The Kaiser Family Foundation is starting an independent news service to report on the nation’s health-care system.

The news service will report on new developments in the health-care system and on health-care policy debates in Washington and in state capitals.

The news service, which will be located in Washington, is meant to supplement traditional news organizations, many of which no longer have the money to do in-depth reporting on the health-care system, the foundation said.

To read more about how foundations are taking steps to invigorate journalism in the wake of its financial struggles, read this article from The Chronicle’s archive.

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