Post-Covid care has become a luxury. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
How a Hospital Chain Used a Poor Neighborhood to Turn Huge Profits
Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used the poverty of Richmond Community Hospital’s patients to tap into a lucrative federal drug program. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Doctors Rush to Use Supreme Court Ruling to Escape Opioid Charges
Dr. Nelson Onaro conceded last summer that he’d written illegal prescriptions, although he said he was thinking only of his patients. From a tiny, brick clinic in Oklahoma, he doled out hundreds of opioid pills and dozens of fentanyl patches ... [Continue Reading]
Kevin M. Cahill, 86, Dies; Tropical Disease Expert With a Political Bent
He treated celebrities, advised a governor and saved an Irish historical society. But he died under a cloud of sexual assault allegations. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
U.K. Health Ministry Wants No Oxford Commas. Period.
The directive discourages the use of the contentious grammatical device, and also encourages employees to be “positive” and to avoid “jargon.” SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Emergency Rooms Across Canada Close Amid Nursing Shortage
A nationwide shortage of nurses has caused dozens of emergency rooms across Canada to close temporarily and forced some patients to wait days for a bed. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
‘The Future of Hospitals’: Flexible Space for the Next Pandemic
After struggling to respond to a crushing Covid caseload, many hospitals are remodeling so that when the next crisis comes, they’ll be better able to meet it. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Medical Impact of Roe Reversal Goes Beyond Abortion Clinics, Doctors Say
State abortion bans carry narrow but sometimes vague exceptions, and years of prison time. That’s forcing doctors to think like lawyers, and hospitals to create new protocols. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Hospitals Divert Primary Care Patients to Health Center ‘Look-Alikes’ to Boost Finances
A growing number of hospitals are outsourcing often-unprofitable outpatient services for their poorest patients by setting up independent, nonprofit organizations to provide primary care. Medicare and Medicaid pay these clinics, ... [Continue Reading]
Patient Satisfaction Surveys Earn a Zero on Tracking Whether Hospitals Deliver Culturally Competent Care
Each day, thousands of patients get a call or letter after being discharged from U.S. hospitals. How did their stay go? How clean and quiet was the room? How often did nurses and doctors treat them with courtesy and respect? The questions focus on ... [Continue Reading]