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One Vision. Two Universities. Three Years Of Work. The Payoff: A New Medical School

Finishing touches at Fort Worth’s new M.D. school were underway Friday, including filling student lockers with coffee mugs, T-shirts, medical scrubs and journals aimed at building a sense of welcome for the inaugural class. Members of the medical school’s incoming class of 60 begin their journey to become M.D.s on Monday. The school’s activities include a luncheon […]

UAB Health System Responds To Possibility Of UnitedHealthcare Cutting Ties

The University of Alabama Birmingham Health System is responding to the possibility of UnitedHealthcare not renewing contracts with the system. According to UAB, following months of negotiations, the current contracts are set to expire on July 30 between UnitedHealthcare and several UAB Health System entities including: UAB Hospital The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital UAB Medicine […]

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Savannah Technical College’s Surgical Technology Program Awarded 10-Year Accreditation

Savannah Technical College’s Surgical Technology program has been awarded continuing accreditation for 10 years by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs, according to Savannah Technical College. STC’s Surgical Technology associate degree program offers the introduction, development and reinforcement of academic and technical knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to successfully work in the […]

Hahnemann Closes Trauma Center, Nurses Say Supplies In Short Supply At Hospital

Nurses organization requests state to appoint a temporary manager at hospital to ‘ensure patient safety.’ Read More

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AU Nursing Students Give Health Screenings To Migrant Farm Workers At Fair

Every year, students from the Augusta University College of Nursing cross state lines and provide health screenings to farm workers in Trenton. This year marks the 14th annual Costa Layman Health Fair. Since it began, the program has provided more than 5,000 screenings to migrant workers from Costa Layman. Pam Cromer, a professor at the […]

Kaiser Permanente, Seattle Colleges Offer Scholarships For Medical Assistant Students

The Puget Sound Area is in need of more Medical Assistants and Seattle’s students need more access to sustainable careers. That’s why Kaiser Permanente teamed up with Seattle Colleges to create the Career Launch Scholarship program to train Medical Assistants, the frontline care providers who welcome patients into medical offices by taking and charting vitals and […]

Wake Tech Welcomes New Health Sciences Provost

Wake Tech is pleased to announce that Dr. Angela Ballentine has been appointed as provost of the Health Sciences Division. In this role, she will be responsible for the academic quality of the college’s in-demand health sciences programs, including nursing, radiography, dental hygiene, EMS and others. Dr. Ballentine will also serve as Chief Campus Officer of […]

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Q&A: Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom Sees Daily Evidence Of How Diversity Drives Health Outcomes

Kimberlydawn Wisdom, M.D., wakes up every morning thinking about inclusion. That has made a difference for Henry Ford Health System, where she has been chief wellness and equity officer for the past 12 years and was an emergency physician for 20 years before that. The former Michigan Surgeon General from 2003 to 2010 has a […]

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Medical Groups Warn Climate Change Is A ‘Health Emergency’

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Democratic presidential hopefuls prepare for their first 2020 primary debate this week, 74 medical and public health groups aligned on Monday to push for a series of consensus commitments to combat climate change, bluntly defined by the organizations as “a health emergency.” The new climate change agenda released by the groups, […]

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Nurse Who Exposed Problems At State’s Only Public Hospital Will Be N.J.’s Next Top Health Official, Sources Say

New Jersey’s top health official is a registered nurse with vast experience running hospitals, and until recently helped the state’s only public hospital gain its footing after a series of management and fiscal problems triggered its CEO’s ouster, two sources have told NJ Advance Media. Gov. Phil Murphy is expected to announce Judith Persichilli as the next health commissioner […]

University Studies Cancer Risk And Testing For Black Women

HAMPTON, Va. — Luisel Ricks-Santi keeps the medical family tree of one of the participants in her study taped to the door of her office in her lab at Hampton University. There are four slashes among the women’s siblings, others among her immediate family, and most family members’ symbols are partially colored in. Each partially […]

What It Means for Health Care to Be a Human Right

More than half the world’s countries have pledged to protect their citizens’ right to health care, through either national laws or international human-rights agreements. The United States is not one of them, although demands for universal health care and Medicare for All have been animating issues in the opening months of the 2020 presidential campaign. According to […]

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