The company announced Wednesday that the acquisition of UpLift, a virtual therapy and psychiatry provider, deepens its footprint in virtual mental health services and further enables it to provide those services on an in-network basis. UpLift’s payer partnerships cover over 100 million lives with a network of about 1,500 mental health clinicians, according to a news release from Teladoc.
"Considering how infectious the virus is, they did a good job curtailing things," said Dr. Martin Van Dort, a Saint Vincent Hospital infectious diseases specialist. "Erie is fortunate to have a local health department that can do the contract tracing that is so important. Not every county is blessed with its own health department."
In 100 days, President Trump and his administration have not only upended the status quo for healthcare and challenged mainstream science, but slashed the workforce that's supposed to execute on their vision.
The closure of Crozer Health, Delaware County's largest hospital system, is leaving a void in health care in the county, resulting in thousands of layoffs and increasing pressure on emergency medical services. It's also impacting businesses near the hospitals slated for closure.
The Brevard community expresses disappointment after Orlando Health, citing poor conditions and neglect, shuttered the hospital, which it bought during Steward Health Care's bankruptcy last year.
Mercy has begun construction on a 75-bed hospital in Wentzville that will soon serve the region's booming west suburbs. The facility will be built less than a half-mile from where Interstates 70 and 64 converge at Highway 61 in St. Charles County. Workers have cleared a 60-acre property previously filled with trees and started constructing a utility building, the first steps of what will eventually be a $650 million facility. The Catholic health system has been consulting with residents about what they would like to see offered at the new hospital.