EYOTA — When Dr. Zach Lechner applied to dental school in the late 2000s, he made sure to express his desire to practice dentistry in a rural community. “I ended up going into dentistry because I wanted to be in health care and be able to take care of people,” […]
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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 […]
Tampa General Hospital, OneTGH Employer Solutions and Hillsborough County Partner for TGH Mobile Care to You Program
The TGH Mobile Care to You program delivers on-site health care services to Tampa Bay area communities and employers with support from Hillsborough County. TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Tampa General Hospital’s (TGH) partnership with Hillsborough County to provide direct, on-site health care services to surrounding Tampa Bay communities […]
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 […]
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 […]
DC will give child care workers thousands of dollars in bold new effort
More than a third of D.C.’s child-care workers live in poverty. New city-funded bonuses are part of an innovative plan to raise their pay. December 30, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EST Takia Bridgeforth, a lead teacher at Ms. P’s Child and Family Services, exercises with toddlers on Dec. 20 in […]
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: […]
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 […]
Immigrant health care workers tend to migrants from Texas
On a cold December day, a little over 50 years ago, Pilar Guerrero arrived in this country from Mexico with her parents by her side. She was 9 years old, she recalled, and didn’t know a bit of English. Guerrero, now a family doctor, smiled as she sat across from […]
2022’s most interesting health care research papers, according to the experts
Though the pandemic and all its attendant health care crises remained the major health care story of 2022, churning all the while in the background has been the critical work of academic scholars, operating on longer timelines, who are still trying to make sense of US health care and of […]
China rushes to boost intensive care beds, doctors and stocks of medicine as Covid surges | China
Chinese authorities are rushing to boost the number of intensive care beds and health workers and increase medication supplies as Covid-19 surges through the country. Since the abrupt dismantling of the stringent zero-Covid regime, cases have skyrocketed in China. A full picture of the impact is difficult to gauge. Authorities […]
Jim Cramer recommends these 5 health care stocks in 2023
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday presented investors with a roster of health care stocks that should be on their shopping lists for next year. “Wall Street likes profitable companies with consistent results, nice dividends and reasonably valued stocks,” he said, adding, “The biggest [health care] winners were boring, consistent operators […]
UPMC Magee Named to U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals for Maternity Care
12/6/2022 PITTSBURGH — UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, a global leader in women’s health care and research, has been recognized as a 2022-2023 High Performing Hospital for Maternity Care (Uncomplicated Pregnancy) by U.S. News & World Report. “UPMC Magee welcomes more than 10,000 babies a year into the world, and this honor is […]
Hospital shutdown in Pennsylvania spurs questions about private equity in health care
After a car accident last month, Latifa Dixon, a mother of two, arrived at the emergency room at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in suburban Philadelphia only to learn the ER had just shut down. Twenty-eight-year-old Cecilia Vizuete, who was having trouble feeding her one-year-old daughter because of a breast infection, […]
Opinion | Expensive U.S. health care enables low prices in other countries
Comment on this story Comment David Goldhill is the chief executive of SesameCare.com, a digital marketplace for discounted health services. The United States spends twice as much per person as other wealthy countries on health care. This fact is well known, and when it is mentioned, people often point out […]
Progressive Health Care Initiatives Coasted Through in Midterms
On this Giving Tuesday, consider making a matched donation to support The Intercept’s independent journalism. The 45,000 or so residents of Dunn County live off on the western side of Wisconsin, not far from central Minnesota, but not close to much of anything. Like other rural counties, it leans heavily […]
Leeds woman kicked out of dental practice while in intensive care tells of ‘worst nightmare of my life’
Mandy Sharp said she’d been left in “so much pain and so distressed”, because she’d been able to access so little dental treatment since. In an emotional address to a panel of local councillors on Tuesday, Ms Sharp, from Otley, told how she’d lost almost all of her top teeth […]
Amazon makes a new push into health care
AS BIG tech companies face a brutal slow-down the hunt is on for new areas of expansion. Amazon, which is now America’s second-biggest business by revenue, is a case in point. In the final quarter of 2022 its sales are expected to expand by just 6.7% year on year. On […]
Mark Hage: Rebalancing Vermont’s health care system and lowering health care costs
This commentary is by Mark Hage, director of benefit programs at Vermont-NEA. This commentary is the last in a series that included pieces by Patrick Flood and Julie Wasserman. We linked arms to make the case that a more affordable and equitable health care system is within Vermont’s reach. But […]
World Class Care in a Close-knit Community Setting
South Texan children with cancer and blood disorders benefit from doctors’ dedication and expertise When you visit Driscoll Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorder Center, you enter a bubble. It’s not just the kind that protects immunocompromised kids from outside germs. It’s a place where everyone inside feels a little more […]