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Primary Care Shortages in Virginia and an HEZ solution

WEBThe authors of the Office of Health Equity document calculated that Virginia needs an additional 104.1 primary care physician FTEs, 118.3 dentist FTEs and 24.4 …

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Virginia’s Remarkably Profitable Nonprofit Hospitals

WEBBon Secours Mercy Health – 5% – 8 (now 11 in 2020) Virginia hospitals (in both Richmond and Hampton Roads areas) Carilion Clinic – 4.5% – 6 hospitals …

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Littel Pick as Health Secretary Signals Youngkin’s Approach to

WEBJohn Littel. by James A. Bacon. Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin has appointed a new Secretary of Health & Human Resources to lead the fight against the …

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Virginia’s Four Largest Not-for-Profit Health Systems …

WEBThe leadership of those health systems drive through those areas on the way to work. Not-for-profit health systems conduct community health needs assessments (CHNA) once every three years to meet …

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Virginia’s Continuing Mental Health Crisis Bacon's …

WEBThe Virginia Health Care Foundation reports 34% of Virginians live in those communities. The shortages are particularly troubling in psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners (Psych NPs) …

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Improving Petersburg Public Health is a State Issue as Well as a …

WEBBy James C. Sherlock. The RTD today published an article “Petersburg is Virginia’s least healthy locality, and money is a big reason why” about one of my favorite …

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Can Medicaid Expansion Address the Doctor Shortage

WEBThere are two problems in rural Virginia: a lack of health coverage and a shortage of health care practitioners. Medicaid expansion fixes the first problem. But as …

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Highest Need Primary Care Health Professional

WEBBased on the severity of a health professional shortage, scores range from 1 to 25 for primary care and mental health, and 1 to 26 for dental health. The higher the …

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President’s Executive Order Could Bolster Healthcare Competition …

WEBThose are prescription drugs, hearing aids, hospitals and health insurance. There is already fierce competition in the pharmaceutical industry. I consider the …

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New Antitrust Laws Promise Scrutiny of Virginia’s Healthcare …

WEBThe Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2020 limits the antitrust exemption available to health insurance companies under the McCarran-Ferguson Act. …

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LifePoint Health Credit Ratings and Outlooks Signal Additional

WEBBy contrast, Sentara, Inova, Valley Health, HCA, and Carilion are all rated investment grade with stable outlooks. Bottom line. There is always a market for …

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Private Hospitals show Virginia’s State Hospitals, Colleges and

WEBThe health care industry — or rather the private healthcare industry — consistently shows the way. Even not-for-profits are not for losses. Count, if you can, the …

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Virginia Department of Health and the Staffing of Nursing Homes

WEBUnder Dr. Oliver’s leadership, the Virginia Department of Health has failed in its job to ensure its nursing homes are properly staffed. The Centers for …

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Student Mental Health Crisis Explained – By The Washington Post

WEBby James C. Sherlock. The Washington Post, in a lengthy article, “The crisis of student mental health is much vaster than we realize,” wrote about the mental health …

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Continuing Turmoil at Danville and Martinsville Hospitals Raises

WEBSovah Health is regulated and overseen by the Virginia Department of Health. It would be useful for the Board of Health to check on how that oversight has …

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When COVID Hysteria Meets Safetyism Bacon's Rebellion

WEBIncluding other types of mental illness, the Community Foundation estimates that, all told, 750,000 Northern Virginia adults, or 39% of the adult population, have …

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The Ballad Merger II: Cuts and Consolidations

WEBBallad Health made the move to reduce the cost of infusion drugs. A hospital-based site can buy outpatient drugs through the 340B Drug Pricing Program, a …

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The Ballad Merger V: the Pandemic Bacon's Rebellion

WEBThe nursing shortage was a top issue for Ballad Health from the moment the health system was created in 2018 from a merger of Mountain States Health …

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Mission Creep: Schools as Mental Health Providers

WEBAs monitors of children’s mental health, teachers and school administrators will do double duty as social counselors and psychologists. That expansive new mission …

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Fairfax School Health Aide Allegedly Stole Student’s Adderall

WEBHealth aides and nurses keep medication in a drug locker that can only be opened by certain school employees who administer the prescriptions to students. To be …

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Health Insurance Coverage in Virginia

WEBKaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc. Virginia Premier Health Plan, Inc. Piedmont Community HealthCare HMO, Inc. CareFirst …

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The Ballad Merger — A Leap of Faith by Two States

WEBby Carol J. Bova. In April, 2015, two Tennessee-based not-for-profit hospital organizations with a 75% market share in Southwest Virginia said a merger would allow …

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