The donation will be used to build two Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Clinics, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina.
Hospitals in California are treating hundreds of people affected by the wildfires raging across the state's "wine country," including at least two facilities forced to close and evacuate patients amid increasingly dangerous conditions.
The American Lung Association and several other medical groups this week criticized the Trump administration's decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, expressing concerns the move could jeopardize public health.
The analysis by the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation found the amount workers of large employers paid toward health plan cost-sharing increased by 66 percent from 2005 to 2015, while worker wages rose by 31 percent during that time period.
Patients are more likely to report experiencing side effects when they believe a medication is expensive—even if the drug is a placebo, according to a new study in Science.
Eric Hargan, who the Senate confirmed last week as HHS' deputy secretary, will replace Don Wright, who had taken over as acting HHS secretary when former HHS Secretary Tom Price resigned on Sept. 29.
Amid uncertainty about how CMS might change its joint replacement bundled payment programs, hospital participants have been "impressed" with how the voluntary and mandatory models have engaged doctors in improving outcomes and lowering costs, Harris Meyer reports for Modern Healthcare.
