Basic Services, Emergency Services, Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 24, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsIn his 17 years as an emergency medical provider, Anthony Almojera thought he had seen it all. “Shootings, stabbings, people on fire, you name it,” he said. Then came covid-19. Before the pandemic, Almojera said it was normal to respond […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 22, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsOpening another front in the nation’s response to the pandemic, medical centers and other health organizations have begun sending doctors and nurses to apartment buildings and private homes to vaccinate homebound seniors. Boston Medical Center, which runs the oldest in-home […]
Basic Services, Emergency Services, Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 18, 2021
Via: Healthcare EconomistUrgent care centers are on the rise. Back in 2013, there were only 6,100, but this number increased to 9,616 by late 2019 a 7.9% average annual increase. The rise of urgent care could have positive or negative impacts on […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 17, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsSan Francisco restaurant owners, already simmering over covid-19 restrictions, are ready to boil over because of a city ban on natural gas stoves in new buildings that takes effect in June. The ban, which also affects other gas appliances, is […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 17, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsPresident Joe Biden has an unexpected opening to cut deals with red states to expand Medicaid, raising the prospect that the new administration could extend health protections to millions of uninsured Americans and reach a goal that has eluded Democrats […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 16, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsIn eastern Tennessee, doctors have seen firsthand how a hard-line immigration policy can affect the health and well-being of a community. In 2018, federal agents raided a meatpacking plant in Morristown, a manufacturing hub in the Tennessee Valley, and detained […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 12, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsFed up with a lack of federal action to lower prescription drug costs, state legislators around the country are pushing bills to penalize drugmakers for unjustified price hikes and to cap payment at much-lower Canadian levels. These bills, sponsored by […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 5, 2021
Via: Waste360As employers continue to navigate increased workplace safety measures following the rapid spread of COVID-19, the U.S. Department of Labor has released additional guidance to aid in 2021 efforts. OSHA’s recommendations, which were published on Friday, Jan. 29, aim to […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 3, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsApril 30 will mark the end of the first 100 days of President Joe Biden’s tenure. That’s a benchmark presidents often set for making good on high-priority campaign promises. In early December, Biden announced that one promise would be to […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 2, 2021
Via: Waste360This past week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released updated guidance on safety in the workplace related to COVID-19. This comes on the heels of President Joe Biden’s executive order on workplace safety. The Biden administration has hit […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
February 1, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsA divide between “haves” and “have-nots” is emerging as older adults across the country struggle to get covid-19 vaccines. Seniors with family members or friends to help them are getting vaccine appointments, even if it takes days to secure them. […]
Health & Insurance, Public Institutions, Public Works, Social Services
January 29, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsIn America’s health care system, dominated by hospital chain leviathans, New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, is an anomaly. It is a publicly owned hospital that boasts good care at lower prices than most and still flourishes […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 28, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsLate last month, before President Joe Biden took office and proposed his pandemic relief plan, Congress passed a nearly 5,600-page legislative package that provided some pandemic relief along with its more general allocations to fund the government in 2021. While […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 25, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom, under growing pressure to jump-start a faltering covid-19 vaccine rollout, jetted to Los Angeles on Jan. 15 to unveil a massive new vaccination site at Dodger Stadium that is expected eventually to inoculate 12,000 people a […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 22, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsOver a month into a massive vaccination program, most older Americans report they don’t know where or when they can get inoculated for covid-19, according to a poll released Friday. Nearly 6 in 10 people 65 and older who have […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 13, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsLast week, after finishing inoculations of some front-line hospital staff, Jupiter Medical Center was left with 40 doses of precious covid vaccine. So, officials offered shots to the South Florida hospital’s board of directors and their spouses over age 65. […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 11, 2021
Via: Kaiser Health NewsKeely Connolly thought she would be safe once the ambulance arrived at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center in Kansas. She was having difficulty breathing because she’d had to miss a kidney dialysis treatment a few days earlier for lack of child […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
January 4, 2021
Via: StateScoopWith every state left to manage its own distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, public health agencies across the country are taking individual approaches to rolling out the injections. But in states where vaccinations are even further decentralized, like Florida, some counties […]
Basic Services, Emergency Services, Health & Insurance, Social Services
December 22, 2020
Via: Kaiser Health NewsMost Americans tell pollsters they’re worried about being able to afford an unexpected medical bill. Late Monday, Congress passed a bill to allay some of those fears. The measure is included in a nearly 5,600-page package providing coronavirus economic relief […]
Health & Insurance, Social Services
December 21, 2020
Via: Kaiser Health NewsA year ago, while many Americans were finishing their holiday shopping and finalizing travel plans, doctors in Wuhan, China, were battling a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia with no known cause. Chinese doctors began to fear they were witnessing the return […]