Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati) is building a $10 million medical office building as part of a mixed-use development in Union, Ky., according to the website fox19.com. The 25,000-square-foot Cincinnati Children’s Union facility will house pediatric primary and specialty care services, including speech pathology and behavioral care. Flex space is also planned. T.J. Ackermann (Cincinnati) is a co-developer of […]

If you’re living with psoriasis, I don’t have to tell you what it looks like: red scaly plaques often located on the skin of the elbows, knees and scalp. I also don’t have to tell you how uncomfortable and difficult it can be. Fortunately, there are effective ways to manage psoriasis, lower inflammation and prevent flare-ups so you can enjoy […]

Enhabit Home Health & Hospice (NYSE: EHAB) has completed its spinoff from Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC). The move is over a year and a half in the making, after Encompass Health first announced it was exploring “strategic alternatives” for its home health and hospice segment in December of 2020. “Today marks a new and exciting chapter for our company, […]

Dive Brief: The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear a challenge brought by healthcare workers to New York’s statewide vaccine mandate that doesn’t include a religious exemption, according to court documents. Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito dissented, with Thomas writing in an opinion from the dissenting justices that healthcare workers in the state objected to the […]

Lori Mangum tenía 32 años cuando aparecieron tumores del tamaño de manzanas en su cabeza. Ahora, seis años y 10 cirugías después, el cáncer de piel desapareció. Pero su dolor sigue vivo, en la forma de una deuda médica. Incluso con seguro, Mangum pagó $36,000 de su bolsillo, cargos que surgieron del hospital, el cirujano, el anestesiólogo, la farmacia y […]

This data note looks at national and state-by-state Medicaid and CHIP enrollment data through March 2022. After declines in enrollment from 2017 through 2019, preliminary data for March 2022 show that total Medicaid/CHIP enrollment grew to 87.9 million, an increase of 16.7 million from enrollment in February 2020 (23.4%), right before the pandemic and when enrollment began to steadily increase […]

BY MIKE MAGEE Stable, civic societies are built upon human trust and confidence. If you were forced to rebuild a society, leveled by warfare and devastation, where would you begin? This is the question the U.S. Army faced at the close of WW II, specifically when it came to rebuilding Germany and Japan, hopefully into stable democracies. The Marshall Plan […]

Architecture, planning, and interior design firm FCA (Philadelphia) announced the retirement of president John Campbell after 36 years with the firm. Campbell joined FCA’s Philadelphia office as part of an exchange program between The Carpenters’ Company in Philadelphia and The Worshipful Company of Carpenters in London. The firm’s board has elected Aran McCarthy, principal of healthcare at FCA, as incoming […]

Dive Brief: Certain health insurers are required to start publicly disclosing in-network and out-of-network rates beginning Friday under a Trump-era price transparency rule finalized two years ago. Early signs look good for compliance. The rule went into effect in January 2022. But last summer, the CMS delayed enforcing this part of the price transparency rule, citing the “considerable time and […]

The DC Health Department ended its COVID-19 contract tracing program on Thursday, laying off 131 workers employed by the program. “The COVID-19 Contact Trace Force has been instrumental in helping slow the spread of COVID-19 in the District of Columbia,” DC Health told The Hill. “However with COVID infection levels coming down and easier access to at-home testing kits, the […]