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Leadership and Vision in Primary Healthcare- Dr Minnie Bodhanwala, CEO, Wadia Hospitals
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While reporting on the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, journalist Steven Brill was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition that required heart surgery.
"There I was: A reporter who had made hospital presidents and hospital executives and health care executives and insurance executives sweat because I asked them all kinds of questions about their salaries and about their profit margins," Brill tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "And now I was lying on a gurney in a hospital in real fear of my life."
Brill had a bubble on his heart that the doctors said had a 15 to 17 percent chance of bursting each year, he says. If it did, he would die. The experience, Brill says, helped him analyze health care from a patient's perspective.
"At that moment I wasn't worried about costs; I wasn't worried about a cost benefit analysis of this drug or this medical device; I wasn't worried about health care policy," Brill says. "It drove home to me the reality that in addition to being a tough political issue because of all the money involved, health care is a toxic political issue because of all the fear and the emotion involved."
Brill's surgery happened not long after he had written a special report for Time magazine investigating the inflated charges in hospital bills. The article Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us won a National Magazine Award. After winning the award, Brill ended up with pages and pages of his own inflated and confusing hospital charges.
"A patient in the American health care system has very little leverage, has very little knowledge, has very little power," Brill says.
Now Brill has written the book America's Bitter Pill about the political fights and the medical and pharmaceutical industry lobbying that made it difficult to pass any health care overhaul and led to the compromises of the Affordable Care Act. The law enables millions more people to afford health insurance, he writes, but it also adds new layers of bureaucracy and many confusing new regulations.
Brill had health insurance that helped him pay for his surgery. His total bill was about $190,000, he says. He paid about $12,000 of it.
"I exhausted the deductible on the policy that my wife and I had," he says. "Once I paid the $12,000, I was indifferent to all the costs because I was paying zero. Once I achieved my maximum out of pocket, as they say, nothing mattered to me."
Steven Brill is a journalist who also founded Court TV, American Lawyer magazine, 10 regional legal newspapers and Brill's Content Magazine. He teaches journalism at Yale. Courtesy of Random House hide caption
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The university is adopting standard features of most employer-sponsored health plans: Employees will now pay deductibles and a share of the costs, known as coinsurance, for hospitalization, surgery and certain advanced diagnostic tests. The plan has an annual deductible of $250 per individual and $750 for a family. For a doctor's office visit, the charge is $20. For most other services, patients will pay 10 percent of the cost until they reach the out-of-pocket limit of $1,500 for an individual and $4,500 for a family.
Previously, Harvard employees paid a portion of insurance premiums and had low out-of-pocket costs when they received care.
Michael E. Chernew, a health economist and the chairman of the university benefits committee, which recommended the new approach, acknowledged that "with these changes, employees will often pay more for care at the point of service." In part, he said, "that is intended because patient cost-sharing is proven to reduce overall spending."
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The president of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, acknowledged in a letter to the faculty that the changes in health benefits though based on recommendations from some of the university's own health policy experts were "causing distress" and had "generated anxiety" on campus. But she said the changes were necessary because Harvard's health benefit costs were growing faster than operating revenues or staff salaries and were threatening the budget for other priorities like teaching, research and student aid.
In response, Harvard professors, including mathematicians and microeconomists, have dissected the university's data and question whether its health costs have been growing as fast as the university says. Some created spreadsheets and contended that the university's arguments about the growth of employee health costs were misleading. In recent years, national health spending has been growing at an exceptionally slow rate.
In addition, some ideas that looked good to academia in theory are now causing consternation. In 2009, while Congress was considering the health care legislation, Dr. Alan M. Garber then a Stanford professor and now the provost of Harvard led a group of economists who sent an open letter to Mr. Obama endorsing cost-control features of the bill. They praised the Cadillac tax as a way to rein in health costs and premiums.
Dr. Garber, a physician and health economist, has been at the center of the current Harvard debate. He approved the changes in benefits, which were recommended by a committee that included university administrators and experts on health policy.
