2022 Design Showcase Award of Merit: Waldkliniken Eisenberg Orthopedic Hospital – HCD Magazine

2022 Design Showcase Award of Merit: Waldkliniken Eisenberg Orthopedic Hospital – HCD Magazine

Building on the role that nature can play in improving the health and well-being of staff and patients, the Waldkliniken Eisenberg orthopedic hospital, opened in October 2020, stands out for a variety of reasons. For starters, the 177,600-square-foot hospital is designed in a circular shape. It features large openings that direct views outward toward nature and its forest setting in […]

Long COVID cardiac studies: More questions than answers.

Long COVID cardiac studies: More questions than answers.

BY ANISH KOKA The NIH recently announced $1.2 billion dollars in funding for research on Long COVID. This is in part because of a faction of scientists that have mined electronic health record databases to find evidence that the long term impacts of COVID on a variety of different organ systems is significant. I have some concerns when it comes to the […]

Community health centers’ big profits raise questions about federal oversight

Community health centers’ big profits raise questions about federal oversight

Just off the deserted town square, with its many boarded-up businesses, people lined up at the walk-up pharmacy window at Genesis Health Care, a federally funded clinic. Drug sales provide the bulk of the revenue for Genesis, a nonprofit community health center treating about 11,000 mostly low-income patients in seven clinics across South Carolina. Those sales helped Genesis record a […]

2022 Design Showcase Award of Merit: Waldkliniken Eisenberg Orthopedic Hospital – HCD Magazine

2022 Design Showcase Award of Merit: Waldkliniken Eisenberg Orthopedic Hospital – HCD Magazine

Building on the role that nature can play in improving the health and well-being of staff and patients, the Waldkliniken Eisenberg orthopedic hospital, opened in October 2020, stands out for a variety of reasons. For starters, the 177,600-square-foot hospital is designed in a circular shape. It features large openings that direct views outward toward nature and its forest setting in […]

Aging Media Announces the Future Leaders Class of 2022

Aging Media Announces the Future Leaders Class of 2022

Aging Media Network, Inc. (“Aging Media”) is pleased to announce the Future Leaders Class of 2022, showcasing the most promising talent in senior housing, skilled nursing, home health and hospice industries. These exemplary individuals represent strength, intuition and perseverance under some of the most challenging circumstances the aging industries have ever seen. Aging Media recognizes dynamic leaders, ages 40 and […]

Perkins Eastman Welcomes New Principal – HCD Magazine

Perkins Eastman Welcomes New Principal – HCD Magazine

Global design firm Perkins Eastman (New York) has hired senior medical planner and business development strategist Michael Hess as principal in the firm’s New York studio. With 31 years of experience in the industry, Hess’ design and planning work spans across the United States, Asia, and the Middle East with several international design firms.  

Humana inks deal to expand in Medicaid managed care

Humana inks deal to expand in Medicaid managed care

Dive Brief: Humana said Friday it will acquire most of the assets of Inclusa, a managed care organization in Wisconsin that provides long-term care and support services to seniors and adults with disabilities. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal will boost the number of Medicaid recipients enrolled in Humana plans. The Louisville, Kentucky-based health insurer said […]

UK becomes first country to approve updated Moderna vaccine targeting omicron

UK becomes first country to approve updated Moderna vaccine targeting omicron

The United Kingdom on Monday became the first country to approve an updated COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna targeting the omicron variant as well as the original strain of the virus.   The move is a step toward a booster campaign that could provide people with better protection against the variants that are currently circulating.  “The first generation of COVID-19 vaccines […]

$387M In Renovations On Horizon For Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center In California – HCD Magazine

$387M In Renovations On Horizon For Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center In California – HCD Magazine

VA Long Beach Healthcare System (Long Beach, Calif.) is planning renovations at Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center in Long Beach, according to the website lbbusinessjournal.com. The $387 million project will include a new mental health center to replace the current 1960s-era center and a new community living center. The new mental health facility will include an 82,000-square-foot inpatient center with […]

Visionary planning for IT modernization: The key to next-generation IT services

Visionary planning for IT modernization: The key to next-generation IT services

Michael Marshall is a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton for Federal Health Market IT Modernization and Transformation. This blog was coauthored with Nikul Pandya, principal at Booz Allen Hamilton for Federal Health Market Cybersecurity, including Zero Trust concepts. Technological advancement today is accelerating at such a pace that we need to think anew about how to modernize. This rapid pace […]