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Federal government efforts to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions end their first decade with Medicare cutting payments to nearly half of the country’s hospitals. In its tenth annual penalty loop, Medicare is reducing payments to 2,499 hospitals, or 47% of all facilities. The average penalty is a 0.64% cut in payment for each Medicare […]
[MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER: How does a COVID-19 Work with mRNA vaccine? COVID vaccines are now available. Some of the COVID-19 vaccines are mRNA vaccines, but what does that mean? This average? mRNA vaccines are different than traditional Vaccinations. You do not expose to mRNA vaccines to every real virus instead, they are made with Messenger […]
Oct. 21, 2021 – Millions of American adults are now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine booster after the CDC approved Thursday, which also kicked off vaccine mixing for the first time. A panel of experts advising the CDC on Thursday weighed who should get booster vaccines after their Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Both […]
Amie Reaux, mother of Keighlie Reaux, Youngsville, LA. Michelle Owens, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson. Torri Metz, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Emily Adhikari, MD, Medical Director, Perinatal Infectious Diseases, Parkland Hospital, Dallas. Danielle Jones, MD, Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Austin, […]
MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO – Abigail Matos-Pagán walked into a bright blue house in Mayagüez earlier this summer and was greeted by Beatriz Gastón, who quietly led the way to her mother’s small room. Matos-Pagán had come to provide a covid-19 vaccine for Wildelma Gastón, 88, whose arthritis and other health problems confine her to bed. […]