Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News LOS ANGELES — In the shadow of L.A.’s art deco City Hall, musicians jammed onstage, kids got their faces painted, and families picnicked on lawn chairs. Amid the festivity, people waved flags, sported T-shirts, and sold buttons — all emblazoned with a familiar slogan: “My Body, My Choice.” This wasn’t an abortion rights rally. It […]
Northeast Georgia Health System (Gainesville, Ga.) is constructing a new hospital in Dahlonega, Ga., according to the website beckershospitalreview.com. The 66,000-square-foot project includes: 16 private inpatient rooms an emergency department with 10 treatment rooms, four dedicated observation rooms, and a fast-track area three operating rooms (ORs) and one procedural suite for orthopedics, sports medicine, and general surgery café and dining […]
The pharmaceutical industry historically has been well known for being risk averse. But the rapid response to Covid-19, particularly the development of vaccines to minimize the effects of the virus within roughly one year of the pandemic’s onset, has illustrated how the pharma industry can be agile when it needs to be. It begs the question — is this the […]
An ounce of prevention … well, you know the rest. In medicine, prevention aims to spot problems before they worsen, affecting both a patient’s health and finances. One of the more popular parts of the Affordable Care Act, which allows patients to get certain tests or treatments without forking out cash to cover copayments or deductibles, is based on that […]
With the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel finally visible, home-based care agencies will now have to worry about checking their peripherals once they reach the other side. Government watchdog agencies are expected to come hard for providers in 2022 and beyond. The Biden administration released a 68-page report Monday pertaining to the “state of labor market competition,” […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday announced it had temporarily suspended its ban on sales of the popular e-cigarette maker Juul. “On July 5, 2022, FDA administratively stayed the marketing denial order,” the agency’s tobacco division wrote in a tweet. “The agency has determined that there are scientific issues unique to the JUUL application that warrant additional review.” […]
An 8-year-old boy is helping a NASCAR driver put a new spin on the “Let’s Go Brandon” chants. In health news, an omicron subvariant is now the most dominant strain in the U.S., though there are large gaps in data reporting. Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re following the latest moves on policy and news affecting your health. For […]
When people hear about a healthcare accelerator, they usually think of an incubator program in which digital health companies receive investments for strengthening their technology. That is not the case for Boston Medical Center’s Health Equity Accelerator. After being inundated with data on racial health disparities that continue to disproportionately affect Black and Brown patients in the U.S., BMC launched […]
FDA wants drugs to be more targeted to factors that impact patient’s lives in ways that they care about. To achieve this goal, last month FDA released a third guidance document on patient focused drug development generally applicable to a variety of clinical outcome assessments (COAs), including patient-reported outcome (PRO), observer-reported outcome (ObsRO), clinician-reported outcome […]
A new study from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that hospitals with a greater local supply of home health agencies were associated with increased readmissions. One of the reasons readmission rates were higher in those areas may be due to frequent staffing changes and other interruptions in care, according to the study’s lead author. “Some of this could […]