Created to address clinical staffing shortages in underserved areas, the assistant physician role is also designed to employ medical school graduates who have not matched into a residency program. However, providers and medical organizations have not widely embraced assistant physicians as an effective solution. In the eight years since the position was created, only five states have licensed it, including […]
Contessa – the higher-acuity care provider and subsidiary of Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) – has extended its partnership with Mount Sinai Health System. Under the extension, Mount Sinai South Nassau’s home health agency will now become a part of the two organizations’ existing joint venture. The JV now includes home health, hospital-at-home, SNF-level care at home and palliative care. What […]
La promesa de campaña del presidente Joe Biden de cancelar la deuda estudiantil por los primeros $10,000 adeudados en préstamos universitarios federales ha generado un debate sobre la equidad de estos programas de préstamos. En un sondeo de junio, poco más de la mitad de los estadounidenses encuestados apoyaron que se condonara la deuda universitaria, pero el 82% dijo que […]
A group of Senate Democrats on Tuesday introduced legislation that would protect physicians who provide abortion services in states where they are still legal from what the lawmakers referred to as “Republicans’ non-stop attacks.” Democratic Sens. Patty Murray (Wash.), Ben Ray Luján (N.M.), Alex Padilla (Calif.) and Jacky Rosen (Nev.) said in a statement that they will be seeking unanimous […]
A precision medicine is only as good as its target. While targeted therapies now address many types of cancer, tumors still frequently develop mutations that help them escape a drug. One strategy to address tumor escape is combining different cancer drugs. Biotech startup IDRx aims to use scientific knowledge of tumor biology to develop new drug combinations that cover […]
President Joe Biden is set to name top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to serve as the White House coordinators to combat the growing monkeypox outbreak. The White House said Biden will announce Tuesday that he has tapped Robert Fenton, who helped lead FEMA’s mass vaccination effort for COVID-19 as […]
I will be retiring later this year, after nearly 42 years as a healthcare executive. At the beginning of this journey, I had no idea what peaks and valleys lay in front of me. Now, after decades of always looking ahead, I am looking back—to reflect on the many lessons I’ve learned about leadership and myself. The most important leadership […]
Cancer research and treatment organization City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.) opened the 190,000-square-foot City of Hope Orange County Lennar Foundation Cancer Center in Irvine, Calif. The outpatient facility offers multidisciplinary cancer services from prevention to surgery to survivorship as well as cancer-focused clinical trials. The facility houses: 67 exam and treatment rooms 15 consultation rooms an infusion center with 43 […]
How Can Patient Room ‘Next’ Improve Healthcare? Many healthcare organizations are buying point solutions. For example, clinical leaders may want to solve for patient falls and buy a solution to monitor and address that problem in addition to other solutions already in use. Clinicians may have to log in to three or four apps when they enter a room. If […]
Providers remained largely unhappy early this week despite a final ruling issued by the CMS on Monday that increases inpatient payments to hospitals by more than was initially proposed. Organizations like The American Hospital Association said it was “pleased” by the payment update, a 4.3% bump up from the proposed 3.2%, but added it “still falls short of what hospitals and […]