Author name: Faith Tabora

Scapegoating Hospitals Won’t Solve Healthcare Costs

A recent article published by The Economist  misdiagnosed the cause of America’s rising healthcare costs: it omitted important context and key facts about the critical role hospitals and health systems play in their communities, while ignoring the responsibility corporate insurers and drug companies have in fueling runaway cost increases. Hospitals are responsible for treating patients […]

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Coalition Launches National Ad Campaign to Protect Medicaid Patients from Cuts to Care

National Ad Launches to Safeguard Vital Health Program   WASHINGTON— The Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare today launched Faces of Medicaid, a national ad campaign that will highlight Medicaid’s critical impact on more than 72 million Americans who rely on the program for access to care. The campaign tells the story of the crucial role Medicaid

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Hospitals Provide 24/7 Care During California’s Wildfire Crisis

The Southern California wildfires have forced over 100,000 evacuations and consumed over 40,000 acres and counting. Los Angeles County, one of the hardest hit areas, is home to nearly 33,000 licensed physicians—about a quarter of the state’s total. Among them, approximately 270 physicians live within the fire perimeter, many of whom have lost their homes.

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Hospitals Nationwide Care For Communities Impacted By 2024 Hurricane Season

The notably active 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which just came to a close, put the essential ways that hospitals and health systems serve their communities front and center. Hurricane Helene, which impacted six different states, and Hurricane Milton, the Gulf of Mexico’s strongest late-season storm on record, both defined the season. As disaster struck, hospitals

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Coalition Launches Seven-Figure Ad Campaign on Life-Saving Impact of Hospital Care

WASHINGTON — The Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare today launched a new national seven-figure digital, cable, and broadcast advertising campaign underscoring the importance of the life-saving, specialized care that only hospitals provide.  The campaign features a new ad, “Beckett,” that tells the story of a child born with a congenital heart defect who received life-saving care

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Beckett’s Story Highlights the Importance of Complex, Coordinated Care Only Provided by Hospitals

When first-time parents Kayla and Austin discovered their son Beckett would be born with a congenital heart defect, they turned to a hospital for the highly specialized care needed to save their baby boy’s life. Beckett would need three open heart surgeries when his heart was still the size of a walnut.  Fortunately, Beckett was

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Advocate Story Shows the Importance of 24/7 Access to Care

New Coalition Ad Shares Advocate Story of an Infant Whose Life Was Saved by Team of Dedicated Healthcare Professionals Beckett Keisler was born with a severe congenital heart defect. He and his parents were supported by a team of 40-50 healthcare professionals who worked 24/7, performing six surgeries and three open-heart surgeries. Watch Beckett’s resilient

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This Thanksgiving, Let’s Take a Moment to Be Thankful for the 24/7 Care Our Hospitals and Caregivers Provide

For most Americans, Thanksgiving is a time to gather with family and friends and celebrate the season. But at America’s hospitals, the holidays are business as usual.  Emergencies don’t take days off, and neither do hospitals nor the caregivers and other healthcare professionals who work at hospitals. They provide care 24 hours a day, seven

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