Partners officials and industry allies say Partners should not be blamed for medical inflation, a national problem. And they say that their rise to power gave Massachusetts a needed counterforce to insurance companies that underpaid hospitals and doctors through much of the 1990s.
Previous Spotlight Team articles examining Partners, the parent of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, looked at how the healthcare system Read the rest of this entry »
DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowa Methodist Medical Center in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, is in the middle of an unusual baby boom. The hospital has welcomed 11 sets of twins this month.
“The day we delivered, we knew there were like nine or eight others, we were the ninth,” said proud father Justin Kamman. “Then a 10th one came that weekend.”
His daughter, Delaney, already went home from the hospital and the family is waiting for his son, Cooper, to gain Read the rest of this entry »
MOST magazines were in bad shape in the six months to December, but their readers were seemingly determined to avoid the same fate, making the health category a rare bright spot in the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations report.
Healthy Food Guide was the best-performing title of the survey, with a year-on-year sales rise of 24 per cent,
reports.
Also blooming were HealthSmart (up 19 per cent), Women’s Health (up 15.3 per cent), Men’s Health Read the rest of this entry »
Michigan residents are having a harder time paying their medical bills because of rising costs and fewer safety nets, according to a state of the state health care report released today.
Locally, the amount of “uncompensated” or “charity” care among hospitals and other health centers in Washtenaw County jumped from $64.6 million to $111.8 million, between 2004 and 2007, according to the report.
The study, which looks at the affordability and accessibility Read the rest of this entry »
Amid meltdown, cities slash sports, health, cops
PHOENIX (AP) — The palm trees in many Phoenix neighborhoods will be left shaggy this year. The city can afford to prune the trees only on major streets.
There’s also no money for children’s tee ball, or soccer, baseball or flag football. No money for a free shuttle service for the elderly. No money for most inner-city “fight back” programs that tackle blight.
Around the country, the mortgage Read the rest of this entry »
And typically the offerings now include a health plan with a financially daunting feature: a high annual deductible that is likely to be $1,100 or more for an individual, and much higher for family coverage. Under conventional insurance, the annual deductible — the amount an employee is obliged to spend on medical care before the insurance kicks in — may be only about one-third as high.
Employers generally try to offset the high deductible with Read the rest of this entry »
‘Yael’ was healthy and her second pregnancy had progressed normally. She already had a little girl and wanted to give birth at home in her small house in the North. She contacted a midwife during her pregnancy and they planned a home delivery.
“I was called out in the middle of a summer night,” recalls the midwife. “Candles were burning all around the house, giving an atmosphere of holiness. The little girl was fast asleep upstairs. In the middle Read the rest of this entry »
Thursday, Oct 16, 2008
As of August 1st, BASF has added another plastic specialty for the medical technology sector to its product range: Luran HD is the first SAN (styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer) to be offered along with BASF’s HD services. HD stands for Healthcare and Diagnostics. In comparison to other transparent materials, Luran is more resistant to chemicals, stiffer, easier to process and offers high resistance to fluctuations in temperature. Read the rest of this entry »
Two people were shot Friday evening when two intruders forced their way into a home, police said.
The intruders knocked on the door of a house at 47th Place North and Birmingham Place about 6:15 p.m. and then forced their way in when a man answered the door, Sgt. Brian Hill said.
When they asked for a particular “product” and the man said he didn’t have any, one of the intruders said: “We know you have it. Give it to us,” Hill Read the rest of this entry »
Hall – doubtful.
Fitz Hall will be given a late fitness check ahead of QPR’s trip to Swansea.
The defender had to be replaced by Matthew Connolly after an hour of Saturday’s 2-1 win over Nottingham Forest as he was suffering with an illness.
Boss Iain Dowie will also have to make at least one change to his bench, with back-up goalkeeper Lee Camp set to join Nottingham Forest on loan having lost his first-team spot to Radek Cerny this season. Read the rest of this entry »