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  • exterior of a hospital emergency roomHealth

    Rural hospitals are caught in an aging-infrastructure conundrum

    By Markian Hawryluk and KFF Health News
  • Rocky Mountain Cannabis is one of four retail marijuana stores in Dinosaur, Colorado, a town of just 315 people. (Markian Hawryluk/KFF Health News)Health

    Pot boom revitalizes the tiny town of Dinosaur, Colorado: ‘There’s money running out of our ears’

    By Markian Hawryluk and KFF Health News
  • A pharmacist waiting on a customer at a pharmacy counterHealth

    A Colorado panel of medical and pharmacy experts will decide whose medicine to make affordable this summer

    By Markian Hawryluk and KFF Health News
  • A hospital patient looking out the window in his room.Health

    Rural hospitals that were struggling financially even before the pandemic are running out of COVID aid

    By Markian Hawryluk and Kaiser Health News
  • Undertaker showing coffins to a widowHealth

    Death is anything but a dying business as private equity cashes in on the $23 billion funeral home industry

    By Markian Hawryluk and Kaiser Health News
  • Private Equity HospiceHealth

    Hospices have become big business for private equity firms, raising concerns about end-of-life care

    By Markian Hawryluk and Kaiser Health News
  • Del-Kar Pharmacy owner Edwin MuldrowHealth

    One Chicago pharmacy avoids creating another drugstore desert by tapping into its deep roots

    By Markian Hawryluk and Kaiser Health News
  • PharmacyHealth

    Pharmacies face extra audit burdens that threaten their existence

    By Markian Hawryluk and Kaiser Health News
  • Adela Flores-Brennan, executive director of the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, speaks at a rally on the steps of the Colorado Capitol in Denver on May 19, 2021, in support of a bill that would create a prescription drug affordability board to set payment limits on high-cost drugs. (Markian Hawryluk/KHN)Health

    Colorado lawmakers wage multi-front assault on high drug costs

    By Markian Hawryluk and Kaiser Health News
  • Joe Moose, co-owner of Moose Pharmacies in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area, is trying to adapt to the changes dealt by covid. The chain expanded curbside services, hired additional drivers and tripled home deliveries. (Logan Cyrus for KHN)Health

    Independent pharmacies are fighting to stay in business through the pandemic

    By Markian Hawryluk and Kaiser Health News
  • An emergency field hospital has been constructed in New York City’s Central Park, equipped with ventilators to assist COVID-19 patients.Health

    Ventilators are in short supply. So are the people and resources needed to repair them

    By Markian Hawryluk and Kaiser Health News