Category: Healthcare

Washington – State legislators recently approved a two-year $4.9 billion capital budget that focuses on projects in areas of behavioral health, affordable housing, education and the environment. The budget includes $927 million to construct facilities at public colleges and universities. The University of Washington Medical Center will receive $32 million for the predesign, planning and design of […]

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has secured $84 million to help fund physician resident positions at public teaching hospitals in Texas. These dollars, through graduate medical education payments from Medicaid, are designated for non-state, government-owned and -operated teaching hospitals and will help expand the state’s ability to attract and retain doctors. Texas […]

Kentucky- The University of Louisville (U of L) is still searching for a partner it can team up with to buy Jewish Hospital and other KentuckyOne health care facilities. The health care system that owns the unprofitable Jewish Hospital and other facilities in Louisville announced in spring 2017 that it would sell the facilities. It has […]

Connecticut– The University of Connecticut (UConn) Health Center, UConn Health, expects to begin mid-negotiations with a public-private partnership (P3) by September 2018. UConn Health is the branch of the university that oversees clinical care, advanced biomedical research and academic education in medicine. The system includes the 234-bed John Dempsey Hospital, a medical group and medical […]

Idaho– Idaho has a shortage of doctors and many of its current medical professionals are nearing retirement age. The state’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee presented a 10-year plan to increase graduate medical education in the state through a public-private partnership. The plan expands medical residency training to produce 2,000 residents compared to the current 520 residents […]

“The telemedicine community had a really good legislative session,” said Nora Belcher, executive director at Texas e-Health Alliance. Belcher, along with 40 other organizations, including the Texas Medical Association (TMA) and the Texas Academy of Family Physicians (TAFP) were able to help guide the passage of legislation that will assist patients in rural areas who […]

Last week, President Donald Trump signed a bill extending the Veterans Choice Program beyond its Aug. 7 end date. In August 2014, President Barrack Obama signed the initial bill into law.  The Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act is intended to speed veterans’ access to health care by directing Department of  Veterans Affairs (VA) to […]

If all the stars align, Texas could soon have new medical schools in various stages of development at four public universities. The University of Texas System is currently the only higher education system in the country that is developing two medical schools at the same time – at The University of Texas at Austin and the newly created University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).

Two nurses being treated in a Dallas hospital after they were infected with the Ebola virus have been moved from a Dallas hospital to other facilities outside the state. One was transferred to a high-level containment facility for treatment at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The other was transferred to Emory University Hospital […]