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Government announces distribution of $2.5B to nursing homes for COVID-19 relief funding

Sep 08, 2020

The Trump administration, through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently announced it has distributed almost $2.5 billion of a planned $5 billion distribution to nursing homes to support increased testing, staffing and personal protective equipment (PPE) needs. This includes $135,903,600 to 951 facilities in Ohio. This funding allocation was made through the Health Resources and Services Administration...

Nurse Practitioners Say Expanded Scope of Practice Key for COVID-19

Aug 19, 2020

August 18, 2020 - Relaxed scope of practice restrictions and models enabling expanded telehealth use have been instrumental in helping nurse practitioners meet patient access to care needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus put a lot of pressure on the healthcare industry, namely in ensuring every...

A Health Care Way Forward

May 29, 2020

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and its activation in 2014, there has been a huge amount of debate about what form our health protection system should take. (I am deliberately avoiding the word health insurance.) For many, the answer has been very plain and simple: Do away with insurance companies’ involvement in providing protection for people’s health care needs, and have the “government”...

Training for success: Top US colleges for health sciences

May 27, 2020

Health sciences is a rewarding field to study as it prompts students and researchers to strive for a safer and healthier world. For Northeastern University Professor Andrea Grimes Parker and her colleagues, their research in this discipline of applied science led to the development of fitness trackers that aid vulnerable and marginalised populations. “Existing fitness platforms focus so much on goal setting, data...

The Healthcare Innovation Bubble: Making The Most Of The COVID 19 Crisis

May 25, 2020

In many ways, it is the best of times for those among us who are interested in transforming American health care. With the emergence of COVID19, there is deep, broad recognition of our deeply fractured system of healthcare and public health and the long road ahead to improve on it. The question is no longer whether we should strengthen our healthcare infrastructure but how. For the ﬁrst time, we have broad recognition of both the...

What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?

May 01, 2020

Even the most vocal critic of the American health care system cannot watch coverage of the current Covid-19 crisis without appreciating the heroism of each caregiver and patient fighting its most-severe consequences. Hospitals are being built in parks and convention centers, new approaches to sterilizing personal protective equipment (PPE) for reuse are being implemented, and new protocols for placing multiple patients on a single...

Health-Care Students on the Front Lines

Apr 30, 2020

A group of students studying and training in health-care disciplines at the Lake Washington Institute of Technology , a public institution in Kirkland, Wash., which has been hard hit by the coronavirus, has been self-quarantined at home for 14 days after possible exposure to the virus in health-care settings. Four students at Los Rios Community College District, in California, were directed by public health authorities to...

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