The role of the healthcare supply chain and its value has never been more prominent, especially its part in providing accessible, equitable and effective healthcare to our population.
All signs point to a crushing surge in healthcare costs for patients and employers next year — and that means healthcare industry groups are about to brawl over who pays the price.
Horses roam near the roughly 5-acre plot north of Stanwood where two 16-bed involuntary treatment centers could be built as part of Gov. Jay Inslee's plan to move mental health services from large, centralized psychiatric institutions like Western State Hospital to smaller facilities integrated within communities.
Services of the Hospital at Home program: In-person nurses come to the house a minimum of twice daily. A physician or an APP sees the person in person, or they can do a telehealth visit via video conference. We provide all the medications, lab tests, physical therapy, any imaging that's needed, of course, all transportation to get to and from those imaging appointments. What Parkland also does is provide remote patient monitoring equipment to monitor vitals 24/7.
Medicare payments to a host of medical providers providers will take a hit in 2023 when the Biden administration implements a nearly 4.5% cut in their reimbursements, a final rule released Tuesday said.
From bed in her East Greenwich Township house, Katherine Vaczi can see through patio doors into the backyard flower and vegetable garden she has been tending for more than 40 years. The sight inspires the 81-year-old to get up and start her day. “There’s always something I need to do,” Vaczi, a retired teacher, said on a recent afternoon while showing her Gloucester County property to a visitor and pointing out where she had just cleared a bed of celosia after the seeds had dropped.