Dr. Jeff Cohen, President of Allegheny General Hospital, lives down the street from Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, and heard the gunshots and chaos that unfolded when a gunman carried out an anti-Semitic mass shooting inside the house of worship Saturday. After suspect Robert Bowers was injured in an exchange of gunfire with police, the man accused of gunning down 11 worshippers was taken to Cohen's hospital for treatment.
Of the 17 people shot Saturday at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, four police officers and two others survived. Among the latter two is Daniel Leger, 70, of Squirrel Hill, a nurse and UPMC chaplain, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette confirmed. He was in critical condition late Saturday afternoon after undergoing surgery at UPMC Presbyterian in Oakland, his brother Paul Leger said.
Hospitals are often thought of as the hubs of our health care system. But hospital closings are rising, particularly in some communities. “Options are dwindling for many rural families, and remote communities are hardest hit,” said Katy Kozhimannil, an associate professor and health researcher at the University of Minnesota.
Calvin Brown doesn't have a primary care doctor — and the peripatetic 23-year-old doesn't want one. Since his graduation last year from the University of San Diego, Brown has held a series of jobs that have taken him to several California cities. "As a young person in a nomadic state," Brown said, he prefers finding a walk-in clinic on the rare occasions when he's sick.
The way patients and health care providers think about health care delivery is changing, with an increasing desire to involve patients in decisions and planning. Today, many providers also work to meet patients’ needs that go beyond medical treatments. This philosophy is known as person-centered care.
Fewer than 4 out of 10 adults in the United States got flu shots last winter, the lowest rate in seven seasons and one likely reason why the 2017-2018 season was the deadliest in decades. Reports released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide new details outlining the severity of the past flu season during which more people were killed than any seasonal influenza since the 1970s.