HOUSTON – In a letter this week to employees, the University of Texas Medical Branch Health system interim president, Dr. Ben Raimer, said that despite efforts to hold off on job reductions during the coronavirus pandemic, the new budget will call for cutting about 200 jobs.
A Dallas doctor already serving several years in prison for defrauding the U.S. government to the tune of $10 million has been sentenced to more than five years behind bars for a massive kickback scheme. Richard Ferdinand Toussaint Jr., an anesthesiologist who co-founded Forest Park Medical Center, was sentenced Monday.
Governor Bill Lee told FOX 17 News last week that he would speak with his commissioner of Finance and Administration in an effort to intervene in the potential closure of the only rural hospital in Tennessee to reopen.
Kaiser reported net gains in the second quarter after a big loss last quarter. After a net loss of over a billion dollars in the first quarter, Kaiser Permanente is back in the black, with net income of $4.5 billion during the second quarter, according to a financial update posted on its website Friday afternoon.
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