A “medical home” aims to be a practice where the doctor doesn’t keep you waiting, does keep you healthy, and works with a team to deliver better care cheaper.
Increasingly, when the doctor isn’t in to deliver primary care, it’s a nurse practitioner or physician assistant that’s taking the doctor’s place.
Medicaid expansion to cover more working poor. Funding to boost community health clinics. Incentives to encourage more to pursue primary care careers.
Many homeless people now ineligible for Medicaid will be covered in 2014 when Medicaid expands under the new health law to include adults without children.
Community services for vets with PTSD. Spinal fluid test predicts Alzheimer’s disease. Hospitals and nursing homes found to be shortchanging staff on overtime pay.
A specialist in facial plastic surgery will join Swedish Otolaryngology Specialists. Six new doctors will join the Swedish Neuroscience Institute.
Occupational Safety and Health Association does not regulate exposure to these drugs in the workplace.
Medical students generally prefer the bigger paychecks and greater prestige of specialties.
Of 2,608 primary care training slots available, fewer than half were filled by American med school seniors.
But some doctors argue say nurse practitioners are unqualified to provide primary care without supervision.
Repository is missing serious disciplinary actions against what are probably thousands of health providers
Dean of the UW School of Nursing blogs on the Future of Nursing
When consumers must choose between buying a car and getting treatment, they go to the doctor, not the Ford dealership.
“Nursing, even in hard times, was thought to be recession-proof.”
By Chris Linden and Melissa Suran, Medill News Service
It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. Nursing student Barbara Lopez had been told for a long time that she would have an easy time finding a job.
But it took her five months—starting before she graduated in June—to [...]
Allow Seattle Children’s to expand, says Seattle Times
The Seattle City Council should reverse ruling of a hearing examiner who has rejected Seattle Children’s expansion plans, says Seattle Times argues in an editorial today’s paper.
The hearing examiner found that hospital’s planned expansion, which would add 1.5 million square feet of space on its Lauralhurst campus, was inappropriate [...]
The White House has released a transcript of President Barack Obama’s “Health Insurance Reform Town Hall” meeting held yesterday, August 11 at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
To read it click on “Read more…”.
Transcript released by the White House:
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Portsmouth! Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Everybody have a seat. [...]
The U.S. government is making available $8.1 million for education loan repayment for nurses willing to work for two years at facilities that face a critical nurse shortages.
The funds will be offered on a competitive basis to 100 registered nurses.
In Washington state the program will offer five positions: four at the University of Washington Medical [...]
By Phil Galewitz
August 11, 2009
When Congress and the White House began talking about a health care overhaul, the industries that profit from the $2.5 trillion system were understandably nervous.
But as the legislation takes shape, it appears much of the anxiety was misplaced. Most of the major health care players, including hospitals, health insurers and pharmaceutical [...]
Howard Gleckman, Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute
July 20, 2009
Advocates of including long-term care services in health reform usually focus on two issues: How many Medicaid dollars should be spent on home care and whether to create a national long-term care insurance program, such as Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has proposed in his CLASS [...]
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
E-Health Records: Seattle is ahead of the curve
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