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In an interview, Dr. Garber acknowledged that Harvard employees would face greater cost-sharing, but he defended the changes. "Cost-sharing, if done appropriately, can slow the growth of health spending," he said. "We need to be prepared for the very real possibility that health expenditure growth will take off again."
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ABT +0.49%
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Health care stocks were falling, with the NYSE Health Care Sector Index down nearly 0.8% and shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 decreasing 0.4% as a group.
In company news, Stereotaxis Inc. ( STXS ) spiked Monday after U.S. regulators approved the medical device company's Vdrive with V-CAS catheter advancement system, the third Vdrive product to be cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The newly clear device was first released in Europe in 2011 and allows physicians to remotely control the advancement, retraction and rotation of a transseptal sheath together with a magnetic ablation catheter.
The maker of robotic devices used to treat abnormal heart rhythms also said its Odyssey product line recently was approved for use by the Japan Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency.
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The opening of a new hospital in Prairie du Chien will be one of the major health care developments in the Coulee Region this year.
The 25-bed, 137,000-square foot Crossing Rivers Health Center being built across from the municipal airport is targeted to open in June, CEO Bill Sexton said.
When the current facility was built in the mid-50s, the standard was for bedside care, Sexton said. Today, its more for people who come in for treatment and are sent home.
Those who do need inpatient care will be in private rooms, he said, adding, Back in the day, rooms were semi-private. Weve learned over the years that outcomes are better with private care.
The rooms will have three zones one for the caregiver, one for the patient and another for the patients family, including a pull-out couch where relatives can watch TV and stay overnight, Sexton said.
The $37 million building, which is part of a $50 million project including land, amenities and equipment, is rising on Hwy. 18 across from the municipal airport.
It replaces a landlocked facility in town that has been renovated 11 times since it was built on grounds so cramped that emergency helicopters are forced to land on a church parking lot across the street.
The new hospital includes not only a much larger emergency department but also a helipad, the CEO said. Ambulances at the current building park outside and staffers brave the elements to bring patients in, but the new hospital will include a two-bay ambulance garage with closing doors, he said.
We have a good surgery department now, but we will have two operating rooms and a procedure room and can expand (operating rooms) to three, Sexton said.
Among the more than 60 services available at the hospital are general, orthopedic, ophthalmologic and podiatric surgery; obstetrics; rehabilitation, and other specialty offerings that will be expanded, he said.
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Health Care Differences Between the US and India (Feat. The Hobbit Cast Crew)
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poor people should not be forced to eat unhealthy foods
Poverty should not make you sick. We should tax unhealthy foods to pay for the health care damage they do We should force our food industry to make cheap, healthy, yet profitable foods available...
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Health-care stocks secured five of the top 10 spots in a ranking of 2014 stock-market performance by members of The Inquirer's Philly50, the list of the most valuable publicly traded companies in the region.
It was a strong year overall. Only eight of the 50 stocks saw their values decline last year. Half the decliners were in chemicals and manufacturing, led by a 24 percent drop in the share price of FMC Corp., which had a tumultuous year, announcing and then dropping a plan to split into two companies.
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The predominance of health-care stocks among the biggest Philly50 gainers, which are shown with percentage changes in stock prices for all of 2014, reflects not just the sector's importance to the region's economy, but also national trends.
Last year marked the fourth straight year that health-care stocks - in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index - outperformed the broad market.
Despite those long-term gains that have led to relatively high stock prices for many health-care stocks, J.P. Morgan continued to recommend the sector in its 2015 outlook.
An aging population and the declining number of uninsured people were the reasons.
The best performer in the local health-care sector - which includes pharmaceutical firms, a hospital operator, and a major drug distributor - was Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Chesterbrook.
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A U.S. health-care worker exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone arrived at Nebraska Medical Centers Biocontainment Unit Sunday for observation. (Nebraska Medicine)
A U.S. health-care worker exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone arrived at a Nebraska hospital on Sunday for observation and potential treatment.
The patient, who has not been identified, arrived at the Nebraska Medical Centers Biocontainment Unit mid-afternoon.
