article Denver Fire Station (credit: Denver Fire Station) at the scene of an explosion inside a nursing home on March 12, 2025 The obvious explosion inside a nursing home in Denver, Colorado, drove nearly 90 people out, according to the Denver Fire Department. what happened? Construction crews were working in nursing homes when the power line was accidentally hit early Wednesday. Firefighters said this would lead to an explosion on East Star's Masonic retirement campus. Almost 90 people have been replaced Dive deeper: According to the fire department, around 87 people have been evacuated and will be taken to another…
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First Fox: California leaks billions of federal taxpayer dollars into paying illegal immigrants' healthcare costs, a new study argues.”They are taking advantage of existing loopholes within the law,” Paul Winfrey, president and CEO of the Centre for Economic Policy and Innovation (EPIC), told Fox News Digital.”States can put illegal immigrants in Medicaid because they send the money back to the state to do these provider taxes and then pay them. That's literally what's going on.”The paper published by Epic and The Paragon Health Institute draws on California's Medicaid Provider Tax and on paper what appears to be nearly $4 billion…
Mental health nurses need to be confident in providing physical healthcare to their patients, a parliamentary inquiry has been told, with some suggesting Project 2000 was to blame. The Health and Social Care Committee today held the second evidence session for its inquiry into community mental health services for adults with severe mental health needs. “It meant there was a generation of nurses who weren’t so confident in looking after physical healthcare” Lade Smith Training in physical health skills for mental health nurses was one of the subjects raised during this latest evidence session held by the cross-party group of…
Nurses in Northern Ireland had one of the most pressurised winters “they had ever experienced”, according to the executive director of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Northern Ireland. Rita Devlin told Nursing Times that staff had been “struggling to meet demand” during the winter months as the system was working beyond capacity. “It is vital that we maintain momentum and that we grasp this opportunity to reshape how we approach winter pressures moving forward” Rita Devlin Her comments came after a workshop was held last week by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, to bring together key healthcare…
After decades of delivering babies in the small Wisconsin town of Waupaca, ThedaCare-Froedert Health closed its OB-Gyn unit last month. Experts say that the best for healthcare systems is not always optimal for the public. Especially in rural areas with a sparsely populated population. ThedaCare Medical Center-Waupaca. Photo submitted by Russell Butkiewicz. By Peter Cameron, the badger project Since 1954, women in Waupaka and surrounding areas may give birth at local hospitals. no longer. Last year, ThedaCare, the healthcare system that runs the hospital, merged with another system, Froedert Health. Last month, its newly formed healthcare system closed its delivery…
Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home was awarded the 2025 Customer Experience Award from Activated Insights (formerly Pinnacle Quality Insight). Eligibility for the Customer Experience Award means that Georgia War Veterans Nursing Facilities have been consistently ranked in the top 15% of care providers nationwide for the past 12 months. This was his 10th year, earning the highest honor in his class and a Customer Experience Award. This category includes overall satisfaction, nursing, food service, food quality, cleanliness, laundry services, community from the facility, addressing issues, dignity and respect, recommendations for others, activities, admission process, safety and security, and overall customer…
Orlando Health Hospital Care at Home has made history as the country's first program to receive the Outstanding Silver Beacon Award from the American Association of Critical Care Nurse, recognizing its groundbreaking approach to delivering keen hospital-level care directly in patients' homes. The program has served more than 2,000 patients in Central Florida since its launch in February 2023, but is available to Orlando Health patients who meet certain clinical criteria determined by emergency departments and hospital staff. Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital, Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, Orlando Health Emergency Room -…
New data collected by Florida shows that illegal immigrants would cost the Sunshine health care system nearly $660 million in 2024.The Florida Department of Health Care (AHCA) announced the latest update to the hospital's Patient Immigration Status Dashboard on Tuesday. Data for 2024 showed that a total of 67,700 emergency room visits were made by illegally entering the country, with approximately $76.6 million in Medicaid payments for emergency care.In total, the state paid nearly $660 million for the costs of care illegally provided to immigrants in the United States. Dasantis' efforts, a probation reform modeled after Jay-Z, prepared for Virginia's…
Following research into a new campaign last month by Chinese threat actor Silver Fox, Philips Dicom viewers infected a backdoor Trojan to infect victims, the finding stemmed from Virustotal (VT)'s malicious software threat hunt. The latest follow-up analysis enhances the search method and details the process of searching for malware in VT. This approach leverages a list of perspectives and REM default credentials along with a database of the most popular medical software names observed in healthcare environments to envision legitimate healthcare applications by abusing known software names, exploiting health system qualifications to gain initial access and interacting with medical…
A report outlining the work of a national whistleblowing scheme for nurses and other healthcare staff has been laid before parliament. The most recent annual report of the National Guardian’s Office, which oversees the Freedom to Speak Up guardians scheme present in many NHS workplaces, was recently published. “There are pockets of excellent practice across the NHS” Jayne Chidgey-Clark This report covers the 2023-24 financial year and included testimonials from guardians themselves about the cases they had received. Emma Randle, guardian at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, told the report that she had heard from two trainee…