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Fired foreign healthcare workers plan to take Finnish employer to court
The wellbeing services county of North Savo terminated the employment contracts of 10 nurses and two doctors, all of foreign backgrounds, who were hired just last year. Open image viewer Yle has not named any of the workers because doing so could...

New pediatric healthcare model expands, bringing doctors’ offices to South Florida retail centers
A new model in pediatrics is gaining ground in South Florida. Bluebird Kids Health is opening primary care locations in heavily visited retail shopping centers in communities that lack sufficient pediatric offices. By locating in centers where the...

Emory Healthcare laying off financial services employees
ATLANTA - Emory Healthcare has confirmed it is reducing its workforce within the Financial Services department. What we know: The job cuts reportedly began on Tuesday and affect fewer than 1% of the organization’s total workforce across metro...

Five healthcare workers at the Hospital Regional test positive for tuberculosis
The screening carried out in Malaga's Hospital Regional among 45 health professionals, after contact with a patient infected with tuberculosis, has resulted in five positives. This is what the nursing union SATSE reported on Thursday, adding that...

U.S. Healthcare in OBBBA: A Patchwork of Big Changes
Introduction The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA or the Act) contains only 118 references to healthcare, a surprisingly small number given its numerous proposals for changes to the U.S. healthcare system. The provisions are broad in scope and...

Ambience Healthcare Joins Epic Toolbox, Unlocking Advanced AI Functionality Within Haiku For Epic Customers
(MENAFN- ACCESSWIRE) SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / August 15, 2025 / Ambience Healthcare , a leading AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical documentation integrity (CDI), today announced it has joined Epic's Toolbox program...

Meet the newest St. Francis Valley Healthcare Catch the Ace Winner!
Dwayne Maguire almost missed his chance to buy a ticket for the St. Francis Valley Healthcare Foundation’s Catch the Ace lottery, until a lucky last-minute stop changed everything. Dwayne, who works remotely from his home in Combermere, usually...

Northern Arizona Healthcare sets out plan for 2030
Northern Arizona Healthcare met with about 32 stakeholders from municipalities and government agencies at the Verde Valley Medical Center on the morning of Wednesday, July 6, to discuss the nonprofit health care provider’s 2030 Strategic Plan that...

Oklahoma consortium aims to boost healthcare ranking from 49th to 25th by 2050
OKLAHOMA CITY- (KOKH) — Through the 25 in 25 initiative, the Musculoskeletal Consortium of Oklahoma has an ambitious goal: to bring the sooner state from its 49th healthcare ranking to 25th by 2050. Dr. Keley Booth told FOX 25 the reason for the...

New hypertension guidelines shot in the arm for RDN
Several cardiology societies in the U.S. have updated their guidelines for management of hypertension, which for the first time includes and endorsement of renal denervation (RDN). Two companies are poised to benefit from the news, including...

Sokoto Launches Formal Sector Programme for Contributory Healthcare Scheme
Onuminya Innocent in Sokoto The Sokoto State Contributory Health Care Management Agency (SOCHEMA) has announced the launch of the formal sector programme for the Sokoto State Contributory Healthcare Scheme. This programme is designed to provide...

Three Decades of Cooperation: South Korea Helps Transform Healthcare in Laos
On 14 August, to celebrate 30 years of diplomatic relations with Laos, the South Korean Embassy organized a special media tour to showcase how Korea’s development assistance has strengthened Laos’s healthcare system. The tour was attended by...

Pfizer, UMC sign deal to boost healthcare quality
HCM CITY — Pfizer Vietnam and the University Medical Centre HCM City (UMC) on August 14 signed a three-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen medical capabilities and improve healthcare quality in southern Viet Nam and across the...

Northeast Community YMCA in Roebuck cuts ribbon on affordable housing + healthcare
The new Roebuck YMCA has everything that a typical YMCA has, but it also has expanded services that are designed specifically to help its community. (YMCA of Greater Birmingham) Nearly two years after its groundbreaking, the YMCA of Greater...

Negligence – Medical malpractice – Pandemic
Where summary disposition was awarded to the defendants under the Pandemic Health Care Immunity Act, the judgment must be reversed because the decedent did not sustain injury by reason of healthcare services provided in support of the State of...

Lee Equity to sell urology platform for $1.9bn to Cardinal Health;...

Tanzania lifts the lid on its healthcare upsurge
DAR ES SALAAM: TANZANIA’S healthcare sector enjoys massive growth, and today, it meets all global standards, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Medicare, Abdumalik Mollel, revealed today, August 15, 2025, in Dar es Salaam. He said the sector...

From Overload to Insight: Using Data Warehouses to Elevate Healthcare
Data is one of the most powerful tools at an organization’s disposal in the modern world. It has the ability to improve efficiency, advance innovation, and drive decision making in almost every industry if used properly. Healthcare is one sector...

Barnett-Ellis: Govt should take action on broken healthcare system
Free National Movement (FNM) Senator Michela Barnett-Ellis yesterday called on the government to take action to improve The Bahamas’ “broken” public healthcare system. “This bill speaks of plans, policies, and commissions, but it says far less...

NESG Explores How Innovative, Risk-tolerant Financing Models Can Strengthen Nigeria’s Healthcare
1 Chibuzor Emejor The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), through its Health Policy Commission, has convened a high-level Pre-Summit dialogue to explore how innovative, risk-tolerant financing models can strengthen Nigeria’s healthcare sector,...