Poverty worsens, but health care costs will go down More than 1 million Virginians, or one in seven, are now without health insurance, according to last week’s report by Families USA, a national organization for health-care consumers. That’s an increase of more than 10 percent in the past year…….click here to continue reading
Its a time of tremendous transition in health care nationally and locally, with a federal overhaul of the industry just around the corner and new leadership named last week at both of the regions dominant nonprofit health systems.Fred Manchur, 58, was named Friday, Aug. 6, as Kettering Health Networks next chief executive, two days after Jim Pancoast, 56, was formally recognized as the next ………click here to continue reading
The state is taking the first steps in implementing the federal health care reform bill, but officials are still struggling to get clarification on many parts of the new law. Marylands new Health Care Reform Coordinating Council held its first meeting last week, resolving to find the best way to implement provisions of the landmark ……click here to continue reading