This chart collection takes a deep dive into employment data to analyze how jobs and wages in the health sector shrank and recovered during the coronavirus pandemic. Unlike past recessions, the health sector saw a big drop in employment in early 2020 but began to recover by May 2020. As of July 2022, the number of Americans employed in the […]
A federal judge in Texas in a Tuesday night ruling blocked guidance issued by the Biden administration that requires doctors to provide abortions in emergency medical situations even if doing so would run afoul of state law. In a 67-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James Hendrix halted emergency abortion guidance that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued last […]
The transition from Monkeypox Inoculation Plan A to Monkeypox Inoculation Plan B has been a smashing success—at least, if you ask federal officials. Just a few weeks ago, the U.S. had nowhere near enough of the Jynneos vaccine to doubly dose even a quarter of the Americans at highest risk of monkeypox, roughly 1.6 million men who have sex with […]
BY MICHAEL MILLENSON When my siblings and I were young, we were fascinated by my father’s Uncle Byron. Handsome and confident, he drove a big, 1960s-era Chrysler Imperial, had a glamorous job — an executive at a Baltimore radio station — and radiated panache. He also was part of a small family mystery. His father, Louis, was married three times, […]
Nonprofit Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City) plans to renovate a former 1947-era Sears store into a new hospital in Salt Lake City, according to the website sltrib.com. The new facility will replace Intermountain’s aging LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. Intermountain Healthcare merged with SCL Health (Broomfield, Colo.) and operates a combined network of 33 hospitals and approximately 385 clinics […]
Prices for medical services typically rise more quickly than the broader economy, but the reverse has been true recently as general inflation rose rapidly. A new KFF analysis finds that, in July, overall prices as measured by the Consumer Price Index were up 8.5 percent compared to the previous July, while prices for medical care increased by 4.8 percent during […]
Several states where reproduction rights are at risk are seeing a surge in women registering to vote following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case, abolishing the constitutional right to abortion. An analysis by TargetSmart Insights, a Democratic political data and data services firm, found that women are out-registering men by significant margins in states […]
The new 117,000-square-foot Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB), delivering neurodevelopmental clinical care, research, and education and advocacy services, opened in November 2021 on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. Prior to its opening, these specialty services for early childhood and adolescent patients were spread across the university campus, which created a less-than-ideal experience for patients. “Why would […]
The pandemic has taken a substantial toll on people living and working in long-term care facilities — they have accounted for more than one in five of all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. During the pandemic, the number of residents living in nursing facilities that accept Medicare or Medicaid declined while the percentage of facilities reporting a deficiency that caused […]