Even though the patient hasnt had a positive test for Ebola, all of our team members are taking the same precautions that were taken with the first three patients who did have Ebola, spokesman Taylor Wilson said. Its out of an abundance of caution that this approach is being used.
The patient will be under observation for the recommended 21-day monitoring period in the same room that was used to treat three patients with Ebola: doctor Richard Sacra, in September; NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, in October; and doctor Martin Salia, who died after less than two days of treatment in November.
The currentEbola epidemic is the largestin history, mostlyaffecting the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has more than 150 staff members on the ground in the region. As of Friday, there have been more than 20,000 cases worldwide, with just over 8,000 total deaths, according to the CDC and the World Health Organization.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who recently visited Liberia, where troops have been deployed to assist in the response to the outbreak, said Sunday that the troops there have done remarkable work, but he called on the Pentagon to change its strategy.
Although we cant declare mission accomplished and withdraw too early here, we can bring home a thousand or more of these troops now, he said on CBS News Face the Nation. Theyre currently bored because theyve accomplished a lot of their mission of building infrastructure.
What was a raging epidemic in September in Liberia is now down to a few embers scattered across this country, Coons said. Some troops should remain for the rest of the year to help transition the response locally, he said, adding thathe would formally call for the shift in strategy on Monday in notes to the president and the defense secretary.
The Nebraska Medical Center has notified the CDC about the patient but has yet to ask for its involvement. Should the Center request assistance, the CDCs role would be an advisory one, saidCDC spokeswoman Kathy Harben.
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U.S. health-care worker exposed to Ebola arrives in Nebraska for observation
The opening of a new hospital in Prairie du Chien will be one of the major health care developments in the Coulee Region this year.
The 25-bed, 137,000-square foot Crossing Rivers Health Center being built across from the municipal airport is targeted to open in June, CEO Bill Sexton said.
When the current facility was built in the mid-50s, the standard was for bedside care, Sexton said. Today, its more for people who come in for treatment and are sent home.
Those who do need inpatient care will be in private rooms, he said, adding, Back in the day, rooms were semi-private. Weve learned over the years that outcomes are better with private care.
The rooms will have three zones one for the caregiver, one for the patient and another for the patients family, including a pull-out couch where relatives can watch TV and stay overnight, Sexton said.
The $37 million building, which is part of a $50 million project including land, amenities and equipment, is rising on Hwy. 18 across from the municipal airport.
It replaces a landlocked facility in town that has been renovated 11 times since it was built on grounds so cramped that emergency helicopters are forced to land on a church parking lot across the street.
The new hospital includes not only a much larger emergency department but also a helipad, the CEO said. Ambulances at the current building park outside and staffers brave the elements to bring patients in, but the new hospital will include a two-bay ambulance garage with closing doors, he said.
We have a good surgery department now, but we will have two operating rooms and a procedure room and can expand (operating rooms) to three, Sexton said.
Among the more than 60 services available at the hospital are general, orthopedic, ophthalmologic and podiatric surgery; obstetrics; rehabilitation, and other specialty offerings that will be expanded, he said.
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A U.S. health-care worker exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone arrived at Nebraska Medical Centers Biocontainment Unit Sunday for observation. (Nebraska Medicine)
A U.S. health-care worker exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone arrived at a Nebraska hospital on Sunday for observation and potential treatment.
The patient, who has not been identified, arrived at the Nebraska Medical Centers Biocontainment Unit mid-afternoon.
Even though the patient hasnt had a positive test for Ebola, all of our team members are taking the same precautions that were taken with the first three patients who did have Ebola, spokesman Taylor Wilson said. Its out of an abundance of caution that this approach is being used.
The patient will be under observation for the recommended 21-day monitoring period in the same room that was used to treat three patients with Ebola: doctor Richard Sacra, in September; NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, in October; and doctor Martin Salia, who died after less than two days of treatment in November.
