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The Alabama Department of Public Health's Central Office is organized into bureaus that focus on a number of health-related issues, including disease prevention and control, emergency medical services, emergency preparedness, environmental services, family health, health care access, home and community health, injury prevention, and regulation ...
About half of all Americans take one prescription medication each and every day. Short doctor visits, savvy pill marketing, and habit convince us that every doctor's appointment should end in a ...
Any response to an emergency medical situation will depend strongly on the situation, the patient involved, and availability of resources to help them. It will also vary depending on whether the emergency occurs whilst in hospital under medical care, or outside medical care (for instance, in the street or alone at home).
ECRI (originally founded as Emergency Care Research Institute) is an American independent healthcare research nonprofit organization in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. It is tasked with "improving the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care across all healthcare settings worldwide."
Acute pain — sudden or urgent pain that results from injury, trauma or surgery — affects more than 80 million Americans annually and is the most common reason for emergency department visits.
As HuffPost detailed in June, hospice has transformed from a small niche service into a booming industry dominated by for-profit entities. Medicare largely bankrolls the hospice industry, providing $15 billion out of $17 billion in revenue in 2012.
That structure was also outgrown by the 1980s. The Sisters decided to move the hospital to a 250-acre (100 ha) site on the western boundary of the city. Bertrand Goldberg, known for his innovative hospital designs, was hired to design the new $60-million facility. It would be one of the last major hospital complexes designed by his firm.
On October 28, 2023, Isabella Strahan underwent emergency surgery to remove a brain tumor, which her neuro-oncologist, Dr. David Ashley, describes as “somewhere between the size of a golf ball ...