University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City has announced it will use a $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to examine ways to lower the rates of cervical cancer among incarcerated women.
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For children in developing countries in desperate need of life-saving heart surgery, Save A Child's Heart organization is there to take on the financial burden of surgery so that these children can get access to the care they need.
Healthcare reform has forced a great number of health system executives across the country to rethink their missions, strategy and business models. For Randy Oostra, president and CEO of Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica Health System, the outcomes of this exercise led…
While 60 percent of top U.S. companies now include at least two women on their executive committees, men (83 percent of executive committee members) still greatly outnumber women (17 percent). More telling, women on executive committees largely represent "support" functions,…
John D. Birkmeyer, MD, is the founder and chief scientific officer for ArborMetrix, a cloud-based platform for performance measurement and clinical intelligence in acute and specialty care. During his career, he has served in advisory roles for the Centers for…
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The National Quality Forum is seeking public comment on a draft of its Community Action Guide, a resource to help communities start or improve their population health programs.
Adults who are newly eligible for Medicaid because of program expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have equal or better physical and mental health and fewer depressive symptoms than those who were enrolled before the PPACA reforms…
At the American College of Healthcare Executives' 57th Congress on Healthcare Leadership, Susan Dentzer, senior policy advisor at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, asked attendees to imagine a country with an economy about the size of France, with $2.8 trillion…
San Clemente, Calif.-based Medelita, a healthcare professional apparel company, has launched its inaugural Honoring Excellent Resident Observations award to honor and motivate the millennial medical resident population.
Scientists from Truven Health Analytics and the University of Wisconsin–Madison identified that parents of children who had a well-child checkup in the last 12 months were significantly more likely to have heard of human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccines.