Float Health, a nurse staffing and pharmacy referral startup, has landed $10 million in a Series A led by Canvas Ventures.
As part of its business model, San Francisco-based Float helps patients receive care in their homes by contracting with registered nurses and scheduling shifts. The company was founded in 2021, and operates in California and Arizona.
One of Float’s key areas of focus as a company is addressing chronic illness, which impacts 133 million people in the US
“After years in the emergency room treating patients with chronic conditions, and from treating my father who suffered from one, I…
The RCN has responded to the announcement that more than 27,000 health care workers who provide publicly funded care in England are set to receive 2 one-off payments worth between £1,655 and £3,789. We’ve acknowledged this progress as “a huge leap forward” but say waiting so long to receive the payments has added “insult to injury” to hardworking nursing staff.
Last year, NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts received 2 one-off payments in addition to a 5% pay uplift. But the government did not make funding available for the one-off payments for staff working on dynamic Agenda for Change…
A year-old Pentagon policy of paying for travel for service members who need reproductive health care that is not offered by the military — including abortions — was used 12 times from June through December, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday.
Paying for transportation, lodging and meals for those 12 round trips from a service member’s home station to the location of their health care cost the department $44,791, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said during a public briefing to reporters. It was unclear how many of those trips involved abortion services, the area of the policy that has generated the most controversy.…
Detroit — With syphilis rates surging in Michigan and across the country, the Detroit Health Department is offering free health screenings for the virus all week, along with HIV, and screenings for several other wellness measures at eight locations across the city.
The screenings, which are part of Public Health Week, are free of charge, regardless of insurance status, and no appointments or identification methods are required, said Denise Fair Razo, Chief Public Health Officer for the city of Detroit.
“Syphilis is really high in our community — in fact, in the last I believe 90 days, we have seen…
JEFFERSON, Mo. (KAIT/Edited News Release) – On Friday, March 29, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it has enrolled 6,054 Missouri veterans in VA health care over the past 365 days; 27.85% more than it enrolled the previous year.
Nationally, VA enrolled 401,006 Veterans in VA health care over the past 365 days; 30% more than the 307,831 it enrolled the previous year.
This is the most yearly enrollees in at least five years at VA, and nearly a 50% increase over pandemic-level enrollment in 2020.
This historic enrollment has been made possible by the PACT Act, which has…