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Drexel Sues To Block Threatened Closure Of Hahnemann University Hospital
Drexel University has filed a lawsuit to block the owner of Hahnemann University Hospital from closing the Center City institution, arguing that the closure would violate Drexel’s academic agreement with Hahnemann to train medical students and residents there and “greatly disrupt the health and medical community in Philadelphia.” The suit, filed Friday in the Philadelphia […]
June 24, 2019
Policies
Indiana University Health Deal Will Fund Projects, Diversify Debt Portfolio
Indiana University Health plans to sell $637 million of revenue bonds Tuesday to fund expansion and upgrade projects and diversify its debt portfolio. The Indianapolis-based academic health system affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine will sell a mix of new money and refunding bonds through the Indiana Finance Authority. Read More
June 17, 2019
Other News
New Director Shares Vision For University Health Services
Alex Langhart, the new director of the University of Mississippi Health Services, aims to increase access, promote wellness and find solutions to ensure all faculty, staff and students receive excellent on-campus care. Langhart received his master’s degree in health services administration from UM in 2015. The Tylertown native, who also has a bachelor’s degree from […]
June 17, 2019
Nursing
Alabama State University Lands $1.5M Grant From National Institutes of Health
Alabama State University was awarded a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health that will help the school provide training to minority students in the biomedical sciences fields. The $1.47 million grant will be used by the university’s Center for Nanobiotechnology to diversify its pool of Ph.D. students, a news release stated. The grant comes […]
June 17, 2019
Other News
KCU Plans $80M Dental College On Joplin Campus
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences will break ground on an $80 million College of Dental Medicine on its Joplin campus in 2020. The project’s anticipated cost is twice that of KCU’s 2017 medical school expansion in Joplin. The school has committed $40 million toward funding this project, with the remainder coming from philanthropic […]
June 10, 2019
Other News
ETSU College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences Adding Programs, Students
East Tennessee State University College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences said goodbye to 296 graduates — the largest class in the college’s history — at ETSU’s spring commencement last month. However, the college anticipates even larger class sizes in the coming years due to the proposed addition of new degree programs and growth in […]
June 10, 2019
Other News
Colorado State University Health And Medical Center To House CU Medical School Branch
Colorado State University is joining forces with the University of Colorado School of Medicine to establish a medical school branch at the CSU Health and Medical Center in Fort Collins. The $59 million, 113,000-square-foot facility opened at the corner of College Avenue and Prospect Road in 2017, consolidating student medical, counseling and health education and prevention services in one […]
June 3, 2019
Other News
UF College of Pharmacy Receives Top Funding Across Country
What does $23.7 million get you? For UF’s College of Pharmacy, the answer is fourth place. The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) ranked 142 pharmacy programs across the country, and UF made it in the top five in all three categories. The UF College of Pharmacy ranked fourth in the total amount of funding with […]
June 3, 2019
Nursing
Fitchburg State Signs Nursing Degree Agreements With Community Colleges
Fitchburg State University has signed nursing-degree agreements with community colleges in Worcester, Gardner, Bedford and Fall River. The agreements, which the university announced Monday, guarantee students a spot at Fitchburg State’s bachelor’s nursing program and is aimed at helping ensure more of the state’s nurses have bachelor’s degrees in the coming years. Read More
June 3, 2019
Nursing
Carthage Honors First Class of Nursing Students
Carthage College honored a group of pioneers with a symbolic ceremony on Saturday. The school’s inaugural graduating class of nursing students received the school’s first nursing pins in front of college officials, local health-care professionals and proud family and friends at the Todd Wehr Center. The 13 seniors receiving their pins will graduate today with […]
May 28, 2019
Policies
Emory University Fires 2 Neuroscientists Accused of Hiding Chinese Ties
Emory University fired two neuroscientists after they were accused of failing to disclose foreign research funding and connections with China. Li Xiao-Jiang told Science magazine that the university fired him and his wife, Li Shihua––with whom he led a laboratory at the Atlanta university’s medical school. The university also shut down their laboratory. Four Chinese postdoctoral students working […]
May 28, 2019
Other News
CEO From University of Maryland Medical System’s Capital Region to Step Down
The president and chief executive of the University of Maryland Medical System’s troubled Capital Region Health plans to step down from the post early next month. Sherry B. Perkins plans to leave for a health care position in Delaware, according to a statement from the system, which serves Prince George’s County and the surrounding area. […]
May 28, 2019
Policies
A Dangerous Delay
It had been six days since Olivia Shea Paregol walked out of the University of Maryland health center without an answer for why she felt so awful. Now, the 18-year-old freshman was curled up in the fetal position on the floor of her dorm room at Elkton Hall in College Park, her brown hair resting […]
May 20, 2019
Disparities
College Students Face Unique Mental Health Challenges
When Mary Rose Bernal sought help for her eating disorder during her first year of college in Iowa, she said she felt like she had to educate her Iowa providers “who should have known better.” Bernal, 21, originally from San Jose, California, and a spring 2019 graduate of Grinnell College, has struggled with an eating […]
May 20, 2019
Other News
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 […]
May 13, 2019
Other News
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 […]
May 13, 2019
Nursing
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 […]
May 13, 2019
Other News
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
May 6, 2019
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