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Elisabeth Rosenthal (born April 29, 1956) [1] is an American physician and former New York Times reporter who focused on health and environment matters. She is the author of a 2017 book, An American Sickness, which argues that severely distorted financial incentives are at the root of the US healthcare problems.
Kaiser Permanente (/ ˈ k aɪ z ər p ɜːr m ə ˈ n ɛ n t eɪ /; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California.Founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield, the organization was initially established to provide medical services at Kaiser's shipyards, steel mills and other facilities, before being opened to the ...
Ninteen Petersen Health Care facilities across Illinois and in Missouri have been placed in receivership over the past few weeks. More: Petersen Health Care faces foreclosure on nearly $51 million ...
Geriatric rehabilitation also have a role in intermediate care, where patients are referred by a hospital or family doctor, when there is a requirement to provide hospital based short term intensive physical therapy aimed at the recovery of musculoskeletal function, particularly recovery from joint, tendon, or ligament repair and, or, physical ...
Genesis Health Ventures was founded by Michael R. Walker [2] and Richard R. Howard in 1985, with the acquisition of nine centers. [3] Between 1985 and 1998, Genesis Health Ventures grew from a $32 million to a $2.4 billion public company through the acquisition of nursing homes and services, including rehabilitation therapy, diagnostic testing, respiratory therapy, and pharmacy companies.
Mercy General Hospital is a not-for-profit private community hospital located in the East Sacramento neighborhood of Sacramento, CA.The hospital has 342 beds and over 2,000 clinical staff, and serves as the major Cardiac Surgery referral center for the Greater Sacramento Service Area Dignity Hospitals, as well as for Kaiser Permanente. [1]
Kaiser Fontana Medical Center is a large Kaiser Permanente medical facility and 420-bed hospital in Fontana, California. [1] Built in 1955 to replace the smaller hospital at the Kaiser Steel Mill, the facility now serves over 400,000 members of Kaiser Permanente's health care plans in the area. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission ...
The quality of and access to health care in immigration detention centers have recently been a focus of attention in the media. [21] CNN has conducted an investigation which uncovered the deaths as well as the avoidable, serious health outcomes that are attributed to substandard health care provided in these detention centers—which was the ...