The TriHealth Board of Directors and Clinton Memorial Hospital announced Monday plans for CMH to become TriHealth's sixth acute care hospital. TriHealth has signed an agreement to acquire CMH and its assets.
Yale School of Medicine has announced the formation of the Yale Biomedical Imaging Institute, bringing together renowned experts in imaging technology, clinical translation, and data science from across the university. The institute—one of only a handful of such in the nation—will serve as a center of innovation and excellence in biomedical imaging, driving transformative advancements in both basic science and clinical translation to better understand human health and guide the treatment of disease.
A CDC official who led the agency's network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orders to change the agency's vaccine recommendations and the committee that makes them. Dr. Fiona Havers' last day at the CDC was Monday, according to an announcement sent by an agency official to her branch within the agency's Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division. They received the notice shortly after Reuters first reported on the resignation.
The Trump administration is denying reporting by The Guardian that said VA hospitals could refuse care to veterans based on factors like marital status and political affiliation due to an executive order by President Trump. The Guardian earlier Monday published a report saying VA hospitals are implementing new rules in response to Trump's executive order in January, which would permit workers to deny care to veterans based on characteristics not protected by federal law.
Companion bills have recently been introduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate that seek to make violent attacks on employees of hospitals and healthcare organizations a federal crime.
Doctors at VA hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump. The new rules, obtained by the Guardian, also apply to psychologists, dentists and a host of other occupations. They have already gone into effect in at least some VA medical centers. Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law.