If you're one of millions of Missourians living in a smaller community, hospital consolidations can be disastrous. Consolidation in such places almost invariably drives down the availability of basic healthcare to residents, compromising competition and inevitably driving up insurance costs. Even worse, these newly minted mega-hospitals deploy their increased market-share to drive down the salaries of the healthcare providers upon whom their communities depend. While one might assume that such a thing would at least lead to better patient outcomes, there is no evidence for that at all.
Among the organizations working to bolster and rebuild Ukraine's medical systems is the NGO Global Response Medicine, which develops battlefield-to-rehab care protocols and trains health care workers in the systems and procedures they need to practice wartime medicine. Recently, GRM brought a group of Ukrainian healthcare workers to Boston Medical Center's Solomont Simulation Center.
While 57% of all hospitals in the state lost money on operations, 35 out of 58 hospitals were actually in the black. Behemoth Massachusetts General Hospital had a positive operating margin of 6.6% and its sister academic medical center, Brigham and Women's, posted a 5% margin. Each had a total margin of around 10%. That performance helped fuel their system to grow its net assets by over $1.6 billion for the quarter, bringing its net asset total to $19.1 billion.
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are at the forefront of healthcare, blending clinical expertise with a deep commitment to patient care.
Their scope of practice is rich and diverse, encompassing everything from diagnosing and treating acute and chronic conditions to conducting health assessments and prescribing medications. By embracing a holistic approach, they not only focus on physical health but also emphasize emotional and mental well-being.
Terry Jacoby is likely one of the few remaining women out of 120,000 from the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps who answered the call when her country needed her most.
From 1943-1945, Terry trained with the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, which was a war-time program designed to take care of civilians at home and soldiers overseas.