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UCI Medical Center plans to reduce pediatric care

Children’s Hospital of Orange County is going to get even busier as in March, Hoag Hospital also announced a similar procedure to also send pediatric patients to the same facility. This appears to be a growing move as hospitals are looking at their...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 1:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Budgets, Orange County, Hoag Hospital, UCI, Pediatric Care

Massachusetts Desperate Hospitals - MetroWest Medical Center's vital signs are weak

According to the article, there’s still time to save the hospitals and no plans on closing at this point, but it’s the same thing faced all over the US, no money, and 50% of the hospitals in the US border on solvency, and sure hate to see that number...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 1:24 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospitals, Budgets, Heatlhcare, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Desperate Hospitals, Finances, Heatlh Insurance

Desperate Hospitals: Chicago Hospital Hangs For Sale Sign

We just had the same happen not too long ago here the Los Angeles area, Century City, right on the outskirts of Beverly Hills that could not come up with buyer and had to close down at the end of August. Hospitals even the affluent areas are not...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 4:33 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, Budgets, Insolvency, Desperate Hospitals, Finances

Congress Cut DARPA Budget by $130 Million – Why?

This does not make sense, why don’t we find other ways to spend the funds, like perhaps some additional limbs for soldiers that come home from war, bionic arms and hands which DARPA has funded and helped create? What’s up with this? DARPA...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2008 9:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, DARPA, Biotech, Congress, Budgets

National Institute of Health Director Elias Zerhouni to Step Down

He also did recognize the effect of current budget cuts are having on the progression of R and D, as anyone who applies for and receives grants these days knows the bar has been raised and it is a bit more difficult to secure them, as a result many are...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 10:08 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Genomics, healthcare, Biotech, Grants, Budgets, R and D, NIH, National Institue of Health

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

Budget Time - Hospitals

Excellent article from Paul Levy at Beth Israel in Boston, who takes the time to explain the budget process at a hospital. The last paragraph says it all, ask questions and comment. Doctors are busy doing their jobs, research doing the same...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 11:18 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Budgets, Funding

Behind Rising Health-Care Costs

This is an interesting analysis from BusinessWeek, and covers some areas perhaps not discussed enough, software and hardware. When you develop one side, the other side needs to improve as well. As mentioned, robotic surgery is the rage with...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 12:37 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Surgery, healthcare, Budgets

How Do You Outsource Health Care – You Don’t

Every industry has what is called a “business model’ and different industries can all learn from each other on marketing techniques, practices, etc. to create a proof of concept, but the one industry that is different is healthcare. I guess if you wanted...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2008 1:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Outsource, Budgets

Medi-Cal providers bracing for pay cut - California

There’s a lot of focus this week on the Medicare reductions, but in California there’s also the Medi-Cal cuts. Already it is very difficult to find physicians who will still take Medi-Cal today, that battle through attrition has already be done...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2008 12:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, Budgets, Medi-Cal

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