Officials with South Dakota’s largest healthcare agencies, Sanford Health and Avera Health, are not willing to talk about the state of what gender affirming health care looks like in the state. The Argus Leader had requested interviews with doctors in both hospital systems to speak about transgender health care and […]
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Healthcare company Ascension confirms layoffs in Texas
The Ascension Seton Hays Hospital in Hays County. Ascension Seton Hays Hospital A major healthcare company, Ascension, has confirmed layoffs in Texas, according to a report from KXAN on Monday, January 23. Ascension did not provide details on how many employees were laid off or at which Texas facilities the […]
NY Gov Kathy Hochul on rehiring unvaccinated health care workers: Not the ‘right answer’
Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says rehiring unvaccinated health care workers is not the “right answer” despite the vaccination mandate being overturned and the state suffering from a major health care worker shortage. “I don’t think the answer is to have someone who comes in, who’s sick, be exposed […]
UCHealth, Intermountain Healthcare forming Colorado insurance network
By some measures, the Denver metro area has one of the most competitive hospital markets in the country. Large health systems duke it out every year for supremacy in the multibillion-dollar marketplace. But now, two of those heavyweight health systems — locally based UCHealth and Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare — have […]
NHS crisis: Why is Britain’s health service falling apart?
London CNN — Most winters, headlines warn that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is at “breaking point.” The alarms sound over and over and over again. But the current crisis has set warning bells ringing louder than before. “This time feels different,” said Peter Neville, a doctor who has worked […]
Excess deaths are soaring as health-care systems wobble
In 1516 thomas more described the ideal health-care system. “These hospitals are well supplied with all types of medical equipment and the nurses are sympathetic,” the philosopher wrote in “Utopia”. “Though nobody’s forced to go there, practically everyone would rather be ill in hospitals than at home.” Five centuries later, […]
Boston hospital worker charged with raping patient at Back Bay Health Center
A 39-year-old Boston medical worker is charged with rape and assault and battery after being accused by a patient of conducting an additional medical examination.Damien Knighton pleaded not guilty during arraignment in Roxbury District Court on Thursday.The victim, a male, told Boston police he was sexually assaulted by a staff […]
DeSantis seeks transgender university students’ health care information
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking state universities for the numbers and ages of their students who sought or received gender dysphoria treatment, including sex reassignment surgery and hormone prescriptions, according to a survey released Wednesday. Why he’s conducting the survey wasn’t completely clear. LGBTQ advocates have criticized DeSantis […]
Analysts Just Upgraded These 3 Healthcare REITs
A new year often brings new hope for the stock market, and after the terrible performance of real estate investment trusts (REITs) in 2022, it’s refreshing to see analysts coming out with improved forecasts for the same REITs that were downgraded so heavily last year. Healthcare is one area of […]
Emerging Ideas to Make College, Housing, Healthcare More Affordable
The costs of healthcare, housing, childcare, and college have soared in recent decades. Some say an “abundance agenda” is necessary to boost supply and bring down costs. It’s a move away from conventional progressive plans to give people money to compete over limited resources. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for […]
Health care is in crisis. New York’s nurses strike is just the latest sign
New York CNN — Naniaka Camara grew up near Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx in New York and remembers going there for her own medical care. A Montefiore nurse for the past three years, she still lives only minutes from the hospital and often knows the patients from her neighborhood […]
U of M announces intent to gain full ownership of Twin Cities healthcare facilities, new medical center
MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota announced Thursday its intent to gain full ownership of the existing healthcare facilities on its Twin Cities campus, currently owned by Fairview Health Services. The university and its medical school announced its new “MPact Health Care Innovation vision” aimed to make Minnesota a leader in […]
Emergency room death highlights Canadian healthcare crisis | Canada
When Allison Holthoff entered a crowded Nova Scotia hospital at the end of December, the intense pain in her abdomen worsened with each hour she spent waiting for treatment. With the emergency room under renovations, overwhelmed staff triaged a stream of incoming patients in a makeshift treatment area. “‘I feel […]
List of AI Healthcare Stocks
In this article, we will take a look at our list of AI healthcare stocks. To see more such companies, go directly to 5 AI Healthcare Stocks To Buy. Artificial Intelligence is set to disrupt several industries and healthcare is one of the primary industries that are expected to see the […]
Covid surge exposes China’s healthcare gap
Many rural residents flock to cities for hospital care they cannot get at home Patients with Covid-19 lie in beds at Tangshan Gongren Hospital in the northeastern city of Tangshan on Dec 30. (Photo: AFP) TANGSHAN, China: Understaffed and underfunded clinics stand half-empty in parts of the Chinese countryside even […]
‘Not business as usual’: Health lobbyists brace for Bernie Sanders
Lobbyists also worry they’ll struggle to get traction on any push to make changes to a drug discount program involving pharmaceutical companies and hospitals or revisit association health plans after a Trump-era rule around them was voided. “This will not be business as usual for K Street. It will be […]
GE Healthcare’s stock market debut kicks off the giant’s three-way split
GE’s healthcare spinoff is the first of 3 separate businesses. General Electric’s healthcare unit is ready to begin its solo flight on the bourses. In November 2021, the industrial giant decided to break up into three parts. Its healthcare unit, comprising medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital solutions, starts trading […]
New Year Health Care Savings
Maddie TwomeyDecember 31, 2022 On January 1, millions of seniors will save big on their health care costs thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act. Much of the coverage has been focused on reducing premium costs and empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices, but two other key measures were also passed: […]
GE HealthCare Technologies Set to Join S&P 500; Vornado Realty Trust to Join S&P MidCap 400; RXO to Join S&P SmallCap 600
NEW YORK, Dec. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (NASD: GEHC) will be added to the S&P 500 effective prior to the open of trading on Wednesday, January 4, 2023, replacing Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE: VNO), which will move to the S&P MidCap 400 effective prior to the […]
How FWCS got ‘unsustainable’ health care costs into shape
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In 2010, Fort Wayne Community Schools faced an annual increase of $1 million in health care costs, which Chief Financial Officer Kathy Friend called “unsustainable.” “You can’t give people raises and be paying increases like that in health care,” said Charles Cammack, the district’s Chief […]