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Howard Hughes Medical Institute pilot program funds people and a few projects

If you are not aware of how much leading research comes from the facility, check back on a few posts I have done in the past, the HHMI makes a lot of research possible without the red tape and strings that perhaps come along with grants and restrictions...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 11:50 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Genomics, healthcare, Harvard Medical School, Budget Cuts, Charity, Research and Development, Medical Research, Fund raising, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Tenet Takes A Hit – Even After selling several hospitals this year

The hospital chain has a higher foreclosure rate than average which is part of the reason the outlook is dwindling to a degree. The chain has been actively selling off non profitable hospitals as well. Prime Healthcare has been one company...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 8:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Tenet, Hospitals, Charity, Prime Healthcare, Desperate Hospitals, Bad debt

Myth of uninsured overcrowding Emergency Rooms debunked

Why are the uninsured not the cause, because they can’t afford to be there for the most part and many hospitals do not take the same amount of charity cases as do others. Recently in Atlanta, the new Grady hospital CEO challenged other hospitals...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 4:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, ER Room, Hospitals, Charity, Uninsured Patients

EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated

The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 7:41 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Charity, CMS, Linux, Donations, bankruptcies

Cape Cod hospital gets $10M gift

Nice and welcomed I am sure. A few weeks ago Cape Cod was in the Desperate Hospitals section as they had recently announced a $17.6 million revenue loss, and were about to lay off so-called hospitalists, doctors who treat patients whose primary...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 10:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospitals, Charity, Desperate Hospitals, Gift

Bankruptcy Bug Hits Hospitals – Desperate Hospitals

Modern Healthcare.com has also published an article about the status of affairs of many hospitals. To read further, click here to review the series I began last month called “ Desperate Hospitals” in where there are several updates and additional...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 5:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Charity, Budgets, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Economics, Chapter 11, Desperate Hospitals

Nonprofit Hospital Battles to Protect Tax Exemption

This is becoming a hot topic these days, especially in other areas with not for profit hospitals. The new CEO of Grady just put out a request for other hospitals to stop sending their charity cases to their facility when they can provide the services...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 11:56 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospitals, Charity, Not for Profit Hospitals, Non Profit, Tax Exemptions

Medical Research Institute Is America's Second Largest Charity Howard Hughes

This was a post from a few months ago, but in light of the recent Stand Up for Cancer broadcast I thought it was a good idea to run this through again. 60 Minutes does a very good job in showing what private research can do, since grants from the...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2008 2:27 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Genomics, healthcare, Budget Cuts, Charity, Research and Development, Medical Research, Fund raising

Stand Up To Cancer - Friday September 5, 2008 - 8:00 EST

You can set up a log in and donate today. Click here for details. As I had posted in a story a couple days ago, the bar has risen for venture capitalist investments, it is still there, but perhaps a little tougher to get, and with government...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2008 11:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Biotech, Cancer, Research, Charity, Stand up to Cancer, Donation, Entertainment, Donation Drive, Cancer Cures

Oncology Nurse turned Talk Show Host and a lot more..

I had a couple friends drag me away from the computer and the blog today to watch a taping of a new talk show series starting this fall. So why is this here on a medical blog, well Bonnie Hunt was an oncology nurse before moving in to the entertainment...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 12:57 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Hospital, Oncology, Charity, Nursing, Talk Show, Celebrities, Nurse, Extra Extra, Chicago

When a Free Yearly Clinic Is Your Only Health Care - Remote Area Medical

Remote Area Medical is offering relief to many who cannot afford health care or insurance. Newsweek does a nice job with the coverage here and a few months ago I had a post with video showing how the daily set up goes. RAM was .png?imgmax...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 12:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Charity, Remote Area Medical, Volunteers

Without Funds, N.J. Hospitals Face Crisis – California too

The numbers on charity care speak for themselves. In California there’s something similar going on too with hospitals being closed, perhaps not to the same tune as what is happening in New Jersey. Some hospitals have been saved by...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 11:08 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Hospital, healthcare, Charity, Budets, Insolvency

Bill Gates Leaving His Fortune to Charity

Mr. Gates made the announcement official – the fortune will go to the foundation, nice move and health care can surely use all the financial help available today and tomorrow. Bill Gates as shown here with a Tablet PC. BD While being...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 3:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Microsoft/Windows News, TabletPC, microsoft, Charity, Foundation

Safeway Kicks Off Month of Events and Fundraising for Prostate Cancer Research

Watch for the events a local stores. The money raised is donated directly to charities , which provides grants to teaching hospitals and cancer centers doing leading edge research. A related story shows the recipients of this years awards...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 3:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Health Care, Cancer, Research, Prostate Cancer, Charity, PCF, Safeway

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