Category: Health Care
Oklahoma nursing homes shuttering as need for senior care soars: ‘Likely the next public health emergency’
Corey Jones In diapers and a wheelchair, ReDonna Hill’s self-esteem found a low while she was hospitalized in Oklahoma City…
Team of Mass health care providers head to Florida to help in wake of Ian
BOSTON – On Saturday, the Disaster Medical Assistance Team, will deploy to a hospital in Sarasota, Florida. The team of…
Why health care bills are on the rise
Skyrocketing rent and food costs have company. Health costs also are soaring — and they’re likely to rise much more,…
EMS workers learn to defend themselves as violence against health care pros intensifies
Even though he’s physically imposing at 5’10” and 400 muscular pounds, Captain Stanley Woods says he’s been punched, bitten, spit…
Health Care — Public uninformed about new booster shots
🏈 A new chapter with the NFL and Congress: Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), head of Congress’s Brain Injury Task Force,…
This week’s best performers include a health care stock analysts expect will go up 35%
Even as the market tumbled to a fresh 2022 low this week, some stocks were able to curb the negative…
Health Care — House passes COVID-19 mental health bill
📱 A Boston man tried to rescue his phone from the bottom of the Charles River. He found 11 phones;…
ZocDoc’s founder on the No. 1 health-care consumer problem that never changes
ZocDoc founder Oliver Kharraz, an MD, stepped into the CEO role in January 2020. The timing brought him face to…
Hospitals sue Oregon for lacking adequate mental health care
Three of Oregon’s largest hospital systems are suing the state over its alleged lack of adequate mental health care, which…
6 Groups Making Mental Health Care More Accessible to People of Color
The COVID-19 pandemic worsened mental health across the board in the U.S., but people of color—who disproportionately suffered the worst…
