers can count as spending on medical care. How the rules are decided will determine which companies comply with the new health law, and which ones will have to pay rebates.

Nonprofit hospitals pay no federal, state, or local taxes. In return, they are expected to offer a community benefit, including free and discounted care for low-income patients. But a study by the Congressional Budget Office found that, on average, not-for-profits are providing only slightly more uncompensated care than for-profit hospitals.

Scott speaks with monologuist Spalding Gray about his new book, new monologue, and about being a parent late in life.

Even as European Union leaders welcome more cordial U.S. relations, the trans-Atlantic partnership faces the tough test of handling China's expansion.

The new health law will compel insurers to pay for all sorts of preventive and screening services that are supported by strong evidence.

Exchanges must be up and running by at the start of 2014, although states must prove a year earlier that they will be ready to go. The federal government will establish exchanges for states that can't or won't do so themselves.

The vaccination rate for measles, mumps and rubella fell about 3 percentage points for 2-year-olds in 2009. Insurers said paranoia about side effects are to blame for the decline. Still, more than 90 percent of the children got MMR shots.

Avril Haines, the first women nominated to the top intelligence post, took a strange path to this job. She studied judo in Japan, physics in college, and rebuilt a plane that she later crash landed.

Even a slick dance video hasn't gotten a couple of million people to sign up for Medicare subsidy. At stake is help worth about $4,000 a year that could defray the costs of prescription drug coverage for people in strapped circumstances.

Who makes the most? Specialists who do things to you. Orthopedic surgeons and radiologists top the earnings chart at an average income of $315,000 a year, according to data compiled by Medscape.

Scientists are concerned about the risk of chemicals washing around in the flood water in Texas.

Four people were critically wounded in the massacre at an immigrant services center in Binghamton, N.Y., Friday. Thirty-seven others escaped, including 26 who hid for hours in a basement boiler room while police tried to determine whether the gunman was still alive and whether he was holding any hostages, Binghamton Police Chief Joseph Zikuski said.

The American Management Association teaches executives how to run their businesses effectively and ethically in tough times, offering training seminars around the country. But AMA is also cutting its own staff, hoping to weather a deep recession.

New York Gov. David Paterson unveiled a landmark deal on Friday that would scrap most of the state's system of mandatory prison sentences, which date to Republican Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's get-tough-on-crime movement in the 1970s.

Wildlife biologists are scrambling to understand a mysterious epidemic that has killed tens of thousands of bats in upstate New York. Scientists are trying to prevent the sickness from spreading.

A tour boat carrying a group of senior citizens overturned Sunday on Lake George, N.Y., killing 21 people. Many of the 49 passengers aboard were with a tour group from Michigan. Brian Mann from North Country Public Radio reports.

A small enclave of mostly African-American Muslim families have become a fixation for right-wing groups who claim it's used as a terrorist training camp. But neighbors say they're friendly people.