Funds received during Child’s Life Month support patients during hospital stays March 14, 2022 — Spirit Halloween presented a check for $69,496 to child life professionals at Golisano Children’s Hospital during Child Life Month. The funds were part of the Spirit of Children campaign held last October, when the company also donated $4,000 in costumes, […]
Health system recognized for its stability February 21, 2022 – North Broward Hospital District’s long-term rating has been raised to “A-“. Additionally, its S&P Global Ratings outlook remains stable for the district that does business as Broward Health. According to an S&P Global Ratings report published on February 8, 2022, “The higher rating reflects our […]
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR BASE. Ohio– In response to the spike in COVID-19 cases across the country, US Northern Command is mobilizing multiple medical support teams to help in locations where hospitals are overwhelmed due to understaffing. Three teams are mobilized from the 88th medical group. “Despite the personnel challenges we […]
February 14, 2022– JFK Medical Center is a leading facility for comprehensive cardiovascular care with a national reputation for excellence. JFK’s dedicated team will commemorate the 35th anniversary of the hospital’s cardiac program, appropriately on Monday, February 14, a day dedicated to hearts. For more than three decades, JFK has been the county’s leader in […]
“Wright-Patterson Medical Center stands ready to provide additional teams of medical aviators to support the President and our nation.” These deployments will have an impact on the delivery of care. “As team members temporarily depart Wright-Patt, we want to be fully transparent about the impact these deployments will have on our personnel and our ability […]
NEARLY 900 employees at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) in Davao City have recently been infected with the Covid-19 virus, affecting the hospital’s ability to serve customers. SPMC chief Dr. Ricardo Audan told SunStar Davao in a Friday, January 28 telephone interview that they were short of manpower after 891 of their employees, especially […]
TORRANCE (CBSLA) – The nationwide blood shortage forced the temporary closure of the trauma center at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center earlier this week. The hospital said on Wednesday it had been forced to close its trauma center to new patients for more than two hours on Monday due to the shortage. A spokesperson for the hospital […]
January 12, 2022 – JFK Medical Center Main and North Camps have appointed Dr. Alex Paya as Chief Medical Officer (CMO), effective January 1, 2021. Dr. Paya joins JFK Medical Center from Palms West Hospital where he served as CMO position. Dr. Paya joined HCA Healthcare in 2018 as CMO of the former University Hospital […]
January 5, 2022 – Ever since the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved, there have been rumors that it could affect women’s fertility. Some anti-vaccine activists have embraced these claims. COVID vaccines do not affect the functioning of the ovaries or the fertility of women in general, according to a study from Sheba Medical Center in Tel […]
December 22, 2021– The Weston Hospital of the Cleveland Clinic, Broward County’s largest solid organ transplant provider, recently completed its 1,000th kidney transplant when Fort Lauderdale resident Erskine Clark, 48, received a kidney from a deceased donor. Rodolfo Blandon, MDPresident, Cleveland Clinic Weston “Reaching this milestone shows the enormous need for organ transplant services in […]
Capital Region Medical Center, an affiliate of the University of Missouri Health Care, spent nearly a week battling a system-wide network outage affecting its phone and computer systems. Although IT health news‘Attempts to reach Jefferson City-based facility were unsuccessful, spokesperson told local ABC Affiliate that the decision to shut down the network was triggered by […]
The board of directors selects the national research firm December 15, 2021 – Health network, a federally accredited health center (FQHC) that works to ensure that primary medical care is available to everyone in our community, Dr. Emily Ptaszek, President and CEO, informed the council today of his decision to step down from his post, […]
December 10, 2021 – Nicole Nicome, MD, joined the Holy Cross Medical Group, a multi-specialty physician group employing over 160 physicians providing service in Broward and Palm Beach counties, as an internal medicine specialist. With over 12 years of healthcare experience, Dr Nicome was Chief Medical Officer at Carecube in Brooklyn, New York before joining […]
December 2, 2021 – Dr Robert Flood has been appointed Chief of Emergency Medicine at Nicklaus Children’s Health System, responsible for overseeing the emergency department on the main Nicklaus Children’s campus as well as teams of Nicklaus Children’s doctors providing medical emergency departments at collaborating hospitals in South Florida. Dr Flood comes to Nicklaus Children […]
November 29, 2021 – Geriatrician Laura Alvarez Orduz, MD has joined staff at Holy Cross HealthPlex’s new AgeWell Center, a comprehensive collaborative center focused on healthcare, wellness and social interaction to help the aging population of South Florida to live their healthiest and most active lives. Laura Alvarez Orduz, MD A member of the Holy […]
PA Washington – Clinton is being treated for an infection unrelated to Covid. By AP Posted: Fri, 15 Oct 2021, 6:17 AM Last update: Fri, 15 Oct 2021, 07:40 Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to a Southern California hospital on Tuesday with an infection, but is “on the mend,” his spokesperson said Thursday. Clinton, […]
PROVIDENCE – Benefiting from weeks of warnings and intensive planning, state hospitals on Friday reported no incidents and few service disruptions on the first day of the state’s COVID vaccination mandate for workers in health. Reallocations, extra shifts and the use of contract workers in some cases were among the measures used to avoid disruption. […]
The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City was no. 1 this year in geriatric care, according to the rankings of American News and World Report. The Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, followed. To round out the top 10 hospitals caring for patients over the age of 75, […]
News / Metro / Powerful hospital ads urging people to wear masks and stay home Powerful hospital ads urging people to wear masks and stay home A pair of ads from St. Lukes Medical Center took social media by storm after urging people to wear masks and stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. […]
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Equally large cost variations were found for a colonoscopy, which ranged from $ 1,775 to $ 5,509, and for cesarean deliveries, which ranged from $ 5,058 to $ 31,000, according to the study. The cost comparisons were part of an analysis of hospital costs in North Dakota presented to the North Dakota Legislature, which studies […]
BRADFORD, Pa. – More than 2,000 people have signed a petition to save the Bradford Regional Medical Center from a cut in services planned by its parent company, Upper Allegheny Health System. After months of rumors, hospital officials released a plan last week that would involve the transfer of acute care and surgical services from […]
We’ve been tracking claims for Cyberknife’s “knifeless surgery” for a long time. See our blog search results. We’ve seen billboards promoting it in the metropolitan healthcare market we live in. And major East Coast medical centers promote it at subway stations. But it’s only recently that we’ve started noticing a lot of TV commercials promoting […]
We’ve been tracking claims for Cyberknife’s “knifeless surgery” for a long time. See our blog search results. We’ve seen billboards promoting it in the metropolitan healthcare market we live in. And major East Coast medical centers promote it at subway stations. But it’s only recently that we’ve started noticing a lot of TV commercials promoting […]