Author Archives: Health

HCA sells 4 hospitals in Georgia as it emphasizes focus on post-acute, home-based services

Dive Brief: HCA Healthcare is selling four smaller hospitals in Georgia to Piedmont Healthcare for $ 950 million. The transaction will increase Piedmont’s hospitals by more than a third to 15 facilities, making it a powerhouse provider in the Atlanta region. The sale appears to dovetail with HCA’s strategy to focus more on outpatient and… Read More »

Our 3,222 systematic reviews of journalism & PR will be gone soon

Part of our website is going away April 1. But major features of the site will remain.  Here’s the breakdown and some background. When I started publishing HealthNewsReview.org 15 years ago, the only content was news story reviews. To be more specific, we only reviewed news stories that included claims about health care interventions (treatments,… Read More »