McKinsey and Company will pay $650 million over work it did for Purdue Pharma that federal prosecutors say helped fuel the opioid crisis. The settlement resolves criminal and civil Justice Department investigations into McKinsey's work helping Purdue increase sales of powerful opioids despite concerns about addiction.
From nearly the moment of Steward's founding in 2010, Massachusetts officials failed to discipline the Boston-born hospital chain for regulatory violations, check its aggressive expansion plans and relentless cost-cutting, or respond forcefully to dire warnings as it spiraled toward financial collapse, the Spotlight Team has found. Critical reports were softened, alarming financials went unheeded, and broken promises by Steward were unpunished. These failures spanned multiple administrations and contributed to a crisis that has harmed communities and cost lives.
Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed to protect physicians after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Tennessee has a vital demand for nurses, which the University of Tennessee at Knoxville is addressing through a newly established accelerated nursing program that includes a school-to-work pipeline for UT Medical Center.
The inaugural class graduated Dec. 13. Each graduating nurse in the class of 40 received three-year contracts with the hospital. Next year, the BSN Scholars Program should graduate 64 students, with an end goal of graduating 100 nurses annually.
The Tennessee Hospital Association projects the statewide gap of registered nurses to be at 8,500 by 2035.