Forty-five percent of women forgo preventive healthcare, according to a recent poll conducted by the Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention and Ipsos. Millicent Gorham hopes to see those numbers fall.
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Rush looks to build new $70M outpatient care facility
Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center will build a new $70 million, 60,000-square-foot outpatient facility at a former Sears site on the West Side, NBC Chicago reported March 21.
Bill Gates: 'We need a fire department for pandemics'
Governments around the world could stand to learn a thing or two from firefighters when it comes to preparing for infectious disease outbreaks, Bill Gates wrote in an op-ed published March 19 in The New York Times.
Trinity Health taps regional CEO
Stonish Pierce was named president and CEO of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health’s Georgia Region, which includes Athens, Ga.-based St. Mary’s Health Care System and Mercy Care in Atlanta.
4 health systems launching, expanding home-based care programs
Here are four health systems that launched, expanded or announced plans to launch a “hospital-at-home” program:
No 'cookie-cutter' wellness apps: Why Providence, Prime Healthcare and Memorial Hermann built their own
Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare developed its own proprietary mental health app at the outset of COVID-19 in early 2020, to fulfill a need hospital leadership saw during a “very dark time in healthcare.”
Worst states for physicians over the last 5 years
New York and Rhode Island consistently rank low on financial website WalletHub’s annual list of worst states for physicians.
5 healthcare C-suite leaders on how private equity is 'reshaping the industry'
The value of healthcare private equity deals in 2021 was 378 percent higher than that of 2012, and many executives say that trend is here to stay.
Viewpoint: 3 ways to improve the nurse-physician relationship
From staffing shortages to burnout, multiple factors have damaged the nurse-physician dynamic over the last few years — but that relationship can be fixed, Angel Mena, MD, and Ali Morin, MSN, RN, wrote in an article on MedPage Today’s KevinMD.
Johns Hopkins spinoff launches GI cancer detection test
Previse, a health research company developed by Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University, has launched its first laboratory-developed test, Esopredict, for the detection of esophageal cancer.
