Good Samaritan Hospital officially closes at 12:01 Monday morning, ending its more than 85-year run as one of Dayton’s health care providers. The final patients at Good Samaritan had all been treated and transferred or discharged as of 6 p.m. Friday, said Premier Health spokesman Ben Sutherly.
At the age of 17, Iliana Neumann was orphaned when her mother, a single mom working two to three jobs, died at 38 of breast cancer. A lack of access to affordable preventive health care kept her mother from getting the mammogram she needed, said Neumann, now a family practice doctor at the Family Health Center in Waco.
Doctors only spend 11 seconds on average listening to patients before interrupting them, according to a new study. A team of scientists from the United States and Mexico studied clinical encounters between patients and physicians to test shared decision-making tools.
We often prescribe new medications that were proven to be effective in rigorous clinical trials and were approved by the Food and Drug Adminstration only to find that our patients don’t get better.
Mission Health, the largest hospital system in western North Carolina, provided $100 million in free charity care last year. This year, it has partnered with 17 civic organizations to deliver care for substance abuse by people who are low-income.
A new report suggests that Anthem Inc.'s ER policy may be overly restrictive, according to a report released by Sen. Claire McCaskill. The Missouri Senator launched an investigation into the policy last year, following intense criticism from patients and providers after Anthem warned its Missouri members that they could be on the hook for the entire ER bill if the visit was later deemed unnecessary.