Washington, D.C.-based Providence Health System may scale back its obstetric care and mental health services as early as this fall, according to Fox-5 News.
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As the healthcare industry shifts to value-based reimbursement models, timely intervention and preventive care strategies have surged to the forefront of discussion.
Counselors nationwide that help people enroll in insurance coverage on the ACA marketplace are starting their efforts earlier than usual this year, reports The New York Times.
Seventeen healthcare organizations agreed to participate in restructuring Massachusetts' Medicaid program into ACOs.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health seeks additional information surrounding the potential effects of Southbridge, Mass.-based Harrington Hospital's plans to close its obstetrics unit by Oct. 1, according to a Telegram & Gazette report.
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Lake Forest (Ill.) Hospital, owned by Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine, applied to shutter its long-term care unit, Westmoreland Nursing Center in Lake Forest, July 28, Crain's Chicago Business reports.
Michael Bloomberg, the 10th richest person in the world, poured $2 million into an ad campaign to support the Chicago-area sweetened beverage tax, according to the Chicago Sun Times.
The University at Buffalo (N.Y.) awarded $150,000 in grants to four research pilots on the human genome and microbiome.
Omaha-based Nebraska Medical Center will close its inpatient burn unit Sept. 4 and consolidate those services with St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center in Lincoln, Neb., part of Omaha-based CHI Health, according to the Lincoln Journal Star.
So many Americans are engaging in high-risk drinking behaviors, defined as consuming binge-level amounts of alcohol at least once a week, that authors of a new study have declared it a "public health crisis."