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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-20-2008
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
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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Tenet, Hospitals, Charity, Prime Healthcare, Desperate Hospitals, Bad debt
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...
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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-01-2008
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
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=800" align="right" alt="" /> originally set up for...
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 being purchased by a company like Prime Healthcare...