CHICAGO – Facing a nearly $1 billion budget deficit, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday issued a $1.1 billion levy against Favorite Healthcare Staffing, a Kansas-based company that staffs the city's immigrant shelters. He sidestepped questions about the billion-dollar wage hike. The change order and contract extension come as the city has reduced the number of shelters from 27 to 16 and expelled immigrants through its temporary residency program. At the height of the city's migrant crisis, nearly 14,000 people were living in city-run shelters. Currently, that number is approximately 5,300. When asked directly about the pay raise, Johnson dodged…
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electronic billing company Paytus We have started a partnership with Altera Digital Health. of new contract Paymentus’ electronic bill presentation and payment platform will be added to Altera’s suite of healthcare IT solutions, the company announced Thursday (Sept. 26). “Medical billing is a historic pain point for patients and providers alike.” dushyant sharmaPaymentus founder and CEO said in a news release. “Together with Altera, we are delivering a modern and convenient Paytus customer billing experience to healthcare providers and patients as a component of our healthcare IT platform, resulting in improved patient satisfaction and more efficient and secure back-office operations.…
The measure introduced Thursday directs the Department of Health and Human Services to create new minimum cybersecurity standards for the healthcare sector and requires the department to ensure that healthcare institutions under the new rules It requires an annual audit.Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act — led by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. and Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia. — Amends the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to create a new “Healthcare Providers, Health Plans, Clearinghouses, and Trading Parties” Act that specifically focuses on health care operations critical to national security. Directs HHS to establish “mandatory minimum…
County health officials warned Thursday that current or former residents, employees and visitors of a La Jolla nursing home may have been exposed to tuberculosis. The potential exposure is related to The Cove at La Jolla Post Acute Care Center, located at 7160 Fay Ave., with dates of potential exposure ranging from February 17th to September 16th. Health officials say the exposure appears to involve drug-resistant tuberculosis, and some drugs commonly used to prevent the lung disease may not be effective. Anyone who believes they may have been infected was encouraged to call the county Tuberculosis Control Program at 619-692-8621.…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Approximately 900,000 people in the United States live in assisted living, and approximately 15% may move into a nursing facility each year. However, little is known about the risk factors associated with such relocation. To achieve this goal, researchers at the University of Michigan School of Nursing examined data on U.S. nursing home residents over an eight-year period to determine which residents moved into nursing homes and which residents remained in nursing homes. Now I understand why. The study results are published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. They identified risk factors at the…
Collier County is well underway with construction on a $72 million, 120-bed veterans home and day care facility. In early October, the county team is scheduled to meet with the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs. The dual project is the first of its kind in the country and has caused delays. County Commission Vice Chairman Bert Sanders, a longtime advocate for the county commission, provided an update to commissioners at the commission’s Sept. 24 meeting. The Florida Department of Veterans Affairs has contracted the design work to Nashville, Tenn.-based Orcutt Winslow and its affiliate HHCP, which has designed about 15…
Nearly five months after publicly criticizing UnitedHealth Group's chief executive in the wake of the devastating ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden on Thursday Introduced legislation aimed at preventing future cyber incidents that could disrupt the care industry. The Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act, introduced by Mr. Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (Va.), would impose mandatory requirements for health care providers, health plans, and connected entities. This will establish minimum cybersecurity standards for the country. Change Healthcare was vulnerable to the February attack because it did not have multi-factor authentication…
Recipient Michelle Baran (fourth from left) will be joined by her family and Monica Bugallo (second from left), Vice President for Academic Affairs, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Shari E. Miller, dean and professor of the School of Social Work (third from left); Stacey Jaffee Gropack, Dean and Professor of the School of Health Professions (4th from right); Judith Brown Clark (far right), Vice President of Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer. Michelle Baran, professor and associate dean for research at the Stony Brook School of Social Work, received the Herald’s 2024 Excellence in Healthcare Award at a ceremony on…
In 2012, a child’s drawing of a doctor’s appointment was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In the colorful sketch, a young girl sits on an examination table accompanied by her mother and brother. To medical professionals, the most notable figure in the drawing is her doctor, seated at a desk working on a computer with his back to the patient. This illustration, published with an article titled “The Cost of Technology,” is emblematic of the unintended consequences of medical innovation. As physicians have more tools at their disposal and greater demands on their time, technology…
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