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Talya Schwartz, MD, Appointed President and CEO of MetroPlus Health Plan

The Board of MetroPlus Health Plan today announced the appointment of Talya Schwartz, MD, as the health plan’s President and CEO. MetroPlus is the low-cost, five-star quality health insurance plan of choice for more than 500,000 New Yorkers. As the health plan owned by NYC Health + Hospitals, MetroPlus is a vital component of Mayor […]

Northwest Kidney Centers CEO Joyce F. Jackson to Retire

Joyce F. Jackson, president and CEO of Northwest Kidney Centers for the past 20 years, has announced she will retire from her position after a successor is found. Jackson informed the Northwest Kidney Centers board of trustees last year of her intention to retire. The board has engaged a national firm to conduct a search for the […]

Controversy Lingers Around Pregnancy Centers Near Campus

A handful of student protestors lined the sidewalk in front of First Care Pregnancy Center in Prospect Park in late April. One of their signs proclaimed that the clinic behind them was a “fake center.” The University of Minnesota students turned out to caution others against visiting pregnancy centers they view as illegitimate. Not all […]

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America Needs More Mental Health Providers. Nurses Want to Help, if States Let Them.

More than half of American adults and 80 percent of children with mental-health needs do not receive treatment, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s mental-health website. Some don’t want to seek care and the cost of treatment is a barrier for others. But even those with resources who want care are running into a […]

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Assumption College Breaks Ground on New $13 Million Health Sciences Building

WORCESTER – Assumption College on Friday broke ground on a new health sciences building, the campus’ second new building in three years and a reflection of the school’s recent expansion toward STEM-based programming. The 41,000-square-foot facility, which will be built behind the campus’ Emmanuel d’Alzon Library, is expected to cost $13 million and open in […]

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Despite Efforts to Boost Their Numbers, Blacks Account For Just 6% of Doctors in SC

Kelsey Williams is one of 103 students in the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville’s Class of 2020. But she’s one of just five who is Black. Nationally, African Americans make up 13.4 percent of the population, according to the U.S. Census. In South Carolina, they are 27.3 percent. Yet they only make up about […]

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College Receives $7 Million Gift For Global Health Equity Program

The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Geisel School of Medicine recently received a $7 million gift from a combination of four anonymous families. This donation, part of the College’s ongoing Call to Lead capital campaign, will support faculty development and expand student global health equity programs domestically and internationally in partner […]

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University of Holy Cross, LCMC Health Team up to Launch Physician Assistant Program

The University of Holy Cross has partnered with LCMC Health to launch a new Master of Science graduate degree for physician assistants. The inaugural program will launch in Fall 2020 and will include on-the-job training for UHC students by doctors and other medical professionals at three of LCMC Health’s five hospitals in and around New Orleans, according to […]

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2 Cases of Legionnaires’ Possibly Linked to University of Chicago Hospital

For the second time in a week, state health officials said Chicago hospital patients had been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease. The Illinois Department of Public Health has identified two new cases of the potentially-deadly lung infection, which is contracted by inhaling aerosolized water containing the Legionella bacteria. Read More

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Gov. Greg Abbott Signs Bill Creating University of Houston Medical School

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill creating a medical school at the University of Houston amid concerns about a physician shortage in the state. Under the legislation signed into law Wednesday, the University of Houston’s College of Medicine will be the 13th medical school in Texas. It will be based in the UH System’s flagship […]

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Johns Hopkins University to Open New Center That Focuses on School Safety And Health

The Johns Hopkins University announced Monday that it will create a new interdisciplinary center for school safety and health, the first in the nation in higher education. The center, announced at a conference of Education Writers Association being held this week in Baltimore, will bring together more than two dozen faculty from disciplines as diverse as education […]

UAB Awards $2.7 Million to Improve Health Rankings by 2030

An employee at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and her team received millions of dollars in awards from the university last week for her campaign aimed at making Alabama a healthier state by 2030. Mona Fouad, director of the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center, and her project “Healthy Alabama 2030: Live […]

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