California hospital authorities pledged in recent weeks that they would thwart the growth of the Prime Healthcare hospital chain until they complete an investigation into infection-related billing rates. Despite the state’s declaration, the chain has managed to add San Diego’s... + read more

California health regulators are joining state and federal investigators in examining the practices of Prime Healthcare, a Southern California hospital chain with an unusually high rate of life-threatening infections, according to letters released to California Watch yesterday. In the letter... + read more