Staffing shortages at long-term care facilities are preventing hospitals from discharging patients and admitting new ones. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
How to Crush Medical Debt: 5 Tips for Using Hospital Charity Care
What if a law passed but no one enforced it? That’s essentially what has happened with one small but helpful rule about hospitals and financial assistance for medical bills. The Affordable Care Act, the health law also known as Obamacare, ... [Continue Reading]
Bill Clinton Is Hospitalized for Infection, Aide Says
An aide said that Mr. Clinton had a urological infection that had developed into sepsis, although it was not considered to be acute. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Minnesota Hospital Struggle Under Weight of Latest Virus Surge
New daily cases have risen by 29 percent in the last two weeks and hospitalizations by 17 percent, according to a New York Times database. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
How the Young Lords Changed Public Health Care
The Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx on July 14, 1970. Their demand? Accessible, quality health care for all. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
North Dakota Governor Asks Residents to Avoid Hospitals
“The pressure on hospitals and clinics in both our urban and rural areas is reaching critical levels,” Gov. Doug Burgum said last week. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today
Alaska’s doctors are forced to ration care. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
In Alaska’s Covid Crisis, Doctors Must Decide Who Lives and Who Dies
Amid the nation’s worst Covid-19 outbreak, patients are trapped in remote communities and doctors are prioritizing treatment based on who is most likely to survive. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
California Mandates Boost Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Workers
In California and New York, where mandates for health care workers have gone into effect, many are complying. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Fire Kills 7 in Romanian Hospital’s Covid Ward
The fire was the third in a Romanian hospital in less than a year, underscoring the precarious state of the nation’s health care system. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Romanian Hospital Fire Kills 7 in Covid Ward
The blaze ripped through the hospital’s intensive care unit where Covid patients were being treated, becoming Romania’s third deadly hospital fire in less than a year. The incident raised questions about the country’s health care ... [Continue Reading]
A Colorado Town Is About as Vaccinated as It Can Get. Covid Still Isn’t Over There.
San Juan County, Colorado, can boast that 99.9% of its eligible population has received at least one dose of covid-19 vaccine, putting it in the top 10 counties in the nation, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and ... [Continue Reading]
Hospitals Confront Climate Change as Patients Sick From Floods and Fires Crowd ERs
[UPDATED at 5:45 p.m. ET] When triple-digit temperatures hit the Pacific Northwest this summer, the emergency room at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center was ill prepared. Doctors raced to treat heat-aggravated illness in homeless people, ... [Continue Reading]
New Rule on Surprise Billing Aims to Take Patients Out of the ‘Food Fight’
Neutral arbiters are given guidance on how to settle disputes between insurers and medical providers. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
New York’s Vaccine Mandate: What to Know
In courtrooms from Manhattan to Utica, judges are weighing whether exemptions that would cover thousands of health care workers will be allowed. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
La parte del drama de Britney Spears que miles de personas están sufriendo
La última vez que Britney Spears compareció ante un juez, en junio, se enfureció cuando contó como la obligaron a recibir atención psiquiátrica que le costaba $60,000 al mes. Aunque las ... [Continue Reading]
Most U.S. Health Workers Are Complying With Vaccine Mandates
Some employees left their posts in protest, but a hefty majority, particularly at large hospital chains, appear to be complying. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
The Part of the ‘Free Britney’ Saga That Could Happen to Anyone
When Britney Spears last went before a judge, in June, she bristled as she told of being forced into psychiatric care that cost her $60,000 a month. Though the pop star’s circumstances in a financial conservatorship are unusual, every year ... [Continue Reading]
These Health Care Workers Would Rather Get Fired Than Get Vaccinated
Monday is the vaccination deadline for New York State health care workers. Thousands of refusers have failed to meet it. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
NY Weighs Using the National Guard to Replace Unvaccinated Health Care Workers
Gov. Kathy Hochul has plans to use National Guard members and out-of-state professionals to cover staff shortages if thousands of health care workers fail to meet a state vaccination deadline on Monday. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story ... [Continue Reading]
New York Hospitals Face Possible Mass Firings as Workers Spurn Vaccines
With a Monday deadline looming, thousands of health care workers in the state are risking their jobs by not getting a coronavirus vaccine. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Afghanistan’s Health System Is on the ‘Brink of Collapse,’ W.H.O. Says
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the W.H.O. director general, warned of an “imminent humanitarian catastrophe” as the country’s health care system struggles with a loss of foreign funding and dwindling supplies. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read ... [Continue Reading]