Mental health agency Integrated Services of Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo, Mich.) is planning a mental-health urgent care center in Kalamazoo, according to the website mlive.com The facility will include six individual treatment rooms, two crisis treatment rooms, a family treatment room, and offices. Project construction is expected to start in September, and the facility is tentatively scheduled to open in 2023.
Dive Brief: Oklahoma State University Center for Health Services has paid $875,000 to the federal government to settle alleged violations of HIPAA privacy rules. The academic health center also agreed to implement a corrective action plan that includes two years of monitoring. HHS’ Office for Civil Rights investigated potential HIPAA rule violations after the center informed the agency in a […]
This analysis of marketplace insurers’ early rate filings in 13 states and the District of Columbia finds that they are seeking higher premium increases than in recent years, largely due to rising prices paid to hospitals, doctors and drug companies and increased use of services by enrollees. Insurers’ rate requests are preliminary at this point and may change during the […]
Idaho’s Republican party on Saturday adopted language to their platform that supports the criminalization of abortion in all cases, rejecting an amendment that would have supported allowing a woman to get an abortion to save her life. Delegates at the state’s GOP convention in Twin Falls approved changes to the party’s platform that went further than existing language classifying abortion […]
Over the past two years, the need for social distancing brought more patient care into the home. A March 2022 survey found that 76% of people who have had a telehealth visit since July 2021 would prefer telehealth visits in the future. Physicians are in favor of the trend as well, with 75% saying that telehealth has allowed them to […]
Auburn Community Hospital (Auburn, N.Y.) is planning a new $14 million radiation treatment center in Syracuse, N.Y., according to the website syracuse.com. A portion of Auburn Community Hospital’s parking lot will be used to construct the facility, which will comprise exam rooms, infusion rooms, and scanners. The new center will be operated by Upstate University Radiation Oncology (Syracuse), an affiliate […]
A rural hospital in the Midwest is weighing whether it can continue to care for pregnant women in its community. The hospital performs 80 deliveries per year, about half of which are for Medicaid beneficiaries. Rural hospital obstetrics units need either obstetricians-gynecologists who nationally earn an average of $300,000 to $400,000 annnually or family physicians who specialize in obstetrics. The […]
The Harris House Treatment and Recovery Center is located on the bluff of the Missouri River in St. Charles, Mo. Architecture firm Arcturis (St. Louis) was asked to envision this previously developed site as a serene retreat for patients seeking addiction treatment. Understanding the therapeutic role of the natural environment, Arcturis carefully positioned the facility to maximize natural light and […]
After a remarkable 100-year run, the FCC is officially closing the door on traditional analog copper POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service), the standard telephone infrastructure we’ve all used forever. For businesses in virtually every industry, the old-fashioned copper wires have been the default communication protocol not only for phone usage but for other services such as analog fax lines and—for […]
Lauren Weber and Anna Maria Barry-Jester Through a wave of pandemic-related litigation, a trio of small but mighty conservative legal blocs has rolled back public health authority at the local, state, and federal levels, recasting America’s future battles against infectious diseases. Galvanized by what they’ve characterized as an overreach of covid-related health orders issued amid the pandemic, lawyers from the […]