HONORABLE MENTION – 2022 Healthcare Design Showcase For a century, the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI) has been a world leader in transforming the lives of all individuals with disabilities and complex health care needs. Its patients include some of the nation’s most underserved, including those with autism spectrum and severe behavioral disorders. Today, MMI offers more […]
There’s a lot of buzz in healthcare about the promise of value-based care (VBC) and how it can reign in skyrocketing costs, while delivering improved patient outcomes. And indeed, the move to VBC has yielded positive results in primary care and there are emerging alternative payment models in specialty care for other chronic conditions. So it’s only natural that VBC has come to knock on the […]
Dive Brief: Louisiana-based Ochsner Health is launching a pilot program to bring Ukrainian nurses to the U.S. to work for its hospitals, according to a Friday release. In the first phase, the system will offer eight nurses employment and assist them and their families in getting acclimated to their new communities. Nurses will be committed to their roles for at […]
The global outbreak of monkeypox should not be expected to stay confined to specific groups, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said Monday. Though cases of the virus have been predominantly reported among men who have sex with men, diseases commonly begin in one community before spreading to others. “This really might be the canary in the mine that’s alerting […]
Genetic medicines have a capacity problem. The engineered viruses used to deliver them have limited room for their genetic cargo, which in turn limits the way diseases can be treated—if they can be treated at all. A new biotech company named Replay has assembled a suite of technologies that could enable it to deliver “big genes” or even multiple […]
Even as numerous Republican-governed states push for sweeping bans on abortion, there is a coinciding surge of concern in some Democratic-led states that options for reproductive healthcare are dwindling due to expansion of Catholic hospital networks. These are states such as Oregon, Washington, California, New York and Connecticut, where abortion will remain legal despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling […]
Northern Arizona Healthcare (Flagstaff, Ariz.) plans to build a health and wellness village on 188 acres in Flagstaff to serve area patients, the Navajo Nation, and rural areas of Northern Arizona, according to the website knau.org. The $800 million proect will include a new hospital and adjacent offices and clinics for outpatient care. Twenty-two acres will be set aside as […]
If you’ve been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AFib), your doctor may have mentioned the Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (LAAO) procedure. An alternative to blood thinners, this minimally invasive treatment option is helping many people get back to living a happy, healthy, active life—unrestricted by many of the worries that often come with AFib. Let’s walk through the benefits of the […]
Sidratu “Sidi” Kamara, Caregiver for Capital City Nurses, has been named a 2022 Frontline Honors honoree by Home Health Care News. To become a Frontline Honoree, an individual is nominated by their peers. The candidate must be a dedicated, high-performing frontline worker who delivers exceptional experiences and outcomes; a passionate worker who knows how to put their vision into action […]
President Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms are almost completely resolved, his physician Kevin O’Connor said in a memorandum released by the White House on Monday. The president, who completed his fourth day of the antiviral Paxlovid on Sunday evening, only has residual nasal congestion and minimal hoarseness, O’Connor said. “His symptoms have now almost completely resolved. When questioned, at this point he […]