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Peter Banko will be the next president and CEO of the health system. Prior to joining Baystate in July, Banko has served as President and CEO.
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2 years ago Read more at Western Massachusetts News

Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH, appointed inaugural Dean for Public Health. She will spearhead a state-of-the-art curriculum that will integrate with medicine, population health, global health, neurosciences, environmental medicine, data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) disciplines. The Department of Public Health will bridge the school’s existing excellence in environmental medicine and population health. Key to its success will be a focus of the department’s public health faculty on continuing to address recalcitrant health dispar
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2 years ago Read more at Mount Sinai

In the second part, we are covering anti-obesity medications that are being tested to treat heart disease and how scientists and physicians are addressing health equity challenges around these drugs. Most recently, initial studies have shown that they can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by reducing overall body weight. In the international, multicenter trial, more than 17,000 patients who were 45 years or older, had cardiovascular disease, and were overweight or had diabetes.
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2 years ago Read more at Feinberg News Center

Ramon Garcia allegedly posed as a nurse while performing sexually-related exams and hitting on at least two patients, police said. Police began investigating the 33-year-old on March 1, 2024, after a woman came to them to report a strange encounter with a worker named "Ramon' Garcia.
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2 years ago Read more at NBC Philadelphia

House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Health Subcommissionee markup of 19 bills to improve the health and wellbeing of patients and caregivers. THE BOLD ACT “To help better detect, diagnose, and treat Alzheimer’s Disease, I am proud we are marking up my bipartisan bill, H.R. 7218, or the ‘BOLD Act’. The BOLD Reauthorization also includes
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2 years ago Read more at Energy and Commerce Committee

House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Health Subcommissionee markup of 19 bills to improve the health and wellbeing of patients and caregivers. THE BOLD ACT “To help better detect, diagnose, and treat Alzheimer’s Disease, I am proud we are marking up my bipartisan bill, H.R. 7218, or the ‘BOLD Act’. The BOLD Reauthorization also includes
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2 years ago Read more at Energy and Commerce Committee

Biden administration officials demanded UnitedHealth Group take more steps to stabilize the U.S. health system following a national health payment crisis. Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth, has been offline since a Feb. 21 cyberattack, stalling payments to tens of thousands of hospitals, physician groups and other organizations. The Biden Administration has pleaded with UnitedHealth to accelerate emergency funding to affected providers.
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2 years ago Read more at The Washington Post

Erica Taylor, MD, MBA, assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and vice chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Duke University School of Medicine gave this year’s keynote address. Taylor outlined how she helped to create a diversity, equity, and inclusion program that trained healthcare workers in each clinical department at Duke Health. This year marked the fourth installment of Health Equity Week.
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2 years ago Read more at Feinberg News Center

Dr. Brian Lein addressed the need for standardization to stabilize the core of the Military Health System at the annual meeting of AMSUS, the Society of Federal Health Professionals. On Oct. 1, 2023, the DHA launched phase one of its advancement plan into motion. Lein said organizational advancement is a natural maturation of the agency.
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2 years ago Read more at Health.mil

Dr. Brian Lein addressed the need for standardization to stabilize the core of the Military Health System at the annual meeting of AMSUS, the Society of Federal Health Professionals. On Oct. 1, 2023, the DHA launched phase one of its advancement plan into motion. Lein said organizational advancement is a natural maturation of the agency.
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2 years ago Read more at Health.mil