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Mission Health permanently shutters Asheville Specialty Hospital

NC Health News

Jones Asheville Watchdog Mission Health has permanently closed Asheville Specialty Hospital, the only long-term acute care hospital in western North Carolina, less than two months after suspending its services following Tropical Storm Helene. “We Joseph’s campus,” Mission Health spokesperson Nancy Lindell said Nov.

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Why is norovirus reporting in England so high at the moment?

UK Health Security

Data indicating the rise Our surveillance systems reveal several key patterns: Laboratory confirmed norovirus cases While we typically expect norovirus cases to peak in winter months, this season's pattern has been distinctive, starting earlier than is usual. Genetic diversity For the first time, genogroup 2, genotype 17, known as GII.7,

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5 Reasons Hospitals Need to Invest in Data Security

Smart Data Collective

Hospitals and healthcare facilities around the world hold highly sensitive information about their patients. Living in a digital age where cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, it’s understandable that there are huge concerns about healthcare data security. Recovering from Data Security Breaches Is Expensive.

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What a Waste of a Healthcare System

The Health Care Blog

An essay in Aeon had me at the title: The Waste Age. Healthcare included. The essay is by Justin McGuirk, chief curator of the Design Museum in London, and accompanies an exhibit there: Waste Age: what can design do ? We live in the Waste Age. Waste defines our healthcare system. ———-.

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Get Ready for (Healthcare) Microgrids

The Health Care Blog

Its workforce is aging and burnt out. I was talking about our healthcare system. A microgrid is a self-sufficient energy system that serves a discrete geographic footprint, such as a college campus, factory, hospital complex, business center, military installation, or neighborhood. They power the system.

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‘Clash of the titans’: Disputes between Medicare Advantage plans and health care providers can leave older adults stuck in the middle

NC Health News

Marian Spicer, 72, was treated for a kidney stone at Duke Health in late October. During the procedure, the doctor accidentally tore her bladder, and she didnt get out of the hospital until early November. She got out of the hospital Nov. I didnt know what to do, she said. But no one plan will be right for everyone.

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The Clinical Enterprise is the Beating Heart of Health Systems

The Health Care Blog

By JEFF GOLDMSITH As health systems struggle to emerge from the post-COVID financial crisis, the importance of the clinical enterprise to these systems has dramatically increased. Healthcare organizations are getting larger, as failing enterprises are absorbed into growing systems.