In Lockport, the inevitable fate for healthcare workers at a Lockport hospital is becoming a reality, leaving 337 employees at Eastern Niagara Hospital Monday night knowing that their days are numbered. Not just as employees, but as a resource for their community.
Kentuckys rural hospitals will receive help from a bipartisan bill signed Monday afternoon by Governor Beshear. House Bill 75 is designed to improve access to healthcare for Kentuckians by allowing hospitals to use federal resources without having to use state funds.
Acute care hospital and radiology imaging practice to pay more than $2 million to resolve a false claims act case regarding the billing of services to Medicare and Medicaid.
Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center, Inc., (“DCMC”), and Diagnostic Imaging Associates, LLC (“DIA”), both located in Lanham, Maryland, have agreed to pay the United States $2,002,052.17 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week amended the February 2020 COVID-19 emergency use authorization declaration so that the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 diagnostics, personal protective equipment, other medical devices, and drug and biological products will remain in effect until there is no longer a “significant potential” for a COVID-19 public health emergency or the authorized devices or products have been approved.
“The vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella causes autism.” “The risk of taking a statin outweighs its benefit as a powerful tool to prevent heart attacks.” “The flu shot caused me to get the flu.”
These are just a few examples of things that have been scientifically disproven, but the spread of medical misinformation still poses a real threat to individuals and communities.