Local officials push for extreme heat emergency declaration
WASHINGTON — Blistering temperatures across the country have prompted significant concern from state and local officials who say they are struggling to manage the crisis without federal intervention. In letters sent Thursday and first obtained by NBC News, two of the country’s top organizations representing local officials on the federal المزيد
Doctors say HCA hospitals push patients into hospice care to improve mortality stats
As Marisol Perez fought for her life in a Texas hospital in autumn 2021, her mother, Alma Salas, sat with her every day praying. Perez, then 42, had such a virulent case of Covid and pneumonia that doctors at St. David’s North Austin Medical Center, an HCA Healthcare facility, had المزيد