The Affordable Care Act saw a record number of sign ups this year, but some people are having trouble finding doctors in their health plan networks.
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The Affordable Care Act saw a record number of sign ups this year, but some people are having trouble finding doctors in their health plan networks.
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The Affordable Care Act may be struggling with its own success.
Record enrollment over the last two years brought more consumers into the health insurance market. At the same time, many insurers began offering smaller networks of doctors…
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Doctor denied position at Merritt, BC emergency room
The ongoing closures of the emergency room at the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt, BC, have local residents calling for help.
Many believe it’s just a matter of time before someone dies due to an ER closure.
A solution has presented itself, but Interior Health says it’s not up to their standards.
“We have these three mountain pass highways (and) the Coquihalla highway all merging into our town and I mean if that ER is closed, someone’s going to die. Someone will die here,” said community advocate Georgia Clement.
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Another ER closure at Nicola Valley Hospital
The closures…
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to honor first BSN graduates with lamp lighting ceremony
AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing is set to honor its first class Bachelor of Science in Nursing graduates with a lamp lighting ceremony from 6 pm to 7 pm on Thursday at the TTUHC Jerry Hodge Harrington Auditorium School of Pharmacy.
Officials with TTUHSC detailed that the lighting ceremony, located at 1300 S Coulter, will reflect Florence Nightingale, who was known as “The Lady With the Lamp” and the founder of modern nursing.
‘Super Isla’ gets a surprise room makeover as she fights cancer
Nightingale is “considered the mother and pioneer of…
Indigenous mobile health service launched in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
A new primary care program launched in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside aims to deliver health care to women in a culturally appropriate manner.
The Women’s Mobile Primary Care Program’s new mobile health unit van teams doctors, nurses and social workers with Indigenous knowledge keepers, elders, and healers to provide care from an Indigenous perspective.
A Wednesday press conference to announce the launch of the new mobile unit started with a traditional blessing where cedar leaves were washed onto the van.
The unit offers women-specific services from pap smears to IUD insertions and removals, sexual health testing, and birth control.
Rosemary Stager-Wallace…
Superbug fungus cases rose dramatically during pandemic | HealthNews
The fungus, Candida auris, can be a fatal risk to fragile hospital and nursing home patients.
Cases of a dangerous fungus tripled in the United States over just three years and more than half of the states have now reported it, according to a new study.
The COVID-19 pandemic likely drove part of the increase, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wrote in a paper published on Monday by Annals of Internal Medicine. Hospital workers were strained by coronavirus patients, and that likely shifted their focus away from disinfecting some other kinds of germs, they said.…
mental health and wellbeing in the workplace – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog
More than ever before, mental health is a topic for open discussion in the media, within our social circles and of course at work. Mental health and wellbeing is all about how we think, feel and behave, and is usually caused by a reaction to a difficult life event, which can be caused or made worse by work-related issues. In particular, working in isolation away from managers and colleagues can add stress to a workforce that is already facing a significant amount of pressure.
The scale of the problem
Globally, an estimated 264 million people suffer from depression, one of…
Is It Time to Cut Back on Alcohol?
December 12, 2022 · 7:00 AM
“Is the room spinning, or is it just me?”
A few months ago I ran across a thoughtful article by Morris van de Camp entitled Love Drinking Less. It’s well worth a read if your alcohol consumption is out of control or heading that way.
Alcohol is a two-edged sword. On the one hand it makes life fun and turns strangers into intimate friends in the course of an evening; on the other, it makes a person dysfunctional. Very dysfunctional. Productive time is lost, relationships are damaged, and health is harmed.
I cannot say…
Mediterranean diet may reduce risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s, science shows
A diet that is rich in seafood, fruit, vegetables, nuts and olive oil may lower the risk of dementia, a new study suggests.
An analysis of data from more than 60,000 seniors revealed that choosing to follow a Mediterranean diet reduces a person’s likelihood of developing dementia by nearly one quarter published, even among those with genes that put that at greater risk, according to the report Monday in the medical journal BMC Medicine.
“The main take home message from this study is that, even for individuals with a higher genetic risk, consuming a more Mediterranean-like diet could reduce the…