An Atlantic County official said Tuesday that he is considering selling the county-run Meadowview Nursing Facilities in Northfield after New Jersey's military and veteran affairs refused to take over the facility. Atlantic County executive Dennis Levinson said the county is preparing to hear offers to privatize nursing homes, but is seeking assurances from workers.”If we issue a request for a proposal, we will make it clear that stakeholders must provide warranty to existing staff and residents,” Levinson said in a statement Tuesday. “We want a 24-month employment commitment with benefits to existing staff. We won't turn our backs on them.”Dolphin…
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Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has been quizzed on whether nurses will lose their jobs due to the upcoming dissolution of NHS England. Yesterday, prime minster Sir Keir Starmer announced that NHS England would be abolished as a standalone organisation, with its functions brought back into the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). “I can’t say there will be no changes to services” Wes Streeting This decision was, the department said, made to save money, reduce bureaucracy and “empower staff” to deliver better patient care. Mr Streeting, who runs DHSC as secretary of state, appeared on LBC’s…
LAS VEGAS – At HIMSS25 last week at HIMSS25, a panel of healthcare interoperability leaders convened for an ad hoc discussion about the continued evolution of FHIR API-based data exchange. The next ten years or so. Session moderator Leavitt Partners Principal Ryan Howells emphasized that panel talk is not a political debate. The session, “Dropping the Clipboard: Doge and the Trump Administration's Policy Ideas” shares the name with the recent Leavitt Partners Whitepaper, which served as the basis for the discussion. “The election is over,” Howells said. “We are now in the next four years of administration priorities, the next…
The government has introduced new rules that will require social care sector employers to prioritise hiring migrant workers already in England before recruiting from overseas. From 9 April, English care providers that wish to recruit a new worker from abroad will have to prove that they have attempted to employ someone already in the country who needs new visa sponsorship, according to a statement issued by the Home Office. “A full government-led investigation, beginning urgently, is the only way to identify the scale and types of exploitation taking place” Claire Sutton The new rules – laid in parliament earlier this…
The balanced FCA model and the SAA indexTo conduct our study, we used the balanced FCA (bFCA) model developed previously22 and used in other studies20,61,62. Conceptually, an FCA model computes the ratio of supply to demand within a catchment area centered at each supplier’s location, and then ‘floats’ these catchment areas over population centers to determine the allocation of the available resources to each of the demand sites. Catchment areas are delimited by specifying a maximum one-way travel time between the supplier’s location and the demand site. The bFCA model has an important advantage over the other types of FCA…
The hospital where Lucy Letby murdered babies is now being investigated for gross negligence manslaughter as well as corporate manslaughter, police have announced. Cheshire Constabulary has released a statement saying that its corporate manslaughter investigation into the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been “widened”. “We will not be confirming the number of people involved or their identity” Paul Hughes The scope of the investigation now includes gross negligence manslaughter, which is where a death is caused by an otherwise lawful but grossly negligent “act or omission” by an individual or individuals. The corporate manslaughter investigation, which is…
A neonatal nurse and a hospice midwife, who run a project that supports bereaved mothers of newborns to donate breast milk in memory of their child, have spoken about the “snowballing” success of the scheme. The Memory Milk Gift Initiative was set up in 2021 as part of the Milk Bank @ Chester, which is based at Chester at Countess of Chester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and supplies donor breast milk to neonatal units across England and Wales. “We came across a lot of barriers. Healthcare professionals were pretty nervous about getting involved” Laura Atherton Laura Atherton, registered nurse and…
Eyal Shamir is the CEO of Icecure Medical, the developer of the frozen bud version system for the destruction of benign and cancerous tumors. Getty We are witnessing a wide range of new technologies, including AI, self-driving cars, and robotics, which are dramatically changing the way we live and do our business. Such disruptive technologies are everywhere, and medicine is no exception. The possibility of bringing new life-saving medical technologies to the market is exciting, but it is not without challenges. What drives the disruptive technology of medical devices? The motivation behind new medical device innovations is simple yet powerful.…
Maile Sakamoto MS'24 always knew she wanted to make a difference in people's lives through health care, but she didn't realize that data was a tool for her impact. After working as a medical assistant, Sakamoto decided he wanted to invest in his passion for data analysis and enrolled in Willamette's Top Rank Master's Data Science Program. Coursework spanning data ethics, cybersecurity, and applied machine learning has gained Sakamoto the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in the job market. Now she's working as an informaticsist for health insurance giant Humana. “As a healthcare data analyst, I can evaluate programs…
Amidst financial difficulties and inadequate pay, many Iranian nurses are forced into disastrous living conditions, such as sleeping in cars, working as online taxi drivers, and sharing overcrowded accommodations. According to official statistics, around 19 nurses, doctors and hospital technicians leave Iran every day due to financial struggles. Iranian newspaper Ham Mihan reports that despite nurses earning maximum monthly salary of 14-15 million torman (about $200) and receiving only 25,000 torman per hour in overtime, their income barely covers basic living expenses. As a result, nursing professionals have witnessed mass escapes both domestically and internationally. Housing Crisis and Forced Transition…