Hospitals did more to help Ohio, according to the latest community benefit report. But these figures -- 2007 is the most recent data available -- are essentially ancient history because of the economic upheaval in the past two years.
Twenty-five years ago, Deforia Lane started the Music as Medicine program at University Hospitals in Cleveland. This week, she was honored for her work as the Ohio Hospital Association's Health Care Worker of the Year.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Ohio's 178 hospitals said they provided a record amount -- $2.2 billion -- in charity care and other uncompensated benefits to their local communities in 2007, according to the Ohio Hospital Association. The association is trying to use its preliminary survey results to get legislators to erase a new hospital fee from the state's two-year budget. Meanwhile, federal officials scrutinize the meaning and use of "community benefit" measures.
Ohio House Speaker Armond Budish will substitute a formula by Gov. Ted Strickland that levies a franchise fee on hospitals, uses that money to lure federal funding, and then returns a portion of that money back to the hospitals via increased Medicaid reimbursements. But officials say the end game remains the same: to recoup all of the money hospitals submit under the fee.
Last week, the Ohio Hospital Association said 35 hospitals were planning layoffs sometime in the next six months. About 41 percent of those hospitals are in rural areas, the association stated today.
The statement is the latest in a series of warnings from the association and its members, which are battling a bad economy and are waging a political struggle against a new fee that would cost state hospitals $598 million over the next two years. The layoffs would come in the next six months.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Thirty-three small and rural hospitals in Ohio will share $693,000 to do improvement projects ranging from reducing medical errors to complying wiht federal patient information regulations. Each hospital will get a grant of $21,000 to help with its projects, says the Ohio Hospital Association.
One in three stethoscopes used by emergency medical service providers in the United States could be contaminated with MRSA -- the antibiotic-resistant bacteria that was blamed for nearly 19,000 deaths and five times that number of infections. That was in 2005. A solution? Clean your stethoscope.
The Ohio Hospital Association has told the governor his two-year budget is "not workable" and will lead to hospital layoffs, a decrease in services and an increase in costs to employers.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland will try to plug some of the financial gaps in his new budget by charging hospitals a new franchise fee as well as increasing a tax on nursing homes.
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.