When life gets busy, it’s easy to let routine cancer screenings get pushed to the bottom of your to-do list. But is getting screened for cancer really less important than getting an oil change or picking up the groceries? It’s estimated that Americans missed more than 9 million cancer screenings in 2020 because of the effects of COVID-19. Today, many […]
Shares of Signify Health opened at almost $30 a share Monday, after news reports Sunday that Amazon and UnitedHealth were among the bidders for the company. Also bidding for Signify, an in-home health care evaluations and technology company, are CVS Health and Option Care Health, Bloomberg reported Sunday. UnitedHealth has submitted the top bid, of more than $30 a share, with […]
Nonprofit health system Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.) is planning $1.7 billion in expansion projects across Riverside County, Calif., according to the website beckershospitalreview.com. Among the work is expanding Riverside Medical Center in Riverside, Calif., to increase the hospital’s bed count from 226 to 298, as well as upgrading patient rooms. The $735.4 million project is slated for completion in the […]
In his first weeks as CEO of CommonSpirit Health, Wright Lassiter is focusing on a few key priorities that he says will help the largest not-for-profit system in the country navigate a post-COVID world. Chief among them for the 140-hospital system is managing the labor shortage. CommonSpirit, which has 150,000 employees across 21 states, is forming an internal staffing agency and nursing […]
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Policies governing abortion and reproductive health care services in U.S. prisons and jails were restrictive and often hostile even before the Supreme Court removed Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protections for abortions. After the June ruling, many reproductive services stand to be prohibited altogether, putting the health of incarcerated women who are pregnant at risk. That threat is particularly urgent in […]
Faced with an aging facility, the Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI) in Omaha, Neb., set out to transform a former office building into a new home for the research institute and specialty clinic. The goal was for it to house the institute’s more than 100 services for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities. The project, submitted to the Design Showcase by Altus Architectural Studios […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday cleared Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in adolescents, paving the way to expand eligibility for the fourth shot available in the United States. The two-dose regimen utilizes protein-based technology previously leveraged in vaccines to combat other viruses, offering an alternative for Americans skeptical of Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA technology. Providers can […]