It’s actually a hospital within a hospital. A wing of MedStar Washington Hospital Center has been renovated and transformed into a state-of-the-art cardiac care facility, called the Nancy and Harold Zirkin Heart & Vascular Hospital.
Disciplined doctors around the country are allowed to continue practicing medicine without informing their patients of their past misdeeds, or even that they are on probation. The issue led to a failed legislative effort in California that, according to a spokeswoman for the Medical Board of California, would have been a first-in-the-nation move to require that doctors proactively let patients know of their probationary status.
As a single mother of an asthmatic son in Memphis, Tennessee, Peete worked hard to provide her child with the medical care he needed. Her son took medications, received allergy shots, and used a nebulizer, a machine that pumps vaporized medicine into the lungs. Despite her efforts, her son may have received treatments tailored to someone else. As with many diseases, the bulk of research on respiratory ailments in the U.S. has focused on white European-Americans, and Peete and her son are black.
Envision Healthcare Holdings Inc. and AmSurg Corp. agreed to merge, in a deal that will create a company providing a range of hospital-related services worth some $10 billion. AmSurg, of Nashville, provides outsourced physician services to hospitals and others. It is also a big player in so-called ambulatory surgery, with about 250 facilities performing procedures that don’t require an overnight stay.
Calling the rising cost of drugs "unsustainable," congressional advisers on Wednesday recommended major changes to Medicare's popular outpatient prescription program, now 10 years old. The proposal from the nonpartisan Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC, steers clear of calling for the government to negotiate drug prices directly, an option both presidential candidates advocate.
Broward Health officials on Wednesday failed to agree on who should investigate allegations made in an anonymous complaint sent to board members May 6. The complaint accused General Counsel Lynn Barrett of deception, and Baker Donelson, a law firm hired by the public hospital district, of overstepping its authority and lacking independence and experience.