POPE, Miss. (WREG) — A grieving widow wants answers after she says her 68-year-old husband, who was being treated for COVID-19, ended up confused by hospital staff for another man before he died. Twanda Taylor cries when she thinks about the last days of her late husband, Kenneth Wade Taylor. […]
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Get help fast for women’s health issues at Nuffield Health Cheltenham Hospital – Gloucestershire children & family
Nuffield Health Cheltenham Hospital in Gloucestershire offers women’s health checks, alongside a choice of consultants and a Rapid Access Breast Clinic, with patients able to self-refer. Whether you want a comprehensive female health assessment or to investigate a specific issue relating to anything […]
Hartford Hospital offers patients healthy food to take home for free
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A new program within Hartford Hospital is helping people get healthy, but not with medicine. Instead, it offers patients healthy food to take home. It looks like a small supermarket, but it is actually part of Hartford Hospital. Last week, doctors started referring certain patients here […]
Downsized City Sees Its Health Care Downsized as Hospital Awaits Demolition
Giles Bruce HAMMOND, Ind. — In 1898, three nuns took a train to this city along the south shore of Lake Michigan to start a hospital. They converted an old farmhouse into a seven-bed medical center. They treated their first patient for a broken leg amid carpenters hammering nails. Surgeons […]
This Psychiatric Hospital Used to Chain Patients. Now It Treats Them.
The organization and the health ministry agreed to work together on rehabilitating Kissy. The effort involved not just physical renovations but a significant shift in perception of mental illness as a public health problem like any other. The ministry hired Dr. Eze from Nigeria and another psychiatrist, a Sierra Leonean […]
Safety-net hospital sees increase in late-stage breast cancer diagnoses during pandemic
April 06, 2022 3 min read Source/Disclosures Published by: Source: Kapp KA, et al. Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on stage of breast cancer at presentation and time to treatment and surgery at an urban safety-net hospital. Presented at: American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting (hybrid meeting); April 6-10, […]
School mental health program eases transition from hospital to classroom
On a recent February morning, Eliza, a senior at Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Massachusetts, walked down the school hallway. Accompanied by a school social worker, Eliza chatted about some of her favorite books and TV shows, and when she passed a teacher she hadn’t seen in several weeks, […]
When to Go to the Hospital for Depression
If your depression symptoms are serious or you’re having a mental health crisis, it may be time to visit the hospital. Sometimes depression can be all-consuming and overwhelming. It’s important to remember that this isn’t your fault. If you feel completely hopeless and alone and if it’s difficult for you […]
The Doctor Didn’t Show Up, but the Hospital ER Still Charged $1,012
Dhaval Bhatt had been warned about hospital emergency rooms. “People always told me to avoid the ER in America unless you are really dying,” said Bhatt, an immigrant from India who got a Ph.D. in pharmacology in the U.S. and is now a research scientist at Washington University in St. […]
York Hospital to host women’s health webinar: Seacoast health news
York Hospital to offer lunchtime webinar on Women’s Health Issues YORK, Maine – If the new year has you thinking about a “healthier you,” then here’s an event you won’t want to miss. On Wednesday, Jan. 26, from 12 to 1 p.m., York Hospital will host a lunchtime webinar, “What’s Going On Down There? All Your […]
Hospital and Health System Affiliation Transactions: Critical Legal and Business Issues | Foley & Lardner LLP
We continue to see affiliation activity among hospitals and health systems, albeit at a slower pace than previously experienced, likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting slow down in elective care, staffing shortages and a disinclination of some patients to re-engage with their providers. These impacts, we believe, […]
In statewide ad, MN hospital leaders warn COVID is overwhelming health care
Essentia Health CEO Dr. David Herman sees the pandemic impact on hospitals as heartbreaking in many ways. But for him, what stands out are the unvaccinated patients who are very ill with COVID-19 and on a ventilator. “Many of the sickest patients that we see, that was avoidable,” said Herman. […]