Aging with Care | Transform Outlook for Aging Family Members By Marla Beck for the Madison Park Times The new year is here! Let’s look ahead by creating a unique New Year’s gift for your favorite elder. Caring for our elders can be challenging. The challenge can be so great that we sometimes forget that… Continue reading Aging with Care | Transform Outlook for Aging Family Members

By The Associated Press, published in The Pueblo Chieftan DENVER — Colorado’s health exchange on Monday reported selling private health plans to 121,000 people two-thirds of the way through this year’s open enrollment period. In a joint statement, Connect for Health Colorado and the state’s health agency said that about 50,000 people had received coverage… Continue reading Colorado Reports 171,000 Covered Under Affordable Care Act

By PRNewswire-USNewswire Inland Empire Health Plan – one of the fastest growing not-for-profit Medicare and Medi-Cal health plans in California – is celebrating the enrollment of one million members, marking a new chapter in its 18-year history of serving communities in Riverside and San Bernardino. “We are proud of this milestone,” said Dr. Bradley Gilbert, IEHP chief… Continue reading IEHP Celebrates One Million-Member Milestone

By Sherry Jacobson for The Dallas Morning News The new Parkland Memorial Hospital will officially open its doors to patients on Aug. 20, two months later than expected, the hospital announced Monday. Without explaining the delay, leaders of Dallas County’s lone public county hospital said the move remained on schedule for next summer. Earlier move… Continue reading Dallas County’s New Parkland Hospital Won’t Open to Patients until Aug. 20

By Henry Powderly, Managing Editor of Healthcare Finance Construction is all but done at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, with a grand opening for the $1.5 billion complex slated for Feb 1, officials said. The complex includes the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, UCSF Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital and UCSF Bakar… Continue reading UCSF to Open $1.5 Billion, Eco-Friendly Medical Complex

By Dean Olsen for The State Journal-Register HSHS St. John’s Hospital has recruited six general surgeons from elsewhere in the state and nation to launch a Level 1 trauma program Thursday that will compete head-on with Memorial Medical Center’s trauma program only a few blocks away. “Sometimes, competition is good for the community,” St. John’s… Continue reading HSHS St. John’s Will Compete with Memorial on Level 1 Trauma Services

In this article from KAPP-TV, learn about the vote that changed the health exchange system to having a direct premium payment option.

When Home And Health Are Just Out Of Reach By Sarah Jane Tribble of WCPN for Kaiser Health News Donna Giron is frail. She has Crohn’s disease and uses a wheelchair to get around because walking exhausts her. But she doesn’t want to be in the nursing home where she has lived since May. Giron, 65,… Continue reading When Home And Health Are Just Out Of Reach

By Victoria Colliver for The San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate Manuel Cero can control his most severe seizures with medications, but the 34-year-old Brentwood man still has sporadic seizures despite having tried everything available to stop them. That puts Cero among a third of people with epilepsy. Typically for patients like Cero, their epilepsy originates in more than… Continue reading NeuroPace Implant Zaps Epileptic Seizures

A day in the life of Kumaka is full of adventure and limitless activity. Although he was born with Spina Bifida, “I am not different from any other kid."