Massive Physician Shortage Ahead; Lead Like an Athlete
Welcome to this week’s edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the web to help you learn what’s next. Lisa Grabl is president of the locum tenens division of CompHealth, the nation’s largest locum tenens physician staffing company and a leader in permanent and temporary allied healthcare […]
Opinion | Can Dying Shopping Malls Fix Medical Deserts?
Lewiss is a professor of emergency medicine and a healthcare designer. Del Rios is an associate professor of emergency medicine and a health services researcher. Sinnett is a managing principal and health practice leader at an architecture firm. In Dallas, Texas, people living south of Interstate 30 (I-30) die approximately 20 years before people living […]
Opinion | Are Regulators Finally Waking Up to the Threat That Is UnitedHealth Group?
N. Adam Brown is a practicing emergency physician, entrepreneur, and healthcare executive. He is the founder of ABIG Health, a healthcare growth strategy firm, and a professor at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Follow Nearly $400 billion in revenue. In January, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) released its 2023 financials. It paints a vivid […]
Medicare a Big Contributor to the Broken Health Payment System, Senators Told
Who is to blame for America’s broken healthcare payment system? Witnesses and lawmakers mostly pointed fingers at Medicare during Wednesday’s Senate Budget Committee hearing on how primary care improves healthcare efficiency. “Medicare’s fee schedule has created this unbalanced delivery system and primary care crisis,” said Christopher Koller, president of the Milbank Memorial Fund, in New […]
Opinion | Three Tools to Address Health Equity
N. Adam Brown is a practicing emergency physician, entrepreneur, and healthcare executive. He is the founder of ABIG Health, a healthcare growth strategy firm, and a professor at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Follow In Washington, D.C., where I live, an infant born in 2020 had an average life expectancy of 75.3 […]
Opinion | FDA Authorized Florida’s Drug Importation Plan. Naysayers Are Balking.
Pauly is an expert in health economics and healthcare management. If you head to the Florida beaches for spring break, you will notice that the Canadian Maple Leaf is often present among the flags outside hotels and tourist apartments. The benefit to Florida from the annual migration of snowbirds from the North has long been […]
Idaho Medical Group May Close if It’s Not Sold
As the healthcare landscape continues to shift nationwide, Idaho’s Saltzer Health, which was recently acquired by Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, is set to shutter by the end of March if its operations cannot be sold. Saltzer Health has more than 450 providers serving the Treasure Valley region of Idaho, including Boise, Meridian, and Nampa. […]
Inequitable Treatment Persists Across Pediatric Specialties, Review Shows
Children in racial and ethnic minority groups received poorer healthcare services compared with white kids, a review of quantitative studies showed. Inequitable treatment persisted across pediatric specialties, including neonatology, primary care, emergency medicine, inpatient and critical care, surgery, developmental disabilities, mental health care, endocrinology, and palliative care, reported Nia Heard-Garris, MD, of Northwestern University’s Feinberg […]
Want to Get More Healthcare Bills Passed? Fix the Filibuster, Suggests a Senator
WASHINGTON — The Senate could get a lot more done on healthcare and other issues if the rules for holding a filibuster were changed, a senator and his former chief of staff said Wednesday. “Think about, for example, drug prices, where 80% of Americans think every drug should be negotiated so we get the same […]
Leadership Updates for State Healthcare Facilities – Wyoming Department of Health
Leadership Updates for State Healthcare Facilities January 4, 2024 A permanent administrator has been named for the Wyoming State Hospital (WSH) in Evanston, while interim leadership is also planned for the Veterans’ Home of Wyoming (VHW) in Buffalo. Both facilities are operated by the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). Kristi Barker has been chosen to […]