New clinic services address crucial gaps found nationwide in diabetes care

Officials at Yakima, Wash.-based Astria Regional Medical Center — previously Yakima Regional — said the hospital may end funding for its residency programs by June 30, 2019, according to the Yakima Herald.

Despite spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on medical school, physicians are increasingly forgoing medical practice in favor of other health-related ventures, claiming they can do more to improve care delivery worldwide as entrepreneurs, The Boston Globe reports.

Beacon Health Options, a clinical mental health and substance use disorder management company in Boston, aims to bring affordable mental healthcare to patients across the U.S. through the creation of a new retail health clinic, The Boston Globe reports.

After a shooting at Chicago-based Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, hospital staff and medical professionals across the country shared their condolences and emotional messages about the victims.

Roughly 95 percent of U.S. medical school seniors matched for PGY-1 residency positions in 2018. However, the competition for several specialties proved higher than most, according to data cited by the American Medical Association.

The out-of-office pediatrician gets the call no one wants to hear: a mother has gone into labor and the baby’s heart rate is decelerating – a life threatening condition.

As frontline responders to gun-related shootings and deaths, healthcare providers have an obligation to talk about gun violence and advocate for more research and policy-based prevention strategies, according to a blog in Health Affairs.

Several women spoke to NBC 5 News about the sexual harassment they witnessed at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, claiming the behavior has been going on for years.

Tweets by the National Rifle Association telling medical professionals to "stay in their lane" drew new criticism after two medical professionals, including one physician, were killed in a shooting at Chicago-based Mercy Hospital & Medical Center Nov. 19, USA Today reports.

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System entered a five-year contract with General Motors in August to provide healthcare services for the company's salaried employees and their families. 

The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs studied the growing patient trend of medical tourism and provided six insights into how physicians should handle ethical issues if they arise, according to AMA Wire.

Two of the at least four individuals killed during a shooting at Chicago-based Mercy Hospital & Medical Center Nov. 19 were an emergency room physician and a first-year pharmacy resident, USA Today reports.

People are bearing more responsibility for selecting and paying for their own care, and those costs are rising rapidly.

Independent physicians and those working in physician-owned practices tend to be happier with work than hospital-employed physicians, according to a survey from Geneia, a provider of healthcare data, technology, business and education solutions.

Members of the local community and physicians at Naples, Fla.-based NCH Healthcare System are pushing back against a policy directive to cut independent physicians' admitting privileges, Naples Daily News reports.

As the state's largest wildfire in history bore down on Paradise, Calif., physicians, nurses and other Paradise-based Adventist Health Feather River medical professionals began evacuating patients. However, one physician was forced to use his medical expertise after leaving the facility, KCRA 3 News reports.

Prominent health systems in Ohio are prohibiting staff physicians from prescribing medical marijuana, according to cleveland.com.

The University of Louisville (Ky.) is making contingency plans to move several medical programs out of Louisville-based Jewish Hospital amid uncertainty about the hospital's future ownership, according to a WDRB news report.

Healogics Inc., the nation's largest provider of advanced wound care services, today announced their support of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Compendium Diagnosis and Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Complications through an unrestricted educational grant1.