A group of Riverside High School seniors has been exploring hospital jobs as part of a new Intro to Healthcare class, and a couple are considering jobs in that field as a result of their experiences.
The class was launched this year as a partnership between Riverside Schools and University Hospitals TriPoint Medical Center in Concord Township. Representatives from both institutions said that a goal of theirs is to help students find potential careers in healthcare.
“When we surveyed the kids about career interests several years ago, health care came up in probably the top three or four fields that…
These actions build on the Biden-Harris Administration’s effort to eliminate hidden fees and consumer traps in every sector of the economy.
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is taking yet another action to lower health care costs and protect consumers from being scammed into purchasing lower quality insurance, or “junk insurance”. The Biden-Harris Administration is closing loopholes to prevent health insurance companies from misleading consumers into buying health plans that discriminate based on pre-existing conditions and that provide little or no coverage when consumers need it the most. Today’s action will protect families from receiving thousands of dollars in health care bills.…
March 6, 2024 – The potential financial collapse of Steward Health Care, which owns nine hospitals in Massachusetts, is a crisis—but it could also provide an opportunity, according to health policy expert John McDonough, to make the state’s overall health care system “ stronger, better, more patient-centered and community-centered.”
Steward’s financial problems have led to a lack of adequate staffing and supplies in some of its facilities in recent months, in some cases endangering patients, according to media reports. In addition, there are fears that some of the Steward hospitals will close, leaving communities without crucial health care services and…