California state treasurer Fiona Ma announced recently that the California Health Facilities Financing Authority (CHFFA) has awarded $135 million in grant funding to Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital (LLUCH)—the single largest distribution that CHFFA has ever given—through the Children’s Hospital Program of 2018, to fund six major projects.
Opioids, particularly fentanyl, are increasingly laced with an animal tranquilizer called xylazine—a drug that public health experts fear will worsen the opioid crisis.
As in past years, no Medicaid expansion bill survived the legislative deadline for lawmakers to pass one out of committee. Within 24 hours of Reeves’ address, multiple Medicaid-expansion bills died, including Democratic and Republican-sponsored bills that would have allowed residents to vote on the issue in a referendum.
The problem is that Texas is one of 11 states that has not accepted the Medicaid expansion which is part of the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare. Without the expansion, in November the citizens of Pecos County voted in a special election to authorize the formation of a hospital district and raised their taxes to help keep the hospital afloat.
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, which operates a 772-bed hospital and multiple specialty care centers, said an “IT security issue” late Thursday night forced it to take down its computer system.
The COVID-19 pandemic dealt a blow to Alabama hospitals in terms of finances, say healthcare officials, who are now predicting nearly 15 hospitals around the state are in danger of closing.