By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Since 2005, 181 rural hospitals across the country have shut their doors permanently — 56 of those between 2017 and 2020. Scholars at the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC Chapel Hill watch the issue closely. Two researchers recently decided […]
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Baker-Polito Administration Provides COVID-19 Update on Mask Advisory, Hospital Support
Boston — Currently, the Baker-Polito Administration introduced added steps to address a latest increase in COVID-19 circumstances and to ensure acute treatment hospitals have ample potential to treatment for equally COVID and non-COVID people. The Commonwealth’s healthcare system is struggling with a significant staffing scarcity which has contributed to the loss of approximately 500 healthcare/surgical and […]
A Rural Georgia Community Reels After Its Hospital Closes
Andy Miller CUTHBERT, Ga. — Lacandie Gipson struggled to breathe. The 33-yr-outdated girl with various wellness ailments was in respiratory distress and awaiting an ambulance. About 20 minutes just after the emergency phone, it arrived. The Cuthbert property in which Gipson lived was a lot less than a mile from Southwest Georgia Regional Clinical Center, […]
AG Knudsen’s office didn’t intimidate hospital officials
HELENA — Republican Attorney General Austin Knudsen and his office did not attempt to threaten or intimidate Helena hospital officials or health-care providers when they inquired about a patient’s COVID-19 care last month, says a report released late Monday evening by Republican legislative leadership. However, the report did identify a “third public official” who contacted […]
Maui Health Updates: Status of Vaccine Availability for Kids, Hospital Operations
Executives at Maui Health provided updates on the hospital’s vaccine mandate, the status of vaccine availability for kids, and hospital operations. The information was shared during the hospital’s last community Town Hall event of the year, held on Thursday. Maui Memorial Medical Center. PC: Wendy Osher (8.16.21) Marked Improvement Over Two Months as we Head […]
Patients Went Into the Hospital for Care. After Testing Positive There for Covid, Some Never Came Out.
Christina Jewett They went into hospitals with heart attacks, kidney failure or in a psychiatric crisis. They left with covid-19 — if they left at all. More than 10,000 patients were diagnosed with covid in a U.S. hospital last year after they were admitted for something else, according to federal and state records analyzed exclusively […]