The partnership plans to build a joint research institute in Detroit to focus on health inequities and disparities, social determinants of health, primary care, implementation sciences, and precision health and cancer....
Tuesday brought significant contrast to San Diego County on the coronavirus front. As beach parking lots and piers reopened, Scripps Health stopped taking new COVID-19 transfers amid a rash of severe symptoms that left one of the region’s largest health providers with just a half-dozen...
As opioid pills and patches fueled a two-decade epidemic of overdoses in the United States, hospitals faced chronic shortages of the same painkillers in injectable form - narcotics vital to patients on breathing machines....
According to the American Hospital Association, 57% of the 5198 non-federal, short-term community hospitals in the U.S. operate as private, nonprofit organizations. 25% operate as for-profit and 19% are owned and operated by state and local government. To maintain their tax-exempt status which relieves them...
We sit down with Andrew Rosenberg MD, CIO for Michigan Medicine. ...
A spike in new cases of COVID-19 in recent days has renewed concerns about community spread of the illness, including among large gatherings of protesters....
Local doctors are working to find treatments and a cure for COVID-19....
In a rapid, yet expansive, deployment of “telehealth” in the acute-care setting, hospitalists and specialists at all 28 Banner Health hospitals now can conduct virtual patient visits on COVID-19 units. This greatly preserves personal protective equipment (PPE) and allows for greater efficiency and patient and...
Researchers are narrowing down how long the virus persists inside the body and whether people can be quickly re-infected....
By multiple measures, coronavirus COVID-19 has been particularly deadly in Michigan....
