Kindred Healthcare and Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City have acquired Everest Rehabilitation Hospital of Oklahoma City, the organizations announced today. Kindred and Mercy will operate the hospital, now renamed Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Oklahoma City …
Jefferson’s hospital network will grow to 18 locations with Einstein’s three general acute care hospitals and an inpatient rehabilitation hospital.
Johnson & Johnson, whose vaccine just received emergency use authorization, and Merck are partnering with the federal government to ramp up manufacturing of the COVID-19 vaccine.
President Joe Biden reportedly said that there will be enough of the vacc…
Inpatient hospital stays have become more expensive to the Medicare program, and it’s a trend that began even before the COVID-19 pandemic. A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General uncovered a possi…
The Medicare Act “prohibits Medicare payment for services that are not furnished within the United States,” according to the filing.
Hospital emergency departments not only care for patients with overdose and other complications from opioid use, but they also serve as vital touch points to engage patients into longer-term treatment. After an overdose, patients are at risk for repeat…
On Saturday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19.
Sheldon Fields of the National Black Nurses Association brings some historical context to today’s COVID-19 racial health disparities.
President Joe Biden has signed a supply chain executive order that affects a broad range of materials, including pharmaceuticals.
As of Friday, the Biden Administration has secured a supply of a recently authorized COVID-19 therapeutic treatment, with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense collaborating to purchase 100,000 courses of a seco…
