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Children’s Hospital New Orleans innovates pediatric healthcare with world-class facility and top experts | Sponsored: Children’s Hospital New Orleans

April 21, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Editor’s Note This article is brought to you by Children’s Hospital New Orleans. Children’s Hospital New Orleans now serves as one of the country’s top destinations for pediatric care, following the completion of a $300 million campus expansion project. The hospital’s 17-acre campus includes more than 230,000 square feet of new clinical care space, a…

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Florida lawmakers seen to strip $561 million from hospital, health care system budgets

April 5, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Florida lawmakers seen to strip 1 million from hospital, health care system budgets

Proposed budget slashes hospital funding Aaron Mesmer reports TAMPA, Fla. – Florida health care system advocates are urging state lawmakers to reconsider budget cuts that could slash hundreds of millions of dollars from hospitals across the state. According to the Florida Hospital Association, the heath care budget proposal in the Florida House of Representatives would…

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Inside one hospital, see how they provide care amid chaos : Shots

February 14, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Nurse Heather Gatchet’s shift in the emergency department at Salem Health’s Salem Hospital typically starts at 6:00 a.m. Before that, she packs her daughter’s lunch, drinks tea, and starts driving to work. To stave off her rising sense of panic, she calls her mom on the way. “My mom’s like my cup of coffee” Gatchet…

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Reinforcements to help exhausted hospital health care workers

February 1, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Hospitals jammed with the highest number of COVID-19 patients on record are beginning to get some relief as the Ohio National Guard arrives and reinforcements of a different kind step up to the task.The National Guard sent 70 troops to UC Hospital to help out in several clinical and non-clinical roles. They add to the…

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Judge Lifts Order Preventing Wisconsin Hospital Workers From Starting New Jobs

January 28, 2022 Sharika Soukup

A judge in Wisconsin on Monday lifted an order that had temporarily blocked seven employees of ThedaCare, a major regional hospital system, from leaving for new jobs with another health care network until it could find people to replace them. The dismissal of a temporary injunction cleared the way for the workers to begin their…

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UPDATE: Northside Hospital granted injunctive relief stopping termination of health coverage | Investigations

January 4, 2022 Sharika Soukup

UPDATE (CBS46) — Northside Hospital has been granted injunctive relief by the court that temporarily stops a threatened termination of health care coverage by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, according to a press release. The decision by the Superior Court of Fulton County enables Anthem members who seek care at Northside’s hospitals, clinics, and physician…

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Hospital Prices Are Unpredictable. One Type of Health Coverage Often Gets the Worst Rates.

December 29, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Newly public data show that hospital prices vary in unpredictable ways that seem out of patients’ control. A Wall Street Journal analysis has identified a kind of health coverage that leaves patients with especially high bills. Hospitals’ highest rates often aren’t for a specific insurance plan, but rather a type of healthcare provider network that…

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Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta amasses immense wealth as a nonprofit hospital system

December 26, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has an immediate response — it says each year it provides hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of services that benefit Georgia children and their families who live in all of the state’s 159 counties. Those benefits come in different forms: subsidized medical care for the poor, research to find a…

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