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Diabetes research projects may go on hold. This is sad that the Foundation is having to close and that renovation projects may be delayed or put on hold as well. In the year 2007 the foundation showed a$952 million market value. It makes one wonder if there will be more of these individuals...
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12-21-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Investors, Physicians, Harvard Medical School, Charity, Fraud, Massachusetts, Boston, Whistle Blower, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Wall Street, Donations, Greed, Foundations, Madoff, Ponzi, Cancer Donations, SEC
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I say this somewhat in jest as everyone who has a business knows the software, but in principal what’s wrong with having some enterprise auditing software in place that does just that – audits. Quick Books connects business owners easily to their auditors, so when we have such large sums of investor...
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12-18-2008
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A partial listing of some of this clients who are now stuck can be viewed here. If you have not caught up with this story, it is stated to be a 50 billion dollar Ponzi scheme. Healthcare and the charities don’t appear to be coming out of this unscathed, at a time when the news couldn’t...
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12-14-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Investors, Physicians, Charity, Fraud, Massachusetts, Boston, Whistle Blower, Wall Street, Donations, Greed, Foundations, Madoff, Ponzi, Cancer Donations, SEC
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We all remember back to the one time television promotion to gain contributions to fight cancer, and now there are gifts you can buy with 100% of the money going to the cause. The website offers additional information. Purchase a gift and donate support at the same time. BD This year...
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Nice story and sad how losing the job drove the family to the extremes that occurred along with the other incidents listed. Nice they were nominated and hopefully a real helping hand here for all. Now if you are a tech person and want to see an extreme make over for servers, check here. A...
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Dr. Ramona Bates is a surgeon by day and a wonderful quilt creator on her off hours. Today began the first day of bidding for her charity on one of her fine quilts we see on her blog. She can’t quit stitching! If you have read my blog often enough I have included some of the most interesting...
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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 from other investors. With the slowing...
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11-20-2008
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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
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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 who has purchased several from Tenet here in California...
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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 in the area to stop sending all charity cases to...
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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 contracts with insurance companies are getting...
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10-01-2008
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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
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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 care physicians don't do rounds at the hospitals...
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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 hospitals included. Also included is some...
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09-23-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Charity, Budgets, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Economics, Chapter 11, Desperate Hospitals
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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. Also, there's the Desperate Hospitals series...
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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 government are harder to receive and with budgets...
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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 cuts on grants and availability for research,...
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08-30-2008
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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