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How to Find a High-Quality Nursing Home

This story provides families with a set of tips about how to find a high-quality nursing home for their loved one.

Dolton Facility Gets High Marks For Nursing Home Care

This piece looks at the only majority-black nursing home in Illinois that earned the highest possible rating from Nursing Home Compare. The home is also noteworthy because it received that mark while having more than 85 percent of resident care paid for by Medicaid.

Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart.

This piece discusses Donald McRae's book about the race to perform the first human heart transplant. McRae blends sciene, character description and culture in this engaging book.

Paul Starr's Book about the social transformation of American medicine sheds light on today's debate.

This piece looked at Paul Starr's Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the social transformation of American medicine and explored how the issues he discusses can shed light on the current vituperative health care reform debate.

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This story distills a national analysis of nursing home data and finds that Illinois is the worst state in the country for black seniors seeking nursing home. Illinois has the highest number of poorly rated majority black facilities in the country and just one black nursing home that received an excellent rating from Nursing Home Compare. We looked at black and white homes where a high percentage of resident care was paid for by Medicaid and found that the disparities between the two groups actually increased, rather than shrunk as some owners with whom we had spoken predicted.

The High Cost of Health Care (Part 5)

We continue our 5-part series on the high cost of health care in America.

The High Cost of Health Care (Part 4)

We continue our 5-part series on the high cost of health care in America.

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