The most common problems at Tucson-area hospitals include patient falls or injuries, poor communication at the time of discharge, infections after surgery, and inadequate communication from doctors and nurses to patients.
A collaboration between Tucson Medical Center and DispatchHealth to bring in-home care to recently hospitalized patients and in-home urgent care to some residents.
Robyn Green, a nurse practitioner with DispatchHealth, talks about the types of in-home care offered to Tucson residents and patients who were recently released from TMC. Video by Patty Machelor/Arizona Daily Star.
Tucson Medical Center, the Pima County Health Department are offering sessions in April and May
Springtime blooms are beginning earlier while summer and fall weeds and grasses are living longer, according to a recent study.
Clinics treating uninsured patients see surges as Medicaid disenrollment looms; local doctors-in-training plan careers around helping those most in need.
Pima County still experiencing very high transmission of the omicron variant.
As Pima County approaches its two-year COVID-19 anniversary, nearly 70% of eligible residents here have been vaccinated with either two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson shot.
Supplies of the drugs, while available with a prescription in pharmacies around the state or through referrals to some Pima County sites, are in short supply. The Arizona health department has set priority tiers for who is eligible.
Members can work out dressed up as their favorite superhero.
Company tells customers it will quit selling coverage directly to individuals.
Here are five takeaways from the Monday night event at Tucson Medical Center.
Prison-diversion program could be in jeopardy, and that worries those in Tucson's criminal-justice system.
Ruling puts Tucson child killer back on Arizona's death row
“When are we going to do something? I’m tired. I’m so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there. I’m so tired. Excuse me. I’m sorry. I’m tired of the moments of silence. Enough."
Iaroslava Soboleva experiences 'kind and good emotions' when creating with felt, a distraction from thinking about the war in Ukraine.
The Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation's free prom-style event for LGBTQ+ young-people and their close allies ages 15-20.
Terrol Dew Johnson revives O'odham traditions and advocates for traditional foods to help curb diabetes.
Arizona’s national forests and some local governments and land management agencies are implementing stricter campfire and smoking restrictions because of the heightened wildfire threat. Heightened restrictions ordered by the Apache-Sitgreaves, Coconino, Coronado, Kaibab, Prescott and Tonto national forests take effect either Wednesday or Thursday. Along with restricting campfires and smoking, the forests’ heightened restrictions prohibit or impose limits on various activities. Those include shooting, welding, using chain saws, running generators and driving motor vehicles off roads. An Apache-Sitgreaves statement said the restrictions “are necessary to reduce human-caused wildfires during periods of high fire danger and persistent severe fire conditions." .
It was illegal for the Republican-controlled Arizona legislature to approve a measure in 2017 that makes it a crime to pay circulators based in whole, or in part, on the number of signatures they gather, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
Arizona health officials need to do more to ensure nursing home residents are safe, the state Auditor General says in a new report.
Arizona Senate Republicans who wanted to pass a measure completely banning ballot drop boxes failed to get enough votes for the proposal. They had sought to change a bill that adds video monitoring requirements to drop boxes but fell short of the needed votes. They call the boxes widely used by voters to return the mail ballots vulnerable to voter fraud despite lack of evidence. Monday’s hour-long debate ended up being in vain because one Republican joined all Senate Democrats in rejecting the measure outright.
The class action lawsuit was filed against Banner Health, Arizona's largest private employer.
Potentially deadly leptospirosis can be treated with antibiotics if caught early enough.
It's Aspen Dental's fourth such annual event.
E-cigarettes popular with some UA students.
Emergency benefit a start, oral health advocates say
Spinraza slows progressive spine ailment, giving Tucson mom hope she'll get to dance with her sons at their weddings someday.
A 26-year-old motorcyclist was fatally struck by a car that failed to yield while making a left turn Monday afternoon in midtown Tucson.
More than 200 personnel have been assigned to the fire, which has burned about 4,000 acres near Elgin, southeast of Tucson, since Monday morning.
The 36-year-old was found with an AR-type rifle magazine loaded with 25 rounds of .223-caliber ammunition and other loose rounds in various calibers in the trunk.
The owner of a chain of clothing stores in Tucson and Phoenix, BBB Fashion, kept cash paid by customers, which was not reported to accountants for several years.
It was illegal for the Republican-controlled Arizona legislature to approve a measure in 2017 that makes it a crime to pay circulators based in whole, or in part, on the number of signatures they gather, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
The system could cost $300,000 each year for maintenance and new federal programs could make it virtually obsolete.
The latest updates related to COVID-19 in Tucson and Southern Arizona.
Some Republican state senators claimed without evidence that ballot boxes are vulnerable to voter fraud and that they should be outlawed, not just restricted.