The layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services included dozens of employees at the Health Resources and Services Administration who were working on the technology upgrade, which has been years in the making and was set to launch next month. As many as 1,200 of the roughly 1,400 health centers were set to go live with the upgrade on May 31 — a milestone that is unlikely to be met, given the number of critical federal staff who were fired.
A simulation model found that nationwide implementation of medically tailored meal programs could save about $32 billion in health care costs in the first year alone, researchers say. The program would also prevent more than 3.5 million hospitalizations a year related to complications from diabetes, heart disease and cancer, researchers said.
Trump's Justice Department, through Attorney General Pam Bondi, announced earlier in the month that it will seek the death penalty against Mangione, in Bondi's words, 'as we carry out President Trump's agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.' In his motion to take the death penalty off the table, Mangione's lawyers say Bondi's direction to Manhattan prosecutors — 'issued publicly, as a press release' — to seek a death sentence for him 'is political, arbitrary, capricious, a breach of established death penalty protocol and has now indelibly prejudiced this process.'
A new round of workplace violence in hospitals and clinics is lending urgency to efforts to create a first-ever federal standard for protecting nurses, social workers and others in the medical system. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) this month introduced legislation that would require healthcare employers to write and implement a workplace violence prevention plan.
Northern Light official says most of Inland primary care patients will be able to stay with their provider as the company moves closer to closing its Waterville hospital in June.