ALBANY, N.Y. (WTEN) — Food poisoning incidents, thought to be caused by bad lettuce at Wendy’s restaurants, have spread to both New York and Kentucky, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The new cases raised the number of states where diners have fallen ill to six. According to the CDC, as of Aug. 31, a total of […]
BY GEORGE HALVERSON Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All post-COVID. He wrote a piece in Health Affairs last year arguing with the stance of Medicare Advantage of Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan (Here’s their piece pt1, pt2). We also published his criticism (Part 1. Part 2. Part 3) […]
Memorial Hospital of Carbon County lost five labor and delivery nurses to travel jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. For a department made up of just 12 people, the impact was immense. The hospital turned to contract workers and paid three to four times as much for nurses to fill vacancies so the maternity department could operate. “It’s not something that could be […]
If you ever find yourself dealing with an airline cancellation or delay, the Department of Transportation has now launched a dashboard to help you better understand the policies of major airlines. Updated COVID-19 booster shots got the green light from a CDC panel ahead of a fall campaign of shots. Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re following the latest moves on […]
Novo Nordisk announced a big purchase on Thursday to augment its rare disease portfolio. The Danish pharmaceutical giant is shelling out $20 per share in cash to acquire clinical-stage biotech Forma Therapeutics, which focuses on rare hematologic diseases. The deal represents a total equity value of $1.1 billion, about $425 million more than Forma’s current market cap. The transaction is […]
Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., uses mobile devices with audio and video capabilities for its “virtual sitter” program, which allows nurses to monitor multiple patients at once. “They kind of look like a robot that you would see in a cartoon,” Karen Hughart, senior director of nursing informatics at VUMC, says of the devices. VUMC’s virtual sitter program […]
Total Medicaid managed care spending across all 50 states saw an increase last year. In fact, spending checked in at $420.5 billion in 2021, compared to $359.6 billion in 2020, according to data collected in the annual CMS-64 Medicaid expenditure report. Additionally, home and community-based services make up a big chunk of this spending. At $69.5 billion, these services are […]
Medable is arguably the strongest company in the decentralized clinical trials space. If fundraising is any measure of success, the company has raised more than $521 million since its founding in 2012 — significantly more than its competitors, which include Curebase, Science 37 and Clara Health. On Tuesday, Medable made its product offerings more robust by rolling out two new […]
Wellstar Health System plans to close Atlanta Medical Center, a 532-bed hospital that has shouldered a disproportionate load of the area’s uncompensated care. The not-for-profit system will start winding down services and close the hospital by Nov. 1 after determining the facility cannot sustain waning revenue and surging labor and supply costs, Wellstar said in a news release issued late Wednesday. Atlanta […]
THCB Gang Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang today at 1pm PT 4pm ET are THCB regular writer and ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); the double trouble of vaunted futurists Ian Morrison (@seccurve) & Jeff Goldsmith, and Consumer advocate & CEO of AdaRose, Lygeia Ricciardi (@Lygeia). If you’d rather listen, the “audio only” version it is preserved as […]