Not since Aug. 14, during the state’s summer peak, has Alabama had such a high number of hospitalizations.
Over the last two weeks, hospitalizations have increased by 20 percent and the number of people in hospitals on Tuesday surpassed 1,200 for the first time...
The 1,001 patients in hospitals with COVID-19 on Tuesday is a 34 percent increase from a month ago.
Hospitals in Tuscaloosa, Mobile and near Auburn are seeing rising numbers of hospitalizations, though the statewide total remains stable.
Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate this week in an attempt to secure passage of the States Achieve Medicaid Expansion...
Alabama had just 12 percent of the state’s ICU beds available on Monday, and 496 of them were filled with COVID-19 patients, a record high, said...
The addition of 47 more deaths to the state's COVID-19 death toll Wednesday broke the previous single-day high of 40 set on Tuesday.
A new study found that Southern states with Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act saw fewer declines in people’s health, resulting in an overall improvement...
Congresswoman Terri Sewell, D-Selma will meet with state legislators and health care stakeholders in Montgomery Wednesday about making health care more affordable and innovative in Alabama....
In Alabama, Republican politicians have ignored the question of Medicaid expansion or rejected it outright, refusing to bring the issue to the floor of the state...
