Dr. Monique Tello was attending a medical conference last fall when a speaker on social media suggested the physicians search themselves on Google. Why not, thought Tello, an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was stunned by what she found.
The California State Senate has passed important legislation authored by Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) that will protect patient safety and reinforce nurse staffing ratio requirements. In order to enhance hospital patient safety, Senate Bill 227 empowers the California Department of Public Health, or CDPH, to enforce the nurse staffing ratios by fining hospitals that repeatedly create unsafe conditions for patient care.
Americans are justifiably concerned about healthcare costs. Even though the U.S. spends twice as much on healthcare as other rich countries that provide universal coverage, our outcomes are mediocre in comparison. Two-thirds of bankruptcies are caused by illness and medical bills.
A lawsuit filed on April 26 involves the very top of Mount Sinai Health System’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York City. In the lawsuit, seven current and former female employees and one former male employee of the institution have made allegations of discrimination based on age, sex, race, religion, and national origin, with the named defendants being the school's dean, Dennis S. Charney, MD, and three others who were or are at the school's Arnhold Institute for Global Health (AIGH).
As the lines of traditional health care delivery continue to blur, two major insurers have announced they will open their own clinics in the Houston area to ease access to care and cut costs.
If you're a teacher in California who needs to go on extended sick leave, you have more than your medical bills to worry about — you'll need to foot the bill for a sub, too. The policy, which was introduced back in 1976, garnered national attention this week after the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a second-grade teacher who has breast cancer and will be out for the rest of the year is required to pay for a substitute out of her paycheck.