Three big hospital groups in the state have severed their membership from the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association.

Abrazo Health Care, Banner Health and Dignity Health, which runs St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, today informed the association that they are withdrawing.

The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association today ripped Brewer's new AHCCCS proposal's "deep and devastating cuts."

The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association is criticizing Gov. Jan Brewer's revised plan to cut the state's Medicaid program to help balance the state budget.

Several health care industry groups that hope to stop the state from kicking a quarter of a million people out of the state's public health care system unveiled the outline of their proposal to fund the state's Medicaid program.

As the days tick down until the Arizona immigration law takes effect, the state stands as a monument to the anger over illegal immigration that is present in so many places.

As the health care industry prepares for new laws that will dramitically change the nature of how it operates, the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association will have a familiar face to guide it through the tumultuous times ahead.

The state's largest hospital association has nixed plans for a ballot measure that would provide money for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System by raising income taxes on the wealthiest residents.

Republican lawmakers angry at a proposed ballot initiative backed by Arizona hospitals that would raise taxes for the wealthiest residents to pay for some health care programs are fighting back by proposing to instead tax hospitals and other providers.

With a few strokes of her pen, Gov. Jan Brewer approved massive cuts to health care funding and money the state gives to hospitals that treat large numbers of the poor and uninsured. While the move will be felt statewide, its most acute effect could be in the rural reaches of the state.

A plan to cut $800 million next fiscal year from state programs providing health care would cost tens of thousands of jobs, and the losses would extend far beyond those in the health care field, business leaders said Feb. 24.