A baby boy named Javier was the first baby born in 2024 at Memorial Care Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital in Long Beach. He arrived two weeks early. Parents Lucerito Quevedo and Javier Gomez welcomed their baby boy at 1:38 a.m. Monday, Jan. 1 at the Cherese Mari Laulhere Birth […] Read More
By ISABEL DEBRE JERUSALEM — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital. Shells hissed through the hospital courtyard and crashed into […] Read More
Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees in California and other states plan to go on strike Wednesday after union contracts expired for a huge swath of the Kaiser workforce. The planned strike involves several labor organizations that are part of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions. The biggest is […] Read More
St. Louis’ largest health system, BJC HealthCare, plans to merge with Kansas City’s second-largest, Saint Luke’s Health System, uniting more than 28 hospitals on both sides of Missouri by the end of this year. The merger, which would span markets 250 miles apart and include facilities in neighboring Kansas and […] Read More
