Health Equity

Florida Hospital in Orlando and USF Health in Tampa have announced a strategic alliance, which includes a $14 million investment by Florida Hospital to bring research-driven treatment to four of its Tampa Bay area hospitals, according to the Tampa Bay…

Seventy percent of primary care physicians and sixty percent of pediatricians surveyed anticipate a decline in the number of practicing physicians as a result of healthcare reform, according to a study of physicians by research consultancy Market Strategies International.

HHS announced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has extended health insurance to approximately 1.3 million minority young adults.

The Kaiser Family Foundation released its February Health Tracking Poll (pdf), in which 70 percent of Americans prefer to keep Medicare as is.

Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, part of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, has established the Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities, according to a hospital news release.

Health centers that perform well on the National Committee for Quality Assurance's patient-centered medical home assessment tool may not be associated with higher quality of diabetes care, according to research published in Health Affairs.

The University of Miami Hospital, part of the University of Miami Health System, has opened a bikur cholim room — a room for Jewish family and friends visiting patients —  according to a Yeshiva World News report.

Forty-one percent of adults in families earning less than 133 percent of the federal poverty level have been uninsured for one or more years, and low-income Americans in general are also less likely to receive necessary medical care and preventive…

Simply Locums, a company that helps clinicians connect to healthcare facilities to manage and negotiate their locum tenens and permanent assignments, is offering free registration to federally qualified community health centers and medically underserved facilities, according to a company release.

The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center in Madison is partnering with Adams County Health and Human Services Department, Moundview Memorial Hospital and Clinics in Friendship, Wis., and Adams County UW-Extension to educate the community about cancer, according to a…