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Regulatory

Biden administration to begin shipping Covid vaccine doses to community health centers

February 9, 2021

Via: CNBC

The White House will begin shipping doses of Covid-19 vaccines directly to federally qualified community health centers next week to expand outreach to traditionally underserved communities, White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients announced Tuesday. Along with other initiatives such […]


News

Rural doctors’ training may be in jeopardy

May 1, 2017

Via: FierceHealthcare

In nearly two years as a medical resident in Meridian, Mississippi, John Thames, M.D., has treated car-wreck victims, people with chest pains and malnourished infants. Patients have arrived with lacerations, with burns, or in a disoriented fog after discontinuing their […]


Innovation, Med Tech

3 tips for community physicians with the innovation itch

April 28, 2017

Via: FierceHealthcare

Community physicians represent a rich, and largely untapped, resource for healthcare innovation. The massive changes taking place in the healthcare industry have come about in part as a way to drive innovation, writes Adam O. Kadlec, M.D., a board-certified urologist […]


Regulatory

Health centers fear cuts amid ACA repeal

January 31, 2017

Via: Modern Healthcare

It wasn’t long before President Donald Trump took office that he and Congressional Republicans began plotting how to repeal Barack Obama’s hallmark health care initiative. Replacing the Affordable Care Act would have an untold impact on the American public, while […]