Community Benefit
Occupying a former medical offices building in Maine's largest city, Portland Community Health Center serves about 2,600 of the city's population of just over 66,000. Its patient population is largely on Medicaid and about 35 percent of them have no insurance at all. Half are refugees from countries such as Sudan and Somalia.
Within a handful of miles of the birthplace of the American Revolution, a new revolution was being fomented the last week of April.
As a way to bring awareness to an inexpensive way to prevent injuries and death to children, the Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (Ohio AAP) is sponsoring Bike Helmet Safety Awareness Week from May 7-11, 2012. According to Ohio AAP, a $10 bike helmet saves a healthcare system $41 per child.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) board of directors has endorsed two measures that address all-cause unplanned readmissions in hospitals -- an area of healthcare targeted for improvement given national imperatives to make healthcare safer, more affordable and keep people healthy.
In order to control the overall cost of healthcare in the U.S., stakeholders must focus on high-cost patients with chronic conditions, David Blumenthal, MD, told an audience at NEHI's Bridging the Innovation Gap conference in Boston on Thursday.
With the help of a two-year task force effort with the Foundation for Health Coverage Education (FHCE), Sharp HealthCare in San Diego has saved $5 million from self-pay patient reimbursements at four of their busiest emergency departments.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday the finalization of the Community First Choice rule, a new state option under Medicaid.
According to a recent report by the Health Research Institute at PwC U.S. regarding the use of social media in healthcare, one-third of consumers use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and online forums to find health-related information.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released two healthcare reports last Friday showing that overall in the years 2002 through 2008, quality, access and disparities in healthcare for most racial and ethnic groups improved minimally, if at all.
The forecast for the Medicare program remains the same as last year, with the program expected to remain solvent until 2024. But the program's solvency depends on several financial and political assumptions that are unpredictable.