In promoting the latest phase of his legislative agenda, President Joe Biden recently tweeted the following: Access to quality, affordable health care should be a right in America — not a privilege. My Build Back Better Act will help fulfill that promise by extending tax credits to lower premiums for folks on the Affordable Care…
EUGENE, Ore. — The demand for health care workers is at an all-time high. From pediatricians to specialists, the record number of job openings is creating a problem for those looking to make appointments. Kris Clark, the operations manager for Eugene Pediatric Associates, said one recruitment barrier seems to be child care. “They either have…
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Bright Health Group expects its investment in value-based primary care clinics to generate $2 billion in revenue for its health services arm in 2022, a 66.7% increase from the $1.2 billion previously forecast, the company announced in a news release Tuesday. NeueHealth credited the revenue bump to new members gained through its insurance arm, other…
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Once again, Department of Veterans Affairs bureaucrats are making a concerted effort to prevent veterans from using our health-care benefits at community-based providers outside the VA system — despite a law requiring them to do so. Seven years ago, while suffering from excruciating pain, I attempted to make a primary-care appointment at a VA hospital. In the week between Christmas and New Year’s, no one at my Durham, N.C., VA facility answered the phone….
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Share on PinterestNew research examines vaccination rates among healthcare workers in the U.S. Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Vaccination rates among healthcare workers across 2,000 United States hospitals increased from 36% to 60% between January and April 2021. Rates slowed considerably thereafter, with only 70% of staff fully vaccinated as of September…
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Three years ago, after multiple visits to emergency rooms and her OBGYN office, a patient who was dealing with severe pain and no diagnosis sought out Wafa Elejmi for advice. Elejmi, who was working as a clinical researcher in Denver, was not a practicing doctor in Colorado but had OBGYN residency experience after graduating from…
Before she caught COVID-19 at a wedding in March 2020, the physician associate spent her days diagnosing and treating people; after she was infected, she turned to her own colleagues for that same care. “At first,” she told me, “I felt a kinship with them.” But when her tests started coming back negative, her doctors…
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There were 233 new COVID-19 cases reported in Douglas County Wednesday. With cases on the rise, local hospital systems are bracing for a wicked winter.”What we experienced last year with a sharp increase just before the holidays that carried through the holiday season,” said Ann Adler, Division Director of Infection Prevention with CHI Health.It may…