Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy is partnering with Webb City (Mo.) Schools to offer an in-school clinic, which is slated to open Friday, according to a report from KOAM.
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Two New York officials issued a report this week criticizing the care delivered in NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center's emergency department, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Vinton, Iowa-based Virginia Gay Hospital announced it has joined the National Rural Accountable Care Consortium, an organization that helps rural hospitals participate in the accountable care model.
Many American teenagers mistakenly perceive light or intermittent smoking as not being harmful, according to a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics.
Financially troubled Iowa health insurance cooperative CoOportunity Health has collapsed, according to an NPR-Kaiser Health News report.
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Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health and Marina del Rey, Calif.-based Heritage Provider Network announced today an agreement to form a population health joint venture, called Trinity Health Partners.
Excellus Health Plan has entered into a settlement requiring its contracted healthcare providers to issue refunds for excessive co-payments to 2,973 Excellus members in the state of New York, according to an announcement by New York Attorney General Eric T.…
Mercy Medical Center in Fort Smith, Ark., has committed up to $350,000 to help build and staff a local low-income clinic at the Riverview Hope Campus for homeless people, according to the Times Record.
In a recent blog from NextServices President & Co-Founder Praveen Suthrum attempts to answer why some people are healthy, while others are sick.
The idea that a person who is obese can still be healthy is not impossible but remaining healthy long-term is unlikely, according to a study recently published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.