Clover Health (CLOV) CEO Vivek Garipalli has had a tumultuous year following the company’s merger with Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC. Though now a meme stock, it’s battling lawsuits spurred by a report from short-seller firm Hindenburg Research alleging the company withheld information about legal issues from investors. It isn’t the health […]
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A Charlotte-based health care system has finalized a deal to acquire a nonprofit hospital organization based in Rome. Floyd Medical Center, a hospital in Cedartown and one in Alabama will now become part of Atrium Health under the long-delayed agreement, announced Wednesday. It’s the second big foray into Georgia for […]
You’ve probably driven by UCHealth’s Grandview Hospital, just off of Interstate 25 in Colorado Springs, hundreds of times. Have you ever wondered what happens there? Located across from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus and next to University Village, Grandview Hospital is a 22-bed hospital that is a hub […]
The hospital in the home program has been used to care for COVID patients at home, according to a recent report by The Saturday Paper. Expert opinion is divided on whether or not such COVID cases should be included in the hospitalisation rate figures released by governments; that question goes […]
August 26, 2021 – 9:00am Hearing. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) will conduct a public hearing on August 26, 2021, at 9:00 a.m., to receive public comments on the proposed rule for the Medicaid Reimbursement for Hospital Outpatient Services. Due to the declared state of disaster stemming […]
If Mississippi’s hospitals were adequately staffed amid the current COVID-19 resurgence, they could open over 1,000 additional beds statewide, health officials said Wednesday. Seventy-three Mississippi hospitals have collectively asked the state for roughly 1,450 health care workers, said Jim Craig, senior deputy and director of health protection for the Mississippi State Department […]
Hospital officials around the state are watching Indiana’s COVID-19 numbers – and not liking what they’re seeing. As of Tuesday, COVID hospitalizations in Indiana had crossed the 1,500 line for the first time since early February with no sign of a decrease in the future. That’s only slightly under half of […]
An ambulance arrives at the emergency department at AdventHealth hospital in Orlando in late July. Florida is one of several states seeing disappearing hospital capacity as COVID-19 cases surge. Paul Hennessy /SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paul Hennessy /SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images An ambulance arrives […]
Little Rock, Arkansas CNN — Takela Gardner began her nursing career just two years ago, but her patients already think she’s a seasoned nurse. A registered nurse at a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) facility in Little Rock, Gardner told CNN she’s had to essentially learn nursing […]
BOSTON – Nurses in Massachusetts have filed proposed ballot questions calling for redistributing earnings from well-off hospitals to those that may cut services, increasing financial transparency, and banning hospital CEOs from working with medical device or pharmaceutical companies. Massachusetts Nurses Association Executive Director Julie Pinkham filed three initiative petitions with the Attorney General’s […]