The currentEbola epidemic is the largestin history, mostlyaffecting the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has more than 150 staff members on the ground in the region. As of Friday, there have been more than 20,000 cases worldwide, with just over 8,000 total deaths, according to the CDC and the World Health Organization.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who recently visited Liberia, where troops have been deployed to assist in the response to the outbreak, said Sunday that the troops there have done remarkable work, but he called on the Pentagon to change its strategy.
Although we cant declare mission accomplished and withdraw too early here, we can bring home a thousand or more of these troops now, he said on CBS News Face the Nation. Theyre currently bored because theyve accomplished a lot of their mission of building infrastructure.
What was a raging epidemic in September in Liberia is now down to a few embers scattered across this country, Coons said. Some troops should remain for the rest of the year to help transition the response locally, he said, adding thathe would formally call for the shift in strategy on Monday in notes to the president and the defense secretary.
The Nebraska Medical Center has notified the CDC about the patient but has yet to ask for its involvement. Should the Center request assistance, the CDCs role would be an advisory one, saidCDC spokeswoman Kathy Harben.
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New York With video stores and retailers closing their doors, retail real estate has had a tough half-decade. The cure? Urgent care clinics.
The clinics, storefronts staffed with doctors to treat common ailments or minor injuries, are filling vacancies left by struggling retailers like RadioShack and Best Buy as they close locations. Theyre moving into those street and shopping center fronts at their fastest pace ever, according to Scott Mason, managing director of Cushman & Wakefields health care group.
In 2014 there was an increase in retail medicine in all of its different dimensions, Mason said in a telephone interview. You look for retail outlets with high visibility, high traffic patterns, and signage capabilities. That approach, Mason said, is referred to as the Blockbuster strategy.
The number of walk-in retail clinics in the U.S. has risen 20 percent since 2009, to 9,400 last year, according to the Urgent Care Association of America. Operators also see new demand for convenient health care services as more than 10 million people are insured under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In the Upper Valley, New London-based ClearChoiceMD opened a clinic on the Miracle Mile in Lebanon, in the former Rent One storefront, in November. Primary care physicians are overworked and there is a shortage of them that is not going away anytime soon, ClearChoiceMD owner Dr. Marcus Hampers, of Plainfield, told the Valley News. We believe we are filling a real important niche and are pleased to be a part of the solution. ClearChoiceMD also operates clinics in Belmont, Portsmouth and Keene, N.H., Berlin, St. Albans, Rutland and Brattleboro, Vt., and Scarborough, Maine.
In addition, Dartmouth-Hitchcock and CVS Caremark have opened several retail walk-in clinics around New Hampshire, including one in West Lebanon. These MinuteClinics offer similar same-day health services, including diagnosis and treatment of illnesses and minor wounds, although their services are generally seen as less comprehensive than those offered at an urgent care clinic.
Medical tenants pay higher rents, come with good credit, and tend to sign longer leases, said Dave Henry, chief executive officer of Kimco Realty in New Hyde Park, N.Y. So far this year his company has signed 40 medical leases, an increase from the 34 in 2013 and 27 in 2012. For us as a large landlord of lots of shopping centers, its nice, he said.
For customers, the clinics fill a gap. Patients who cant get a last-minute appointment with their doctor or dont have one can turn to urgent care instead of overcrowded hospital emergency rooms.
When Kelly Daviss son woke up days before Christmas with a fever and vomiting, the pediatricians office was closed and the child didnt seem sick enough for the emergency room. Instead, Davis went to a clinic.
It seemed more effective than going to an ER, Davis, 33, of Baton Rouge, La., said in a phone interview. We just needed to make sure it wasnt going to get worse before Christmas. Instead of heading to the ER on Christmas we decided to go to an urgent care real quick.
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Pitch Slapped Girlafesto and cover Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson
Showcasing talent for a great cause, the girls from "Pitch Slapped" fundraise for The Plan #39;s "Because I am a Girl" campaign that helps girls in developing countries with important issues such...
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Spanish for Healthcare in the United States 2013
Presentation of my research about the state of teaching Spanish for Health Care Professionals in the USA in 2013.
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