SUNBURY — The Sunbury Community Hospital has been vacant for nearly four years with little forward movement, even after the property was acquired by a Montour County-based economic development organization two years after it closed. The former hospital was purchased by nonprofit UPMC Susquehanna from for-profit Quorum Health on Oct. 6, 2017. UPMC closed the hospital in early 2020, leaving Sunbury without a full-scale medical center for the first time in 125 years. The property was acquired by DRIVE in mid-2022 when UMPC donated the location to the economic development group. According to Jennifer Wakeman, executive director of Driving Real Innovation for a Vibrant Economy, the organization has been marketing the property since the acquisition. Wakeman said there is some potential movement on the horizon but she declined to speak of them publicly. The property is located on approximately 12 acres. It is assessed at $2,399,200 across 20 different parcels in the same area of North 11th Street.
Gov. Maura Healey and Brown University Health CEO John Fernandez in November unfurled the banner outside St. Anne's Hospital. The old sign reading "Steward Family Hospital" was covered by a spiffy new BrownHealth logo. The ceremony marked the $175 million handoff of St. Anne's and Morton Hospital in nearby Taunton to Rhode Island's largest health care system. It was also a good-riddance celebration of Steward Health Care's ignominious departure from Massachusetts that capped the Healey administration's campaign to put six of the bankrupt company's acute care hospitals in the hands of new operators. And maybe most important, it heralded the arrival of a potentially powerful new player to the state's hospital sector, one that is financially stable at a time when others are struggling, and one that brings the culture of high-level academic medicine to a part of the state away from Boston's world-famous medical hub. To the 1,600 employees at St. Anne's and 1,150 at Morton, Fernandez promised to "focus on GSD — get stuff done."
The number of men in the U.S. with the job of registered nurse has nearly tripled since the early 2000s. Many come to the field after working in the military or in jobs, such as paramedics or firefighters, that exposed them to the work of nurses. "What I hear a lot from female students is, 'I've always wanted to be a nurse, I like helping people,' where the men tend to look more at job security and job stability," says Jason Mott, president of the American Association for Men in Nursing.
The Biden administration on Tuesday issued sweeping health care proposals that would see Medicare plans greatly expand access to blockbuster GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, bar insurers from skipping out on paying certain claims that were granted prior authorization, and reinforce guardrails on the use of AI.
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