He chose instead to continue coverage under Cobra — the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. The decades-old law lets people continue workplace health coverage for up to 18 months after leaving a job. But there’s a catch: You must pay the employer’s share of the monthly premium plus your own. […]
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Dignity Health (Dignity), a not-for-profit health system that owns and operates three hospitals and one clinic in Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County, California, and Twin Cities Community Hospital (Twin Cities) and Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center (Sierra Vista), two acute healthcare facility subsidiaries of Tenet Healthcare Corporation […]
“This was a very important man,” he said. “I think she died thinking it was true.” In the 1970s, when the country was discharging hundreds of thousands of patients from public psychiatric hospitals, it was the era of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and the move was lauded as […]
A new 5-minute screening tool for Alzheimer’s disease could become part of the patient examination process for primary care physicians. Researchers hope to reduce racial, ethnic, educational, and socioeconomic disparities in diagnosing predementia and dementia, while improving dementia care overall. The US National Institutes of Health has awarded $11 million for a […]
