health care access

On today’s episode of The Confluence: A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of how the state funds schools is underway, seven years in the making; a new documentary film examines the impact of non-profit hospitals, U.S. health care system and Pittsburgh entities on its patients; and a rundown of the holiday-themed happenings in the region.

Pennsylvanians working in the behavioral health care field have the chance to receive money from the state to pay off student loan debt.Gov. Tom Wolf's…

Kim Stanley shook out a white pill from a prescription bottle and poured herself a glass of water, at the kitchen sink of her North Huntingdon Township…

Barriers continue to exist for transgender people seeking medical treatment, according to experts who spoke at a conference Monday called, "Becoming a…

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has taken legal action against UPMC, western Pennsylvania’s largest health care system, in an effort to force…

State Sen. Jay Costa, a Democrat from Forest Hills, is proposing legislation to require Pittsburgh’s two largest health care systems to accept each…

A new University of Pittsburgh study asks whether a revenue model set to be introduced in six rural Pennsylvania hospitals next year can both reduce…

At the northeast corner of US Route 30 and Agnew Road in Westmoreland County, there’s a sloping, nine-acre lot of mostly gravel and overgrown brush.“Most…

Westmoreland County is getting a new hospital in Hempfield Township at the junction of Route 30 and Agnew Road. AHN Hempfield is the first of four…

For people with anxiety or depression, an online therapy can be similarly effective to seeing a mental health professional, according to researchers from…