Virus hospitalizations surge as pandemic shadows US election
Americans went to the polls Tuesday under the shadow of a resurging pandemic, with an alarming increase in cases nationwide and the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 reaching record highs in a growing number of states.
Hospitals competing for nurses as US coronavirus cases surge
As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the nation and infections and hospitalizations rise, medical administrators are scrambling to find enough nursing help — especially in rural areas and at small hospitals.
Injury Free Coalition for Kids to Launch First National Injury Prevention Day: November 18
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, children are dealing with another crisis. Injuries are the leading cause of death and disability to U.S. children from 1 to 18 years old. Every day, 20 children die from preventable injuries, resulting in more deaths than all other diseases combined.
CMS Releases Toolkit to Accelerate State Efforts to Rebalance Long-term Care Systems and Enhance Home and Community-Based Services for Eligible Medicaid Beneficiaries
The Trump Administration and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are delivering on their commitment to foster innovation in Medicaid by providing states with new tools to help beneficiaries return home from institutional settings without sacrificing safety or quality of care.
Will the Supreme Court whisk us back to the bad old days when an ear infection was a preexisting condition?
If Donald Trump’s “world-class” treatment for COVID-19 at Walter Reed Medical Center has shown us anything, it is the unequal treatment Americans with the disease have received for their illness. Trump received the best experimental drugs, constant monitoring, and clearly cossetted surroundings — a lot more comfortable than Americans who died at New York City’s Javits Center field hospital or at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where nurses begged for ventilators and one ER doctor pleaded , “We don’t have the tools that we need.”
