private hospitals
Coverage of private hospitals in the Nexus archive.
- LA County OKs Pilot Program to Speed Mental Health Crisis Response
LA County’s Board of Supervisors approved a pilot program to train emergency room physicians at five private hospitals to initiate involuntary psychiatric holds. This measure is intended to free county mental health crisis teams so they can respond more quickly to emergencies in the community and follows a 2025 state law enactment.
- Court case filed against hospitals, doctors involved in kidney racket: Minister
A court case has been filed against hospitals and doctors involved in a kidney racket, as reported by a Minister. The racket, uncovered in Pallipalayam, Namakkal, led to the suspension of kidney transplant licenses for two private hospitals.
- Nine in ten: Why Jammu and Kashmir’s private hospitals have India’s highest C-Section rate
Jammu and Kashmir's private hospitals have India's highest C-Section rate. Experts cite factors like institutional deliveries, improved high-risk pregnancy detection, older maternal age, medical complications, assisted reproductive technologies, previous C-sections, and growth in private-sector obstetric care.
- Talks to resolve nurses’ strike in Kannur end without breakthrough
Talks to resolve a nurses' strike in Kannur ended without progress. The Indian Nurses Association claims the failure stemmed from demands by CITU and BMS that wage revisions for striking nurses be extended to employees of all 36 private hospitals in the district.