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Medical Students Get Free Tuition for Promising to Practice in Rural Arizona

Some University of Arizona medical school students are getting free tuition in exchange for a promise to practice in underserved rural areas for at least two years after they graduate. The scholarship money is from state funds earmarked to alleviate a physician shortage that is particularly acute in rural Arizona, where more than one-quarter of primary-care physicians plan to […]

November 25, 2019

U of C Nurses Call Off Strike Plans

The University of Chicago Medical Center has reached a tentative deal with unionized nurses, preventing about 2,200 of them from walking off the job on Nov. 26. The Hyde Park hospital and the nurses’ union settled on a contract early this morning after seven months of negotiations, the hospital said in a statement. Read More

November 25, 2019

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University of Hawaii Seeks More Funding for Student Mental Health and Scholarships

The University of Hawaii wants to beef up mental health services for students, expand a popular scholarship program and start training medical students on Maui to address the doctor shortage. Read More

November 25, 2019

College Diabetes Network Launches Initiative to Help Students With Chronic or Invisible Diseases

Margot Porter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes during her third year of college at Brigham Young University. Leading up to her diagnosis and for months after, she found herself struggling to focus on her schoolwork. Read More

November 25, 2019

University Stops Accepting Medicaid as Health Insurance

An Idaho university has stopped accepting Medicaid as health insurance coverage for full-time students amid concerns they said they received from local health care providers. Brigham Young University-Idaho officials have required students to buy a university-backed health plan, which can cost at least $81 a month for single students and up to $678 a month […]

November 25, 2019

UC Medical Center Nurses Overwhelmingly Vote to Strike for Second Time in Two Months

Nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) voted overwhelmingly to strike for the second time in two months during an election held Wednesday. The National Nurses Union (NNU), representing over 2,200 nurses at UCMC, said 92 percent of the nurses voted in favor of the strike. Read More

November 18, 2019

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Idaho University Won’t Accept Medicaid as Health Insurance

An Idaho university has stopped accepting Medicaid as health insurance coverage, forcing full-time students to buy a university-backed plan. Health plans at Brigham Young University-Idaho can be purchased for at least $81 a month for single students and up to $678 a month for a family, officials said. A student form used to opt out […]

November 18, 2019

Oakland University Awarded $400,000 for Pontiac Health Programs

The Michigan Health Endowment has awarded a two-year, $400,000 grant to the OU/Pontiac Initiative to expand collaborative efforts to promote healthy living in the city, according to the university. The grant will support services that connect community members to non-clinical services relating to healthy eating and active living. The program, entitled “Prescription for a Healthy Pontiac,” […]

November 18, 2019

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Untimely Death of Bernard Tyson Inspires Tributes To A Leader in Healthcare And Corporate Diversity

Tributes continue to pour in for Bernard Tyson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, who unexpectedly passed away early Sunday at the age of 60. Tyson ran the nation’s largest nonprofit integrated healthcare provider since 2013 and designed an industry-transforming model of tech innovation, strategic investment and affordable healthcare during a career that spanned three […]

November 18, 2019

Will Term Limits Fix Academic Medicine’s Diversity Problem?

The National Institutes of Health has announced a plan to enforce 12-year term limits for tenured laboratory and branch chiefs; however, such a limit has yet to be enacted in academic medicine. Authors of an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine argue that lack of term limits on leadership positions at academic […]

November 18, 2019

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Transgender Students Push for More Resources

Students are responsible for many of NYU’s structural changes — it was students who got the school to remove a question about incarceration from the common application, who protested its old dining service provider, Aramark, prior to its transition to Chartwells and who were part of a task force that led to the creation of […]

November 18, 2019

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UMN Student Group Enters Fight to Combat Racism in Medicine

A group of second-year medical students is trying to improve treatment of patients of color in a historically white healthcare system. The University of Minnesota’s chapter of White Coats for Black Lives was established in 2014 and works to increase diversity and awareness of racism in the medical field. WCBL is especially focused on curriculum, […]

November 18, 2019

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University of Chicago Medical Center Nurses Plan Second Strike

About 2,200 University of Chicago Medical Center nurses are planning a second strike on Nov. 26 because of concerns about staffing levels, The Chicago Tribune reported. The first one-day strike, also the first strike in the hospital’s history, took place in September, followed by a four-day lockout with replacement nurses and cutbacks to services. The […]

November 15, 2019

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University of Iowa Health Care Joins HealthPartners UnityPoint Health Plan

The University of Iowa Health Care will join the HealthPartners UnityPoint Health health care plan, making its providers available to more Medicare patients in Iowa and Illinois. Starting Jan. 1, University of Iowa Health Care — which includes the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and the Stead Family Children’s Hospital — will be included […]

November 11, 2019

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University of Cincinnati, UC Health to Launch $2B Fundraising Campaign

The University of Cincinnati and the affiliated UC Health hospital system intend to launch a joint effort to raise more than $2 billion within the next five years. “Next, Now: The Campaign for Cincinnati” will raise money for scholarships and graduate student fellowships as well as research and health-care initiatives to benefit the region. Read […]

November 11, 2019

Native Hawaiians Report Fewer Years of Good Health, University of Hawaii Study Finds

Native Hawaiians have fewer years of healthy life expectancy at 62.2 compared with Chinese who had the most years of good health at 75.9. Read More

November 11, 2019

Health Insurance Options for College Students

Health insurance is undeniably important to having access to affordable healthcare. Unfortunately, the process for getting health insurance for nonstandard students can be difficult if you don’t know what to look for; perhaps you aren’t a full-time student or you don’t work a full-time job all the time, and the more traditional methods of getting […]

November 11, 2019

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University of St. Thomas Announces Name of New College of Health

The University of St. Thomas announced Tuesday that its new college of health will be named the Morrison Family College of Health in honor of John and Susan Morrison, who gave a $25 million gift to get the college running. The Morrisons are longtime Minnesota philanthropists who now live in Naples, Florida. “I’m extraordinarily grateful […]

November 11, 2019

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