Renton, Washington-based not-for-profit system Providence acquired Swedish Health Services’ five hospitals in 2012. Median operating cost per adjusted discharge at the 227-bed Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill increased an average of 7% a year from 2011 to 2019, although operating cost growth stagnated from 2015 to 2017. Medical inflation accounted for about 34% of the increase in median operating cost […]

Design firm Gould Evans (Kansas City, Mo.) has rebranded its firm to a multidisciplinary design focus called Multistudio. The 160-person firm was founded in 1974 and has five locations, including Kansas City; Lawrence, Kan; New Orleans; Phoenix; and San Francisco.

Cardiology has the heart attack, oncology has the fateful diagnosis date, but there is no “kidney attack” to serve as a traumatic wake-up call for those at risk for kidney diseases. There is no event to urgently change someone’s point of view; “From this moment forward, you will pay attention to your kidneys and do what is needed to avoid […]

The White House on Tuesday named a Federal Emergency Management Agency official as coordinator for the monkeypox response, as the virus spreads in the United States.   The naming of a national coordinator for the monkeypox response, Robert Fenton, comes as the Biden administration looks to step up its response to the virus.   A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) […]

Viral hepatitis is a major public health threat both here in the United States and across the globe. So, this World Hepatitis Day, I join the global effort to raise awareness of the impact of viral hepatitis. Simply put, we can’t wait to eliminate viral hepatitis. With more than 350 million people are living with viral hepatitis globally and more […]

Even before Covid-19 disrupted the traditional model for clinical trials, researchers were harnessing the power of technology to make trials more accessible and improve data collection. The movement had coalesced under the banner of decentralized clinical trials, or DCTs, which leverage technology and other non-traditional approaches to monitor patients and gather data without limits on geography. Another envisioned benefit included […]

Ruth Williams-Brinkley, president at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, said leadership is about training others to support the organization’s mission. “It’s the ability to shape people, to mold them and to hold them up to do their jobs, and not do their jobs for them,” she said. An effective leader must seek input from employees too, said […]

By ELIZABETH BROWN, CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0 IN THIS MINI-SERIES, WE WILL BE TAKING A LOOK BACK AT THE IDIH WEEK 2022 USA REGIONAL WORKSHOP, TITLED THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE SHARED PRIORITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN ACTIVE AND HEALTHY AGING, WITH A DIFFERENT BLOG POST DEVOTED TO EACH OF THE THREE COMMON PRIORITIES THAT WERE REFINED THROUGHOUT THE […]

Bernard J. Wolfson Here we are in the grip of yet another covid-19 surge, yet most people I see out and about are behaving as if the pandemic is over. And I live in Los Angeles County, whose public health department is arguably one of the most vigilant and proactive in the U.S. We all have pandemic fatigue. Even people […]

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to end the constitutional right to an abortion, most voters (55%) now say access to abortion is “very important” to their vote in November’s midterm elections, up 9 percentage points since February prior to the decision, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. This heightened interest is greatest among key voter groups who largely want […]